There are 30 more here

This is a documentary from the 30′s predicitng what Fashions would be like in 2000

Found via reddit

I came across this one today(via reddit). Heres an excerpt:

Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial Government, suddenly decide to fly away from the Death Star in the middle of a battle? Did he know something that the rest of the Imperial Navy didn’t?

Heres another classic Star Wars conspiracy theory:

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.

The leaders according to this theory are R2D2 and Chewbacca:

Fortunately, before coming to Tattoine, R2 had already arranged transport, which is waiting at Mos Eisley, under the command of the Rebellion’s other chief field agent and espionage asset. Chewbacca.

20 years earlier, Chewbacca was second in command of the defence of his planet. He’s there in the tactical conferences and there on the front lines and is a personal friend of Yoda’s. When he needed reliable people to join the embryonic Alliance, who else would Yoda turn to but his old friend from Kashykk? Given his background, there is no way that Chewie would spend the crucial years of the rebellion as the second-in-command to (sorry Han) a low-level smuggler. Unless it’s his cover. In fact, Chewie is a top-line spy and flies what is in many ways the Rebellion’s best ship.

I love this stuff

Amit Verma pointed out this editorial by Sitaram Yechury of the CPI(M). I have a visceral hatred for these communists, so take what I say with that in mind.

I have never read a more confused babbling of statistical nonsense put together. There is actually a purity of thoughtlessness that is pretty impressive, if it weren’t for the fact that this never elected dude, has a pretty powerful voice in the government.

There is no coherence, or any kind of argument here other than :

America BAD! Globalisation Bad! Business Bad! Poor GOOD! Staying Poor EVEN BETTER!

I was going to do this bit by bit but its just not worth it. Heres a sample of the ‘thinking’ so you dont have to click thru and go through the same 20 mins of trying to follow a non existent argument.

The consequent appreciation of the rupee by over 11 per cent during the last year has seriously affected Indian exports. Textiles, the largest net export earner, has seen a decline of -7.9 per cent in its total revenue and profit margins.

I’m no economist, but if you calculate your profits in rupees, and your contracts are in dollars(Almost all exporters do this) when the dollar becomes cheaper, that is bound to affect your profitability. He also completely neglects the (more important) fact that Textile quotas from the US were abolished a few years ago, and thats led to a decline in Indian Exports. In my opinion this is because of the communists, who will not allow labour regulation reform, which means nobody who can have a factory in China would want to put one in India.

What does he want? Or is he just happy complaining about things without actually doing anything, in the same way they’ve been doing by “supporting” the government from outside?

Techcrunch has a story about how fanbox changed the way they handle people who want to unsubscribe. Duncan Riley gives them the benefit of the doubt. I dont know if he should. This is the same company as sms.ac. They’ve already been through this before. I believe they knew exactly what they were doing, and decided to go ahead and do it anyway. You cant give someone the benefit of the doubt forever.

I also hate the way that they get people to enter in the details of their email accounts. This is deceptive. I know its the same functionality that linked in, facebook, and a bunch of other sites offer to see which of your friends are members of their service, but the language here seems to be a bit more dishonest. They should mention that they are going to check your contacts to find friends who use the service or something like that.

I got a message in my gmail, and I thought it looked like spam. But it was from a name Ive been expecting something from for the last few days. I opened it and realised that it was spam, but saw how it was a different kind of spam. Instead of a link in the email to a dodgy website, this one has a link to Google.

This is the Search Result Page

Iv never seen anything like this before. I hate when spammers get clever.

I hate dancing more than I can possibly explain. I hate doing it myself, which I can’t anyway, but I loathe and resent the necessity to try. I hate watching other people do it. I hate the way it breaks up conversation. I hate the slovenly mixture of sexual exhibitionism, strutting contempt and repellent narcissism that it involves. I hate it when it is formless, meaningless bopping and I hate it (if anything even more) when it is formal and choreographed into genres like ballroom or schooled disco. Those cavortings are so embarrassing and dreadful as to force my hand to my mouth.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry, the funniest man alive, has started podcasting. The first one was ok, but this is an excerpt from the second one, and it is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.