Shahryar Rizvi

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  • links for 2010-01-28

    6 Enlightened Ideas Brought to You by Evil Empires (tags: comedy fun history) Howard Zinn, A People's Historian, Dies at 87 (tags: books social newspapers)

  • Textures performance in India

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WffE6cd1QKo&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

  • The iPad, a.k.a. the iPod Touch Rex

    All the blogs and my classmates are gushing over the iPad,  Apple’s tablet device announced today. It seems at first glance as an enlarged iPod Touch. I’m not likely going to purchase it as I am not the target audience. I have an antipathy for Apple’s battery-dependent devices since the batteries cannot be removed or exchanged without breaking open the device. The iMacs, […]

  • links for 2010-01-27

    The Last Question — Isaac Asimov Humans and computers contemplate the heat death of the universe (tags: asimov scifi fiction sci-fi science books) Guardian editor hits back at paywalls Rusbridger described universal paywalls as "a hunch" and said that the newspaper industry would learn valuable lessons from trying different business models, including staying generally free […]

  • links for 2010-01-25

    Bruce Schneier: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google China's hackers subverted the access system Google put in place to comply with U.S. intercept orders. Why does anyone think criminals won't be able to use the same system to steal bank account and credit card information, use it to launch other attacks or turn it into […]

  • links for 2010-01-24

    TV Calendar – January 2010 TV listings guide – Tracking 231 current TV shows and 152 upcoming episodes This has the ability to export iCALs consisting of your favorite show times. (tags: technology, tv)

  • links for 2010-01-23

    NOCs (Nerds of Color) | StarTribune.com And you’d think that fellow nerds, regardless of race and gender, would understand given that our status as freaks and geeks and outcasts would give us some humility and common ground to stand on. Unfortunately, this is not often the case. Try bringing up issues of race, class, gender, […]

  • MLK: Day: Peace is the presence of justice

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIFTNmOOLmk&w=425&h=344] On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor […]

  • The Haiti Earthquake: Chicken’s don’t laugh where turkeys get plucked.

    I can’t say much else about the Haiti earthquake, but I think Haiti deserves to be put into a context. Haiti is a nation that threw off it’s European dominator well before any other, by a slave rebellion no less. As a result, the “civilized” world has never forgiven Haiti. The new nation had to […]

  • New MIA Single: Space Odyssey

    http://www.twitvid.com/player/B54ED Space is hip this year. I’m a bit apprehensive that the hip artists who appropriate space themes this year haven’t read books in the space opera canon and appreciate rich media about the cosmos. I’m afraid Hipsters may play it out and drop it like they have done to zombies and steampunk.

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