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This is quite the headline of the day: Dhoni’s dream of owning 9mm pistol coming true I especially like…
Because you can’t throw cows at the police. Ok? (Link via separate emails from Salil and Deepak.)
Right—I’ve finalized a publisher. I’m pleased to announce that my first novel, My Friend, Sancho, will be published by…
Long, long ago, my good friend Aftab wrote about the Amartya Sen Fallacy, which he illustrated with the following…
On an email group I’m part of, Roswitha writes that the recent New York Times hoax reminded her of…
07 October, 2008
Not Allowed This Navratri
1] Free distribution of condoms.
2] Backless cholis and low-waist ghagras.
3] Blogging.
Ok, fine, I made that third one up. I can’t (yet) cite the moral police as an excuse for my recent blogging slowdown—I’ve just had a bout of blogging fatigue, which, after close to four years and more than 6000 posts, I’m allowed. Immense listlessness has come. Massive pointlessness is felt. And so on.
Anyway, I’m resuming now. Let’s see how it goes.
(Links via emails from Mahendra and Mani respectively.)
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Work before the work
A lot of effort went into putting up this Under Construction sign!
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Youtuberama
A collection of good youtube videos, via Metafilter.
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New York Cricket Club
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The Desperate Passion of Ben Foster
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
