Shahryar Rizvi

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  • links for 2011-03-27

    5 Things They Never Told Us | Cracked.com College is important, but what you study? Not so much. Focus on learning how to be a human, and focus on networking and meeting the right people, because they are much better at hiring you than your GPA is. Professors and Deans and your parents will stress […]

  • links for 2011-03-12

    Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net It has often been seen on the Internet that to find God in the Constitution, all one has to do is read it, and see how often the Framers used the words "God," or "Creator," "Jesus," or "Lord." Except for […]

  • links for 2011-03-09

    Your Kind Not Wanted Here | Mother Jones An analysis by the North Carolina State Board of Elections showed that any new law requiring a state-issued ID could be problematic for large numbers of voters, particularly African Americans, whose turnout in 2008 helped Obama win the state. (tags: politics race)

  • links for 2011-03-08

    Fatal shooting prompts outcry among Sikhs, Muslims – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee (tags: race)

  • links for 2011-03-06

    Coal Reignites A Mighty Battle Of Labor History : NPR (tags: coal labor social military economy sustainability history)

  • links for 2011-03-03

    Wired 13.10: Building Your Own Air Force, One Mig at a Time — I'm planning a feature on a similar subject to this WIRED article, whose main focus is the Mi-24 helicopter–Shahryar (tags: technology money military) Libya: The African Mercenary Question (Videos) Global Voices has covered stories of mercenaries from Serbia bombing civilians from airplanes. […]

  • links for 2011-02-26

    One legal expert explains why trying to ban sharia is a "monumental waste of time." via reddit.com What do you make of these state-level efforts to ban consideration of sharia in American courts?  Other than the fact that such bans are unconstitutional — a federal court recently held that a ban would likely violate the […]

  • The Problem With… Rihanna’s “S&M” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    The Problem With… Rihanna’s “S&M” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. It getting harder to love Rihanna “like a hot pie”. I hope she’ll continue to release good music, since she’s keeping up that British Commonwealth razor-girl theme I mentioned when I first reviewed a Rihanna single.

  • links for 2011-02-24

    Westboro Baptist Church attempts to lure Anonymous into attacking it? Some members of Anonymous have issued a press release disclaiming any threats against the Church. They claim that the Church had trumped up the threat in order to lure Anonymous supporters into launching a denial-of-service attack on the Church's site, which the Church could backtrack […]

  • links for 2011-02-23

    Priya Virmani: The Dark Side of the 'Indian Dream' | Guardian (UK) (tags: economy desi)