[silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/memory/foer-text.html MEMORY By Joshua Foer There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as AJ, who remembers almost every day of her life since age 11. There is an 85-year-old

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Abhishek Hazra
trivial clarification: the Borges-Eco connection is citational old-hat really..has been much commented upon. but i find it interesting anyway - also because Eco's work is in a different register than Borges, though often dealing with similar concepts.. and actually i am reminded now, that Eco's

Re: [silk] confluence hunting in uttaranchal

2007-12-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-11-30 09:56:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://toroid.org/ams/uttaranchal-2005 And as a gentle inducement to read the travelogue, here's a photograph (which I might have posted to the list ages ago): http://toroid.org/ams/img/binsar.jpeg -- ams

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote [at 03:31 PM 12/5/2007] : When i started reading that article, i remembered a short story by Borges... which is later quoted in the article. Didnt know it was possible to actually have a similar medical condition That Fictions anthology of Borges is easily

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Bharath Chari
Shoba Narayan wrote: Shiv: We have 5 years of accumulated old issue of National Geographic too :) How on earth do you get rid of them? Shoba I'm sure some school or library would be glad to take them off your hands. Bharath

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
ashok _ wrote: [ on 08:05 PM 12/5/2007 ] There was quite a good psychological mystery movie about a guy with such a condition, i think it was called Memento ... the guy keeps losing his immediate memories, so he keeps tattooing reminders and fragments of memories upon himself.. and also

[silk] The Valley song

2007-12-05 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o Here comes another bubble (sung to the tunes of Billy Joel's We didn't start the fire) -- Cheeni Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or fewer? A: http://five.sentenc.es/

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread ashok _
On Dec 5, 2007 12:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: EP has two types of amnesia—anterograde, which means he can't form new memories, and retrograde, which means he can't remember old memories either, at least not since 1960. His childhood, his service in the merchant marine, World War II—all

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
ashok _ said the following on 05/12/2007 13:45: When i started reading that article, i remembered a short story by Borges... which is later quoted in the article. Didnt know it was possible to actually have a similar medical condition That Fictions anthology of Borges is easily one of the

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Danese Cooper
They make great source to cut up for images for collage art. I give mine to schools for that purpose. Danese On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote: Shiv: We have 5 years of accumulated old issue of National Geographic too :) How on earth do you get rid of them? Shoba

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread shiv sastry
I just remembered that I have started subscribing to National Geographic again after a gap of 5 years (which is how long it took me to get rid of the old collected volumes) and this memory issue is the first I have received. shiv On Wednesday 05 Dec 2007 3:31 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Shoba Narayan wrote: [ on 06:03 PM 12/5/2007 ] We have 5 years of accumulated old issue of National Geographic too :) How on earth do you get rid of them? Speaking for myself, I gave them away to my (soon to be ex) landlord when I moved house. BTW - anybody in Bangalore wants several

[silk] Need some info

2007-12-05 Thread Valsa Williams
Who are the top 2 India-based search engine companies for the Indian local market by language type: English, Hindi, others? Who are the Googles and Yahoos of the Indian search market? Thanks for the info. Valsa

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Google. And Yahoo. Srs (they both offer Indian language search, news etc) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valsa Williams Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:36 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Need some

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-05 Thread Valsa Williams
No local heroes ? Indian search engines ? On Dec 6, 2007 11:39 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google. And Yahoo. Srs (they both offer Indian language search, news etc) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Valsa Williams wrote [at 11:52 AM 12/6/2007] : No local heroes ? Indian search engines ? There are some specialised ones like http://asklaila.com/ but overall, I think that google/yahoo are it, apart from rediff (they used to use google as their backend, but it seems to be different now)

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-05 Thread Gautam John
Valsa Williams wrote [at 11:52 AM 12/6/2007] : No local heroes ? Indian search engines ? http://www.onyomo.com/ http://www.guruji.com/ http://byindia.com/ http://bhramara.in/