Humour
My favourite Gordon Freeman quotes - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/09/funny-graphs-deep-stuff-man/
How IT people see each other - http://www.bonkersworld.net/roles-in-the-it-world/
Assailant suffers injuries from fall - https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OAuHkOy43rk/TmGTKqmXqmI/AAAAAAAAOBw/zGiqN8UrCko/s800/3toox.jpg
Typical Ping Pong game - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/10/funny-graphs-its-all-covered-in-hair-now/
Alleged gossip from Goldman Sachs' elevators - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-tweets-from-gselevator-the-gossipy-twitter-account-goldman-wants-to-shut-down-2011-8#-8
This spoof of 'Open letter to a Delhi boy' is funny - http://www.schmmuck.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-mumbai-eunuch.html
(For context, here's the original - http://raagshahana.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-delhi-boy.html)
Music
Check out this acoustic cover of 'Rolling in the Deep' by Siddharth Basrur - http://soundcloud.com/arman-and-sid/adele-rolling-in-the-deep/ (For context, here's the original version by Adele - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&ob=av2e)
Technology
Enter the Petabyte - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/09/07/funny-graphs-now-youre-thinking-with-petabytes/
Business
Rediff reports on a new cooling tech start-up - http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-achievers-this-start-up-is-all-set-to-be-worth-rs-1000-crore-in-10-years/20110914.htm
Movies
Unnoticed plotholes in famous films - http://www.cracked.com/article_19435_6-movie-plot-holes-you-never-noticed-thanks-to-editing.html
Society
On gender equality in Kerala - http://www.mutiny.in/2011/09/14/an-ode-to-the-breastless-keralite-women/
Apparently, Omar Abdullah married a minor (going by the comments) - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Omar-Abdullah-divorcing-wife-of-17-years/articleshow/9989687.cms
Science
5 iconic science images, and why they're wrong - http://scienceblogs.com/sciencepunk/2011/09/five_iconic_science_images_and.php
Psychology
Knowledgeable individuals protect the wisdom of crowds - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/13/knowledgeable-individuals-protect-the-wisdom-of-crowds/
Animals
The Nile crocodile is actually 2 species - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/14/nile-crocodile-is-actually-two-species-and-the-egyptians-knew-it/
Is this creature caught in the Philippines, the largest crocodile ever? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14800299
Parasites that attack and control brains - http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/parasite-brain-control/
On the futility of attempting to count species - http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/08/counting-species/
The Pacu fish has human-looking teeth - http://ellerg.blogspot.com/2010/10/fish-with-human-like-teeth.html
Mumbai
City's best art supplies store? - http://mumbaiboss.com/2011/09/14/ask-a-shopkeer-himalaya-stationery-mart/
Media
The Indian media is at risk of being non-objective - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/09/the-problem-with-the-indian-media-and-why-you-should-care-by-hartosh-singh-bal.html
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