October 26, 2007
Something Wicked This Way Comes
72 comments
on October 26, 2007 12:40 AM · Direct link
Hey Abhi - what's cookin dude? ;)
on October 26, 2007 12:41 AM · Direct link
Whoa!!! It took me a while to make it out. Congratulations.
When did it happen?
аналитика.
on October 26, 2007 12:41 AM · Direct link
Badmash? Why haven't you been blogging dude?
on October 26, 2007 12:51 AM · Direct link
Google ads? :)
on October 26, 2007 12:55 AM · Direct link
A wicked blog redesign?
on October 26, 2007 1:22 AM · Direct link
You going to the moon?!!!!
on October 26, 2007 1:42 AM · Direct link
does sunny leone work for wicked pictures?
on October 26, 2007 3:03 AM · Direct link
::gasp::
on October 26, 2007 3:38 AM · Direct link
You buying a used Lexus? I don't think Lexus uses that marketing campaign anymore. The specific commmercial you refer to either on purpose or inadvertantly is for an older model lexus. The new models have different themes and commercials.
on October 26, 2007 6:48 AM · Direct link
Yoda stamp?
on October 26, 2007 7:33 AM · Direct link
No. Leopard.
on October 26, 2007 7:47 AM · Direct link
You're guest starring on Heroes?
on October 26, 2007 8:38 AM · Direct link
New website design :-)
on October 26, 2007 8:38 AM · Direct link
The great India melodrama in action. Blog update time!
on October 26, 2007 8:51 AM · Direct link
Something related to HEROES ??
:-S
on October 26, 2007 8:58 AM · Direct link
puli runs naked down 5th avenue like lady godiva? wait...that has nothing to do with SM. thats just a normal weekend plan around here.
on October 26, 2007 9:02 AM · Direct link
Live interview with Barack Obama.
on October 26, 2007 9:13 AM · Direct link
puli runs naked down 5th avenue like lady godiva?
Didn't lady G. ride on a horseback? It was Protima Bedi who ran naked on Juhu beach. ;)
on October 26, 2007 9:55 AM · Direct link
Didn't lady G. ride on a horseback? It was Protima Bedi who ran naked on Juhu beach. ;)
Don't think Puli doing either would be a sight to see
on October 26, 2007 9:57 AM · Direct link
Don't think Puli doing either would be a sight to see
you know you want this
on October 26, 2007 9:57 AM · Direct link
Didn't lady G. ride on a horseback? It was Protima Bedi who ran naked on Juhu beach. ;)
ok..i would need to jack a police horse first....
on October 26, 2007 10:02 AM · Direct link
Is it God? Please, please, please let it be God....but, i hope it's the one true Christian God and not those - Hindoo Gods...who seem to be everywhere these days. What with their Yoga and vegetarianism and Goldie Hawn and Richard Gere!!
ps - I pray it's not that Allah dude either.....he is always so angry.
on October 26, 2007 10:29 AM · Direct link
ok..i would need to jack a police horse first....
Jack as in steal, or jack as in handjob?
on October 26, 2007 10:48 AM · Direct link
ok..i would need to jack a police horse first....Jack as in steal, or jack as in handjob?
If you jack (as in handjob) the horse, may be you won't have to jack (as in steal) it?
on October 26, 2007 10:56 AM · Direct link
My guess: Sepia Mutiny was sold to a magazine/newspaper. New York Times bought Freakonomics blog. The Atlantic bought out M Yglesias and others. I wonder what magazine/newspaper would want this blog though.
on October 26, 2007 11:00 AM · Direct link
I hate suspense. Just tell us already!
Maybe Manish is coming back.
on October 26, 2007 11:01 AM · Direct link
fair and lovely ads
on October 26, 2007 11:06 AM · Direct link
FaceBook has just been valued at $20 billion (via the Microsoft minority stake) and following that news SM has been valued as anmol by some MSM or MS software/Media co??
on October 26, 2007 11:15 AM · Direct link
Sepia Mutiny's orbit around the Earth will position it between the Sun and North America on Monday, blocking the Sun's light. At that time you should not observe Sepia Mutiny directly, even with sunglasses! Use a piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it to read Sepia Mutiny's shadow on the sidewalk.
