Archive for August, 2009
Let Us Just Keep Things This Way – Books – livemint.com
Let us just keep things this way
And not forward move nor backward go
Let every day be just like this day
A restless peace, and no one to know.
Let us wander on a path that’s winding
No signpost at bridge and bend
Never seeking and so never finding
That place [...]
Review of Doniger's Hinduism | Tehelka
One of the tragic outcomes of the collapse of secular consensus in India is the prevalent Hindutva notion, that there is only one way to negotiate Hinduism. Debate — the heart of what Amartya Sen calls the quintessential Indian spirit of argumentativeness — is seen as a sign of weakness. [...]
The Fallacy of a "Kindle Killer" – Scott Anthony – HarvardBusiness.org
If Sony delivers on the promised feature set, it has a chance of creating a nice e-reader business.
Will it "kill the Kindle?" Who cares. Remember, the e-reader category is still in its infancy. Analysts estimate that only three million devices will have been sold by [...]
How to be happy at work | Stuart Jeffries | Life and style | The Guardian
one way to find happiness at work might be to realise that some of us were normatively oppressed by our unconscious desire to be as rich and fatuously powerful as the boss? Sennett is sceptical: "'Can we be happy at [...]
The care and feeding of book bans | Akhond of Swat: The BS Column
it's much easier for any special-interest group to swing a statewide ban on a book today than it was just two decades ago. With each successive ban, we set more and more of a precedent for both a particular state and the [...]
Happenings in Pigland | LET'S PUT DA
The health ministry of Pigland is declaring emergency measures to combat this scourge. When it was pointed out that 17 is no big deal, that over 100 million pigs are slaughtered in the USA alone every year, he indignantly retorted, “Please do not cast these pearls of wisdom before [...]
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