links for 2009-11-26

• The Hindu : News / International : Flavour of India at Obama’s first state dinner
• The novels of Paul Auster : The New Yorker
• Rick Hertzberg's Victory Dance – Page 1 – The Daily Beast
• Why I Remain Bullish On Obama – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• Video: Amar Lahiri Makes Pulao: News Desk : The New Yorker
• New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
• A gay witch hunt in Uganda | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
• BBC News – How Britain got the hots for curry
• New Statesman – Leader: Towards a progressive consensus
• New Statesman – The Habit of Art
• A year on from Mumbai terror attack, city is fearful but defiant | World news | The Guardian
• Pass Notes No 2,690: Abingdon school | Education | The Guardian
• How cricket moved from spitting feathers to lashings of runs | Mike Selvey | Sport | The Guardian
• Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins | World news | guardian.co.uk
• Have you stopped editing Wikipedia? And if so, is it doomed? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
• Ali Eteraz – American Saracen – Muslims Should Raise the Other Finger – True/Slant
• NYRblog – Food – The New York Review of Books
• City boss 'shocked woman with vile email’ quoting Latin poet – Telegraph

links for 2009-11-25

• Transcript – State Dinner Toasts by the President and the Prime Minister – Text – NYTimes.com
• Verily, 72 Virgins Await You At the Cheesequake Rest Stop (Mile 123) on the Garden State Parkway… – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
• BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: An unwanted kiss from a moral man. Still feeling dirty?
• The Hindu : News / National : Ayodhya cases too linger for 17 years
• The Hindu : News / National : Role of Arun Nehru, Rajiv in opening masjid ignored
• The Hindu : News / National : Babri Masjid demolition was planned: Liberhan
• The Hindu : News / National : Centre to expedite mosque demolition cases
• The Hindu : News / National : Lok Sabha debate on December 1
• The Hindu : News / National : Fully committed to implementing civil nuclear deal: Obama
• I’m With Stupid — Crooked Timber

links for 2009-11-24

• Survey of Pakistan’s Young Predicts ‘Disaster’ if Their Needs Aren’t Addressed – NYTimes.com
• Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Georges Borchardt – page 3 | Poets & Writers
• Eine Frau, ein Bart – BRIGITTE.de
• Still Bourne – The National Newspaper
• Charlie Brooker: The life of Mariah Carey sounds terribly demanding | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Debategraph home

links for 2009-11-23

• Brain food: philosophy hits the big screen | Science | The Guardian
• The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett | Books | The Guardian
• Heat Magazine Presents….
• A vaguely passive-aggressive post on commenters — Crooked Timber
• IAMA guy who dropped out from the rat race. Didn't have a job in about 5 years, and yet I keep a middle class facade. I am 90% self sufficient food-wise and energy-wise. Ask me anything. : IAmA
• Shoot First, Mumble Later: Suhel Seth and M J Akbar
• From the files: where in the world? — Crooked Timber
• On the Bookshelf – by Josh Lambert
• Toy Vey – by Marjorie Ingall > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• What Would a Vegan Society Look Like? Preamble « Directionless Bones
• The bad sex factor: extracts from Bad Sex in fiction prize shortlist | Books | guardian.co.uk

links for 2009-11-22

• Face to faith: The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itself, says Judith Maltby | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy – Paris via a 19th-Century Guide – NYTimes.com
• The Minimalist – The Turkey That Went to India – NYTimes.com
• Op-Ed Contributor – Animal, Vegetable, Miserable – NYTimes.com
• Why it's very likely the next parliament will be doubly hung | Andrew Rawnsley | Comment is free | The Observer
• Cybersex in Swindon? Count me out | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer
• Williams faces pope over Vatican call for converts | UK news | The Observer
• Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and other essays, By Tariq Ali - Reviews, Books – The Independent
• Gordon Brown 'went for second best to spite Tories' – Times Online

links for 2009-11-21

• Elliot Gerson – Losing Rhodes scholars to Wall Street's siren call – washingtonpost.com
• Shoot First, Mumble Later: Tibet, China, India: The Lies and the Facts
• New Statesman – What if… Hugh Gaitskell had lived
• Film review: A Serious Man | Film | The Guardian
• The Immanent Frame » Audio: The power of religion in the public sphere
• 'The New Republic': Bad for the Jews
• The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey and A Million Bullets by James Fergusson TLS
• Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies — Mulder et al. 326 (5953): 682 — Science
• The Michelin guide and its undercover inspectors : The New Yorker
• Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay | Books | The Guardian
• Flood-hit Cumbria braces for more rain | Environment | guardian.co.uk
• "5 Famous Last Status Updates" by Conor McKeon on CollegeHumor

links for 2009-11-19

• A diarist dissected: The man in the Panama hat | The Economist
• To the Chinese media, is Obama "aobama" or "oubama"?
• Dancer Rita Marcolo to have epileptic fit on stage – Times Online
• Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: APA Adopts New Policy on Religious Institutions that Discriminate Against Gay Men and Women
• How Google can guess what you are thinking | Technology | The Guardian
• The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Hindi media and an unreal discourse

links for 2009-11-18

• The Hindu : News / National : Prominent Muslims oppose Jamiat on Vande Mataram
• The Hindu : News / National : All set for an action-packed session
• Slips of the Tongue – by Marissa Brostoff > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• Jewish Studies Sans Religion?
• Next Left: The Queen speaks
• Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: For a JD/PhD, Does the Caliber of the Law School Matter?
• Sarah Palin, Postmodernist — Crooked Timber
• The Double Life Of Bobby, Baby, Blossom, Biju And Shaji

links for 2009-11-17

• Liberal Conspiracy » Blogging and PCC Regulation – A Collective Response
• Six To Eight Black Men – Esquire
• The Oy of Cooking: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Informal service: In the Israeli military, gays serve openly, women can let their hair down and everyone is on a first-name basis | Stars and Stripes
• Best Books About Etiquette – WSJ.com
• Public Reason · CFP: Roundtable on Marx’s Capital, February 24-27, 2011
• Why we use cookbooks : The New Yorker
• Reasonable God
• How To Use An Apostrophe – The Oatmeal
• A Market Segment ‘Glee’ Can Call Its Own – Stage Folk – NYTimes.com
• U.S. politician wants American Jews to buy West Bank homes – Haaretz – Israel News
• Dynasty – by Allison Hoffman > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• State dinner: Top 10 guests – Patrick Gavin
• In W.H., are pictures telling a story? – Laura Rozen – POLITICO.com
• Read a Barcode – Wired How-To Wiki
• Obama takes on the China firewall | Isaac Mao | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
• Charlie Brooker | Christmas is the season of awful adverts | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog
• 50 practical tips to save you half a lifetime | Matthew Parris – Times Online
• On EDMs
• ‘The Leviathan,’ in Hebrew – by Hadara Graubart > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• MoD may sell aircraft carrier to India | Politics | The Observer

links for 2009-11-16

• Texas accounts for half of executions in US – but now has doubts over death row | World news | The Guardian
• Needling Worry – by Marjorie Ingall > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
• Anti-History / In Another Life: Must-read books – Pollock, Buck-Morss, Ishiguro, and Foucault
• Let’s Have A Post About Fonts! — Crooked Timber
• Love Lies Giggling