Links For A Sunday Morning

• Are Social Media Consultants Harming Social Media?
  Everybody is a social media consultant these days.
• An Open Letter--From Pakistan--To President Obama by Imran Khan
• India is sponge that protects us all

  Given the juicier and far more vulnerable US targets in southern Asia, LeT has simply found it more convenient to attack these in situ rather than over extend itself in reaching out to the continental United States.
  India has unfortunately become the 'sponge' that protects us all. India's very proximity to Pakistan, which has developed into the epicenter of global terrorism during the last thirty years, has resulted in New Delhi absorbing most of the blows unleashed by those terrorist groups that treat it as a common enemy along with Israel, the United States, and the West more generally.

• The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam
  Weather Channel founder John Coleman is at it again.
• Why I'll Never Make It as a Standup Comedian.
  :)
• Forget the Film, Watch the Titles
  A collection of film main title sequence designs.
• Babies Know - A Little Dirt Is Good for You
• Blogger Silenced by NDTV
  Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Media reports. Bloggers blog. Twitterers tweet. People don't like media's coverage. Bloggers opine and report on media's role. Media sues blogger for libel and defamation. Blogger forced to withdraw 'offensive' post.
• Introducing Measurement Lab
  With tools to help users attempt to diagnose common problems that might impair their broadband speed, as well as determine whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their ISPs.
• Places We Live
  Photos of slums(including Dharavi) narrated by the people who live there.
• Dead athletes' brains show damage from concussions
  Tissue from retired NFL athletes culled posthumously, is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain. The findings are stunning. Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
• DogSpot
  For all your dog's needs. For dog owners in India.
• Napping: the expert's guide
• India Blog School

  India Blog School is a non-profit initiative that aims to promote the culture of blogging in India through training both online and offline.

  Founded by Amit Agarwal. Probably the first of its kind.
• Liberia worms trigger emergency
  Liberia's president has declared a state of emergency in response to a plague of crop-destroying army worms.
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

  The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson Reuters. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration.

• The 2009 Bloggies
  The nominations are up. No nominations for The Big Picture?! It isn't considered as a blog? Anyway...I would give it the blog/site of the year award.