May 1, 2004

  • Also via Bruce Sterling:

    This article about an ethnically-Indian Norwegian female comedian who humiliated a former leader of Ansar Al-Islam at a public debate.

    What I love most about this article is that it's so completely cosmopolitian. Indian immigrant humiliates Islamic fundamentalist, IN NORWAY. After being lifted off the ground by a woman, the former leader, who's on a book tour of all things, got so pissed off that he spoke Norwegian for the first time the whole evening, so there's another language/cultural dynamic.

    And best of all, after all this talk involving Indian and Islamic and Norwegian culture clashes, right there at the top of the page is a banner ad for Jarlsberg cheese. Some things never change, I suppose.