Monday, September 20, 2010

Art of the Day- Pakistani Truck Art

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Granta- featuring Pakistani issues via Literary Blog- Isak
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Non Muslims and Koran

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Robert Wright makes an interesting point about interpretation of scriptures; All the Abrahamic scriptures have all kinds of meanings — goo...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Artists Rooms

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Interesting series from Guardian- Writers' Rooms

Memo to Self- Do you belong to the tribe of Infovore Warriors

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David Warsh profiles Tyler Cowen- Consider Cowen’s output last week on the blog – 34 items. Among them: entries n the the speech patterns...

Assorted websites

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Please Rob Me [don't post on Facebook that your houses are empty for the weeken] Graphy Your Inbox

The Future of Printing- where Data is the Design Product

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Freedom of Creation , based in Amsterdam, designs and prints exotic furniture and other fixtures for hotels and restaurants. It also makes i...
Friday, September 10, 2010

The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

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BURSTS: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do from Authors at Google. Related: Book Blog ; What exactly is a burst? ALB: A burst ...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Bertrand Russell's Three Passions

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Quote of the Day; Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, ...

John Grisham, the failed tax lawyer and construction worker

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Effective Habits from John Grisham - Halfway through college, and still drifting, I decided to become a high-powered tax lawyer. The plan ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Contemplating the Meaning of Life

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The Big Picture on Ramadan

BH Blog Awards Nominee for Intellectual Tresspassing

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RK's Musings
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Photo of the Day

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Greenland glacier
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Exlporing one's spirituality

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Advice of the Day - For me, having a clear purpose in my life has been essential. But it was something I had to think long and hard about ...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

It's easy to learn a language

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MyLanguageExchange.com just maintains lists of people who know certain languages and want to learn others. Anyone can search the database, b...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Intolerance, and Inhumanity?

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World Press Photos 2009 via the blog
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Effective Habits of Ernest Gellner - 'cold intellectual honesty'

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A review of another Gellner biography ; In common with so many other émigrés, Gellner served in the war (in his case in a Czechoslovak arm...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Weird Blog of the Day

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Virginity Project via Guardian

Artist of the Day- Hopper

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Edward Hopper via the elegant and cool blog of Michele Roohani

Cool Blogs

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Michele Roohani “Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.” Arcane Sentiment Econom...

Dangerous Knowledge

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In this one-off documentary , David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turi...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Book Cover Art- 4 Fish

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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food . By Paul Greenberg The famous story of the demise of Newfoundland’s cod is a parable of all ...

Yes, I second that

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I agree totally with Lexington ; Now that it's official—Facebook has half a billion users—I feel at last that I have a reply for my wi...

Cognitive Surplus

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cshirky

The Facebook Effect

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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World . By David Kirkpatrick In the early days Mr Zuckerberg c...

Effective Habits of a Clinical Psychologist

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" Look for grey areas even when they don't exist, work as hard as you can but remember that luck has a large part to do with your...

Grey areas abound in religion

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Something to think about for the young Muslim. Life is all about the grey area. When I was growing up I wasn't sure where I belonged i...

Advice to Young Muslim

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Find the right role models. I grew up in a part of the world where George Orwell's Animal Farm was banned. It was also banned in the f...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency

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“ Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind .”-...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Book Cover Art

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Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities Lucien Karpik
Sunday, July 18, 2010

A very coold ad

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Soccer's greatest ever for some.
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Gratitude Journal- Be Grateful that you can read

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After Howard Engel (author of 12 best-selling mystery novels featuring his beloved detective, Benny Cooperman) realized that he couldn't...

Neuroscience and Democracy

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Quote of the Day " From the perspective of the human brain, it's a miracle that democracy works at all " Source :
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Can Spain beat the Dutch playing Dutch Football

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“I am Dutch,” Cruyff said last week to El Periódico in Spain, where he lives. “But I will always defend the football Spain play.” That is ...

A bug ate my Firefox?

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My Firefox's execution file has disappeared and together with Chrome's execution file. It seems Explorer is the one that is working ...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Art and Photo Blog of the Day

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nicolettalolli

Art of Roughness- Mandelbrot at TED

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The Mandelbrot set in a certain sense is a **** of a dream I had and an uncle of mine had since I was about 20. I was a student of mathema...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

More Ideas on Improving Soccer- Use Two balls

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This time from Rick Bookstaber of all people; - Use two balls . Having two balls in play will increase the number of shots, and spread o...

Photo of the Day

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South Koreans Fishing .

Technical Advice Sought

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How do you stop Chinese Spam invading your blog comments? I'm still waiting for a check from Google Ads- how long does it need to get ...

Unsolicited Advice to Amazon and Google book search team

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One way to gauge a quality of a non-fiction book is the number of questions in a book. I'm not able to search 'question marks' u...

It may not be autism

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Almost 50% of the children previously diagnosed with autism are found to be suffering from some degree of brain seizure activity that is und...

21st Century Social Networking Tools- the basics

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David Pogue gives a basics guide to social networking tools; As a public service, therefore, I’m offering a handy clip-’n’-save guide to ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Thomas Ricks want to know Worst War Memoir Ever

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Thomas Ricks a reviews War Memoir of General Mark W. Clark and doesn't like it; First question: Is there a relationship between the...
Monday, July 5, 2010

I Wish Your Wish

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Creativity Link of the Day- I Wish Your Wish

Random Design, Culture and Art blogs

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Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas Heart As Arena bjkeefe DESIGN FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Advice from Spielberg - Art as Inspiration

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“I hung the painting over my desk,” Mr. Spielberg recalled. “ It was my deblocker. Whenever I hit a wall or couldn’t figure out where a stor...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Houses of Economists- Carmen M. Reinhart

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Rogoff and Carmen at Carmen's house After much hand-wringing, he decided to return to the United States to attend Yale, which overlo...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Advice of the Day

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Be grateful . Yes, I often hear from people that they are tired of being admonished to be grateful. It’s no wonder there is a sort of societ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

July Book Club

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Let us hear if any of you're reading the list for July .
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Controversial Book Cover Art- Israel and South Africa

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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa Author: Sasha Polakow-Suransky But Vorster was unapolo...