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  • “I really don’t mind pressing [1] for English”

    Photo galleries of last weekend's Stewart-Colbert "Sanity" rally – here and here. [Note: I am leaving on a week long trip and won't be posting during that period.]

  • Putting numbers on feelings

    August 2010 has been a torrid month in Houston- it is winding down to become the hottest August on record. The high temperatures and humidity have made the days unusually uncomfortable with heat advisories being issued nearly daily. Two days ago the Houston Chronicle ran a mildly amusing editorial named The ugliest August. It described synapses melting in fearsome…

  • How far from Ground Zero do you have to go to build a mosque?

    Really, really far, it seems.

  • “I write like … David Foster Wallace”

    I came across a website last night that purports to "analyze" one's writing style and compares it to that of famous authors. Naturally, I was curious. After analyzing seven random blog posts, my writing style came out to be like that of Cory Doctorow (4 times), Kurt Vonnegut (2) and David Foster Wallace (1). "What, no…

  • Comic Relief (Sujatha)

    Some relief from the ‘Hollow and vapid charade‘ that Kagan once considered the proceeds of a Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing, I presume.

  • How not to be energy efficient (prasad)

    “Home electronics can gobble energy – including “phantom” draw even when off. That’s why I like the Sony Bravia KDL-52VE5 Eco Series LCD TV: It has a motion sensor to shut down the unit when not in use, a high-efficiency backlight, and a switch to cut power entirely.” A $1900, 52-inch hi-def television that’s “energy…

  • A Little Saturday Morning Linkery (Sujatha)

    Bad Bro vis a vis Big Bro : the perils of the Intertube Age. (Note: the first link is to a humorous situation that I found myself in. I had thoughts about contacting my cell phone carrier to ask about number blocks and such, a genuflection of sorts at the altar of Big Bro, but…

  • Literary Snark

    Forget literary critics; see how famous authors eviscerate each others creative talent and output.    Examples: Ernest Hemingway, according to Vladimir Nabokov (1972) As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. John Keats, according to Lord Byron (1820) Here are Johnny Keats's…

  • Southwest Airlines: Screwball Comedy In The Sky

    "Welcome to Chicago, home of the 1908 World Series champions." "We know you have many choices in airlines, and we're just glad you can't afford any of the others." –Southwest flight attendant   Southwest employees are known for their unorthodox in-flight announcements. Apparently, they are at their best on short hops between Texas cities – Houston, Dallas, Austin…

  • Who was really behind the Iranian revolution?

    The truth revealed here.

  • Jiggling the earth

    Could it be that mullahs and other fundamentalist religious leaders know more about meteorology and geology than we suspect? Earlier this year Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian temblor on voodoo and a pact with the devil. An Iranian mullah recently blamed scantily dressed women for earthquakes. A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously…

  • God Should Get A Blog

    Thanks to Narayan for sending me the Bob Mankoff cartoon.