Happy Birthday Shannon!

Hey Shaaz! It's me, the lizard! I heard it's your birthday so I decided to come back to you! I heard you are coming to India soon, so I'll just wait for you here, okay?

(P.S. Sorry I took all your DVDs)

Hamsters and Other Pocket Pets Spread Salmonella to Kids

Here's something you might not have known. It's not a good idea to play with your pet's poop. So tell your children that they should "avoid contact with rodent feces." Oh, wait, it only says you should tell your children that if they are "unable to reliably wash their hands." Okay. So if they are good at washing their hands, can they play with it all they want?

Fight over finger found in custard

This is really bizarre. A food worker lost his finger in a custard mixing machine. Someone found the finger in his custard, but refused to give it back. He left the dessert shop with the finger and said his lawyers would be contacting them, thereby eliminating the possibility of reattaching the finger.

Hindi Blog

I just started a Hindi Blog. Check it out and let me know if you can read the font. I'm using the unicode Hindi font, so Safari should be able to display it properly. I tried to view it with Internet Explorer, but it didn't seem to work.

If you are working on transcription of audio or video material, check out Transana. This program "provides a way to view video or play audio recordings, create a transcript, and link places in the transcript to frames in the video." And much more. They have a PC version, and I just signed up for the alpha test of the Mac version.

East meets West in a new London Musical.

Finally, an ancient Danish word that means time for a change
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ipod?

I dunno. I still don't have an ipod. Maybe I shouldn't get one since everyone seems to have one.

And then there's the problem of tunes getting stuck in your head.

Biraha

I added a section on the Biraha "Rape in the Hospital" to the Bhojpuri song website. I'm also working on a links section and a bibliography