Name: Aaman Lamba
Weblog: selfaudit.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 333
First Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004
Last Published: Friday, June 29, 2007
Currently listing articles 333-301:
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Music Review: Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards— The band combines emo with alt-rock and Dylan-esque lyrics to produce an overall satisfying album.
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Movie Review: Michael Moore's Sicko— There is much in the film to give viewers sleepless nights, but it is more than a mere litany of grief and sickness.
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You Are Time Magazine's Person of The Year, Your Life Goes On— The narcissistic social disorder that has enveloped global society takes many forms.
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Movie Review: Casino Royale (1954)— This is Bond before the myth, before the glamour, and before the girls.
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Movie Review: Casino Royale (2006) - James Bond Reborn— We see glimpses of the old Bond, and quite a few beginnings of the later one.
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Saddam Hussein Sentenced To Death In Trial For Crimes Against Humanity— Featuring more political grandstanding and media theater than legal exegesis of his crimes, his trials have not set good precedents.
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The 2006 O'Reilly Photoshop Cook-off Winners— If your raw images aren't quite good enough, you can always turn to the trusty Adobe Photoshop.
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Introducing The Desicritics Team— Exploring what it means to be South Asian in a world where desis are everywhere, doing everything, and opinionating about their world.
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Book Review: Haruki Murakami's Birthday Stories— This is not a book to be given lightly as a present; it carries enough weapons of emotional destruction to shatter the naive, not-yet-cynical heart.
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San Francisco Hit and Run Rampage by Afghan Man— Eyewitnesses described it like watching Death Race 2000, or a video game in action.
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India-bound NWA Flight Turned Back, Escorted To Amsterdam By F-16s— Things seem to have been a bit more out of sync on the Wednesday flight, and they weren't showing Snakes on a Plane.
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Adobe Flex 2: Taking Flash Where No Flash App Has Gone Before— The adoption of this framework and programming model will take time, and be based on community support and ease of integration with existing applications.
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Pepsi-cide and Coca Cola: How Much Pesticide Is Enough?— The CSE found that Pepsi apparently contains 30 times more pesticides than the earlier tests done in 2003.
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US Congress Approves Indian Nuclear Deal— Both sides, as usual, miss the point.
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FIFA World Cup 2006: Why Italy Won— It's been a long month of late nights, leastways in this part of the globe.
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Warren Buffett Donates $37 Billion To The Gates Foundation— This is the single-largest philanthropic donation by an individual ever.
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Gustav Klimt's Adele Bloch Bauer-I Sells For $135 Million, Tales Of A Nazi Past— This story could be told from many different perspectives.
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The Human Drift— Our desperate lives, entomb fancies.
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Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi Killed In Iraq— The original nationalist guise of the insurgency has been lost in favor of sectarian motivations and in-fighting.
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Book Review: Programming SQL Server 2005 by Bill Hamilton— The major databases have all become more ecosystems than mere data storage mechanisms.
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Book Reviews - Head Rush Ajax by Brett McLaughlin, and Ajax Hacks by Bruce Perry— Sometimes, it helps to look at a problem from multiple perspectives simultaneously.
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Global Protests Over The Da Vinci Code— We didn't get a DNA transplant that would change our innate fear of gnosis, sheepie mindset, and taste in literature.
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Rape Charges Dismissed Against Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of ANC— Jac-Z faces down the rape demons, now must deal with corruption charges.
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Failed States And Human Progress— A visual depiction of the Failed State Index is sobering and frightening in its global reach.
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The Counter At Original Joe's— It's the counter where humanity meets, in a dicey part of town.
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Fifteen People Hurt In Twin Jama Masjid Blasts in New Delhi— Imam at Indian mosque suffering two bombs: "If this is not a terror attack then what is?"
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Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX Update May Break Internet Applications— Your favorite websites, business applications, and toolbars could stop working beginning on April 11th.
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Iraq: On The Horns Of A Dilemma— "We make war that we may live in peace."
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Netflix Sues Blockbuster, Citing Patent Infringement— "Blockbuster is as big as Google" and video rental stores are not going away any time soon.
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Pakistan Blocks Wikipedia— Pakistan temporarily blocked Wikipedia.org following their earlier blockage of the blogger.com domain.
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The Top Selling Albums of 2005— We're uncool, unhip, and lovin' it!
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United States Tops World Internet Rankings— Information and Communications Technology readiness and usage is critical for developing countries. Unfortunately, they appear further down the table every year.
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Afghan Court Drops Case Against Abdul Rahman for Converting to Christianity— Abdul Rahman is free, yet does he have freedom?
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