Style points to this analysis for not only mentioning a silklister, but also, among various other things, for these gems: <q> We retreated back to Palo Alto...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jan 1, 2005 8:45 am
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First, the Prime Minister's Relief Fund has got a lot of money: http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/01tsunami.htm But will it reach the victims? I doubt it. ...
Madhu Menon
chef@...
Jan 1, 2005 2:27 pm
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A much briefer definition is from Walter Kaufmann - deconstruction is the science of reading your own ideas into a text. It's easy to hit targets as big as...
Sean Doyle
sdoyle@...
Jan 1, 2005 10:57 pm
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... Well I personally think they should be looking at Sri Lanka or Indonesia that took bigger hits and probably have a smaller capacity to recover than India....
sastry
sastry@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:45 am
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... Yes in fact he cursed the people who ill treated him in Tamil Nadu. The curse involved actually piddling onto a symbolic representation of the areas that ...
sastry
sastry@...
Jan 2, 2005 8:53 am
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... Hmm...on an efficiency scale the UN ought to rank right at the bottom. I notice there's been a lot of active collection by UN / UNESCO / WHO! Cheeni...
Srini RamaKrishnan
sriniram@...
Jan 2, 2005 7:08 pm
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www.grumpyoldpeople.com If you like bitchin' ;) Rumour has it that I'm one of the many contributors, but they're not quite sure which one, since some of 'em...
Madhu Menon
chef@...
Jan 2, 2005 10:17 pm
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I happened to be in phuket when the tsunami happened. lucky to have survived -- but the damage was bad... somehow never realized the magnitude of overall...
Alok Mittal
alok@...
Jan 3, 2005 5:29 am
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... I have a friend, (who was also a past president of the Puget Sound Mycological Society), who lives in Phuket, Denny Bowman. He's doing okay, helping with...
Brian McNett
bmcnett@...
Jan 3, 2005 6:21 am
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http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=18 Dayum! <<< * >>> Madhu Menon My Blog: http://www.madmanweb.com My restaurant: http://www.shiokfood.com ...
Madhu Menon
chef@...
Jan 3, 2005 7:03 am
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... Glad to hear you're OK. cheers, Divya...
Divya
divyasampath@...
Jan 3, 2005 7:51 am
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From another list. ... -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jan 4, 2005 3:23 am
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Social scientists poach on natural science terms: extracts quoted in 'Intellectual Impostures' by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Lacan: Thus, by calculating the...
Gautam Sonti
sonti@...
Jan 4, 2005 5:59 am
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... Sokal is a known prankster who delights in taking the piss out of postmodernists. His most famous such caper is called Transgressing the Boundaries:...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jan 4, 2005 6:06 am
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... I've tried ordering from Bathsheba (is that a him or a her? Can't really tell from the picture) yesterday, but they apparently only ship to Canadia and US....
Eugen Leitl
eugen@...
Jan 4, 2005 8:20 am
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... Yes, there are actually a bunch of men who walk around thinking of their p*nises as the square root of -1. Deconstructionists have provided me with hours...
Divya
divyasampath@...
Jan 4, 2005 9:06 am
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... Just got news: list of countries to ship to has been greatly extended (the artist was amazed to see such unexpected demand). -- Eugen* Leitl <a...
Eugen Leitl
eugen@...
Jan 4, 2005 9:40 am
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Hi, I'm in Chennai till Thursday. Any silklisters free to meet up? You could call me on 98452 72618 if you wanna go the voice route ... -- b...
Biju Chacko
biju.chacko@...
Jan 4, 2005 11:38 am
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More 'feminist science' from Irigaray, quoted in the same article: The privileging of solid over fluid mechanics, and indeed the inability of science to deal...
Gautam Sonti
sonti@...
Jan 4, 2005 12:45 pm
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... Several people on this list came hotfoot out of a BBS that specialized in throwing people out for being obscure and obscene .. you'll find that Silklist...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jan 4, 2005 12:47 pm
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At 16:49 04/01/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian said: ... ***** Suresh, were you on CiX? Don't remember you being there. Ram [famously warned off by that sysop for...
Ramakrishnan Sundaram
ram@...
Jan 4, 2005 12:59 pm
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That's all right then, but I may still be thrown out for quoting from a rather old article! But I promise not to any more. ... From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian"...
Gautam Sonti
sonti@...
Jan 4, 2005 1:04 pm
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... No I wasnt around but I do know a bit of the history around CiX, and as you do remember I've had a few go arounds with our mutual friend with the goatee,...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jan 4, 2005 1:10 pm
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I should be able to manage lunch or coffee tomorrow. Dinner's out, though. cheers, Divya ... From: "Biju Chacko" <biju.chacko@...> To:...
Divya
divyasampath@...
Jan 4, 2005 1:34 pm
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arg. please please please let this die. Sokal and Bricmont are idiots, (which is not to say that Irigaray and Lacan were not, or at least, not charlatans,...
Christopher M. Kelty
ckelty@...
Jan 4, 2005 2:30 pm
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... You're a bit out of practice, Chris: where's the ad hominem? Where's the hand-waving? Where's the tangential rant to no particular purpose? The flames...
Divya
divyasampath@...
Jan 4, 2005 4:25 pm
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... damn. these new years resolutions always get me. ... Ah that would be falling into the rhetorical trap! No low road for me! ... Quite the opposite. I...
Christopher M. Kelty
ckelty@...
Jan 4, 2005 5:51 pm
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... Does that mean I can stop pretending to be a journalist and revert to my literal-minded, philologically-trained, cleverness-abhorring, humour-avoiding,...
Frank Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jan 4, 2005 6:22 pm
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... Does that mean I can stop pretending to be a journalist and revert to my literal-minded, philologically-trained, cleverness-abhorring, humour-avoiding,...
Frank Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jan 4, 2005 6:23 pm
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yes! now is the Age of Frank! Rise Up, your penis mighter than the sword! ck...