August 2010
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Top Ten Lost Technologies >> →
Fascinating article.
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Animated Typeface
ahmedsalman:
http://www.calango.nl/categories/motion/moshun
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“In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Robert Fisk:: Shadow lands: Pakistan - a nation... →
This article was published before I launched this blog so I never got to share it. Its an excellent piece. Robert Fisk astonishes me every time. These are terrible stories from Pakistan and their retelling through the pen of a master reporter makes their authenticity indisputable. This was Pakistan back in April when Fisk visited it. The present is much worse and there is little hope of it ever...
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“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Gwynne Dyer: Pakistan's water problems have only... →
Gwynne Dyer explains why Pakistan’s problem is not too much water, on the contrary, it is the fact there is too little water for the country to use properly.
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind”
– Albert Einstein
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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Clarification
This chat was first posted at Aaryn Belfer. This is her work. Thanks to Sweep The Sunshine for pointing the way.
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ME: Honey, do you know why all the sales people kept telling you how pretty your eyes were today?
RUBY: Because I have brown skin and they don’t think brown skin is very good.
ME: Well (crap), no. (Think quick.) That’s not why. (Address it or not to address it, that is the...
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Pakistan's floods have left a country that's too... →
Across Pakistan, and even within the major opposition parties, calls have already been made for the Army to take over the government again. Once again, Pakistan stands at the cusp of a coup; once again, the public is clamoring for the one institution that works in the country to take the reins and lead them out of trouble. But this time, at least till now, the Army is reacting differently. This...
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Mohsin Hamid: Pakistan’s challenge >> →
Mohsin Hamid is my favorite Pakistani author who writes in English. This Op-ed piece penned by him is bang on and alarming.
Hat tip: DAWN
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“Tennis is the sport in which you talk to yourself. No athletes talk to...”
– Andre Agassi, in his autobiography, Open
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“How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Submitted by brickwallview (via friendlyatheist, turkeyjaws)
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WatchRachel Maddow talks about this summer’s “scare white people story”. On fucking point.
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How do you know that you are not a machine that...
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Did You Know: That a man named Lee Kyung Hae once...
The world water wars have begun. Which side are you on?
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For 3 months, 3 fucking months, I've been waiting...
Finally. My fingers are crossed so tightly together that they are fused to each other.
dubiousmerchant asked: I hope this isn't a stupid question like you asked for, but I've failed to find the answer for myself. So I shall ask you directly. I like that method better anyway.
Where do you currently live, and where are you originally from?
Where do you currently live, and where are you originally from?
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Anonymous asked: lord of the rings or lord of the flies?
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WatchChris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball takes down New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for his scapegoating of Muslims.
Hat tip: Informed Comment
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To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in Sand... →
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“…when defenders of “traditional marriage” make their appeals to some...”
– The Prehistory of Prop 8 (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
Precisely. People are just afraid of change and hence, find any reason to justify their fear as rationality. Its hogwash and I wish people would wake up. We as a society have a lot of important things to worry about than to be...
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I wish people would ask me dumb questions
like:
are the illuminati real? or, how come you swear so much despite it being haram in Islam? or, is George Bush Sr. a reptilian overlord? or, how come the Queen of England is directly related to Obama?
Shit, I love to talk. I’d be writing shit all day to answer your queries. Really, try me.
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Remember when someone had a sign at the G20 last...
(via menthaspicata)
gold. you can’t make this stuff up.
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Design for life →
bobulate:
Ultimately all problems of design merge into one great problem: “design for life”. In a healthy society this design for life will encourage every profession and vocation to play its part since the degree of relatedness in all their work gives to any civilization its quality. This implies that it is desirable that everyone should solve his special task with the wide scope of a true...
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Until It Hurts: A Love Letter to Pakistan
— This post was penned by Rabia Ahmed and was originally posted at Acumen Fund Blog. (via Running with Scissors)
A few hours ago, I found my father sitting at the dinner table, counting. When I asked, what he was counting, he mutedly replied “Bete, during this week, 63 years ago, my family crossed the border to Pakistan.” I had heard this story hundreds of times before, from my...
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via kari-shma: quote-book: fifteengreen: mariamjaan)
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“Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could...”
– Bob Dylan
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WatchDavid McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization
Hat tip: TED
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