Unfiled (oops!)
Patients per Doctor
A map of the world showing the ratio of patients to doctors.
{maps, tufte, inequality}
Offline
I’ll be offline for much of the next two weeks, and with limited access for the third week.
Till then, here is a picture of a camel we passed as we drove out of Chharanagar yesterday.
Bhojpuri
It is already old news, having been reported in the BBC over a year ago, but I just learned that Hindi movies are on the way out. With is focus on big budget (”multi crore“) spectaculars aimed at the transnational Indian audience (NRIs), Bollywood seems to have lost its way with viewers in India’s heartland. […]
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Precondition Failed
Help! I’m suffering from a plague of web sites I am unable to access. I’ve listed all the offending sites here. Some of them are major sites - like Wordpress.org. Whenever I go to them I get the following message:
Precondition Failed
The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated to false.
I have no idea […]
Grammatical Confidence
The grade school I attended didn’t believe in teaching English grammar, so I remained blissfully unaware of all those rules everyone else seems to have had crammed down their throats. It doesn’t seem to have hurt me one bit, although it did make things difficult in foreign language classes where teachers suddenly expected students to […]
Zeitgeist
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General
I recently discovered, looking around my site’s stats, that many people are subscribed to the category feed “General.” This is a big mistake on my part, because I don’t use that category and so those people are not getting any updates from my blog! The problem is that this is the default category to […]
Roundup
Around the web:
Sweatshops Expanded, Overtime Attacked, and State Minimum Wage Laws Undermined
The legal, ideological, and political elements that go into the making of a genuinely fascist regime in America are already in place: all that is required is some catalytic event…
Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the […]
Kharkov
Looking around Flickr.com for the tag “Ukraine” I thought I would find pictures of protesters in Kiev, but instead I found this picture of protestors in Kharkov, in the East, which, as the photographer notes, should be “Yanukovych heartland”!
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
