Here’s an interesting article entitled Kosovo and the politics of recognition, which has some nice background on the Kosovo/Serbia situation and how the politics of this situation relate to other similar situations. Lately i’ve been really tired of the vacuous CNN and AP articles that say absolutely nothing about the situation except a raw [...]
a short article about how israeli government officials apparently believe Thai cuisine is produced by merely “holding a wok”.
i saw this over here and thought i’d send it on. It had no information on where it’s from, so i unfortunately can’t give credit.
Ride hard, ride free
Sheldon Brown, July 14, 1944 - February 3, 2008
From Harris Cyclery:
Dear Harris Cyclery friends and customers,
It is with heavy hearts that we convey to you the news that Sheldon Brown has passed away. Our thoughts go out to his family at this time. The cycling community has lost one of it’s most passionate members.
Sheldon [...]
After much searching, i’ve found a new site for learning punjabi that i hadn’t previously seen. Generally, there’s a lack of good (or any) material online for learning punjabi, beyond a few simplistic phrases. Punjabi University in Patiala is picking up some of the slack, however, with their Advanced Center for Technical Development [...]