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03 May, 2009
Sow No Panic
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
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Amit Varma in
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22 April, 2009
Chop Chop Square
Adam St. Patrick goes to a routine beheading. (Via Arun.)
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Amit Varma in
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17 February, 2009
“In loyalty of heart and my desire to please you.”
And 4 others, after I behead you?- Love letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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23 January, 2009
‘Shall We Go Out For A Drink?’
Update: Here’s more. (HT: Abhisek.)
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Amit Varma in
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19 November, 2008
Youtuberama
A collection of good youtube videos, via Metafilter.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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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
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06 September, 2008
The 100 Most Common English Words
See how many you can guess. (Via Chandru.)
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Amit Varma in
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22 August, 2008
Be careful what you wish for
Heh again!
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Sanjeev Naik in
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21 August, 2008
Baby Boomers
Heh. (Via Arvind Krishnaswamy.)
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Amit Varma in
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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
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20 June, 2008
Going bananas
The history of bananas in the US.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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06 June, 2008
Survival of the symmetrical
80’s fashion & hairstyles ‘violate laws of nature’, opine experts, who warn that women can smell asymmetry!
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Sanjeev Naik in
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05 June, 2008
Door to hell
A crater (video) in Turkmenistan, on fire since an accident in 1971. Incredible pictures here.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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Reconstructing history
Reconstructing a 600 million-piece Stasi jigsaw puzzle. (- via.)
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Sanjeev Naik in
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23 May, 2008
And speaking of legs..
.. read about Oscar Pistorius.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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05 May, 2008
Ayman al-Zawahiri Answers Your Questions
Andy Borowitz is in top form. (Via Joby Joseph.)
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Amit Varma in
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17 April, 2008
Midnight Climax
Codename for seamy taxpayer-financed CIA operations from the 1950s and 1960s!
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Sanjeev Naik in
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12 April, 2008
The Bad Memory Century
David Brooks writes about ‘The Great Forgetting’.
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Amit Varma in
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06 April, 2008
Does size matter?
Trophy sizes from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and politics.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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05 April, 2008
Get duped on April 1st?
Seems “the experience can stir self-reflection like few others!”
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Sanjeev Naik in
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23 March, 2008
Why a lion should be in the wild
Not in a photoshoot!
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Sanjeev Naik in
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20 March, 2008
Underwater gems
It’s a beautiful world. (- via). Also see the Spanish Dancer in the Red Sea.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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Meerut cops, take note!
Amsterdam plans to legalize public sex in parks. National Diversity Expertise Centre wants to expand this to all Dutch public parks. - via Mefi.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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19 March, 2008
Off on an extra-terrestrial odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke passes away.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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Berdymukhammedov for US President! :)
Enjoy lots of sex and get rewarded with free utilities, dental care, & public transportation for life! :)
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Sanjeev Naik in
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14 March, 2008
Sealed with a kiss
The lost art of the love-letter. Also, a TED talk by Lakshmi Pratury on the lost art of letter writing.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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20 December, 2007
Start popping
BubbleWrapFun.com, a great website that brings the ‘pop’ular product to a computer screen near you.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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18 November, 2007
Thug Behram
A 19th century serial killer in India - via Mental Floss magazine.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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I’m All In: Confessions of a Poker Obsessive
This personal essay by me appears in the winter edition of Forbes Life India. I feel the ground sway…‘No Touching, Only Seeing, Okay?’
I’m amazed that India hasn’t yet woken up to the fact that Himesh Reshammiya is the new Govinda. I…
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?
