Saturday Night Links Fever - 1 December 2007

A brand new month, a brand new Saturday Night Links Fever.

Welcome again to fortnightly weekend party at The Newspaper Blog where drinks links will be served.

Chat between two serious IIM aspirants and the elusive CAT/IIMs (Satire)
“Student 2 (losing his cool): WTF. I got a f’in 78.17 in DI and finally all you buggers decided I am incompetent to think logically. You decide that since I could not crack one more set in DI, I am not fit for management.
CAT : Beta.. Tension mat le.. See. I will let you out one trade secret. We ourselves are pretty confused in how to eliminate people. Its a nice game with us and the computer. We keep changing one variable or the other till the calls for each instis touches the required number. In fact how to predict the right nos so that we can give results in 3 weeks itself is now a case study at IIMA.”

Guaranteed to make smile. Though written humorously, if you think over again this stuff is somewhat true.

Adventures in $40 eyeglasses
“I’ve had such good success with it that I recently ordered some higher priced specialized sports glasses online, saving about 35% over what an optometrist office would charge.”

I can’t live forever with my 7 year old $15 eyeglasses. I saw some branded ones (Police, D&G, Oakley, Ray-Ban, Versace, etc.) in Dubai but those were expensive, about $500 or so. Good to know some cheap and better alternatives before I buy a new pair.

You have that black-bodied-lens-stuffed-geek thing called DSLR camera but your dial never budged from Auto mode. So here’s some good stuff which makes you shoot away your fear and knowing more about your digital SLR camera.

Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 1: Program Mode
Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More

Directory of Top Blogs in India and Most Widely Read Indian Bloggers
Many good blogs in variety of topics ranging from Travel & Lifestyle, Photography, Politics, Cooking, Environment and more. A good place to start if you’re looking to read some good blogs or pass time.

Advertising creativity is not dead

Ads get creative and funny. This ad from Woot shows up if you do a Google search on the stock symbol for Google.

Today is World’s Aids Prevention Day. Good stuff on Radio plus my BS combined:
A. Abstain from sex, till your married
B. Be faithful to your spouse after marriage
C. Wear a condom if you must
There we go, the ABC of preventing AIDS.

Play safe. So long…