Archive for February, 2010



Getting an iPad?

Getting an iPad? Then you need to get these pants.

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Paleo-Future

Paleo-Future: A future that never was. A collection of obviously-wrong predictions about the future. These predictions for the year 1993 made in the year 1893 are funny. Also:The Earth is supposed to freeze in 2011.

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Fernando Alonso Interviewed by Guardian

My friends and long-time followers of this blog (all 2 of you!) know what a fan of Alonso Ive been ever since he splashed onto the F1 scene. Yes, Ive been very critical of him in the past, but I feel it was all justified. Im glad that he is finally “growing up” and […]

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Voice of Pakistan

A good introduction to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who was a huge influence to me musically growing up.

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Remind me never to make predictions

In 1995, Clifford Stoff dismissed the Internet as a passing ‘fad.’
But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks […]

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Pakistan Sends Skiier to the Olympics

This is a story almost similar to the Jamaican bobsled team. Pakistan, a nation not really known for skiiing, had one of its own qualify for this year’s Olympics. NPR recently did a story on this.

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Those City Shots in TV

Those city street shots in your favourite TV shows? None of it is real. I was surprised to find out just how much of it was “blue screened.”

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