Very cool!

Quoted: Here is my mutinous list of the top 20 most influential South Asian American Women of the Decade (in alphabetical order). Please vote on the woman that you feel has been most influential to you in the poll at the bottom of the post.

Depressing - there's still no sense of agreement/consensus...

Quoted: Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved.

Wow, I remember this so vividly. Hard to believe it's been 20 years, and how drastically Germany has changed.

Quoted: Chancellor Angela Merkel thanks former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for making change possible in East Germany as she visits what was once a fortified border crossing.

Ha, I had no idea Sony still made the Walkman...

Quoted: Lauren Goode rocks the latest addition to the Walkman lineup – yes, it is now a digital music player. See how it stacks up to the competition.

Alarming...

Quoted: Discovery: A new study indicates that we may have already crossed several tipping points that are pushing nature into a state of instability.

And when exactly did Sarah Palin become an expert on U.S.-Asia relations? I guess that's why the speech was closed to those pesky reporters...

Quoted: Former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday to share her views from "Main Street U.S.A" with a group of global investors.

LOL, good ole Ernie Anastos.

Quoted: A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.

Great article on Atul Gawande.

Quoted: Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.