On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:18, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
Does anyone here know how to get the attention of Facebook's management?
Do you recall the Pink Chaddi Campaign coordinated via Facebook? It doesn't
exist anymore.
Or, it does, but Facebook doesn't want you to access it.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 18:05, ekta bahl ektab...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think any written reference was ever made to the lawyers being
churned out as social engineers. Use of the words was limited to the
speeches delivered by various faculty (including guest faculty).
As per the NLSIU Act
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 17:48, Aadisht Khanna aadisht.gro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:10 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
Given the circus our politicians[0] create out of democracy, shouldn't
the protest vote[1] be a citizens right ; one that was lost when India
moved from a
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:30, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
As someone had earlier mentioned in this thread, its an owners right
to decide who he/she rents to. If the 'no meat' policy should not be
enforced its equally unfair and discriminatory to say eat meat to be
considered one of us.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 21:20, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Somewhere during the third year, one of them lost his mother. There was so
much guilt drilled into him that after he came back a few weeks later, he
completely quit drinking and smoking. Started doing namaz
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:27 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Looks like Doniger is somebody whose scholarship disputed and has a fairly
strong inclination to favor a sexual interpretation of Hindu texts.
She seems inclined to use Freud, yes.
But as
the article below points out, this
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 23:44, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
If his earlier confession[0] isn't invalid how is this not perjury? I'm
curious.
[0] http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=enart=15109
Swati Sathe, Jail superintendent said when he was admitted to the
prison, Kasab gave his age as 21
Dear All,
Recently on this list people have been talking about RTI, transparency,
and about rule of law. I thought this article by Cory Doctorow (in the
Guardian) would be interesting to some at least. I'm interested in this
especially from the perspective of transparency in elections. In the
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 18:42, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Now that's an interesting way to do encryption - not many I've seen around
offered to the general public
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=224
TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org is capable of system encryption
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 22:44, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Dr. John Marshall Johnson
johnso...@gmail.com wrote:
I too am 42
Then you have the answer to everything in the universe :)
Verily so. Confirmed by:
Wolfram Alpha
A city might be a living thing, mathematically speaking. And larger
cities are kinder to the environment than smaller ones. cough. I
wonder where that leaves the rural areas. Fascinating reading for
after-work hours. Additionally, I don't think Zipf's law holds well
for Indian cities.
For
Flogging dead horses, I know, but this article caught my eye, and
reminded me (quite illogically, I must admit) of the overly long
thread Need some help.
But, it makes many interesting points, whether you agree with the author or not.
---
From the Balkinization blawg:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 18:47, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
that I “would ruin the young boy’s life” oddly prescient — but how
could I have known that then? And if I had known that, would I have
acted differently?
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:22, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a Japanese online forum where people aren't allowed to use a name or
a handle (I think it's called 4chan). The deal is that a person's identity
may lend undue weight to any posts of his or hers- and similarly, a new
Just to be clear: I wasn't talking about tight-knit online communities
where people know each other well in meatspace. In such communities
usually anonymity is not desired, and even if it is (for instance, a
gay person is not yet comfortable letting everyone know that, but
wants to advance
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:23, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
Another word: disinhibition [2] [3]
But disinhibition is a very strong argument against such a
reputation-less world. A world filled with YouTube/4Chan commenters
is a scary proposition.
Talking of 4chan
Dear all,
Would anybody on this list in Bangalore be interested in going for a
bunch of quizzes[1] (organized by the Karnataka Quiz Association) on
Sunday, June 28, 2009 with me in his/her/their team? I've lost my
erstwhile quiz-mates to various sources -- including a multinational
tax
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 20:03, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.pseb.org.pk/bulletin/spet2006/bulletin_details.htm
Pakistan's official language is English. Only Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)
and the Punjabi areas of India can come close to competing with accents in
Pakistan, where many
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 15:21, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Indrajit Guptabonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Jhoota - touched by another, typically by mouth, making it impure for
consumption by another.
The Tamil equivalent
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:01, Devdas Bhagat dev...@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:47:36PM -0400, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
snip
Sorry, have to ask what is jhoota? Is that like feng shui for food?
Food partially eaten by someone else. Or any item in which someone else's
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:07, Deepak Misra yahoogro...@deepakmisra.com wrote:
It is basically understanding what is a good conductor of yechal or
Ointha as we call it in Oriya.
Whatever is fixed is not while what is not fixed is. So plates clearly are
while kitchen counters are not.
