If you're a Brazilian and want to go into politics, the first thing you have to do is..change you're name to Barrack Obama! By the way, I dont blog politics. Read on..
Welcome to Obama-mania, Brazil-style. Few countries have embraced the idea of the US's first black president as enthusiastically as Brazil, a country with one of the largest Afro-descendant populations on Earth yet where black faces remain a minority in politics. Obama T-shirts are everywhere while chat shows and newspaper columns are filled with talk of the 47-year-old Illinois senator.
Alright. That's perfectly Ok. Changing your name to Barrack Obama's the end of the list. You're not doing any change at all. You're just a Brazilian imprint of the American Obama. It's a pathetic way to try and draw votes.




Ladies and gentlemen, two of the world's most famous Obamas! Brazil has reported six dickheads who officially changed their names to Barrack Obama, five who changed their names to Bill Clinton and one Chico Bin Laden (?)... God, save us! And the Brazilian Obama says he'd invite the American to dinner in Brazil if he won the elections. Ha!

NOTE: I know I'm not from Brazil, but I found this ultra-pathetic and had a sudden urge to blog about it. I'm also not sure if the Brazilian Obama is as pure as a saint. ^_^

In recent years, Google has made unthinkable progress, accomplished more than any other internet megagiant has, to the extent that the word 'Google' has almost become synonymous with 'search', to the extent of the word 'Google' becoming a verb in everyday English.
Still, Google still hasn't learnt the art of privacy.

Google Maps - Google Maps is a masterpiece, truly fascinating and highly informative internet tool putting Wikimaps behind it. For one thing, Google Maps enables street views of places, making locating a restaurant as easy as clicking a button on your mouse. But here's the scary bit. Google Maps also provides aerial views of important and strategic locations, which means planning terror attacks can also be as easy as clicking a mouse button.


The White House


Gateway of India

Rashtrapati Bhavan

And sure enough, our former President, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam expressed his concerns and requests to Google, but with no response, and ofcourse he was'nt the only one. If Google had ignored the pleas of the American government itself, what good are our protests?
Screw Google! And the street view thing could also be scary - in terms of privacy - I mean, they update these photos every month or so, with cameras fixed on top of cars. And these photos include several embarassing photos of people who do not wish to be seen in those situations. I mean, who, with a perfectly functioning cerebrellum, would want to be seen in..., and coming out of a ... and ... and so on..


Yeah this is what I mean.. Google has started its candid car in Australia and you might notice the shop behind it, the many privacy breaking photos of Google include several men going inside one of those.. Social networking websites are flooding with Google's photos of couples kissing, people going into one of those stores, an obvious and failed theft etc.