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24 November, 2008
Literary Tastings
Perhaps now we know why Monica got Leaves of Grass from her paramour. (My pick - Walden)
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment |
The good life at 5:02 AM
19 November, 2008
Work before the work
A lot of effort went into putting up this Under Construction sign!
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Sanjeev Naik in
The visual arts at 8:46 PM
Youtuberama
A collection of good youtube videos, via Metafilter.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Miscellaneous at 8:44 PM
30 October, 2008
You have been 404’d
100 funny and unusual 404 error pages.
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Sanjeev Naik in
The visual arts at 6:21 PM
24 October, 2008
The places we live
Jonas Bendiksen takes us on a journey from Bombay to Nairobi to Caracas and Jakarta.
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Sanjeev Naik in
The visual arts at 4:58 AM
28 September, 2008
Vanity Fair
Covers, Portraits & an article by Hitchens.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment |
The visual arts at 12:49 PM
27 September, 2008
Literary Oddities
A Mefi post with links to “Unusual books. Unusual art made from books. Unusual bookcover. Unusual bookshelves. Unusual bookstore.”
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment |
Oddball |
The visual arts at 11:32 AM
24 September, 2008
Literary Tattoos
If you love Vonnegut, and tattoos too, this is what you do. More here.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Blogs |
The visual arts at 6:15 AM
21 September, 2008
Collecting colours over a cup of coffee
p.i.g.m.e.n.t.i.u.m - a painting a day
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment |
Blogs at 6:37 AM
20 September, 2008
The 50 “Buzziest” Blog Posts
As compiled by Nerve magazine.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Blogs at 8:45 AM
19 September, 2008
12,000 sitting ducks
Franke James takes a creative visual route to narrate a local accident.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Blogs |
The visual arts at 10:48 AM
12 September, 2008
That’s one reason to move!
"I moved here, primarily, to have the bigger, stronger, runway,” Travolta explains. - via.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Miscellaneous at 5:13 AM
11 September, 2008
Seven years since
Looking back and forward on 9/11
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Sanjeev Naik in
Journalism/Media |
The visual arts at 8:00 PM
06 September, 2008
The 100 Most Common English Words
See how many you can guess. (Via Chandru.)
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Amit Varma in
Miscellaneous at 7:10 PM
29 August, 2008
iAlive
Bloomberg accidentally releases Steve Jobs’s obituary, while the man still lives.
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Amit Varma in
Journalism/Media at 1:15 AM
22 August, 2008
Be careful what you wish for
Heh again!
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Sanjeev Naik in
Miscellaneous at 6:08 AM
21 August, 2008
Baby Boomers
Heh. (Via Arvind Krishnaswamy.)
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Amit Varma in
Miscellaneous at 2:34 PM
14 August, 2008
Put all those books to good use
Create a book pile.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment at 8:40 AM
11 August, 2008
The Literary Olympics
Have a go. I scored 10.8.
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Amit Varma in
Arts and entertainment at 8:10 PM
30 July, 2008
Welcome! You are on The Ledge.
A gateway into “international literature”.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment at 6:35 PM
18 July, 2008
“Viva il duce”
This is a scary story. Read the full thing. (Via Gautam.)
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Amit Varma in
Politics at 1:18 PM
16 July, 2008
Lessons: The Economics of Love
First off, stay with high-quality human beings. (Note: Not for “one-sided love affairs with someone who isn’t interested.")
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Sanjeev Naik in
Economics at 3:55 AM
09 July, 2008
A thousand years of urbanisation
Why did Europe overtake the Arab world between 800 to 1800AD? (- via.)
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Sanjeev Naik in
Miscellaneous at 12:37 AM
03 July, 2008
Going once.. going twice…
Soul up for auction. Update: Its found a home - Hell Pizza.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Oddball at 9:18 AM
25 June, 2008
Name’s Bond. James Bond.
He’s back in the Ian Fleming “centenary novel”: Devil May Care
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment at 10:10 PM
21 June, 2008
Sunny the supersleuth
Comics from 1984, with Gavaskar battling Bandookstan & England cricketers and evil Himalayan magicians.
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Sanjeev Naik in
The visual arts at 1:02 AM
20 June, 2008
Going bananas
The history of bananas in the US.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Miscellaneous at 9:07 PM
18 June, 2008
A huge democratic moment
"Have blogs been good for books?”, ponders Robert McCrum.
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Sanjeev Naik in
Arts and entertainment at 12:03 AM
Elephant in Kerala
So it’s about 10.45pm, and we’re headed in a tourist taxi to Siena Village, a resort a few kilometres…‘The Businessman Panicked’
I don’t know why, but I find this kind of funny. And what’s with the quote marks in that…
This Video Hurts the Sentiments of Hindu’s [sic] Across the World
Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
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The Hard Edges of Modern Lives
Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