In some
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 14:52, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
Taking the pseudo-scientific generalization further, the right
hemisphere ( the left hand) is associated with language. i find it
easier to keep the chatusra nadai khanda jati ata tala with my left
hand than the right, which tends to
ashok _ wrote:
I have seen fake (chinese made) bajaj pulsar and tvs victor
motorcycles in nairobi.
it probably says more about the qualities of the originals being
copied -- than some kind of orchestrated conspiracy.
In that case, what about fake Ferraris?
Italy:
lukhman_khan wrote:
Anyway to me nothing is more important than freedom of thought.
What use is the freedom of thought when I haven't any food in my body.
Conversely, one could ask of what use a healthy body is without a free
mind. I believe one would notice the one or the other based on what
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:34, J. Andrew Rogers
and...@ceruleansystems.com wrote:
Much of what constitutes Anglo-American capitalism is a natural consequence
of the English Common Law system under which such economies operate. As
principles, the sanctity of contract, the assumption of
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:34, J. Andrew Rogers
and...@ceruleansystems.com wrote:
Anglo-American capitalism would be a perfectly fine and viable model, were
there a country left on earth that actually practiced it.
Haha. I agree. But the same could be said about anarchism and about
communism
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 17:18, Dr. John Marshall Johnson
johnso...@gmail.com wrote:
Indian citizens, especially the majority group are getting
smarter, they preferred congress because they have started
to realise that this party's (unlike others) democracy rests
upon the principles of
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:28, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/25 lukhman_khan lukhman_k...@yahoo.com
That there is a civil code that is favouring one community over another
IMHO seems to be an exaggerated lie told by the BJP.
I sincerely request you to walk me
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:36, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see how the need for a UCC affects a Hindu male. It would be a god
sent for Muslim women, but a Hindu male pining for the UCC seems like the
only desire is for a dilution of religious identities. Which is a
I'm writing this in a hurry, so please pardon the lack of clarity, etc.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 16:57, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
The most disturbing fact is that most Muslim countries have moved beyond
age-old Shariah laws, including Pakistan but in India we
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 13:09, Gautam Johngkj...@gmail.com wrote:
While scrapping the 10th Standard exams is all well and fine, in the
Govt. school system it is the only public examination that children
face. Without this, there really is no way to figure out how the
school system is doing. So
to catch people's
attention first. And that, to say the least, is an uphill battle.
salon.com | Nov. 22, 1999
--
Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
lukhman_khan wrote:
lots of snipping
I ask myself, who would I prefer to have as an elected member of parliament
(or state assembly)?
I am 100% sure I want a person who is wise and educated. A person who can
read our constitution and understand and then in turn **believe** in it.
It is
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:04, Udhay Shankar Nud...@pobox.com wrote:
It got me wondering, what are the policies at various sites, such as
yahoo and google, for account-holders who die? What happens to their data?
The parents writing in actually helped with Google Mail for one
friend,[1] and
An interesting article in today's Magazine http://bit.ly/QdhKB by
Ashley Tellis. While I don't agree with all of what she says, it
provides some food for thought.
Cheers,
Pranesh
[-]
Why I can’t join the party…
ASHLEY TELLIS
The case for sexual minorities should have been built on
Dear all,
There is much to agree with and debate about in this article. Anyone
(especially the quizzers) cares to take the first swig?
Cheers,
Pranesh
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/brian-cathcart/no-passes
(Brian Cathcart is a professor of journalism at Kingston.)
General
On Friday 21 August 2009 11:16 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
The only thing I had to complain about in that book was not bias but that
the attempt to cover four thousand years of history in a paperback made the
book a quick skim through facts and slightly short on analysis/ narrative.
That
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 21:20, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
(Anyhow I have checked, I have no yahoo settings in my browser, or other
such plugins etc. The bug must be somewhere else. Probably this nonsense
would have never started if they hadn't unnecessarily added www to the
Sorry. Throughout I should have said ASI/ANI ancestry.
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The abstract of the study on the Nature page[1] says:
India has been underrepresented in genome-wide surveys of human variation. We
analyse 25 diverse groups in India to provide strong evidence for two ancient
populations, genetically divergent, that are ancestral to most Indians today.
On Sunday 27 September 2009 03:36 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
http://is.gd/3HCef [0] for the full PDF of the article.
Thanks. That really helps. And from a quick look through the article,
it seems to back up what IG said in his response.
