Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Deepa Mohan
In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as, something unattractive like picchaiswami (alms or charity from god) or vemban (one who is

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-10-09 Thread Amit Varma
Related: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/so-you-think-yo.html Excerpt: Our system for choosing presidents doesn't work very well. Voters are woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on whim

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huchamma - Mad woman I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but 'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy. -- Alok BOFH excuse #429: Temporal anomaly

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alok G. Singh [09/10/07 12:54 +0530]: On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huchamma - Mad woman I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but 'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy. And the thippeswami referred to a swami (holy man) in chitradurga

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as, something unattractive like

Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007 12:47 pm, Gautam John wrote: MIT Prof. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child non-profit this month is coming out with its first machines, designed with kids in poor countries in mind. (See this story by my colleague, Steve Hamm, about OLPC's attempts to jump-start

Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread ashok _
For all the criticism of the OLPC project, i personally think the project is on to something. That it will probably fail at the implementation stage is an entirely different story... However many of the criticisms that the guy has in the article dont make sense... Many moons ago a host of

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as, something unattractive like

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 10/9/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Kerala during the days when untouchability was prevalent, apparently kids born in lower castes would be taken to the local upper-caste overlord (usually the one from whom the dad would have leased land for farming) who would name

Re: [silk] The age of the Superworm

2007-10-09 Thread Aditya Chadha
Not really (Shockwave Rider it's not). And it's from 20070410, a blast from the past. 20071004 not 20070410 :-) Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

[silk] The trend gathers momentum

2007-10-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Dark days ahead in Mordor, for the content cartel (I hope). Interesting things have come together in the last few days. Two of the biggest bands around dump their labels very publicly. Radiohead: http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex2.html Radiohead have made a new album. So