Comments on: Just press the button…

By: sophie

sophie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:17:12 +0000

yeah. this site is pretty freaky. but i still clicked it. but i wont click it daily. but anyway, the page was not found.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:36:08 +0000

I dont really see how this works.

Assume a 100,000 people press the button everyday, and one "cup of staple food' costs around 2 Rupees. That equals Rs. 200,000. And that would mean Rs. 6,000,000 (60 lakhs or 6 million) per month. Is this possible?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 May 2006 12:26:02 +0000

I think attending the darfur rally yesterday would have been a much more noble cause for south asians. Didn't see too many brown faces there. And while there were plenty of plenty of Christian and Jewish groups that participated, I didn't see any official Hindu or Muslim presence.

By: Sonam Kapadia

Sonam Kapadia — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:01:29 +0000

Hi,

There have been multiple comments about whether http://www.bhook.com is legit or not. I wanted to put this to rest. I am the brother of Lt. Nawang Kapadia and maintain his web-memorial. The site Bhook.com is a project in his memory by his close friend Vikas Sutaria. It is 100% legit. Since we run this on small budgets and is not a full time job for us, we occasionally might not be able to a rock solid job of professional web-masters. Maybe we are guilty of not having big name sponsors but definitly not guilty of a hoax.

Regards,

Sonam

By: RC

RC — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:26:02 +0000

I looked at the info that was in "About" link of the site. It mentions a Lt. Nawang Kapadia who became shaheed in Kargil war.

Nawang Kapadia's family maintains a website memorial where a link to the Bhookh.com site can be found. Also a mention of the person who started Bhookh.com is also mentioned. So looks legit site to me.

By: Anam

Anam — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:29:39 +0000

Pushed the button. Reminds me of the song Galvanize by Chemical brothers. ” The time has come to…. push the button “

By: A N N A

A N N A — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:25:12 +0000

i wonder if he has those specific links there b/c the site recommends that we make bhookh our home page. those are the sort of sites which tend to be people's home pages, right? how do you combat the objection , "but i neeeed MSN as soon as i log onnnnn?"

put a link to MSN on bhookh.

By: epoch

epoch — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:14:04 +0000

Epoch, I say you are wrong. Prove to me that this is a hoax and I will update my post with an apology. My research indicates that this is for real.

For starters the sponsors list on their thank you pages seems fake -

I find it extraordinary that MSN, Yahoo, google, gmail, hotmail etc... all sponsored a relatively unknown site that would drive them little traffic or positive publicity.

Also general unprofessionalism like the link to 'gmail' on their thank you page doesn't point to the correct url.

(AFAIK Google doesn't spend money on promoting gmail, it does spend money on promoting its new products like Picasa and Earth as well as its advertising program)

Compare this to the hungersite's sponsors who are mainly small e-commerce sites. (which is exactly who you would expect to sponsor something like this)

No clear info on how to become a sponsor but to his credit does have contact info.

Maybe the intent is there to add sponsors in the future.

But at this point it seems to me that the sponsors are fake, so unless he is paying for the food out of his own pocket I am guessing the site is not living up to its promise.

I apologize in advance if this is real.

By: raju

raju — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:06:11 +0000

i think probably every person who’s commented on this has a point somewhere

By: A N N A

A N N A — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:48:17 +0000

Look, i would point out that you're dissing SM, but I rather just insult you with sex-jokes about your mom. Which I did, before Big Brown Brother deleted it.

how incredibly refined of you. will you similarly disrespect all of our mothers if we are sarcastic?

read the note above the comments section-- it's not "big brother"; it's a well-established set of guidelines which are equivalent to throwing the rowdy asshole out of the party so the rest of us can get down, drama-free.

:+:

epoch: i went to snopes and didn't see anything, though they did say that the original hunger site is legit. Bhookh uses the same process for donating food, that's why my spider sense didn't tingle. well, that and the fact that i met shashi IRL at the meetup on sunday and he smells honest.