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Gnanasara Gets Mad At Muslims 23 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am
Galagodatthe Gnanasara The Global Mail has a good piece on rising BBS bile. Here’s the money quote: Gnanasara turns very angry at the mere mention of Muslims and Islam, which is hardly the demeanour...
Manthri.lk: MP Reviews 22 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
Manthri.lk is a site being launched this Friday (hence not live yet) which monitors and rates MPs. Broadly, for their productive time in Parliament, measuring how much they speak on topic and how much...
Why BBS Doesn’t Represent Buddhism 22 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
Devotees at Sri Maha Bodhi, 2009 I was thinking about it. If you go to any temple it’s primarily full of women, aunties mainly. That’s who’s upholding the Sinhala Buddhist faith, really. And yet I do...
The One Plate Project Part 2 16 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
Along with JWT and Anything.lk, YAMU is doing the One Plate Project again. This time we’re offering an ethnic shuffle of actual lunches. The premise is that Sri Lankans share food normally, you give a...
The Milk Mess 15 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
So people are freaking out about milk powder. There are two underlying agendas here, on top of some actual science. Ministers like Yapa Abeywardene and Champika Ranawaka want people to drink more natu...
The Hyperpoop 14 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
The title is a joke, in reference to the last Hyperloop article. This is another technology idea, this time a reinvented squatting toilet (or squatty). Squatting is by far a more natural position than...
The Hyperloop 13 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
Graphic via Gizmodo, via Brent Couchman, via John Gardi. Post-modern transport is stuck in a rut. From car to commercial air travel was a quantum leap, but now we just have hybrid cars and bigger jet...
The Grandpass Attacks 12 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
Pic via @AzzamAmeen I’ve been out of the game for a minute, in which time the military has fired on protestors in Weliweriya and now a mob has attacked a mosque in Grandpass, at the end of Ramadan no...
Just Married 8 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
Me at the wedding, with the pricetag still on my shoe. Sorry for disappearing for two weeks. I got married, to one Shruthi Mathews (Shru). She is a smarter cookie than me, and much prettier, so hence...
A Good Breakdown Of The Dayasiri Defection 25 Jul 2013 | 11:04 am
The UNP office in Kotte, 2012. Dharisha Bastians has a good blow-by-blow of the recent defection of Dayasiri Jayasekera to the government. Here’s the money quote. It’s from Jayasekera at a press conf...
