Google Calendar, besides having cool Ajax features like click and add, drag and drop also allows you to share your calendar with others. You can create a calendar for your local cricket team schedule, another one for  your Java Users Group and share it with the people involved. You can also import global calendars like the list of Indian Holidays and the Wimbledon schedule and view it alongside your personal calendar. These features are quite easy to use and one group which could benefit from this is the monkey brigade of the Kerala Communists (Official Motto: Taking Kerala back to Parasurama’s time).

Recently members of DYFI, protesting against the recent hike in fuel prices decided to block trains. There was one problem though.

The young comrades of the DYFI here were not lucky enough to squat before a moving train that chugged on to the railway station.

Reason: their fellow agitators in other parts of Malabar had already detained a few trains in various stations. As a result, the DYFI activists in Kozhikode had to agitate in front of a stationary passenger train, shunted to the yard.[The not so lucky comrades]

If they had used Google Calendar, the folks in other parts of Malabar could have listed which trains they were blocking, thus preventing  this major embarrassment for the comrades in Kozhikode. If not for this comedy routine, the protest would have been a success and the price of crude would have fallen in the global market.

A healthy herbal beer, invented by an Indian is to hit UK markets. The beer promises much less hangover. Lady Bird Bio Beer contains aloe vera – more commonly found in health food shops – and medicinal herbs.
The beer has the same alcohol strength – five per cent – like all other regular beer. The difference however, according to its inventor Dr Srinivasa Amarnath is that it will leave you with less of a sore head.
Dr Amarnath, who has apparently worked on the particular beer for a decade claims it, has health benefits. He claims it can alleviate conditions such as asthma and arthritis. [Indian to launch herbal beer in UK]

What more can one ask for? Beer that can reduce asthma and has other potential health benefits. You don’t need herbal beer for regular beer is capable of all that. After a six pack, most health problems are usually solved, well atleast till you wake up. Now since we are on the health route, if he could add some flax seed and anti-oxidants to it, then there could be a huge market in California.

Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans:

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (NAY’-gin) is suggesting that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that “God is mad at America” and at black communities too

Pat Robertson, Conservative Christian evangelical broadcaster

Pat Robertson on Thursday linked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke to God’s “Enmity against those ‘who divide my land.’” “He was dividing God’s land and I would say woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU, the United Nations, or the United States of America,” Robertson said on his television program, “The 700 Club,” Broadcast from his Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach. “God says ‘this land belongs to me. You better leave it alone.’”

Before this God was seen talking to George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also. This is why when I call Him, he is not around.

Finally we have a fool proof plan for making Kerala the hub of IT development. This plan is so perfect that once implemented, investors will be running to the state with the same enthusiasm with which Karunakaran is running towards the Communists.
Previously, some management types working for investors did some research on places to invest in India and came up with Kochi, Kerala. The person had used factors like educated workforce, access to airport, roads etc and Kochi was the perfect match like the hammer to the sickle or Prakash to a Karat.
A bunch of VC’s came with bag loads of money, made the decision to setup shop, and while trying to enjoy the trip were are stuck in a houseboat in middle on a lake in Kumarakom due to an instant hartal called by the Communists, protesting the lack of hartal for a month. The oarsman who was a Communist had deserted the boat.
After living on fresh fish for two days, the realization stuck them that they need to add more parameters into their Excel spreadsheet while choosing places to invest. Since then Kochi was blacklisted among all VCs and they instructed their travel departments never to book a ticket to God’s own country, even if an actual God ordered them. So no one invests in Kerala anymore.
If you have been reading news, you know that politicians have changed the name of Bangalore to its ancient name Bengaluru to more accurately reflect the 16th century infrastructure there. As a result, the name Bangalore is up for grabs.
Our plan consists of instantly renaming Kochi to Bangalore. Now when a VC wants to invest in Bangalore and books a ticket guess where he is going to land? I mean who calls his travel agent and says, book a ticket to Bengaluru? Before you know investors will be landing in the Kerala and creating startups. IBM, Microsoft and Google will be having offices in coconut groves and employees will be getting free Ayurvedic massages as perks.
By the time the Comrades return back from their conclave in Kolkatta, the palce would have changed like anything. Internet cafes would have changed to dotcoms. Old dilapidated shops which used to sell bananas, cigarettes and Ma magazines would be having a BPO operation on the side. DYFI members would be speaking Malayalam with an American accent and SFI activists would be enthusiastically discussing BitComet’s non-honoring of BitTorrent private flag.
Looking at this, the Comrades would be wondering if a coconut fell on their heads. They would take out their Nokia phones and dial each other to protest this invasion of globalization. Wouldn’t that be a sight to see.