Monika’s Pensieve

Google has come out with a new feature called Searchwiki. The idea is that you can personalize the search results you get for particular keywords. I haven’t tried it yet and I’m not sure I repeat the same searches often enough to warrant this, but it’s an interesting idea all the same.

I’ve been following Dostana for a while now. It’s done quite well for itself at the Indian box office, so I hope that means we’ll be seeing it in Poland eventually :)
Anyway, this is a longish interview with the main cast of Dostana - Karan Johar (the producer) is asking the questions. And basically the [...]

This is a blog post Kin gave me the link to - I really liked it, so I’m sharing :)

I guess I should explain why I’ve not written anything in a week… Mainly I’ve been busy with school, but I’ve also been in a really horrible and very fragile sort of mood (perhaps that should have been a reason to blog rather than not to blog ;-P but that’s how it’s played out, so… [...]

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I found this very heartening. Most Western countries (with the exception of Canada and the case of Omar Khadr) have successfully gotten their citizens out of Guantanamo. Hardly any non-Western countries have tried to put any sort of diplomatic pressure on the US about this though. In fact in many cases they have refused [...]

Here’s a dark vision of how a lot of our culture and knowledge may be doomed.

I thought this was a beautiful story :)

This is a very informative article about water-boarding - a procedure the USA has legalized to aid interrogating of prisoners.