The fly that made it

Indian Cinema should be proud of this movie.

For as implausible as the idea of having a vengeful fly is, the makers of this movie have it "believable". 

What impressed me the most about this movie is the quality and its budget. Wikipedia says that Naan E was made with a budget of Rs. 30 Crore. In comparison, Endhiran is reported to have been made with Rs. 130 Crore (I doubt the Endhiran facts). The quality of the graphics and the logic that went into making Naan E is amazing. I think (I might be wrong) that Naan E is an example of a movie where the graphics got its fair share of the budget and the acting crew got their fair share, and as a result, the viewers get their money's worth as well.

This must be a very important rule in Business (if it already isn't, it should be) - if a product's raw material cost split up is unreasonable, stay away from producing or consuming the product.

how (un) safe are we?

In the recent past, Blizzard, Yahoo, and Linkedin have reported that they have been hacked in some way and that hackers have seen their users' passwords.

If you were a Yahoo mail user with their bank account details in an email in your inbox, and if your account had been hacked, you might be in trouble already (alright, maybe I am stretching it a bit). If you had your email address registered at Linkedin and if you had the same password for your Linkedin account and your email account, you are almost completely compromised. 

What is surprising here is the amount of the users' data transmitted or stored by these websites, that is in plain text (for laymen, any one over hearing this would know everything). It is as surprising as a full ship with a hole in it.

It isn't easy to know which websites or applications store the passwords in plain-text. This Pidgin wiki gives an interesting idea that should be widely followed. When a user signs up for an account, just mention how (in) secure your storage is. Tell them how the password is stored, whether it is encrypted at their machine before sending it through to the server, if the channel of communication is secure and the possible ways in which their security can be breached.

The growth of the Internet seemed to be based on trust at first, but as it turns out, it was just because users are unaware.

We have to rethink how safe we are in the Internet. Each (wo)man for himself.

4 guys, a girl and a guitar

This song had already been heard 130M+ times on the tube before I heard it. Yet, the absence of exclusivity doesn't take the tiniest bit of this song's feel-good-factor away.

I think the feel-good-factor comes from the simplicity of this song and its video. It is just 4 guys, a girl and a guitar. I don't think that there is some army of geeks on strange computers behind this music.
Alright, I'll admit that there could have been some editing here, but really, how much could possibly have been done? There are just three microphones here (I say that because there is only so much one can do while recording 3 voices of people cramped together) and every one did their part in a single recording.

What does this have to do with a feel-good-factor? The simplicity of this song, the instruments, the singers, the video.. everything tells that we can do cool stuff with whatever simple bit we have too. This song really is a tribute to art.

(I have seen the drummer boy do something with his macbook in another video, but still..)