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Protected: Staying Awake
12Jun08I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
Insanity
18Nov07There’s so much of it to pick from, but here’s a sampler: The IJT has expelled 17 members over the Imran Khan incident. Yay. But brace yourself now for the ‘operation’ that the IJT will launch to maintain its ‘hold on PU’. Na Islami, na Talib, siraf Jamia. Mr. Musharraf isn’t in right now. Choice quote: “Before [...]
Stages of intelligence
25Aug07Certainty Uncertainty Certainty about uncertainty Uncertainty about uncertainty Certainty about the uncertainty of uncertainty I’m not sure if that pattern continues (there’s a tower law in there after stage 5, I think). My data suggests ‘achievers’ inhabit the odd-numbered stages; ‘thinkers’ and ‘feelers’ inhabit the even-numbered ones. Make sense?
Links day
17Jul07All the articles I’ve been reading lately but haven’t had time to blog about individually… The Guardian’s Henry Porter is pissed off about the super-rich. It’s an interesting, somewhat predictable read, since hedge-fund-bashing is in vogue these days. The comments, though, are awesome. There’s talk of revolution, advice for the author to quit complaining and work [...]
‘Female’
13Jul07Here’s a fun thing to do when you have some free time: count the number of times women are referred to as ‘females’ in the popular media. I think it started in hip-hop culture (eg, “I can’t congratulate these females”), but it seems to be entering the mainstream now. I don’t quite understand it — [...]
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 [...]
so rich
10Jun07BBC’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, [...]
Trying out annotations with JKN
28May07Woohoo. I just created my first annotated webpage using JKN. It’s an interview with Benny Morris, who wrote ‘The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem’, and it’s absolutely fascinating reading. My annotations aren’t too deep (half are things like ’shocking!’), but there are a few important ones, like the one at the very end. It’s [...]
I’m claiming this
19May07To err is human, to metaphor divine. I Google’d and didn’t find it, so I am officially claiming it. Given most people put emphasis on the second syllable in ‘metaphor’, I’m afraid it’s only going to rhyme half the time (and is therefore a half-rhyme! Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week…). (No seriously, it’s a half-rhyme…Mrs. [...]
Press Conference of the Year
08May07Shaukat Aziz’s latest is my nomination. Some highlights of Mr. Aziz’s comments: the Constitution allows for the option of imposing a state of national emergency ‘but its use depended on conditions and circumstances as laid down in the book’ [as reported by Dawn]. “the May 12 rally in Islamabad would be in support of the presidential reference [...]
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