Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet pseudo-history

Grok Headline matches for Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet pseudo-history

How *do* you say "mullet" in Portuguese?

How *do* you say "mullet" in Portuguese? 05/24/2004 05:27 PM
Following up on an earlier BoingBoing post about a Brazilian heavy metal band that plays covers of video game theme songs, BoingBoing reader Carlos says:

Unfortunately, the answer to that question is probably not as fun as it might seem... we still say 'mullet', there's just no translation of that word... but then, fortunately, mullets were not as popular here as they were in the US of A...

Link to previous post

Monobrow: the new mullet.

Monobrow: the new mullet. 12/27/2003 01:46 PM
Monobrow.

IE 6 Bug with pseudo elements

IE 6 Bug with pseudo elements 03/08/2004 11:28 PM

Herman Peet recently posted in the TopStyle newsgroups about a CSS bug in IE6 that I haven't heard of before. Basically, when no space exists between a pseudo element and the first brace in a CSS rule, the selector will not be applied. Jack Brewster was kind enough to create a web page which illustrates the problem.

Pseudo PostreSQL ADODB

Pseudo PostreSQL ADODB 11/08/2002 07:17 PM
Pseudo PostgreSQL ADODB is a PHP class designed as a drop-in replacement for ADOdb for PHP applications that do not need the full power of ADOdb, want to remain light and fast but want to remain compatible with ADOdb. The API of PostgreSQL ADODB Emulation was designed to be compatible with ADOdb. I was able to remove ADOdb from my application framework and use this class instead.

Corporate pseudo Responsibility

Corporate pseudo Responsibility 05/26/2004 09:05 AM
David Batstone at Worthwhile (where I also blog) expresses skepticism that is not only appropriate but inevitable when it comes to corporations issuing reports about how well they're upholding their self-defined social responsibilities. Some of the reports may be honest but they suffer from Electronic Ballot syndrome: By their nature, they engender disbelief. I'd be more impressed if corporations enabled an independent, third-party group to investigate them and issue reports. Is there any such group that gets full cooperation and support from the corporations it researches?...

Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A
Pseudo-10D

Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A
Pseudo-10D 06/02/2004 12:53 AM

A revised method of defining link
pseudo-classes

A revised method of defining link
pseudo-classes 08/21/2002 04:56 AM
An examination of another technique for defining link pseudo-classes in CSS

Pseudo Interactive, Toronto game
company, bounces back from up-and-down
year

Pseudo Interactive, Toronto game
company, bounces back from up-and-down
year 05/10/2004 07:11 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com May 10 2004 11:19PM GMT

"Bollywood for the Skeptical"

"Bollywood for the Skeptical" 12/24/2004 01:00 PM

Bollywood for the Skeptical

Bollywood for the Skeptical 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
Bollywood for the Skeptical offers information about Bollywood film, language in India, useful Hindi words, and even downloads of songs from Bollywood movies .. aquaint yourself with Bollywood music

ocf.berkeley.edu/~dboyk/bollywood
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Bollywood online

Bollywood online 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
CNET Asia Dec 23 2003 7:32PM ET

Bollywood gambles on P2P

Bollywood gambles on P2P 12/23/2003 02:10 PM
In the UK Guardian today:

Bollywood movie fans will soon be able to download full-length features with the file-sharing software Kazaa. A deal struck between a partner of Sharman Networks Ltd, the company which owns Kazaa, and IndiaFM.com, a popular entertainment site, will allow Indian film producers to distribute movies, music and other large, rich media files online to an estimated 60 million international Kazaa users. The move follows a pilot scheme in November when Bollywood thriller Supari was offered for sale at US $2.99 and promoted through Kazaa prior to its release in India. The file was designed to self destruct after being watched and could not be copied.

Link

Spidey Goes to Bollywood

Spidey Goes to Bollywood 06/20/2004 04:06 PM
Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group are introducing a new version of Spiderman regionalized for South Asian audiences. In the Indian version, Peter Parker becomes Pavitr Prabhakar; instead of fighting the Green Goblin he'll battle Rakshasa, a mythical Indian demon. He's wearing a sarong-like garment, and he has unstoppable spiritual powers of asskickage. Link (Thanks, Robin Pen)

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood 11/13/2003 12:26 PM
The file-swapping company, which is locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios, has stuck a deal to digitally distribute a full-length feature film made in India's Bollywood.

Toronto-set Bollywood movie

Toronto-set Bollywood movie 05/27/2004 06:25 PM
Ouchless sez, "My mother found this Bollywood-esque film "poster" completely by accident. The movie is titled 'Coxwell and Gerrard', which is the main intersection in Toronto's Little India." Link (Thanks, Ouchless!)

