http://www.madhoo.com/ Dictator of the free world! en-us 2009-12-23T12:20:08-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/12/compassionate_or_stu.php Here is an "interesting" story from BoinBoing about a lady who let some poor kids in India play with her IPod and her companion told her it was cruel to let the kids see something they will never have....I really have to ask - first of all, are we still... Morons shanti 2009-12-23T12:20:08-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/11/climate_change_and_t.php By now, this is yesterday's headlines that hackers have been into a lot of emails and data relating to climate change research (Click the link and read on up for more and more information and explanation of some terms in the emails and data).A lot of things stand out as... Technology shanti 2009-11-21T17:36:04-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/11/women_the_expendable.php Federal panel recommends reducing number of mammograms - washingtonpost.comThis makes me sick to my stomach - I know someone who has conscientiously gotten mammograms every six months and her cancer lump was showing up in every one of them for two years before someone caught it. What if she didn't... USA shanti 2009-11-17T10:09:27-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/10/good_god.php I just really cannot add much to what Dr. Violet Socks already said in this eloquent post about a disgustingly inhumane gang-rape of a 15-year-old! Yep, let that sink in slowly....gang-rape of a 15-year-old! Makes me worry about what kind of a society I am trying to bring my daughter... Women shanti 2009-10-27T10:02:56-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/10/breast_cancer_runway.php Morons shanti 2009-10-15T09:23:07-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/10/onion_headline_comes.php Making no sense shanti 2009-10-09T09:44:21-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/10/give_the_women_a_bre.php A new mommy taxHow do we fund healthcare? Why, tax those damn tampons and breast milk pumps! I am too irritated to expand on this!... Morons shanti 2009-10-07T12:22:53-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/09/mexicos_drug_problem.php I have been a big fan of the "Freakonomics" book and follow the "Freakonomics Blog" religiously. They sometimes put out loony theories, but are mostly pretty sane. This post today though, just blew my mind...Fewer Drugs in America Means More Problems for MexicoThe increased domestic competition in Mexico has pushed... Morons shanti 2009-09-08T11:31:24-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/09/soi_mean.php Fun little column that points out how pretty much all techies start their sentences with "so...". I am a techie-geek myself and I find me catching myself doing this all the time. Of course, the first time I noticed this was when I was getting annoyed by another colleague who... Fun stuff shanti 2009-09-08T10:48:56-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/09/ysr_is_still_dead.php I mean, yeah - he died yesterday. Good riddance, for all I care. But here is some news for the "gimme a frigging break" section - "30 YSR fans die of shock". I almost died of shock upon hearing the fact YSR has fans, leave alone fans crazy enough to... Andhra shanti 2009-09-04T08:39:28-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/09/reality_and_percepti.php Media shanti 2009-09-03T14:14:37-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/08/shut_your_facebook_a.php Morons shanti 2009-08-31T12:46:09-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/08/monsters_and_their_e.php It was hard to read the story of the 11-year-old California girl kidnapped and forced to bear the children of her kidnapper. What was even harder to imagine is that while we focus on the male monsters who make this happen, there is always inevitably a female enabler lurking in... USA shanti 2009-08-28T08:38:48-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/08/how_call_centers_sho.php Here is an article from Business Week discussing how an American company is doing call centers right...in America. Surprising, but definitely heartening to learn that even in the so-called dead-end career of being a call center employee, you could luck out and find a company like the one described -... USA shanti 2009-08-27T09:26:27-06:00 http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2009/08/outrageous_outrage.php Morons shanti 2009-08-26T15:11:41-06:00