December begins

It is the month for stock taking. Definitely been a great year. Lots of websites have been busy listing the "best" and "worst" of the year and some have even ventured to prepare lists for the entire decade.

XFM's songs of the decade: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/xfm-names-songs-of-the-decade-1831907.html

and music websites: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-25-best-music-websites-1803346.html

For anyone who is sane but interested in all the hoopla surrounding 2012 and Mayan calendars, I strongly recommend Anthony Aveni's book. Dr. Aveni is a professor of Astronomy and Anthropology, (fantastic combination that!) at Colgate university. More about him here: http://anthonyfaveni.com/

He writes with great clarity and easy to understand analogies. The book is adequately illustrated. I'm surprised there isn't a whole bunch of books connecting Mayans and the stock market periods. There is plenty of fodder there for those who want to see "connections" :-)

From the last day of November 09

Indian Whisky finally getting recognized. Spell-check on blogger marks "whisky"! As far as I know Scotch has no e in it!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/kentucky-beats-scotch-whisky-in-world-top-10-1831110.html



It is good to see that Science has finally caught up with Religion :-) "They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

This one is hilarious:)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6693303/TV-station-managers-suspended-following-Twitter-gang-rape-billboard.html

A helpful website for those who do think about what they eat: http://www.eattheseasons.com/

A counter-intuitive but significant opinion:
"Let me make an apparently outrageous proposition: in the coming years, India’s best protection is likely to come from its traditional enemy, the Pakistan Army. Therefore, India ought to help now, not fight against it. "
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article56002.ece?homepage=true

This is a very cool technology: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/post.php