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May 29th, 2008
Perils of Loyalty as Employment Criteria
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
…seemed to be the inspiration for Scott McClellan as is evident from its preface for writing his latest book eviscerating the Bush White House. Ranging from labeling the Iraq war as a ‘major blunder’ to the ‘constant campaign state’ as opposed to governing, McClellan [...]
Patrix | 
Books, Current Affairs, Politicking | 
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May 19th, 2008
Gladwell’s Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of books like Blink and The Tipping Point will soon be releasing his latest book, Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t. The book deals with understanding what makes high-achievers different and how much does their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing matter. One [...]
Patrix | Asides, Books | No Comments »
May 19th, 2008
Turning the Pages
Powered by Adobe Shockwave plugin, this scanned archive of rare books at the British Library lets you turn pages to browse through the books. Books include the oldest printed book, the Diamond Sutra printed in China in 868. Pretty cool.
Patrix | Asides, Books, World Wide Web | No Comments »
May 10th, 2008
List of Book Reviews in the sidebar
I have listed and reviewed books I’ve read in My Library at Google Book Search. The list has a RSS feed too. Any idea how to list the five recently reviewed books in my sidebar without using WordPress widgets?
Patrix | Asides, Books, Weblogs | No Comments »
March 23rd, 2008
A New Famous Five?
The Famous Five are back. And are now led by Jyoti, the Anglo-Indian daughter of Georgina, the tomboy of the original series. The rest of the gang are children of the original five. Where did I read this? The ToI, of course which has a proud headline - Famous Five has an Indian head. WTF? [...]
March 6th, 2008
Free - The Future of Business is free?
Will Chris Anderson’s forthcoming book, FREE - why $0.00 Is the Future of Business be available for free? I sure hope so otherwise why would anyone buy his argument, pun intended. Anyway, he has an excellent article in Wired on the concept behind his book; like his previous book which I incidentally received a review [...]
Patrix | Asides, Books | 2 Comments »
March 5th, 2008
As Addictive as Drugs
Harry Potter fans are supposed to have the same level of addiction as drug addicts and said to suffer from almost the same withdrawal symptoms, says Professor Jeffrey Rudski of Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania. Coldo Turkeynum? What’s next for the Bush administration…war on Potter?
March 1st, 2008
Thoughts on India After Gandhi
Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost given up on books with more than 300 pages often citing attention deficit as a lame excuse, as compared to other people who seem to chew on books like a raging bull. But when I [...]
Patrix | Books, History, India | 3 Comments »
October 22nd, 2007
Bloggers printing their blogs
Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist and insanely funny blogger has compiled some of best posts into a book. His book, Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice hit the shelves today. I have read most of his funny posts so will I go out and buy the book? Probably yes.
Couple of Indian [...]
Patrix | Books, Weblogs | 2 Comments »
October 11th, 2007
The Literature Nobel 2007
Doris Lessig, author of the classic The Golden Notebook won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Nope, I haven’t read any of her work but then so many books only so much time. Someday.
Patrix | Asides, Books, Current Affairs | 1 Comment »
October 7th, 2007
Tyranny of the Market
“For a generation, influential economists have argued for letting the market decide a wide array of questions, to protect your freedom to choose whatever you want. This is true—if everyone agrees with you.” Joel Waldfogel, in his new book, The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want explains why we [...]
October 5th, 2007
Talking Truth to the Book
Most (all?) of the guests on late-night talk shows are selling their books, movies, music, or even fashion lines. Call it the perfect product placement. And often talk show hosts will help their guests sell their crap. But it makes for great television when the hosts veer off the scripted lines and wade into their [...]
Patrix | Books, Television, Videos | 4 Comments »
July 23rd, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Review
[Guest-post by Ash]
[Spoiler alert]
Only one book was pre-ordered for our apartment, so P and I tussled over who would get to read the book first. We decided on a coin toss and I won. I think fortune favored me because I had spent every free minute of the last week reading books 1 through 6 [...]
Patrix | Books | 5 Comments »
July 17th, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked?
Harry Potter and the Death Hallows, book seven in the Potter series has allegedly been leaked. Copies of PDF image files are available on Bit Torrent sites. But please do not download and spoil the fun for yourself and others.
July 14th, 2007
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix - Review
Last night we went for one the summer’s last big movies, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Thankfully we didn’t face as many problems as the last time a Potter movie released. At that time, although tickets were available there was no parking spaces left and we had to return for a midnight [...]
Patrix | Books, Movies | 8 Comments »
July 10th, 2007
Harry Potter Finale
How will the Harry Potter series end? Will Harry be killed or just return to Hogwarts to make it one happy ending? Four NY Times writers take a stab at guessing the much-awaited climax.
Patrix | Books, Current Affairs | 4 Comments »
June 25th, 2007
Rise of Atheism
It is contended that more than 90% of the world’s people believe in some form of God when in fact there has been no hard evidence offered in support that one exists. I say, most of those 90% believe in faith and generally devolve their fate to a higher power especially when their things aren’t [...]
Patrix | Books, Religion | 8 Comments »
June 23rd, 2007
Harry Potter Book Seven Hacked?
Book Seven of the Harry Potter series has been allegedly hacked by a religious nutjob. However, the ending seems to contrived and unbelievable to be true. So fret not.
Patrix | Books, World Wide Web | 5 Comments »
May 17th, 2007
God is not Great - Hitchens explains
Christopher Hitchens is currently peddling his latest book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He has been appearing on talk shows discussing the content and I’m loving his not-so-subtle rants against the evils of religion. Hitchens is known for not mincing his words and he bindaas wades into talk show hosts to put [...]
Patrix | Books, Media, Religion | 6 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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2008-08-05 20:00
Underwhelming. Johansson is miscast but continues her run of being the 'other woman'.
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