Definitely not Gray

Google is to me what Apple is to the Apple cult. However, I wonder if they went a little overboard with their ad campaign for the Chrome browser. Clearly, someone was trying to take a leaf out of the ingenious 'Mac Vs PC guy' ads. Take a look.

Now, leaving aside the exception that members of LGBT community may take to the rather suggestive innuendo in "Definitely not Gray", I am surprised that Google would resort to such language in an ad campaign. I'd probably have found this hilarious were I watching SouthPark but in a Google campaign... tut-tut.

Also, and correct me if I am wrong here (I am colour-blind after all) but does anyone else find the whole idea of using a heretofore unexposed/little known feature of the Youtube API (I'm talking about the changing backgrounds bit) for promoting its own product and the whole set of bright, colourfully cheerful/loud/flowery backgrounds is all rather... uhm... "gray"?

JFK in Retrospect

I suppose the audience present at that time, why, even the world as a whole, went into a rapture of sorts when JFK uttered those words about not asking what the country can do for you. Two generations later, in a more placid state of mind, I feel that there is more to that statement than he cared to mention.

What he really meant, I reckon, was that if you are one to do something for your country, the very best it will do for you in return is drape your coffin with its flag, and give you a three volley salute, and that is if you die before you do too much good.

If one the other hand, you are one to do something to your country, then, there is much indeed that your country can do for you.

Nothing sums up my sentiment as today's editorial by P.Sainath in the Hindu does.

In retrospect it seems, that what JFK left out of that speech was prescient of what became of him and his brother.