heard this today morning. crazy how nonchalant she is about death threats.

Quoted: As big-money developers flock to Karachi, Amber Alibhai is one of the few people to openly question the development. In a city where millions of people live in poverty and clean water is often scarce, the activist asks, who needs golf courses? Alibhai's work has provoked threats against her and her family.

pretty crazy

Quoted: How many newspapers can you think of that are looking to build a platform for developers? I'll wager not many. Which is why ...

cool little utility to randomize the lines in a file.

Quoted: The budding city surrounding Suvarnabhumi illustrates Kasarda's claim that "the three essential rules of real estate have changed from 'location, location, location' to 'accessibility, accessibility, ...

WTF. I love how it's very euphemistically referred to as 'lobbying' when what they're describing here is just outright corruption. hypocritical bastards.

Quoted: A congressional investigation later disclosed that, in addition to staging lavish entertainments for wavering senators, "more than one" of Colt's agents "have at different times presented pistols to certain members

I worked with Rahul Tongia and V.S. Arunachalam at CMU. Just met Rahul and he sent me a link to his book which looks pretty interesting.