June 2010
2 posts
Are you Happy? →
May 2010
1 post
September 2009
6 posts
“If 19th-century travel writing was principally about place - about filling in...”
– William Dalrymple (via)
“Few thought he was even a starter.
There were many who thought themselves...”
– Clement Attlee (via)
“We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty”
– Edward R. Murrow
August 2009
13 posts
cubicle17:
Pogo - “SplurgenShitter”
I first...
antonio gabriele toppi – is it ok to steal a... →
tut tut
Burial - Near Dark
Listening Now.
Boston, land of…creationists? →
I share this link purely because I really like his use of ‘fruit loop’ to describe a person.
Wikipedia: The Blade Runner curse →
travors:
Among the folklore that has grown up around Blade Runner over the years has been the belief that the film was a curse to the companies whose logos were displayed prominently as product placements in some scenes. While they were market leaders at the time, many of them experienced disastrous setbacks over the next decade and hardly exist today… (Via inky)
A study in contrast
APJ Abdul Kalam and Shah Rukh Khan.
Like someone said, apart from being the same species, they have nothing else in common.
Squirrel in Focus →
Shared from Google Reader.
[Hmm only a link to the post. Wish all of the content would show up. Somehow]
July 2009
1 post
1 tag
I am learning a new language →
June 2009
8 posts
3 tags
1 tag
Excerpts From the Woody Allen's Diary while... →
May 2009
13 posts
Nadal Lost
“It turns out that the people who believe in truth and objectivity are at least...”
– David Runciman on Wikipedia
Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear →
Beyond the Pages →
Art inspired by children’s books. Take a look, they’re beautiful.
EU quarantines London in swine flu panic →
dailymeh:
There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in London due to mutation of the H1N1 virus into new strain: H1Z1.
Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.
After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person...
April 2009
10 posts
“Theft has become so codified, our commerce so digitized, that it is small wonder...”
– Matthew Power in an article on the ‘Heritage Of Piracy’
“Coming into Ramallah now. Raja Shehadeh, a lawyer who lives here, says that it...”
– David Hare | Wall: A Monologue
“For every parcel I stoop down to seize
I lose some other off my arms and knees,...”
– Robert Frost
Nine Words You Might Think Came from Science but... →
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
– President Barack Obama to a gathering of bank CEOs.
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