on October 26, 2007 11:20 AM · Direct link
Let me guess. NASA declares that they have proof that WE are the Martians. Life on planet Earth was first implanted by invading Martians, and therefore we are all decendents of these ETs. I wonder if Charles Darwin is turning into his grave!! Or may be - and I am dreaming - Abhi is going to propose someone on the SM !!!
on October 26, 2007 11:25 AM · Direct link
FaceBook has just been valued at $20 billion
err 15bn - http://knowledge.computing.co.uk/2007/10/15bn-facebook-v.html
on October 26, 2007 11:30 AM · Direct link
MOHINDER!
on October 26, 2007 11:31 AM · Direct link
err 15bn$15 billion or $20bn its all the same, I purposely exaggerated to show my opinion that this valuation may be high. AMZN's market cap is $36 billion after being in business for so many years and FaceBook by swapping pictures is worth half that, sounds a little incredible.
on October 26, 2007 11:37 AM · Direct link
I'm hoping it's user registration.
See comment #34 for why.
on October 26, 2007 11:41 AM · Direct link
I agree. If you come here for "community" not intelligence this is the place to be.
on October 26, 2007 11:42 AM · Direct link
By the way, hillside, nice utter neglect of proper comma usage to demonstrate your mad writing skillz.
Nothing screams "I am qualified to express an opinion as a professional writer" better than screaming "I am qualified to express an opinion as a professional writer," after all.
on October 26, 2007 11:43 AM · Direct link
RC,
Feels like the dotcom time again, it is incredible that facebook is valued at 500 times its 2007 estimated earnings.
on October 26, 2007 11:44 AM · Direct link
My guess: Sepia Mutiny was sold to a magazine/newspaper. New York Times bought Freakonomics blog. The Atlantic bought out M Yglesias and others. I wonder what magazine/newspaper would want this blog though.
You cannot be serious Chocolat. Those fighting the good fight cannot be bought!
on October 26, 2007 11:51 AM · Direct link
I don't think Lexus uses that marketing campaign anymore.
Sadaiyappan, what about the Bradbury novel?
But I did love that commercial just for the voice of Eartha Kitt.
on October 26, 2007 12:14 PM · Direct link
my top 3 guesses:
(1) bobby jindal will become a contributing writer?
(2) live gambling for desis and friends?
(3) a shiny new matrimonial section?
on October 26, 2007 12:16 PM · Direct link
Sepia Mutiny is going public and issuing IPO's??. I'll bite buy.
on October 26, 2007 12:55 PM · Direct link
Starting 'Dear Abhi' column for dispensing advice to the lovelorn ?
on October 26, 2007 12:56 PM · Direct link
firefox?
on October 26, 2007 1:05 PM · Direct link
Sepia Destiny
on October 26, 2007 1:31 PM · Direct link
Abhi is the next presidential hopeful and choose to file his papers as a Republican.
on October 26, 2007 1:35 PM · Direct link
Why do so many people think it has to do with Heroes? Am I missing something?
on October 26, 2007 2:16 PM · Direct link
Something so wicked that it'll blot out the sun?!
on October 26, 2007 2:21 PM · Direct link
It's amazing how folks assert that to write, one needs to be "professional". Since when do you need qualifications to express oneself?
- A Non-Writer
on October 26, 2007 2:34 PM · Direct link
I know - Razib is coming on board.
on October 26, 2007 3:09 PM · Direct link
a blog-suicide?
on October 26, 2007 3:19 PM · Direct link
A halloween site makeover? Really, do we have to wait till Monday? You are stalling lives by doing this ;-)
on October 26, 2007 3:54 PM · Direct link
Someone getting engaged?
on October 26, 2007 4:02 PM · Direct link
May be ">this :)
on October 26, 2007 4:03 PM · Direct link
on October 26, 2007 4:15 PM · Direct link
I think posters should be forced to register with SM, then fill out an intricate profile replete with highly detailed biodata. I'd like to see how I stack up to other posters in this regard as I've actively been working to damage my marketability for the past 10+ years. The blank spots in my resume reference various periods spent contracting scabies in LES Anarchist squats. Top that!!
on October 26, 2007 5:29 PM · Direct link
Sepiamutiny is bought by Google?
on October 26, 2007 6:22 PM · Direct link
Why do so many people think it has to do with Heroes? Am I missing something?
