Archive for June, 2007

Irshad Manji speaks again – Rushdie’s knighthood

23Jun07

Here she is again, this time outraged at the protests against Rushdie’s knighthood. First of all, let me say these protests are ridiculous. The protesters really need to take the chip off their shoulders and get on with their lives. We all learned in primary school that when something bothers you the best thing you can [...]

PKBloggers

20Jun07

Apparently, PKBloggers have listed me as ‘Voila!’ (check their right-hand column). I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

so rich

10Jun07

BBC’s article “Is Prince Philip an island god”? is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. And that includes Onion. For centuries, perhaps millennia, villagers had believed in an ancient story about the son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. They believed that unlike them, [...]

Avanoo — I don’t get it

09Jun07

These guys wrote this, a thinly veiled dig at Guy Kawasaki. It’s a great read, and got me curious as to what exactly it was that they were doing. Their idea can be summarised as Epinions with filtering: people ask questions, which are answered by other people, and then the answers can be sorted and [...]