Bollywood on SABC 3

While recovering from the flu last weekend, I caught the second half of a Bollywood movie on SABC3, called Lajja. It explored the oppression of women in India, and it didn't pull any punches.

Despite having a contrived plot, sometimes-sloppy subtitles, and awful music, it was entertaining, and I watched it to the end.

If you are stuck at home on a Saturday night, check out the Bollywood movies on SABC3, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Bush supporters on Bush

This woman seems to think that being critical of George W. Bush is "... a slap in the face, not only to George Bush, but if we truly believe what the Bible says . . . our Heavenly Father just got a whack in the face, too..." [via LRC]

Also check out this...interesting.... Flash animation that glorifies Bush (large download).

Links 15/10/2004

• How Valium comes in handy during a war
• Does Al-Qaeda really exist?
  
• The "bullwhip effect" - the magnification of demand fluctuations as one moves up the supply chain
• Google launches a service to help you find files on your own computer. The download is small, but it seems to need 1GB of free space to install.
  
• Soweto turned 100
• The history of containerized shipping, using a networking analogy
• Swarm-semiotics - weird, but interesting
• Some links to linguistics articles and a link to this essay on sentence diagramming
• Is the MP3 format losing ground?
• A "battleground state" that no one really cares about
• Broadband over power lines gets boost from US government
  
• Wavelet tutorial links. I haven't checked any out yet though.
• A free online book on digital signal processing. I don't know how good it is, since I just started reading it today.
• A Muslim examination of Islamist suicide terrorism

I have the temporary use of a digital camera. I'll probably spend the weekend fiddling around with it.

Links - 12/10/2004

• Eating in the Middle Ages
• Salon.com's Pilot gets an imitator
• How the pioneer of nanotechnology fell from grace
• Scientists vote for their favourite equations
• Google starts searching inside books
• Microsoft and campaign contributions [via Anil Dash]

Links - 3 October 2004

• Why Google News is not making money
• Optical illusions websites:
  • One
  • Two
• Hulking buildings making a comeback? Check out today's Sunday Times Lifestyle section for more on modernist architecture.
• Wikipedia Links:
• Commonwealth of Independent States
• Shaped charges
• Camouflage
• Reactive armour
• Infosys
• Aeroplane cellphone ban ending soon?
• A series of articles from an American holidaying in India
• How to evade capture