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Rohit Singh
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[Fri, 03 Oct 2003]
Nobel Prize Goes to a (ex)Programmer
This year's Nobel Prize
went to J.M. Coetzee.
Economic Times,
observing [via SSS]
that Coetzee worked for IBM briefly, has a short blurb musing over how its unusual to see writers/poets with business backgrounds
BlogBack
Yeah, a take on Slashback. A bunch of links relevant to stuff I have posted earlier:
EU having its own religion-state issues and
more
theater of
the absurd (for the President's election)
Off-Roading Without a Key
A NYT
article
about a drive through the Adirondacks. Looks interesting and all that, but this was the best part:
"a road trip through the Adirondacks is a compromised notion if it stays on the road. It's an off-road place by definition, and no matter what the advertisers (or snowmobilers) tell you, if you have to start it with a key, you are not off-road."
Theater of the Absurd
NYT Magazine has a really great
article
about all the nautanki in
California. Among the juicy tidbits: Gray Davis' neighbors don't like him
one bit, a guy called S. Issa (nobody knows who he is)
filed to run as Governor just so people would
confuse him with Darrell Issa (the Republican who financed the recall
drive) and a meeting of the less well-known candidates took place to form
a common platform (remember that these guys are running *against* each
other...)