April 2004
The Archives
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better with tablas
Magnum Magnus Partei Heute Nacht
Heads up for those in Chicago: The up-and-coming soon-to-be-big-in-Europe (hey, it worked for BackStreet Boys) Chicago band magnus will be having their record release party tonight. I intend to go and anyone wanting to join in on the fun would be highly welcome.
Their sound is a combination of liverpool, chicago and norman, oklahoma.
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Legacy of Colonialism Includes Beer
04.29.04 | Permalink | 6 CommentsGerry wrote on my dry erase board: “The legacy of colonialism includes beer,” and left a huge bottle of Tiger Beer from Singapore. The statement has been staring me in the face and, today, I remembered that old can of Murree Beer that I had found in the Karachi house kitchen. No, not for drinking, […]
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optical character recognition
Platitudes from the Olive Tree
I thought that mcsweeney’s.net had jumped the shark but, i dare say, this is brilliant:
Create Your Own Thomas Friedman Column .
Speaking with a local farmer on the last day of my recent visit, I asked him if there was any message that he wanted me to carry back home with me. He pondered for […] -
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The NeoCon Con
Douglas Feith recently spoke here on campus. Chicago, home of Leo Strauss and Albert Wohlstetter, is an important place for Doug Feith to come and defend the assault on Iraq strategy of the administration - and by extension the neocon world view.
Today’s NYT (r.r) has an indepth on the three-member crack team (and yes, […] -
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Identify Yourself
04.27.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsBritain is rolling out the I.D. cards in London. This is a voluntary trial but by 2012 it will be compulsary. Funnily enough, Muslim women will be exempt from this trial presumably because it fringes on their religious practice to veil. Mind you, Britain is a police state already. There are cameras every 10 […]
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homistan
Madrasas
04.26.04 | Permalink | 8 CommentsFrom Wired, comes an article on the adoption of computers in Madrasas in Lahore. A couple of weeks ago, Boston Globe ran an article that also tackled the modernization of syllabus in Deobandi madrasas in India. Both of these articles point towards external and internal reform pressures on the madrasa system. The impression is that […]
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talkies
Summer movies
Saw The Company friday night. It was ok. I was hoping for more back-stabbing, anorexia and mis-shappen toes. The music was good and there were some funny moments. Over all, it was good p.r. for the joffret ballet. And for a movie set in Chitown, it showed us scant of this beautiful city.
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wizbango! tech
Apple is no Mango
04.24.04 | Permalink | 12 CommentsOn my recent trip to Pakistan, my father loved the simplicity of OS X.3 and asked me to find him an apple powerbook in Pakistan. I went to Hafeez Center - the tech center of Lahore - and inquired around for an Apple reseller. Ha! No one in 4 teeming floors had heard of such […]
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talkies
Donnie Darko Extended
One of my favorite movies from 2001, Donnie Darko is getting an extended cut in the cinemas. Richard Kelly (writer/director) spilled some beans to the Empire Magazine:
It will expand the meaning of the film and offer more clues and more solutions to the puzzle and create an additional layer of mystery for the audience. […] -
wizbango! tech
Mac rumors
I need to sell my laptop and my desktop G4s. I keep meaning to put them on marketplace but I forget. In the meantime, dust is accumulating in the giga-flopping chipsets.
Of course, I am selling them to clear room for the G5 powerbook. Oh yeah. Let me tell you as a registered Apple Developer that […] -
univerCity
The Socratic Method Man
04.22.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsToday, we were discussing the Khilafat Movement (1920) [i do not have a good link here because the stuff on the internet is terrible. I will write up a short thing if interest is shown by anyone remotely interested]. I have read and thought about this mass movement in India and I was hoping that […]
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talkies
Edmund Husserl’s PussyCat
Yesterday, we were supposed to go see Russ Meyer’s magnum opus Faster, PussyCat Kill! Kill! at Doc Films - which is having a banner quarter (kudos to the volunteers-check the calendar here). I come home around 4ish and I am not even tired. Yet, when Eduardo called me at 6 to go, I was […]
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homistan
On Clans and Communities
04.21.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWhat would be an acclaimed blood line in the US? A source of pride and embellishment? Bushes? Kennedys? Rockafellers? There is, at least in the north-east, an interest in tracing one’s lineage back to, say, the Mayflower. The true blue blood bestows a degree of respectability over the individual. Our President’s clan came on the […]
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stardust
MakeOver Nation
I am stunned by this makeover madness on the telly. In my nightly crawl of cable, I see people get makeovers for their cars, their houses, their partners, their careers, their pets, their face, their bodies.
On and on and on.
Americans have given up. Thrown their hands up in the air, and yelled to the […] -
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Conspiracy Theory Alert!!
Grapevine says that in all the hubhub in Fallujah, the US is shipping WMDs into Iraq in trucks with fake Saudi and Jordanian license plates. I would never pay attention to that. I maintain that people are too damn dumb to conceal ANYTHING. When they do try, they come up with the most implausible scenarios […]
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