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood

MP3: Don't Stop 'til you Get to
Bollywood 04/13/2004 11:17 AM
A few days ago, Jonno pointed me to a Bollywood-flavored remake of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," which he found on a supercool sekrit MP3 blog that shall remain nameless. This track is phat. This track is funky. This track makes me want to do a little dance in my ergonomic chair. A little google-digging reveals the song is by a group called the Bollywood Freaks, and came out on a limited edition red vinyl 7" in the UK. I want to send them money for the funk they provide. I want more of their music. If anyone has info, cough it up.

But for now -- look! Someone dumped a copy of said funky track on a server somewhere. Download the MP3 while it lasts. Link

IE Pop-Up Spoof Won't Get Patched

IE Pop-Up Spoof Won't Get Patched 06/24/2005 08:20 PM
Microsoft does not plan to update Internet Explorer to prevent a spoofing attack that could trick users into giving out personal information to hackers.

In the attack, JavaScript is used to display a pop-up window in front of a trusted Web site. The pop-up appears to be part of the legitimate site, but actually is linked to a different, malicious site. A user might be fooled into sending personal information to the scammers. Although the pop-ups could be used by attackers, overlaying multiple windows in a Web browser is a feature, not a vulnerability, according to an advisory posted Tuesday on Microsoft's TechNet Web site.

"This is an example of how current standard Web browser functionality could be used in phishing attempts," Microsoft said in the advisory. Phishing is a prevalent type of online fraud that attempts to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card numbers. The schemes typically combine spam e-mail and fraudulent Web pages that look like legitimate sites.

News source: C|Net News.com

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IE Spoof Exploit

IE Spoof Exploit 12/29/2003 11:48 PM

New, sneaky, evil PayPal spoof: Here's a good example of an email scam made possible by the IE URL spoofing hole that remains unpatched.

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Bollywood MP3 Disco Blowout Friday

Bollywood MP3 Disco Blowout Friday 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
Following up on this previous BoingBoing post about the Bollywood Freaks mashup "Don't Stop 'til You Get to Bollywood," BoingBoing reader Mike says:

This was only a very slightly re-tweaked version of a tune from an early 1980s Bollywood soundtrack, as sung by the well-known Indian singer Usha Uthup. (The tune's original title is "Chhupke Kaun Aya".) The Usha Uthup version has just been re-released on CD in the UK, as part of a 2CD mix set called "The Trip", mixed by Tom Middleton.

But you ain't heard nothing yet! Usha's greatest work, which dates from the same era, is the utterly INSANE "One Two Cha Cha Cha". (This also quotes from a classic disco hit.) This track is available on a 1997 compilation called "In Flight Entertainment Vol.2" - and also as an MP3 on my blog for the next week or two.

Link to the blog hosting an MP3 download of "Cha Cha Cha." Oh yeah.

Kazaa to distribute Bollywood feature

Kazaa to distribute Bollywood feature 11/13/2003 12:21 PM
Kazaa has inked a deal to simultaneously distribute a theatrically released Bollywood movie, using its DRM-based Altnet technology.

"The Bollywood movie market is growing at twice the rate of Hollywood, in terms of production and revenue. This is where the benefits of P2P technology become really clear," Sharman CEO Nikki Hemming said in a statement. "P2P technology offers the movie industry a huge opportunity to massively enhance its distribution and generate revenue."

Link

Motherlode of free Bollywood MP3s

Motherlode of free Bollywood MP3s 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Sweeter than a mouthful of ja lebi. David Boyk says:

"While I was supposed to be studying for finals, I made a mix CD to introduce dubious Westerners to Bollywood. That didn't waste enough time, so I also made a big web site that has all the tracks from the CD, plus some more, and a lot of other information to explain Bollywood movies and music, and also to help a bit with language."

Far from a waste of time, David's terrific site includes a "bollywood for dummies" primer, and a very helpful list of common Hindi words you'll encounter. As for the MP3s, man -- there are some serious gems in here, in particular the rockin' 1960s numbers.

Link

Kazaa gets into showbiz, Bollywood style

Kazaa gets into showbiz, Bollywood style 11/12/2003 10:16 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 12 2003 9:38PM ET

Bollywood Dreams - Apple Loops 1.0

Bollywood Dreams - Apple Loops 1.0 08/27/2004 02:16 PM
Superb collection of Bollywood inspired loops for GarageBand!

