June 2009
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Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way.
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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“Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket....”
– Bobby Bragan, 1963
Jun 28th
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as dead as a dodo →
Jun 28th
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An Interview with Jairam Ramesh →
An Interview with Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister by Prerna Singh Bindra.
Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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“…there is a way of thinking about any technology that has the same baleful...”
– Donna Haraway, Interview with Lisa Nakamura, “Prospects for a Materialist Informatics” (2003). (via particularapparatus)
Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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Great land giveaway could be disaster for Amazon →
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva yesterday signed the controversial land-grab bill and sent it back to Congress, having vetoed the clause which environmental groups most vigorously opposed (see ‘Encouraging occupations’, below). da Silva decided to reject the part which would have legitimised claims made by people who pay squatters to occupy chunks of the...
Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring...”
– Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar”
Jun 26th
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“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she...”
– Mark Twain
Jun 26th
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Getting caught often by Bangalore's traffic... →
Jun 25th
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“1. There are essential and inessential insanities… Inessential insanities...”
– 1. Tom Robbins  2. Rawjeev
Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
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regex
A: What are these ugly gibberish lines of characters that you keep fiddling with?
B: Oh! these are really powerful, Regular Expressions, not so regular for all human beings though.
Jun 25th
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Wakey Wakey India
Who are Maoists? What are they fighting for? Where did ammunition & weapons with chinese markings come from? Is this China in disguize?
Jun 25th
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A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa →
This a good & brief introduction to putting RDFa to use. I liked it :) a trim url: http://tr.im/intrordfa dagoneye: Notevole breve intro a rdfa da alistapart : grazie a gilberto dallan della segnalazione :)
Jun 25th
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Keep it DRY and make you’r life Juicy. -Rawjeev
Jun 24th
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Jun 24th
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“DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself.”
– (one of) the most fundamental principle(s) in programming.
Jun 24th
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Who rules real-time search? →
Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups … A look at 11 contenders…
Jun 24th
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August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to... →
Please note that this story was written in 2002.
Jun 24th
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“If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push...”
– Tom Robbins.
Jun 23rd
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“The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society is to call the old...”
– Tom Robbins.
Jun 22nd
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Net-Optimeter →
Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...”
– Tom Robbins
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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“God has no religion.”
–  Mahatma Gandhi (via littlemiss)
Jun 21st
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Sorry Linux but the chicken came first →
A Linux Net-book sits right in front of me and makes me smile, even as I read this article about the death of Linux on netbooks. Windows is a habit, and its hard to get rid of old habits, good or bad. Its harder when alternatives are stomped by dragons. But, I believe good things have their place in our lives and as long as the world appreciates good stuff, good things will live on alongside...
Jun 20th
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“The Dalai Lama’s Instructions for life: Take into account that great love and...”
– I Love this text with reckless abandon. The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet (via littlemiss)
Jun 20th
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Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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There will typically be overlap, disagreement, and confusion before there is synergy, cooperation, and collaboration. - Morgan Kaufman Morgan Kaufman said this w.r.t coming together of view-points in a web of knowledge. I thought this statement holds good more generally too. -Rawjeev
Jun 18th
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,...”
–  Charles Darwin
Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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“Destroy all certainties. They can’t be regenerated”
– wtf
Jun 17th
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles) (via littlemiss)
Jun 17th
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The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good →
Has the worst subsided? A case for why capitalism is still the world’s most productive economic engine
Jun 17th