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• links for 2008-12-30

  LA Times: VHS era is winding down VHS is now officially dead: the last supplier of VHS tapes is about to dump its last remaining stock into humid Florida landfills. (tags: media tech)

  30 Dec 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• india update

  I’m near death from uncomfortable guest beds, mosquito attacks, and the sadistic traffic patterns around the Bhat family’s home here in Pune. We leave tomorrow for Bhopal, via Indore. In the next several days, we three (Mom, the sis, and yours truly) will be witnessing or participating in several Sathe family events in the two [...]

  29 Dec 2008 Travel; one comment. permalink   

• now the indian gov’t tries to convince others to fail their citizens

  Ever in adherence to tradition, India’s government fails to make the distinction between “peace” and “rolling over and taking it”, just as each successive government has done since about the reign of Ashoka: “The Government of India urges utmost restraint so as to give peace a chance as the peace process may well get derailed [...]

  29 Dec 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-12-29

  xkcd: Decline I'm doomed to single-tude (tags: humor science design) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Nothing is different anywhere (tags: humor science) kung fu grippe – Merlin Mann's Top 10 for 2008 (tags: humor)

  29 Dec 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-12-27

  Blogging the Boys: Shorter Jerry: The Cowboys Coaching Staff is in Place! Rafael Vela makes an excellent argument: If Wade Philips were judged by the old school front office philosophy, he'd have a 10-year extension á la Tom Landry. If Tom Landry had been judged by today's standards, he'd never have become Tom Landry. (tags: sports) [...]

  27 Dec 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• bollywood chutzpah

  A Hindi film titled Ghajini is set for release over here this weekend with an exciting plot: a man with anterograde amnesia tries to hunt down his lover’s murderer(s). Oh, wait: I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that plot before. It’s not that I’m particularly surprised by the cinematic plagiarism—Hindi films haven’t come up with an [...]

  26 Dec 2008 Pop Culture & Memes; one comment. permalink   

• links for 2008-12-25

  ChronicleReview.com: The Real Great Depression Why current economic conditions look more like 1873 than like 1929. (tags: economics history) Charting Out NBA Archetypes I, like Jason Kottke, like that LeBron is off in his own category. (tags: sports design) WSJ: A Christmas Tale — 1919 Legal scholar and former FEC commish Hans von Spakovsky describes [...]

  25 Dec 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• pessimism we can believe in

  Yeswecanhopechange, it seems, stops at science’s edge: the New York Times‘s John Tierney notes that his august holiness President-Elect Barack Obama (peace be upon him) has selected Dr. John Holdren as White House science advisor. Dr. Holdren was a key ally of pessimistic entymologist and alarmist Paul Ehrlich during the latter’s famous bet with Julian [...]

  25 Dec 2008 Economics, Politics, Science!; no comments. permalink   

• links for 2008-12-22

  Kottke: Heart-shaped NYC subway map Do want. Reminds me a lot of Vignelli's (in)famous über-modernist 1972 subway map—as I presume it's supposed to. (tags: design art new_york travel) WSJ: Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley I should actually scold the WSJ and others for not running this until, oh, 6 weeks after the election. This is [...]

  22 Dec 2008 Uncategorized; no comments. permalink   

• “and what’s up with airline food?!”

  A collection of observations from the first leg of the ’08-’09 India trip. * I had no screaming babies on my IAD-AMS flight, but my seat-neighbor smelt as if he had done step aerobics in a compost heap before boarding the flight. And then, it seemed, he tried to cover it up with some Deep [...]

  22 Dec 2008 Travel; one comment. permalink