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Recommended Reads on the Mumbai Attack 
Kiruba Shankar via Kiruba.com on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Some of the best selection of writing on the Mumbai attack by some of the best writers. Many thanks to Peter Griffin for the compilation. Suketu Mehta's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times. Dilip D'souza, who's writing style
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Why we love children
(unknown author) via The Gray Matter on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Shared by Suraksha
Awww! Kids say the darndest things! =)
A frined of mine sent this to me via e-mail and I just had to add it to my funny anecdotes :)NUDITY I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the
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Writing advice
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan via Selective Amnesia on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Words and sentences are like strings. You can either stretch them tight, taut. Like guitar strings. So you, the writer, can pick them and make music. Then again, sentences can be nice and long and untied, so you can wrap them around things – say, a top – and make them do things to others. How you treat your string is up to you. Play the guitar, spin the top, have fun.
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bobo via . on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
As she walked in, N was seated at a corner table, tapping his damp coaster with his index finger and staring out into the middle distance. He also occasionally rubbed his lips with the finger, thinking of French New Wave cinema.His thought straying towards the Madison from Bande part, he thought of their last kiss. A brush of the lips in warm affection, he made a note to make sure that if
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Nabokov on video
(unknown author) via kottke.org on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Shared by Mahesh CR
Forget the taboo, the social stigma attached to the name and the subject matter. This is poetry masquerading as prose. Take a break and watch lines that shall live long after the technology we ramble about is gone.
Watch as Vladimir Nabokov reads the first paragraph of Lolita in English &
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
(unknown author) via Overherd. on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” - ~ Pablo...
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11/19/08 PHD comic: 'Clever Acronyms'
(unknown author) via PHD Comics on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Shared by Chung
haha awesome
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
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The Spirit Final Poster
Larking via Movie Poster Addict on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
And so one of the more interesting poster campaigns of this year is coming to a clo
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Trailer for 2012
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Oh, Roland Emmerich, you know how to push my buttons. As an unapologetic fan of The Day After Tomorrow, I am vibrating on my chair in anticipation for 2012 (click for HD trailer, yadda yadda).
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments.
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Quantum of Solace book design
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Lovely design for Penguin's book of Bond short stories, Quantum of Solace.
The book collects together all of Ian Fleming's Bond short stories in a single volume for the first t
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A Bunch of Rocks
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
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Coraline Posters
Larking via Movie Poster Addict on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
This is a theme in this site, but it really is often much easier to catch the attention by teasing that there is something wonderful just outside our view…
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A White House butler's story
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land. He trekked home every night, his wife, Helene, keeping him out of her kitchen. At the White House, he worked closer to the dirty dishes than to the large desk in the Oval Office. Helene didn't care; she just b
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100 Presidential days
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
A comparison of the words & deeds of the first 100 days of every President since Roosevelt. (link)
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Dark Flow
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
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Real-life Photoshop
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
A real life version of the Photoshop desktop. I love the little color swatches box. (thx, mark) (link)
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How the universe might kill us
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
The universe is trying to kill us, let us count the (ten) ways.
Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 10^
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The audiobook version of the one-man play
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
Watch and listen to Jim Dale as he reads from the first Harry Potter book. Dale did the US audiobooks for all the Potter books and recently set a world record by doing 146 different voices for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (via
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