- Pranesh
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On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:18 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
2009/9/30 Chris Kantarjiev c...@dimebank.com
I've recently come across a third example in as many months of someone
who has left a longish high-tech computing career to become
a marriage/family therapist...
Very
Divya
Freeman
Udhay
Kiran Karthikeyan
Vinayak Hegde
Venkat
Pranesh
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On Thursday 01 October 2009 11:40 PM, divya manian wrote:
I google mainly for webdesign/tech information which I think
delicious.com covers very well. I use it like a curated search
engine, but their search could be a LOT better than what they offer
currently. delicious is awful for anything
On Thursday 01 October 2009 05:01 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I frequently chain Scroogle in front of Google, and nowadays Tor.
I used to use Tor (got into it when I was in college), but I've given up
on it for regular browsing. It is just *too* slow. Has anything
improved in the last eight months
On Thursday 01 October 2009 03:35 PM, Badri Natarajan wrote:
In addition to Gautam, just from our class, I can think of more than one
IAS officer, and atleast 4 entrepreneurs (doing non-law businesses - some
of them are serial entrepreneurs).
Just thought I'd cite one example: Mooli's on 50
A story with colourful characters called Moses and Jacobs, reviewed in
The New Republic by Edward Glaeser.
- Pranesh
/-/
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/what-city-needs
What A City Needs
Edward Glaeser
September 4, 2009 | 12:00 am
*Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took
On Sunday 04 October 2009 09:55 AM, ss wrote:
Pranesh Prakash wrote, [on 10/3/2009 5:49 PM]:
I'm just wondering about the distribution of Silk membership wrt gender.
Exploring socio-psychology (whatever that means) on the lines of I will not
talk about balls in front of women but will use
On Sunday 04 October 2009 09:07 AM, ss wrote:
On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 8:11:18 am Deepa Mohan wrote:
Pranesh, what brought on the query about the distaff side?
Yes - what is your a-gender Pranesh?
First off: that pun is truly inspired!
As for the reason I asked, I could give either the long
On Friday 09 October 2009 06:50 PM, Manar Hussain wrote:
Which seems most unusual, but presumably the purpose of recognising
past deeds is to encourage the future deeds of others. I think there's
some merit - though I'm far from convinced - in saying that Obama has
an exceptional opportunity,
On Thursday 08 October 2009 03:14 PM, ss wrote:
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 10:05:23 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
October 17 is Diwali day, I cannot. If the day can be moved, please
let me know.
ditto for me
Sorry, it turns out I won't be in Bangalore on 17th and 18th. So, I'll
be backing out
On Friday 04 December 2009 01:34 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Jude Britto [04/12/09 13:26 +0530]:
Google Public DNS launched yesterday:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns.html
and iljitsch on ars technica -
On Friday 04 December 2009 06:43 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote:
Is the Motorola model available yet? Hacked, unhacked?
From what I understand, you'll need to ask for the Motorola Milestone
(Droid's GSM version). And, afaik, it's not yet available in the gray
markets in Bangalore. Try Germany, if you
Silklister Nishant Shah is one of the organizers of the event. So,
I'm sure he'll post lots on it, if he decides to come out of lurking
mode.
In any case, videos of the event should be up on the CIS website sometime soon.
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 06:07 PM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
Someone who lectured us had it right.. the word has a certain haraami
quality to it, very appealing. He was talking about copyright laws and more
specifically about the rise of T-series, which did cover versions of all the
On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:46 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
I have Thunderbird 2.0.0.23. Should I upgrade or wait for some debugging?
Upgrade. I've been using v3 since beta 3 on 9.04 and 9.10 and it's been
working great. No snafus. One or two small irritants, but I ain't
quibbling. I
This story (from TG Daily) also, tangentially, raises questions on
Google News's search and classification algorithms, and their use as
metrics.
http://tr.im/M9iK
iPad madness reaches obscene levels
ANDREW THOMAS | Fri 29th Jan 2010, 06:44 am
snip
What's the most important news story in the
On Sunday 31 January 2010 08:42 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
For example: There are many instances of the same word being spelt
differently in different languages. This is even more stark in what is
notionally two variants of the same language, en_us and en_gb. One can
easily imagine the chaos is
On Monday 01 February 2010 03:32 PM, Deepak Misra wrote:
The idea would be to define some addresses where you would always get a
popup when you send a mail
Don't know of any with that functionality. While some add-ons/TB3 allow
you to add names beyond the reply-to address (for instance if
A whole scientific journal dedicated to things that didn't work out as
expected? http://jsur.org (via ./)
From the post:
So where is the problem? The problem lies with discovery, and credit given
towards it. It would be very hard to get anyone to share awkward, unexpected or
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 11:46 PM, Thaths wrote:
Anyone know of an online store that sells and ships Nintendo DS games
to India
A gamer friend says that it might work out cheaper if you could get to
get a friend in Bangalore to pick up the required cartridges from around
Majestic (near
On Friday 26 February 2010 06:40 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Amarok's UI makes me cry. Rhythmbox and Banshee are no more than demo apps.