60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood

60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood 01/02/2005 11:06 PM
Xeni Jardin: Well -- not all together in the same story, though that might have been even more interesting.

The CBS television program 60 Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Google this evening which included astute comment from John Battelle, who moonlights as BoingBoing's Reuben Kincaid when he's not writing books, building empires, and tracking search tech trends here. Snip from the transcript:

"If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d probably be drummed out of the company," observes John Battelle, an author and entrepreneur who has been following Silicon Valley companies for 20 years. He says, "Google has a brand image to maintain. And their image is they’re all about innovation and they’re all about the Internet, and they’re all about trust. They’re not about selling out. They’re not about getting rich quick. So you’ve got a culture like that; I think if anyone were to buy, you know, a new Mercedes convertible and drive around with the stereo blaring, and miss work a couple days because they’re rich now, that would not be acceptable behavior at Google.

"But trust me," he adds. "There’s a Mercedes convertible in every one of their heads. There is. And it will…come out. Over time, it will come out."

The show also included a killer piece on Indian film star and hyperbolic superbeauty Aishwarya Rai. Snip:

The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because they’re squeaky-clean. There are no sex scenes, not even kissing. Every time you think someone’s going to do it, they'll burst into song instead. "I'd assume that's really a reflection of our society," Rai says, when asked to explain the films' modesty. "Of course people kiss and of course people have a very healthy love life. This is the land of the Kama Sutra. But nevertheless, in our society you don't really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely, overtly, physically demonstrative publicly. They do it privately but not publicly."

Link to Google piece with BoingBoing's own John Battelle, and Link to seg on Aishwarya Rai.

Bollywood in Internet download deal

Bollywood in Internet download deal 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
Deccan Herald Dec 23 2003 4:44PM ET

Bollywood Vanilla Coke ad which kicks
ass

Bollywood Vanilla Coke ad which kicks
ass 05/30/2004 05:44 PM
BoingBoing reader Vishal points us to a spectacularly cheesy Indian TV ad starring yet another one of my fut ure husbands (look, any fella who eschews SMS for pigeon as preferred love-note carrier is alright by me).

Vishal says, "This Ad is really popular in India, and I was surprised to find that the good people at Coke have it online too (RealPlayer). It features one of the hottest young actors in Bollywood, Vivek Oberoi, and features many in-jokes to '70s Bollywood films (note, especially, the lightbulb dress in the 3rd segment, a direct lift from a classic 70's movie)."

Footnote to menswear trendwatchers: take a tip from Vivek, at left -- pink vomit prints are the new black.

Update: BoingBoing reader Berklee totally harshes my mellow by saying, "Excellent choice for a future husband, but you'll have to wait until he's done with Aishwarya Rai, I'm afraid. Meanwhile, I recommend [a 2002 film starring Oberoi titled] Company. Go rent it (or download it) and enjoy this un-Bollywood-like gangster-movie!"
Link

Speak spoof to power

Speak spoof to power 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
So, the Club for Growth runs this ridiculously nasty commercial that slips into self-parody as a couple says: "I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving...[etc.] freak-show back to Vermont." The Dean blog responds by posting the ad and a new version with dubbed voices so that the couple is now explaining why they're supporting Dean. It's a totally amateur job, and is intentionally funny because of that. Now the blog is hosting a make-your-own-postcard page where you can make your own list of the sort of Dean supporter you are. The blog notes that...

Eudora 6.0.1 attachment spoof

Eudora 6.0.1 attachment spoof 11/13/2003 12:26 PM
Paul Szabo (Nov 12 2003)

Other News: Fuse Spoof

Other News: Fuse Spoof 07/19/2004 09:26 AM
Fuse spoofs Apple's iPod ads with its own new campaign.

Eudora 6.1.2 attachment spoof

Eudora 6.1.2 attachment spoof 07/06/2004 10:12 PM
Paul Szabo (Jul 06 2004)

More Sexy Adult Movies out in the
Internet from Bollywood

More Sexy Adult Movies out in the
Internet from Bollywood 04/02/2005 07:24 AM
India Daily Apr 2 2005 11:00AM GMT

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really

Bollywood Signs Up For Kazaa Movie
Downloads... But Not Really 12/23/2003 05:39 PM
There have been a few stories about "legitimate" companies doing deals with Kazaa, but once you get past the headline, you realize that it's not true at all. Just like all those other deals the headlines trumpeting a deal between some some Bollywood film makers and Kazaa isn't really about Kazaa at all. Instead, it's a deal with Kazaa's sister company Altnet, which runs a service within Kazaa to distribute approved copy protected content. So, this isn't at all about film makers understanding the promotional value of free downloads, but rather them trying to piggyback copy protection (in this case files that supposedly "self-destruct" after a single $3 viewing) on the popularity of Kazaa. The deal isn't even that good. $3 for a product that self-destructs after a single viewing? You get a better deal going to the local video store. Meanwhile, though, they get all the publicity of having the film "offered on Kazaa". All Altnet is really doing is bolting a pay-for service (like iTunes) into Kazaa. It doesn't leverage the real benefits of a distributed file sharing network at all.

