December 2010
21 posts
A little wisdom from a december bride
They’ll tell you that it’s the biggest day of your life. Don’t fall for it. They’ll sell you dreams in red and glitter and fairytales and gold. Don’t pick them up. They’ll add events and standards and expectations and examples to your plans. Don’t latch on. They’ll tell you that it’s the biggest day of your life. Watch out.
It’s not the...
How does India define the species called... →
Though Mumbaikars are as guilty as anyone else of using their social connections to get ahead in life, political clout is considered essential for getting things done in the capital. With its wide roads and big, green parks, Delhi is often viewed as pampered because of its political power. “Just because the top political leaders, ministers and bureaucrats live in the city, it does not become...
Infographic: How Color Affects Our Purchasing... →
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Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the... →
Politicians now face an agonising dilemma. The old, mole-whacking approach won’t work. WikiLeaks does not depend only on web technology. Thousands of copies of those secret cables – and probably of much else besides – are out there, distributed by peer-to-peer technologies like BitTorrent. Our rulers have a choice to make: either they learn to live in a WikiLeakable world, with all that...
Manufacturing Contempt, or the Commoditization of... →
We live in a society that is manufacturing contempt, both deliberately and as a by-product of the way we live today. Our stuff is built to be discarded. Look at what you’re wearing right now. How much of it was purchased in the last year? The last 2 years? How about the last 10? How old is your computer? Your TV? Your furniture? Your toaster, for God’s sake? We buy something and expect it to...
“The rain, it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella:
But chiefly on...”
– Lord Bowen
Obesity: India's affluent affliction | Nina... →
Why else would the middle class in India, which has access to reasonably priced fruit and vegetable, reach for junk? Because we are consumption illiterate, says Dr Anoop Misra, director of the Diabetes Foundation (India). “We may live in the 21st century and have money, but our thinking is so 19th century, that we have come out of a famine, so we should eat whatever is available without...
“Things don’t replace things; they just splinter. I can’t tell you how exhausting...”
– A Photo Editor - Things don’t replace things; they just splinter (via taylordavidson)
Although, the mp3/ipod did kill the CDs and the CDs did kill the tapes.
(via spytap)