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• marathi jevan!

  With my acquisition of a pressure cooker and its sundry auxilliary elements, I am finally able to cook a proper Marathi meal, almost like aai used to make. And still does. After the jump, my modest attempt at foodblogging.

  28 Apr 2008 Food, photos; no comments. permalink   

• the nationals’ new ballpark

  28 Apr 2008 Sport, photos; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-04-28

  xkcd: zealous autoconfig If the wifi client could just intimidate my router into cooperating without kidnapping actual humans, I would be all for it. I would not be opposed to router-kneecapping, either. (tags: humor tech)

  28 Apr 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-04-27

  WSJ: new American designers are making a run at high fashion How a generation gap and a weak dollar are helping American designers at home and abroad. (tags: design fashion interesting economics) WSJ: Bagehot’s Lessons for the Fed Even Victorian economists say the Bernanke Fed’s monetary policy is wrong. (tags: economics history)

  27 Apr 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-04-24

  Legalized Child-Stealing in Arlington County Scary. If the state takes away your kid for neglect, and they later find no evidence of neglect, you still don’t get your kid back. Thanks, social services! (tags: scary society bureaucracy law) DNA India: White tourists [treated] better than blacks in India Here’s a shocker: racism is not inversely [...]

  24 Apr 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• perhaps the best bollywood cover ever

  Classic Bollywood liked to copy American songs with reckless abandon. (Today, they just copy pathetic Casio keyboard beats and rap in “muscle” shirts.) Indeed, I probably heard “Mere Jaisi Hasseena” (Armaan, 1981—so hot) before I heard the song it covered (“When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman”, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, 1978). [...]

  23 Apr 2008 Music, Nerdery & Sundry; one comment. permalink   

• links for 2008-04-23

  Flickr Find: Lilliputian iPhone unboxing – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Lego people like iPhones, too! (tags: tech apple humor)

  23 Apr 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• shackle the free market, resort to food aid

  The EU is now being forced to send even larger shipments of food aid to developing countries: Making the announcement in the European Parliament, the commission’s development chief, Louis Michel, said: “The rise in basic food prices is a worldwide humanitarian disaster in the making. Ongoing humanitarian food programmes are under enormous pressure with less [...]

  23 Apr 2008 Economics, Politics; no comments. permalink   

• dr. ‘fraidofunlocking

  Or “How I Stopped Worrying and Unlocked My iPhone”. Last month, my once-trusty Razr v3c, running on Verizon’s once-trusty network, stopped being so trusty. I was not gainfully employed at the time, so I figured that if I needed to make a call from my own apartment, I’d just press my face against the window–the [...]

  22 Apr 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; one comment. permalink   

• links for 2008-04-22

  DNA India: Sarabjit’s daughters appeal to ‘Uncle’ Bush Telling: An Indian man mistakenly walks into Pakistan, is about to be hanged as a spy, and his daughters eschew the UN, Jimmy Carter, and Sean Penn. (tags: india realism politics) WSJ: about that NAFTA trade deficit That giant sucking sound you hear is. . . vacuuous [...]

  22 Apr 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink