Wednesday, August 17, 2005



Things I have learnt while aging:
You will always lose the ones you love the most
Those you hate Hang around ad infinitem
Taunting you for your failure to kick their arses years ago
Kill ants
Wear black
Eat red fruit
- The adorable Ms. Maccers

Hell isn't cold enough. The cold case for hiring biased book reviewers Fair Is Square

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Communitarianism According to Truth Tree
In 2001, Amitai Etzioni was named by Richard Posner as being among the top 100 American intellectuals as measured by academic citations. In 2002, he even linked to Media Dragon from his virtual reflections

Communitarianism is the documented socio-cultural rulebook that defines the new conduct rules and ethics for global citizenship. In other words, it is the human being’s official notice of enforced behaviors and beliefs. You do not have the right to your mind or to your opinions anymore – not without being detrimental to “your community.” In fact, your function as an individual in the world has been eliminated. You are now a pre-defined group entity. Hence, you are a community commodity, and absolutely nothing more


• Personal and communitarian reflections Amitai Etzioni [Ginger Meggs is not as good as Shakespeare, despite what the teacher says Why art is a dirty word ; Though art retains its mystery, a couple of books throw light on this and that Art smarts ; Different views of the world ]
• · Paul Maliszewski The pleasures of literary hoaxing ; Kim Woo-choong book review Literary crimes of the Daewoo chief
• · · I hate to sound like such a marketing geek, but we like to fish where the fish are: Listen to the podcast audio version of this story here, or sign up to get Slate’s free daily podcasts Literature for couch potatoes ; The letters section in The New York Review of Books has been required reading for students of insults for decades Disrespectfully yours ; Master marketer and innovator Seth Godin uses his blog to introduce a new wrinkle in the marketing of his forthcoming THE BIG MOO Will you help us? ; Barry Eisler - How to Package Your Book
• · · · Mum was right You will feel a whole lot better after a cuddle ; Goodnight, Vienna: Three books refract Sigmund Freud Shrink Raps ; Like much of the brain, the function of dreams is, for now at least, as shrouded as their meaning Dream scenarios
• · · · · If the US is so rich and smart, why aren't they more like the Finns? In Finland's Footsteps ; The inaugural issue of the Journal of Research Practice
• · · · · · The selection process contains as much drama and intrigue as the books themselves The literary Olympics: Brought to book ; Money can indeed buy you happiness, but if you want to stay happy it is a good idea to have relatively poor friends. Although both effects exist, the results showed that relative income is more important than absolute income in determining the happiness levels Me poor, you happy ; Happiness lies in being richer than your peers! Happiness is besting Joneses