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Original Technorati articles tagged “bad ideas”

• in Videos
  When a Man Tells the Absolute Truth
  What's the opposite of sugarcoating?
  by msgiro / on Aug 26, 2010
• in Business
  Voyeurism Sells Cheeseburgers
  The advertising campaign would surely falter if they were faux-shower-peeping on girls who actually eat at Burger King all the time.
  by sussman / on Dec 10, 2009
• in Social Media
  Use Twitter And Waste Money Trying
  Alternatively titled: "How To Be On The Internet And Look Like a Damn Fool in Three Easy Steps."
  by sussman / on Nov 30, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bad ideas”

 

• Science and Modernity : Guest Post by Ravi Sinha

  
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  Science and modernity are widely considered among the most celebrated features of contemporary human civilization. Increasingly they are taken as the defining elements that distinguish our times from the times gone by. At such a sweeping level, there can be many other ways to characterize the contemporary. One can, ...
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• Maybe not the best movie-promotion idea: In Jefferson City,...

  
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  Maybe not the best movie-promotion idea: In Jefferson City, Missouri, a movie theater known for having actors portray characters from popular films did the same thing with “Iron Man 3.” But not everyone was aware of this promotion, as people called into police after spotting a man wearing full tactical gear and a ...
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• Ill take "Really Bad Ideas" for $500, Alex.

  
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  The first thing I do when I go to a movie these days (at least since last July) is a battery check. I arrive fashionably early so I can get my horribly un-tactical favorite seats about two-thirds back and centered so that I dont have to crane my neck in any direction to see the movie and then, while the theater is ...
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• Mr Narayana Murthy, sermonising will make things worse for India. Try to understand systems.

  
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  I chanced upon this speech by Mr Murthy . Heres my response by email, now on this blog (Ive fixed two typos): Corrigendum: I initially referred to LBSNAA s the plac ewhre this speech was given. It was given instead at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management on October 02, 2002. Ive removed references to LBS ...
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• Teens Attempt to Pull Dumbest Internet Prank Ends Smashingly

  
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  Youd think that, after the kids behind the universally reviled "gallon smashing" fad nearly went to jail over it , teens would stop trying to imitate the wasteful, inconsiderate, and downright dangerous prank. Read more...        
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• Someone Evil Wants Rihanna to Play Josephine Baker

  
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  How many more biopics does the world need? Hurry up and answer because by the end of this sentence, at least four more will have already received the green light. Although there already is a great made for TV film about the life of the iconic Josephine Baker starring Lynn Whitfield out there, a production company ...
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• [VIDEO] Elizabeth’s Escort Mission

  
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  I was wondering why Elizabeth seemed like such an easy NPC to escort… turns out she was escorting your dumb ass around the entire time! By machinima [via Destructoid ]
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• The Bomb God, 1946

  
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  JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post This wonderful, semi-impossible sulphur-laden pamphlet emerged from the bottom of one of the "Naive Surreal" boxes today in the warehouse:   When God Splits the Atom (1956) offers a not-so-friendly piece of advice:  "its later than you think".  We are told that God ...
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• Back to ‘family’ at CDS – How to push false pride under the carpet! Anonymous

  
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  This is a guest post by Anonymous I went to the CDS campus today hearing of the great tumult there, news of which has been appearing off and on in the press. I was just curious. I know personally one of the SEWA ladies; she told me her version of events. The students, of  course, […]
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• Sinful liberals and the war against jihadi terror: Manisha Sethi responds to Praveen Swami

  
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  Guest post by MANISHA SETHI: It has been seven months since the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association brought out its report, Framed, Damned, Acquitted, chronicling in detail how the Delhi Police’s Special Cell implicated innocents – former militants, police informers, businessmen, and just ordinary, unlucky ...
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• Gandhi’s fourth monkey: Suvaid Yaseen

  
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  Guest post by SUVAID YASEEN: Incredible India is a land of promises. Amnesia and half narratives. Selective remembrance and deliberate forgetting. The national interest is incredibly important. And everything is allowed in this war. Gandhi’s – the father of the nation – maxim of bura mat kaho, bura mat suno, ...
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• On higher education in India: Saattvic responds to Thane Richard

  
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  This is a guest post by SAATTVIC Hi Thane, I recently read your piece for Kafila, which was subsequently reproduced in part in the Hindu. I studied economics there as well, batch of 2006. I subsequently went on to read for an MPhil in Economics at Oxford. Good on you for writing that piece. It […]
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• Disney Wants To Trademark Dia De Los Muertos

  
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  Disney Wants To Trademark Dia De Los Muertos : On May 1, Disney filed trademark applications to secure ‘Dia de los Muertos’ across multiple platforms for an upcoming Pixar film. They’ve since withdrawn it, but still. Who thought that was an okay idea? Unbelievable.
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• Shahbag no imperialist conspiracy, Mr Umari

  
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  Photograph : Martyr Ahmed Rajib Haider GUWAHATI: The echo of the Shahbag protest in Bangladesh was heard about 200 miles away here on Sunday with citizens, under the banner of Janamat, expressing solidarity with protesters in that country. Janamat, a Guwahati-based socio-cultural body which organised the solidarity ...
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• Of Angry Young Students and Education in India – A Response to Thane Richard: Aritra Chatterjee

  
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  This is a guest post by ARITRA CHATTERJEE: In his response to the article by some students of St. Stephen’s College, Thane Richard has raised a set of questions about the college, about the students participating in the present movement, about education in India and students’ voice in shaping education. He is ...
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• Evicting the Gandhians: Justin Podur interviews Himanshu Kumar

  
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  Himanshu Kumar is a Gandhian activist who, together with his wife, ran the Vanvasi Chetana Ashram in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh for 22 years. He learned the local adivasi language (Gondi) and worked through the Ashram to help adivasis access their rights under the law. Starting in 2005, during the murderous Salwa Judum ...
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• Is there anything like ‘copying’ fairly?: Rajshree Chandra

  
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  Guest post by RAJSHREE CHANDRA: In the backdrop of the on going battle in the Delhi High Court, between publishers (OUP, CUP and Taylor and Francis) and Rameshwari photocopiers-Delhi University (next hearing 8th May, 2013), there are two perspectives to which attention needs to be drawn. The first, of course, is a ...
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• Bad Ideas, cont.

  
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  Who is this really for? Good grief, get over yourself. (Hat tip: Scissorhead Skinny-D)
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• What Rediff Could Have Done to Support Kavita Krishnan Against Rape Threats: Anja Kovacs

  
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  Guest post by ANJA KOVACS: Imagine a TV station inviting a guest and giving the audience the opportunity to freely ask questions, with the guest deciding which questions to respond to. Imagine a member of audience then threatening the guest with rape, and the TV station’s representative responding by simply passing ...
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• Bad Idea: Let’s Eat At McDonald’s

  
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  Great stuff about bad ideas in this post from Jon Bell . First, an everyday application …when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch ...
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