Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2003

30 Apr 2003, 0:11 a.m.

Important Aspects of History

Macaulay's celebrated quote (and related present-day remarks): "I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a …

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29 Apr 2003, 23:46 p.m.

Cody's Deals

I saw a guide to California independent bookstores for $1.98. Seems like quite a deal. More bargain book highlights coming, as well as reviews of Douglas Coupland's upcoming Hey Nostradamus! and Kavita Daswani's upcoming For …

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27 Apr 2003, 13:58 p.m.

More Silly Movie Review Reviews

Ebert says a bloggy thing in a 1998 review of a half-star flick: "The plot involves ... excuse me for a moment, while I laugh uncontrollably at having written the words 'the plot involves.' I'm …

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27 Apr 2003, 10:39 a.m.

Film Critic Terrorism?

I'm not sure what's more ominous, that I've dreamt of Osama bin Laden at least twice (silly, scary) or that I've dreamt of Roger Ebert at least twice (example).

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26 Apr 2003, 21:40 p.m.

In the mode of my Google party game, I learn…

In the mode of my Google party game, I learn other fortune cookie suffixes.

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26 Apr 2003, 19:46 p.m.

You, meaning I, always hear about the Ruby Ridge fiasco…

You, meaning I, always hear about the Ruby Ridge fiasco in the same breath as Waco, so I had no idea of the lopsided, breathtaking horror of the thing. An article from a pretty reliable …

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26 Apr 2003, 19:44 p.m.

Dying For Our Arts And Crafts

When I completely forgot two thirds of my material on Tuesday, I felt much as Skot did: "I mentally pictured the skipped-over lines dying like slugs on a salt lick, and they screamed, 'Why didn't …

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26 Apr 2003, 19:39 p.m.

"Spam Is The New Dada"

Brendan, on whom I can count for occasional odd spam subject lines, provides the title. I worry about copyright sometimes when I post excerpts from spam, but then I realize I'm being silly. And then …

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26 Apr 2003, 18:52 p.m.

Take That, J. Bradford DeLong!

I just reread Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Silly idea: a book entitled The Good Soldier Shevek. [The born-and-raised socialist/anarchist] tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was …

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25 Apr 2003, 9:25 a.m.

Morning Musings

"Madonna wrote a children's book? Well, why not, she's done everything else. You know, I never realized that before -- when you're Madonna, you run out of things to do on a much larger scale. …

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