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Things I know you would like
I think Stuff White People Like is an incredibly funny site. But it would work just as well if it was called Stuff Yuppies Like.
Today's nice-article-I-wish-I-had-written is The Charms of Wikipedia. Now how can I get Spellcheck to read it?:
The steady influx of top-hat-and-spatted sources elevated Wikipedia's tone. This wasn't just a school ( Read more... ) -
Booksonbooksonbooksonbooks
So I finally was persuaded to give ebooks a shot and i may be on my way to being converted. On Wednesday I spent the whole day in bed reading books on my laptop. It was disconcerting to open microsoft reader and see that the library on my laptop already contained books with titles such as Interstellar Service and Discipline. (You are reading this ( Read more... ) -
Howards End: Only don't connect
I haven't read EM Forster since I was 16 when I read them all in a fury of Merchant Ivory. From that point of pure ignorance and my dubious feelings about A Passage to India, I had to be told that my favouritest book Zadie Smith's On Beauty was a tribute to Howards End. Now, two whole years later, I am re-reading Howards End and enjoying it ( Read more... ) -
Doing Jalsa, Showing Jilpsa
Never have I regretted being in North India so much before. When I found Krish Ashok's site yesterday I had to cackle all by my lonesome. Ashok is an IT boy, amateur violinist, writer, graphic artist and all-round crack person. His website is full of astonishing schematic diagrams and photoshopped ads all shot through with the funniest lingo that ( Read more... ) -
Billet-doux to Sohrab, Sumati and you
If you are a freelance writer, photographer, editor, cartoonist, designer, translator, juggler....
1. Don't work for free. Ever. Not even the first time.
2. Do not listen to Falana publishers in Delhi, when they tell you that they love your work but they are just not in a position to pay you for the wonderful photographs you took of the Naxalites ( Read more... ) -
The Notorious Bettie Page
To stay on the subject of porn and good cheer... The Notorious Bettie Page is a wonderful movie. The original Ms Page was a one-of-a-kind creature. In the 1950s she was famous equally for her cheesecake photos as well as for appearing in bondage magazines. In 7 years she appeared in more magazines than Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford together. ( Read more... )
