Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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Pwnagestan
Think about all the superficial cool internet phrases to describe technology. You can find all of it in one form or another in Pakistan. Poptimistic Steampunk That makes pakistan coolest thing on the Internet. Bhrrrraah
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My Six degrees of Barack Obama
Cenk Uygur: “I invite all of you to play along. See how many degrees it takes you to get to Obama and how enthusiastically and vociferously he has to denounce you“. Two degrees between myself and Obama. I am a childhood friend of someone who is currently on Obama’s campaign staff in Chicago. Now what […]
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Native Evil
To elaborate my opinion of the whole RE5 thing, N’gai Croal has a point. If you are a member of the norm, default race and culture in US or Japan, you probably won’t see the racial imagery of the trailer unless you have actually examined past racial images and depictions of white men against the […]
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Food Crisis
We are seeing the consequences of food shortages already in developing areas. As of this post, Haiti can also be added to the list of nations in unrest due to food shortages. One may wonder how long the developed world has to alleviate this problem before unrest reaches their cities. Perhaps dad’s garden plan for […]
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Born into a Brothel, but not to a prostitute.
April 4th featured a screening on our campus of Born Into Brothels, the Academy Award-Winning documentary about kids born in Calcutta’s brothels taking pictures. Among the more indearing character was Avijit, who is 19 years old now. He was the guest speaker for this screening and took questions and layed out his side of the […]
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Ergo a proxy appears.
This is a video response to the remix I did before which you can see below. I feel like a star now.
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Basant Mubarak
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Class Project Survey
I need help with a project for a class. I am doing a survey with college students in mind. Answer this question “What are you going to do after you graduate?” in at least a sentence. Afterwards, specify your hometown and your parent’s careers (or your economic status as you see it). If you get […]
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Break the Ice, take a sharp edge and…
I’m pondering how Britney Spears can pick herself up from where she is right now. She can’t. This misappropriation is in my mind the worst thing she has done yet in the past year or so. Not even Madonna would bite like this. At least others who have aproppriated anime keep some class in it. […]
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Tibet hits the fan
To the PRC Fulfill your promises. The PRC has made countless promises to itself and the world concerning media freedom and ethnic protections(Article 4). The PRC must hold up its promises by allowing the free exchange of information and giving autonomy to the region which is after all named the Tibet Autonomous Region. Once again, […]
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