The Heroes logo
on October 26, 2007 6:42 PM · Direct link
Are you guys putting Helios on SM, maybe? Or buying a Mitsubishi? Or hiding behind the moon for a while?
on October 26, 2007 11:54 PM · Direct link
Abhi has a super power!!
on October 26, 2007 11:59 PM · Direct link
And the winner is 'comments are coming to Sepia News'.
on October 27, 2007 12:56 AM · Direct link
Wow, congratulations! "SM: The Musical" is a fantastic idea, and I think it was a long time in the making. The true victory will be when the Bollywood adaptation is under production. Naturally, starring the "SM: The Blog" cast as the heros/heroines.
on October 27, 2007 1:17 AM · Direct link
sepia-digg
on October 27, 2007 3:58 AM · Direct link
Hey! If the moon were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it?
on October 27, 2007 8:20 AM · Direct link
Your torments call us like dogs in the night. And we do feed, and feed well. To stuff ourselves on other people's torments. And butter our plain bread with delicious pain... Funerals, marriages, lost loves, lonely beds " that is our diet. We suck that misery and find it sweet. We can smell the young ulcerating to be men a thousand miles off. And hear a middle-aged fool like yourself groaning with midnight despairs from halfway round the world. (IMDB)
ooh evil one, must you let us wait?
on October 27, 2007 10:19 AM · Direct link
Fuck yeah I would eat the moon! Ribs are sooo good. I have fond childhood memories of getting ribs with my dad and eating them at home.
Which reminds me, I am in India right now -- and you see chickens, goats and cows running around eating garbage on the streets and grass that grows right out from sewage ditches. Then people eat the chickens/goats and drink the cows milk!
In the US I have been told that chickens are fed chicken feed etc. and I guess they are no where near sewage or garbage so I guess it is better to be a vegetarian while in India.
on October 27, 2007 11:06 AM · Direct link
In the US I have been told that chickens are fed chicken feed etc. and I guess they are no where near sewage or garbage so I guess it is better to be a vegetarian while in India.
Sadaiyappan, sorry to burst your bubble - happy reading!! Also, google is your friend - if you have the stomach for it, that is. ;)
on October 27, 2007 2:06 PM · Direct link
Whatever it is, it's probably related to the News and Events tabs - because Chaitan is shutting them down for 'maintenance' tonight. I'm guessing/hoping we'll have (i) reader ranking of news stories (ii) lifting of the 100-word limit to (say) 250) words (iii) - a combination of the first two - to effectively have reader-submitted 'posts', that are also ranked by other readers.
The ranking is computed in real time, but each IP can vote only once on any post. Also, no IP can submit more than two posts during any 24 hour period that begins at midnight EST. Every eight hours, the top 5 ranked posts move to the top of the News Tab. Any reader who consistently produces top ranked posts in the News Tab (e.g., gets in the top 5 for more than 15 days in consecutive months) will be invited to consider guest blogging for SM. To counter the inherent non-judgementality of SMers (aha!) which would manifest itself in a reluctance to rank posts - the number of clicks a post gets - normalized for IP, so only one click per IP would count - can be used to reality-check rankings.
I suggest that if this algorithm were coded, and implemented over the News Tab for the past six months, KXB would naturally emerge at the top, double-validating his guest-blogger status. Also, KXB, when are you getting yourself an avatar ? :)
on October 27, 2007 3:34 PM · Direct link
Whatever it is, it's probably related to the News and Events tabsThat's not exciting enough for this kind of suspense-porn post.
on October 28, 2007 9:53 PM · Direct link
Abhi has a Nature paper?
on October 28, 2007 9:56 PM · Direct link
Abhi has a Nature paper?
I almost had a paper in Science last year :) Ah well. My stuff can be found in the Astrobiology Journal.
For the record (re: all the other comments above), I am the biggest sci-fi freak ever. And I think Heroes sucks.
on October 28, 2007 11:40 PM · Direct link
Heroes is more comic book than it is sci-fi. They try to emulate that old school comic book feel where it is a little too much good versus evil and a little too unrealistic.
on October 30, 2007 4:25 PM · Direct link
Still waiting for it
Add a comment
