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MeFi post:
Information Design + Politics = WIN! (Hopefully)
hmm wonder if he was advised to lay low with blogging/commenting till they figured out what his PR strategy would be following the success of this "lets try it and see what happens" venture?
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at 4:28 AM on August 2, 2008
yah, I just came from there, but that's been what? Over a week now? and no response as someone pointed out to this thread either. LA Times is 'manageable' mainstream media, the interwebs are a dangerous place ;p
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:03 AM on August 2, 2008
ooo ooo I know
How do you liquidate unobligated funds donated for a political campaign that's over?
sponsor a ginormous MeFi meetup, beer's on the internet!! ;p
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:54 AM on August 7, 2008
MeFi post:
The Strange Case of Aafia Siddiqui
as a south asian woman with an american master's degree who left after i discovered i was too afraid to simply live there in peace, although i'm hindu etc, i read this article and just wondered what it must have been like to have been "tortured" as a woman. damn i need a stiff whisky right now
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at 6:01 PM on August 6, 2008
ref ornate insect
comment
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:15 AM on August 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Persia
sighs deeply with pleasure and settles down to surf
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 2:37 AM on August 5, 2008
btw, the Peacock Throne
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 2:39 AM on August 5, 2008
ooo Ubu, I have always wanted to visit Persia, lucky you. (dad's ancestors are from a place called Etmaudpur between Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, so have done the whole bit in my youth)
btw, Isfahan? check this out I think it was a fpp a few years ago
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 6:24 AM on August 5, 2008
btw, I saw the Kohinoor diamond and made rude comments to the guard about how it was ours ;p
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 6:25 AM on August 5, 2008
Ubu: Yah, that's the village, seems about 40 odd years ago the ancestral house was demolished for a new one and distant relatives found a cache of gold coins in the basement from the time of Akbar. Could be a fairytale for the family archives but an uncle has managed to trace our lineage back to a warrior king's treasurer/supply chain manager. Apparently the family followed the army for an epic battle outside Fatehpur Sikri and then settled down after the defeat.
Anyway... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:52 PM on August 5, 2008
btw, Ubu, we're both off, dad says its closer on the way to Firozabad, your map link shows "Itimadpur" on that highway - that's the general vicinity
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:57 PM on August 5, 2008
In a thread about the influence of Persia, this wiki entry on Babur is a fascinating read. Just read it after our discussions.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 11:34 PM on August 5, 2008
MeFi post:
insert extremely clever title here
Oh ok, would a moderator please remove my subjective question in order to reconfigure the FPP according to the guidelines please. I coloured outside my box.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 2:19 AM on August 2, 2008
Mutant, not only that but I liked the fact taht Roddick took steps to sell the organization to someone who [hopefully] might retain the corporate DNA that Body Shop embodied and I believe her children did not inherit that wealth. It was, so I heard, a family decision.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:13 AM on August 2, 2008
Hmm,
Seasoned Democrats in Olathe (population about 115,000), located about 20 miles southwest of Kansas City, Kan., advised Tevis to drop his online efforts and stick with asking local residents and state political action groups for financial help. The average state representative race rarely pulls in donations from more than a couple hundred people or PACs, according to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:21 AM on August 2, 2008
oops, LA Times
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:21 AM on August 2, 2008
Mutant, you bring up some interesting points here. Before I start a long blather on the issues you highlight in your comment, just a datapoint of background for contextual relevance. I'm a member of a small indian business family, from the traditional caste of businessmen, merchants, traders, moneylenders etc. Caste is not the same as class in india, plus castes extend across all the regions of the country [india is closer in concept to the EU with myriad languages, customs, cuisines etc] Some... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 5:31 AM on August 2, 2008
valkyryn: and I'll raise you one.
Taking your thoughts a step further, imho, lets break the rules you've set, for argument's sake and start from your sentence - The ones that succeed have some degree of luck, but most of them are simply excellent at following the rules.. These rules are meant only as guidelines, that is the function of rules, else they'd be laws. Just like the metrics of success in the blogosphere when it first began were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 8:31 AM on August 2, 2008
Oh and Mutant, on your observation, since I'm on a flow here it seems ;p
Interestingly, Gross recently turned bullish on The US Dollar. Not really a surprise as many of us thought a lot of the negative sentiment in the mainstream media wasn't reflected in the nations fundamentals, especially so when looking back at relative performance - how other countries have performed when the US economy slows.
He recently gave a commencement... [more]
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at 8:36 AM on August 2, 2008
seanmpuckett: your definition got me thinking about noblesse oblige and its equivalent in terms of what i'd seen my grandfather talk about and espouse. his concept had less to do with worthiness and station and more to do with karma and dharma. meaning it was seen more as a duty to your own 'good luck' in having been born into a situation where you had more than enough and perhaps some extra to share vs. being born into a poor farmer's family. at least that's how it seemed to me. my disadvantage... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 8:08 PM on August 2, 2008
just wanted to thank you all for the opportunity here to trigger thoughts and brainstorming around the topic.
and to summarize ;p since i've been ruminating most of the night on this, I'd say the biggest thing involved here seemed to be an indefinable attitude that all these mavericks have - "I don't care what conventional wisdom says, my perception of the world of business shows me this opportunity, my gut tells me its a calculated risk that has a good chance to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 8:11 PM on August 2, 2008
Mutant: The pessimism in the mainstream media, the doom and gloom one incessantly hears from bloogers, just isn't reflected in the financial data I've seen, the financial press I read. Sure, there are some problems. And some problems are larger than others, perhaps more intractable. But we're working through the problems.
We've had bubbles before. We'll have bubbles again.