Bollywood puts more films online with
Kazaa

Bollywood puts more films online with
Kazaa 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
CNET Asia Dec 23 2003 7:32PM ET

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads

Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads 12/23/2003 11:47 AM
MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace ...

Bollywood ad takeover, part three:
Peugot ad, and TV ad index

Bollywood ad takeover, part three:
Peugot ad, and TV ad index 05/31/2004 09:59 AM
BoingBoing reader Manish Vij points us to his list of Bollywood-themed TV advertisements for western products, which includes a popular ad for Peugot. Manish's website includes terrific liner notes -- for instance, pointers on where to download copies of songs you hear in the ads.
Link to Peugot ad, and alternate link; Link to "TV Satires on India"; Previous BoingBoing posts on Bollywood spoof ads: 1, 2

Bollywood signs up for Kazaa download
sales

Bollywood signs up for Kazaa download
sales 12/24/2003 12:13 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 24 2003 9:40AM ET

Badass Bollywood dance-off Saturday in
San Francisco

Badass Bollywood dance-off Saturday in
San Francisco 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: Terrific SF Chronicle article about a Bollywood dance competition taking place in San Francisco tomorrow. Snip:

Growing up in Calcutta, I rarely watched Hindi films. Going to the movies usually meant viewing English-language evergreens like "Born Free" and "Willie Wonka," or hoary literary classics with dialogue in my native Bengali. Bollywood was a risqué world with money but little class where the vamps flashed thigh and cleavage and the heroes kept their shirts unbuttoned. At my school, we had regular "hair check" days, at which school staff made sure our locks were not curling over our collars like some "two-bit Bombay film star." We knew Bollywood produced more films than Hollywood, and millions of Indians queued up on opening weekend to buy tickets on the black market, but I was taught to look down my nose at the genre's kitschy excess.

Now, to my surprise, Bollywood is entering the American mainstream, thanks to movies such as Mira Nair's art-house hit "Monsoon Wedding" and the Bollywood-inspired pageantry of "Moulin Rouge." Indian beauty queen Aishwarya Rai recently appeared on "60 Minutes," and rapper Dr. Dre was slapped with a lawsuit for mixing a snatch of an old Hindi song into his single "Addictive." It's also hit academia in media-studies courses on campuses from UC Berkeley to MIT.

Link (Thanks, Brian "Badass" Lam!).

Update: Boing Boing reader Kevin H points out that the author of this SF Chron story appears to have made a minor error:

Dr. Dre didn't have a single called "Addictive". The single was for Truth Hurts, and it featured a blistering Rakim rap. Truth Hurts is an artist on Dre's label Aftermath Records. DJ Quik produced the single. It drips with hotness.

Another bank spoof phishes for data

Another bank spoof phishes for data 12/29/2003 07:14 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 29 2003 6:40AM ET

IE Bug Might Let Hackers Use Spoof
Sites: Microsoft

IE Bug Might Let Hackers Use Spoof
Sites: Microsoft 12/11/2003 08:32 PM
AVN Online Dec 11 2003 7:10PM ET
Grok Description matches for Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet pseudo-history
GrokA matches for Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet pseudo-history

Amazon's not-really-sekrit 800 number

Amazon's not-really-sekrit 800 number 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
In "Cool Tools," Kevin Kelly writes:

On average I've ordered from Amazon once a week for the last four years or so. Not just books, but power tools, toys, kitchen stuff, the whole lot. Given the volume of my orders I think their customer service is super great; it sets the gold standard for other companies. No other merchant online or offline has provided the ease and accuracy of ordering as Amazon does. Still, in my experience there are occasionally glitches that their email-bots can't deal with, usually entailing a minor billing snafu. In these rare cases you need Amazon.com's almost-secret real-person customer service telephone number. You won't find it on their website. I once got it by calling 800 directory assistance. In any case, they make it hard to find because a call costs Amazon more, so you should jot down this number for those special moments when only a human will do: 800-201-7575.

Link

Bollywood spoof ads, continued: mullet pseudo-history

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