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Entries from April 2005

What Kind of English Do I Speak?

April 18th, 2005 · 4 Comments

Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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Tags: Random Draws

The Iran-India Pipe Bomb

April 14th, 2005 · 22 Comments

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempts to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the […]

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Tags: Conflict

No to Musharraf

April 14th, 2005 · No Comments

From The Acorn an important message:

Indian taxpayers are paying for the security of a man who is personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Indian soldiers, and through his sponsorship of terrorism, for the deaths of thousands of Indian civilians. Far from showing any remorse, he is brazenly unapologetic about the whole thing.

[Source: The […]

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Tags: Conflict

If only, Lord, if only …

April 12th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Years ago I used to watch a British comedy series called Bless Me, Father on public television. The setting was a church in a small town in England and the stories revolved around the parish priest and his young curate. In one of the episodes, the curate asks, “Father, why do you spend so […]

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Tags: Information and Communications Technology · My Favorite Bits

Global Voices

April 1st, 2005 · 5 Comments

Ethan Zuckerman invited me to join in a Global Voices Brainstorm on Tuesday 29th March at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. It was a great opportunity for me to meet with many people associated with Global Voices:

Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place […]

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Tags: Blogging