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Tuesday 16 May 2006

Confused.com

For the avoidance of doubt, the URL is i-am-asian.com and appears to mean Asian in the sense of continent of origin rather than the usually applied American Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese definition of origin. I only say that because of the reference to Diwali and a couple of the featured staff. No idea what I'm talking about? Well, I'm not sure either.

Posted by dustbinman at 07:12 AM | Comments (3)

:: blinks::

What the...?

I have not the words for how utterly, utterly bizarre this is, and that's me speaking as an Asian!

Posted by: MJ

on May 16, 2006 10:35 AM

I can't decide if this is insulting.

Posted by: PL on May 16, 2006 05:14 PM

Um...I think it's a website for McD's because (at least in California), they re-released their Chinese Chicken Salad. Could this be part of that? Just a thought.

Posted by: KT on May 18, 2006 07:41 PM

Saturday 2 April 2005

Agenda Bender

It happens quite regularly that I'll stumble across a website and get agitated for a few minutes before remembering that this is the Internet. Home of nutjobs, amongst which I count myself.

So, just for reference, if the next Pope is Indian then this guy will be pleased and scared all at the same time, and I for one will probably steer clear of him, even if I do have a nasty feeling he might be right.

Posted by dustbinman at 10:06 AM | Comments (1)

...I am currently just speechless on the topic of aggressive christianity right now.

...mostly because I'm tired of this phrase--which has been finding its way to my ears a lot lately in reference to numerous different "circumstances" or whatnot...

"...I'm a good christian." or "...I come from a good christian home."

...usually meaning they wouldn't "do" or "say" this or that.

...but then that same person does or says something... that a...
well nevermind.
I said I was speechless. Now I'm getting all worked up. :) I'll rant about it elsewhere.
~*~waves~*~

Posted by: tiger on April 5, 2005 01:48 PM

Friday 14 January 2005

Big Issue

Any quite hopes I had that we (the royal we, of course) might be able to solve the climate change problem were dashed last night whilst watching Horizon.

Apparently, solving the problem of particle pollution is rapidly making Global Warming worse. Of course, this just gives grist to the mill of those who say there's no point in doing anything, and makes me wonder (being a conspiracy theorist and all) that this isn't just a grand hoax put about by the oil companies to ensure we keep on pumping extra dust into the air.

The fact that politicians continue to treat terrorism as a bigger threat than climate change is one thing, however, that can be and needs to be solved soon. Perhaps the evidence that pollution is responsible for the droughts that led to the 1984 Ethiopian Famine may guilt some people into doing something.

I never said I was anything other than a blind optimist.

Posted by dustbinman at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

Wednesday 5 January 2005

More Fish. No Jokes.

Interesting Blog from an aid worker in India; the angle being the political ramifications and shenanigans that are going on; and the real reason the government of India are advising people not to eat fish, even if it is already cooked when they catch it. What with the Kalpakkam Nuclear reactor being on the coast, and all that.

Posted by dustbinman at 01:32 PM | Comments (1)

Of course, you know who has a very particular (and ironic) link with Kalpakkam's Nuclear Research facility (the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, or IGCAR) don't you... x

Posted by: MJ on January 5, 2005 06:53 PM

Tuesday 4 January 2005

Difficult

I know there are many thousands of terrible individual stories that can be told as we learn more about the impact of the Tsunami. But I'm slightly disturbed by the BBC's obsession with this story, which to me is detracting attention from the bigger picture. Not least because of the tenuous nature that one discovers when the details are considered.

Posted by dustbinman at 07:09 PM | Comments (0)