8 hours ago by Patrix

Raj Thackeray and his bunch of goons have taken up the mantle of defending the rights of Marathi manoos (people) in strange and often egregious ways. More often than not, they resort to violence to impose their worldview on people they clearly despise. The current ‘flavor of the month’ are people fr ...

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3 days ago by Patrix

I don't read books anymore: “That’s not precisely true, but my book reading is down to a trickle of what it used to be. Most of my reading happens online for kottke.org and when I’m through with all that, the last thing I want to do is tuck into a book, no matter how good it is. But what I really ha ...

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4 days ago by Patrix

I used to love when Anna Marie Cox used to blog at The Wonkette. Snarky political commentary from inside the Beltway; she spared no one. Until she quit and joined Time magazine as a columnist. Oh well, you have got to make a living, right? So it is a pleasure when occasionally she dons the garb of W ...

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4 days ago by Patrix

[click to enlarge] The United States is only 15th in the world and unfortunately, India doesn’t even figure in the list.

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6 days ago by Patrix

While Harry lacked the wiliness and cunning of some dogs, I did watch one day as he figured out a basic principle of physics. He was playing with a water bottle in our backyard—it was one of those 5-gallon cylindrical plastic jugs from the top of a water cooler. At one point, it rolled down a hill, ...

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11 days ago by admin

9rules blogging network is ready to open the next round of blog submissions on October 1, 2009. Previously their 24 hour submission rounds have been a craze in the blogosphere with thousands of blogs wanting to get in. 9rules Our blog QOT also got selected in 9rules last year. What is interesting th ...

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12 days ago by Patrix

When DesiPundit became popular, some suggested I try to create a business plan around it and treat it like a startup. Some blogger friends even offered to pitch in with capital. But the fact that I was still in grad school finishing up that elusive PhD and also, there was no solid business plan arou ...

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19 days ago by Patrix

WordPress releases yet another upgrade (2.8.5) yesterday and people instantaneously groan about having to upgrade their blogs yet again. Given the recent vulnerability in 2.8.3 when plenty of blogs were hacked into including that of Robert Scoble, these upgrades are becoming just as important as the ...

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20 days ago by Aaron

I’m pleased to note that Social Photo Talk was selected for inclusion in the 9rules blog network. 9rules is a hand-selected group of blogs chosen because they produce quality content covering a wide variety of topics. If you check out the site you can browse a bunch of really great material includin ...

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24 days ago by JessicaDoyle

These hands made it into the 9th round of blogs accepted into the prestigious 9rules Network. I got so excited that I shared my happiness in the Etsy forums. The following is what I wrote in that forum post as it succinctly sums up how I feel: Never Never Never Give Up! Three and half years ago I ap ...

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