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2007-09-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

[silk] stephen fry's blog - device and desires

2007-09-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
stephen fry turns out to be an uber-gadget-freak. his first blog post [1] is a detailed review of wannabe iphone killers, and notes that back when he was shooting Wilde in 1996 he was scolded for having a nokia 9000 communicator sticking out of his pocket. I have never seen a SmartPhone I haven't

Re: [silk] stephen fry's blog - device and desires

2007-09-22 Thread B.L. Krieger
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: i think, however, that i want a nokia n95. the iphone looks nice but sucks on tech specs. the n95 isn't much bigger, looks quite nice too, this is true for all mobile apple gadgets. -b

[silk] Traveling in Karnataka and Kerala

2007-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello: I thought I could tap into the collective intelligence of this community and get suggestions for traveling in Karnataka and Kerala. I recollect that a few months ago there was a longish thread about Malleswaram in Bangalore that had tons of useful information. Would appreciate any

Re: [silk] Traveling in Karnataka and Kerala

2007-09-22 Thread Thaths
On 9/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions for Msyore? I recommend staying at the Green Hotel (http://www.greenhotelindia.com/). It is a Heritage hotel that is beautifully preserved. And they have an excellent breakfast. They are pricey, though. If you have the

[silk] mumbai quote of the week

2007-09-22 Thread Ingrid
There are simply too many suffering, one socialite explained. So we focus on things we can actually have an impact on, like arthttp://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/art/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifierand gardening

Re: [silk] mumbai quote of the week

2007-09-22 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 23 Sep 2007 12:16 am, Ingrid wrote: There are simply too many suffering, one socialite explained. So we focus on things we can actually have an impact on, like art and gardening http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/tmagazine/10well-mumbai-t.html?pagewanted=all If I may say so

[silk] belgium

2007-09-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
maybe i've become a geopolitics geek, but i found this letter to the economist incredibly funny. it was in response to their half-serious suggestion [1] a couple of weeks ago that belgium should dismantle itself. Sir, Another article mentions the problems of a doomed attempt by the Taiwanese to

Re: [silk] Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal

2007-09-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 10:42 +0200, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: And they still have one appeal left (at the European Court of Justice). But given that this court asked them to pay the EU Commission's cost, further appeals could prove more expensive to them. i don't think court costs are a

Re: [silk] Hitler had an Indian Army?!

2007-09-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:17 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Old news, quite well known. indeed. i'm not sure what secrets were discovered by the BBC. this army / mutiny was also a sub-plot in amitav ghosh's fascinating the glass palace [1]. -rishab 1.

Re: [silk] belgium

2007-09-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: [ on 06:11 AM 9/23/2007 ] maybe i've become a geopolitics geek, but i found this letter to the economist incredibly funny. it was in response to their half-serious suggestion [1] a couple of weeks ago that belgium should dismantle itself. Could we give the