links for 2009-02-27

February 27, 2009 in Links

Foreign Policy: The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis
In a global recession, governments around the globe will be able to recruit a better class of bureaucrats. Just a few years ago, the U.S. government had serious recruitment problems in the Foreign Service because no world-savvy 25-year-olds wanted to work [...]

links for 2009-02-26

February 26, 2009 in Links

Archana – www.babajob.com
I have never felt like leaving my country for good. Yesterday I felt that. For that day I was homeless and orphaned and helpless in a way like never before. The residual feeling today is one of deep sadness at the frailty of humanity. The end of innocence for having stared at the [...]

links for 2009-02-25

February 25, 2009 in Links

How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci – ChronicleReview.com
On his deathbed, they say, Leonardo da Vinci regretted that he had left so much unfinished…had so many ideas; he was so ahead of his time. His notebooks were crammed with inventions…
But Leonardo rarely completed any of the great projects that he sketched in his notebooks. His [...]

links for 2009-02-24

February 24, 2009 in Links

Fifty-Two Stories » with Cal Morgan
1 story every weekend; all of it free
(tags: books free blog reading writing Daily fiction stories short)

Lipikaar – Lipikaar Plugin for Firefox for Typing in Indian Languages
(tags: indian india language Hindi gadget type plugin firefox)

1000 novels everyone must read | Books | guardian.co.uk
(tags: books list lists Literature reading reference fiction [...]

links for 2009-02-23

February 23, 2009 in Links

IPL 2009 – A detailed preview and forecast | Domain Maximus
April 24th 2009: Vijay Mallya replaces the entire Royal Challengers with models from the Kingfisher Calendar. The cricketers are spun off into a B-team called Royal Challengers Red which will play without uniform, cricketing gear or any catering. However tickets to their matches costs only [...]

links for 2009-02-17

February 17, 2009 in Links

Truth, Taxes And Midnight Knocks | Tehelka
Shankar Sharma’s and Devina Mehra’s lives turned on them. All their branch offices closed down, their properties were attached, their home and offices were raided 26 times, their computer hard disks and servers were seized. They were banned from trading on the stock exchange, which was their livelihood, their [...]