iTunes on an ancient machine with the music on network storage, synced to an
iPod via USB 1.1, was far more tolerable than these three.
I believe you
Picasa?
Rather nice UI (for Linux) otherwise.
That's because of (or despite?) the fact that it runs on Wine
(built-in), and is not built using GTK+ or QT.
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On Friday 26 February 2010 11:04 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
4. I used to depend on ratings and play counts to build smart playlists, but
Last.fm and iTunes Genius have made that obsolete, so it no longer matters
that all my music is in one library.
I find this quite interesting. Could you
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 19:41, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
The fact, as I understand it, is that unix has existed for forty years,
linux for twenty, but they were for the experts. Now it's easy for
everybody. And that is a *big* change. Strangely enough, nobody (including
penguin
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 08:44 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux
usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole days
getting sound to work on a realtek chipset that shipped on a HP
machine that ostensibly supports
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 10:03 PM, ss wrote:
I have used Linux for a decade now and I am about as far from being a techie
as anyone can be. It was Udhay who infected me. Linux has been easy to use
for the non techie but informed user for about 6-7 years now.
While I can guess that you use
On Thursday 04 March 2010 06:53 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
On 04-Mar-10, at 1:47 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
[snip]
I disagree. 5-10 years ago, I had a pretty good idea of all the moving
parts behind my desktop. When something broke (which was often) a bit
of deduction would point me at the
Dear all,
Based on some sage advice[1], I propose a Bangalore meet-up. Does this
Saturday work? Or is longer term of notice required?
Cheers,
Pranesh
[1]
(20:18:07) Pranesh Prakash:
So, when will the next FoU camp (or even just plain meet up) be?
(20:18:30) Udhay Shankar N:
whenever
On Monday 08 March 2010 08:07 PM, ss wrote:
..have friends visiting from 12th to the 15th.
So, they'll join in? Or will that keep you from meeting up?
And, how does Sunday (14th) evening sound? From the previous mails, it
seems Aditya, Udhay and Suresh are in.
- Pranesh
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On Wednesday 31 March 2010 07:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Implied thread drift.
Why you Nazi you, you are no better than Hitler.
Since that is ironic, Mike G's wise observation doesn't apply.
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:02 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Will that be a laden or unladen Nazi?
Interesting that you didn't ask African or European :)
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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 08:11, Andre Uratsuka Manoel an...@insite.com.br wrote:
Also, the richest part of Brazil is the south. On the poor northeast,
to go south is to go to a richer place, not go down.
In a sense, the posher parts of Delhi, Bombay, and Bangalore are South
Delhi, South Bombay,
Brilliant read. Good recounting of issues, thus a good way to introduce
people to this issue. Some problems: it is slightly presumptive (uhh,
other people *have* written, extensively I might add, about these very
issues, from the same economic perspectives), and it glosses over some
of the
On 30/04/10 20:14, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Divya
Madhu
Naresh
Udhay
Freeman (?)
+ Pranesh
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http://arst.ch/jo6
Moore's Law is not dead. It's merely pining for the fjords
By Jon Stokes | Last updated May 5, 2010 11:04 AM
What if I took to the pages of a major business magazine and made the
bold recommendation that, because humans have run out of new places on
Earth that we can migrate
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On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:54 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Enjoy .. you will find that the songs are in the true dikshitar bani (down to
the re re phrasing at the end of chandram bhaja manasa, as described in
http://www.guruguha.org/kmb.php)
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Dear Silklisters,
What do you folks generally prefer: PGP/MIME or inline PGP? My
observations are that usage of PGP/MIME makes it more difficult to
locate messages with attachments in clients that don't grok it (or most
webmail), inline PGP, otoh,
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On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]:
Does anyone keep a score of how many times the GoI and their ilk have
traveled down this path ?
CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in
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On Tuesday 11 May 2010 04:47 PM, ss wrote:
Surely it should be possible to customize some existing code from Linux and
use it on GoI computers. Or have I misunderstood?
It is unclear what that story means, frankly. Because develop own OS
could as
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On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent times
It seems there's an attempt at a School OS, a joint collaboration by
NCERT, IIT-Delhi and Knowledge Commons:
On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:24 AM, sankarshan wrote:
Currently, ToI is too tempting a piece of entertainment to resist
Entertainment that makes you cry and pull your hair out? I'll resist
despite myself, thank you.
given that they carry the schedules for water supply and power
outages, that
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On Thursday 13 May 2010 11:05 AM, sankarshan wrote:
And I agree. The Sakaal Times does that too among other papers
available at Pune. For some reason, my newspaper vendor uses the ToI
to wrap all the other papers I read and, so it gets the pride of
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Dear Biju,
I found much to be disagreed with in the paper. In a nutshell, most of
the attacks described in the paper have no bearing on the 'e'-ness of
the Indian EVMs, and would apply to paper ballots as well. Some attacks
on paper ballots
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On Thursday 13 May 2010 08:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I (and a few other silklisters) stopped subscribing to The Hindu
Doesnt make me think that N Ram is going to care, any more than he cares
about having run a decent paper into the
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On Thursday 13 May 2010 09:43 PM, Thaths wrote:
Would a left-leaning newspaper provide such unvarnished advertisement
thinly dressed as an interview? Or take this other supposed food
review:
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On Friday 14 May 2010 02:07 AM, Thaths wrote:
Do you think the review-reading audience has similar expectations of
film and book reviews?
FIlms? Yes. Books? Perhaps not. The consuming public has a lot to do
with it. Nikhat Kazmi, for instance,
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On Monday 17 May 2010 08:58 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black
mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green
muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of
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On Monday 17 May 2010 10:42 PM, Thaths wrote:
Surely being unplugged does not preclude being informed of and
participating in _local_ politics and civil society?
Engagement with even local politics would require being plugged in,
would it not?
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:11 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
The Emperor's New Mind by whatsisface
Really? I felt Penrose made things easy to get through thanks to his
in-depth explanations. I read more than half of it over four days I was
sick (and was thus bunking work during an internship a few
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 11:26 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
I really wish I hadn't read Life of Pi. Ugh ugh ugh.
Jude the Obscure. Why on earth did anyone care to write a story about a
depressive who has a very depressing life that gets progressively more
depressing until it reaches a crescendo
I 3 IP.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 01:20, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
the meet - http://alexisohanian.com/photos-from-the-secret-xkcd-meetup
How overwhelmingly white (with a token Asian dude).
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 22:37, Jon Cox j...@experiments.com wrote:
Look again and you'll see 3 or 4 Asian people and 1 Indian,
all of whom seem to be having a good time with their geeky
friends (which are predominantly heavy-set, male, under 50,
and a bit slovenly).
Well that's just
On Monday 19 July 2010 10:43 AM, ss wrote:
On Sunday 18 Jul 2010 2:16:25 pm Anil Kumar wrote:
Just in case there weren't enough schemes to scam on the exchange; but,
the jolly part is that the Indian Income Tax Department seems to have
granted Permanent Account Numbers to these dieties.
Interesting article, touching on bibliophilia v. bibliomania.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/26/2913876/auburn-collector-has-more-than.html
Auburn collector has more than 700 books -- all the same title
By Sam McManis
smcma...@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Jul. 26, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1D
The
Could someone who follows this more closely explain how big a leap
wikimath is from having these discussions on Usenet and mailing lists?
So far as blogs go, I can see no difference at all -- the most complex
commenting systems approach the thread-ability of e-mail.
- Pranesh
-
On Friday 20 August 2010 08:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
There are some important differences from email - wikis are multi-user
by design, are available in a common location, and are editable by
anyone with the appropriate permissions.
True, but most of the work happened on blogs, and I can't
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:52, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote:
This was rightly classified by gmail as SPAM.
~ashwin
While all Gmails are created equal, some Gmails are more equal to the task
than others.
On 2010-10-14 14:07, Deepa Mohan wrote:
This thread is getting as abstruse as its subjectABHISHEK! what is
historiography??
Two excellent, lucid, and short introductions to historiography are E.H.
Carr's *What is History?* and Keith Jenkins' *Re-thinking History*.
(And surprisingly, I find
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