January 2010
75 posts
The Music of Tuva
I’ve long been fascinated by Russian Far-East. Ever since my dad planted stories about the incredible, but desolate beauty of the place after his visits to places like Novosibrisk and Irkutsk, I’ve wanted to explore more. And so I got cracking, learning the geography, economics and history of the area. But one area that I felt always lacked was culture and music. Enter the internet and...
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
– Coco Chanel (via misswallflower) (via constantwanderlust)
Praising the Bar - An ode to 5-Star →
A wonderfully written article on one of the grand daddies of Indian chocolates - Cadbury’s 5-Star
The Fucking Word of the Day →
What’s not to like about a site that has this for an intro - it’s easier to learn with sex, drugs, and fucking swearing.
And here’s a sample -
perfunctory [pur-FUNGK-tuh-ree] adjective;
1. Done merely to carry out a duty; performed mechanically or routinely. 2. Lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent.
I had to chastise my wife for her shitty lasagna and perfunctory...
Exploring alternate views of change →
bobulate:
From the first episode of the 1978 10-part series, Connections, “The Trigger Effect”:
Would you do me a favor? I’d like to stop talking for a minute. And when I do, take a look at the room you’re in. And above all, at the man-made objects in that room that surround you — the television set, the lights, the phone, and so on — and ask yourself what those objects do to your life just...
“One thing is becoming clear: while the Internet is changing China, China is also...”
– Fareed, in re China v. Google. (via newsweek)
Doctors Without Borders on Tumblr →
staff:
Doctors Without Borders is doing an extraordinary amount in Haiti. Please support their efforts and donate anything you can.
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China →
We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to...
“Baboons are very sensitive to who stands where in their society’s hierarchy. If...”
– In Monkey Babble, Seeking Key to Human Language Development - NYT. This article astonished me. I plan on using this exact baboon technique to sow hierarchical confusion at my office. Also:
“The Campbell’s monkeys give a “krak” alarm call when they see a leopard. But adding an “-oo” changes it to a...
“You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would...”
– - Blackadder to Lord Percy, The Black Seal (via fuckyeahblackadder)
Hahaaha.. I effin love Blackadder!
The Not-So-Secrets of the Temple →
Quick, some one tell Dan Brown that he needs a new secret society. The Freemasons are no longer that secret! From the New York Times -
Thanks go not to Dan Brown, whose latest novel, “The Lost Symbol,” focuses on the notoriously mysterious fraternal order, but to Tom Sturgeon, a career law-enforcement officer, who was installed as Right Worshipful Grand Master for Pennsylvania on Dec. 28. His...
SRK's on dope
Seriously. Just take a look at his Twitter stream.
WTF, man? What is he smoking?
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco)
I asked her if she thought she'd be good at...
stuffmygirlfriendsays:
“No fucking way. I only have two pieces of advice. If you’re under 25 –- shut the fuck up, junior. If you’re over 25 — grow the fuck up, loser.”
Darfuristan - How the world's campaign to stop a... →
From Rolling Stone Magazine
“We welcomed Obama’s message of change, and we saw Gration as the embodiment of that change,” Atabani says. He permits himself a small smile. “But now we have our doubts. It seems business as usual. Washington is Washington, and nothing has changed.”
“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think...”
– David Lynch (via wahnbriefe) (via shynessisnice) (via svetiq) (via mellabrown)