September 2007

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  Big in Japan

  09.12.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  There is a new poll [pdf link] out that has details on Pakistani democracy, popularity of various national leaders and some other interesting tidbits. It also shows that Bush and Mush are way unpopular - even as UbL has held on to his appeal in the 18-35 demographic. Make of it what you will.

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  The Prodigal Son

  09.09.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I quote W. G. Sebald from an old interview: “Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience,” he says. “It always comes with a sense of loss, and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.” He adds: “If you’re based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages [...]

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  Contented Contingents

  09.08.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

• optical character recognition

  Down to The Wire I

  09.04.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Also see, David Simon in The Believer [via kottke]

• better with tablas

  Feistival

  09.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Feist with Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, The National and some other people.

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  The Newest Oldest Story III

  09.03.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  [see Part I of III and Part II of III]
  III. A Modest Proposal
  Many historians are reluctant to comment on the present if a question presented to them contains a categorical assumption about the past; it’s a little like suggesting a diagnosis to an MD–no matter what is wrong with you, it’s not going to be [...]

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  The Terror of Arabic

  09.02.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This terror of a language and the official language of terror continues its march of terror - from Raed Jarrar being denied boarding a plane because his tshirt had Arabic on it, to Debbie Almontaser resigning because someone printed an ‘objectionable’ Arabic word on a tshirt to David Al Watan and his six colleagues [...]