Thursday, November 22, 2007
Recently saw this PBS production detailing the landmark Dover trial in which evolution and intelligent design battled each other. A really well-made documentary, and a fascinating story both for the human and legal interest. Convincing a conservative judge appointed by George Bush to rule that Intelligent Design is not science and shouldn’t be taught in [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
So I’m in the queue at the Indian food stall in the canteen during lunchtime when this scenario unfolds. A couple of girls up ahead in the queue are chattering ecstatically, as girls are wont to do when a friend of theirs comes and stands right behind me. There was the usual wave of delightful [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
After a fighting 192, Kumar Sangakarra fell to one of those increasingly common dismissals these days – umpire error. With more than two sessions to go, the 10th wicket partnership may not last very long but isn’t short on entertainment. 101.5 Clark to Malinga, SIX, Malinga goes downtown. Full in length, Malinga moved outside leg [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Went to an exhibition exhibiting Andy Warhol’s works this weekend. Pretty good experience. In particular, loved the electric chair and the dollar sign series of prints.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Rediff reports: Special judge Mohammad Shamim’s order in the matter came on a review petition filed by Rajesh Bidkar against Tendulkar, saying cutting of a ‘Tiranga cake’ by the cricketer was an insult to national pride. Right. While the left parties band together and hold India’s international reputation to ransom with the US and IAEA, [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
The Economist writes: Indeed, this is the nub of the nurturists’ argument. Natural selection should have pushed intelligence genes as far as they will go, so all variation should be environmental. That it is not suggests there is some unknown countervailing advantage—at least in reproductive terms—to being less than averagely bright.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
In India, we used to celebrate the 14th of November (birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru) as Children’s Day in school. It was one of the few days when wearing our uniforms was not compulsory, and instead of classes we used to have games and fun all day long. Truly the good old days. Your children [...]
Wishing everyone a Hapyp Diwali and joyous year ahead!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Here’s one article on rediff: Here’s another: Looks like our two esteemed world leaders have decided to make love, not war. The happy couple are, of course, to be applauded except that I wish they would, maybe, find a room? And no thank you, Rediff, one can do without the images.
Since the new version of GMail has rolled out, the GMailManager extension for Firefox has stopped working. I found a hack on the mozilla forum by PMDv1 which I’ve tested and it works. find your profile folder browse to the extensions directory open the folder named {582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7} open the components folder Open “gmServiceGmail.js” in your [...]
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