Okay, granted your observations are based on valid... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:05 AM on August 3, 2008
Mutant, further to your comments after reading the link, yes, I agree that the dollar will strengthen in the short run against the euro and the euro will probably stabilize a few cents lower than it is right now. However, the US economic situation may not be as easily repairable and I do wonder what the effect of having a eurodollar oil bourse, something i've seen at times recently in google news, would be on the overall situation, globally?
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:25 AM on August 3, 2008
Mutant:
*sweeps off big floppy hat with dangly feather and bows*
You have no idea how much I've been needing to have this conversation with someone as informed and rational as you, thank you.
Now, taking what you've just said here, let me throw out my first impuse, a wild card say, what if the potential for a new currency isn't quite a pan Asian currency as we conventionally imagine but something based along the lines of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 5:17 AM on August 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Danieal Kelly
I read this is the news today and my first thought was OMG, is this what society's coming to? because its not just this, what about the guy that randomly lopped some other guy's head off in a bus? like hello? wtf is the world coming to?
stepping back from the details of the situation at hand and reading Straightener's insightful sharing of the realities makes me wonder whether there are deeper or unseen systemic issues here that seem to point towards a breakdown of... [more]
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at 3:25 AM on August 3, 2008
MeFi post:
"Fit" to report?
O RLY??
is that why I got this message today, a exemplar of convoluted thinking?
Help for Problems Accessing Yahoo!
Please use this form to report the error you are experiencing.
A problem occurred trying to file your report. We apologize for the inconvenience (2).
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 5:43 AM on August 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Is $40000 fair punishment for setting up a fake Facebook profile?
damn, i wish i could sue all the stupid sites around the web that either publish my writing and fill it with google ads or add me to weird social networks and people listing sites without me even knowing about it (I'm lookng at YOU XOOM)
... but my lawyer said it aint worth his fees ;p
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 1:48 AM on July 29, 2008
MeFi post:
a beautiful life
Its cultural, across Asia, 'kids' live with their parents until they marry or even after that.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 6:06 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
I want my five dollars back?
Thank you for posting this, Insecure (sorry I'm feeling a tad lazy to do the special characters) - i'm doing research on values and buyer behaviour at the bottom of the pyramid and this is perfect!
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 5:30 PM on July 22, 2008
What a great concent, and horrible, horrible execution. What use is a bunch of decontextualized pictures? Where are these pictures from? When were they taken? What are they of? I don't just want to *see* the purchasing power of $5, I want to know something about it. Too bad someone couldn't do this in a more useful way for the curious.
posted by mrmojoflying
Agree on the slow loading speed, disagree on the execution. The photo's are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:52 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
China Colonizing Africa With Dire Consequences for Africans
A few months ago, at the height of the Christmas shopping season, Oxfam encouraged us Britons to give “the gift of dung” to Africa. That’s right: dung. Apparently poor African farmers like nothing better at Christmas time than to receive a bucket of shit with which they can fertilise their crops.
Oxfam called on British consumers to donate some of their Christmas shopping money to its new campaign to send “funusual” gifts to poor parts of Africa. Alongside the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 10:09 PM on July 20, 2008
The chinese have the monkey god
Also known as SUN-WUKONG, SUN-WU-KONG, SUN-WU-K'UNG, SUN-HOU-ZI, SUN-HOU-TZE, PI-MA-WEN
MONKEY: The infamous irrepressible Monkey King, Trickster God, and Great Sage Equal Of Heaven.
anyhoo, will blather own response in next comment
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 8:49 PM on July 21, 2008
Lets take a look at what the AFRICANS are saying about this 'Chinese invasion' shall we OR are we assuming that WE know better than they do, poor little black primitives????? [yes, i'm pissed off by the patronizing tones demonstrated so well up and down this thread]
From (Timbuktu Chronicles) Emeka Okafor's Africa Unchained blog,
The Economist writes:
The Europeans are increasingly worried that they are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 8:56 PM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The Whitney exhibit is reviewed in the link "inspire us", btw.
Sure the visionary was a crackpot (or not, keep in mind he was doing this back in the early decades of the previous century), but i'm still blown away by the opening words of his "grand strategy" which read as though they were 'blogged' yesterday.
Throughout the history of man there has never been enough to go around for everyone---there has always been... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:02 PM on July 12, 2008
isn' that heinlein?
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at 9:18 AM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
its a small world after all
Wait. There’s more.
When the sport catches on Mr. Werner will start to sell the boards – which bear the slogan “Ride Baghdad Skate Park” in hot pink Arabic script – for cash.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 1:32 AM on May 21, 2008
I wish they'd just handed out a mobile phone with a year's worth of airtime to a bunch of kids instead.
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 4:34 AM on May 21, 2008
“I think people will embrace it. They’ll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they’re Shia or Sunni. They’ll say their kids deserve a place to play and they’ll leave it alone.”
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posted by Drexen at 3:02 AM
This is an interesting sentence to highlight. [warning - rant] I hate to pontificate but what the hell, its the blue and almost 10pm and I'm supposed to be working on a newsletter but...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 7:06 AM on May 21, 2008
(can't resist the impulse)
I for one welcome our Mouseketeer overlords
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at 10:10 AM on May 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Love comes arranged
also, UBu - what you wrote, "otherwise you'll end up as Infini" - interesting that, i was the first ever divorce in the family in 700 years of recorded lineage (go figure) and so I stayed away from India for 5 years before my return, thinking I'd 'cut off the family's nose' but now all of that has dissipated (its been 6 years since the divorce less 8 days ;p). Why? cos Auntie Infini has done "good" and made a name for herself that so overshadows any of... [more]
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at 9:56 PM on May 20, 2008
