Wonderful Things
Pettah photo by Tashiya
Mahangu is launching a local BoingBoing of sorts, a collection of wonderful things. The site is called LataPata and it should enable you to double the time you’re wasting at work. There are a couple authors (including myself) submitting links to random, interesting things around the web. My submissions so far include a link to MC Hammer’s blog, mathematicians in sarongs and the Pakistani blog shutdown. I spend a lot of time on Slate, Metafilter and Digg, so there’s no shortage of random links. Everyone else has their own sources, so there should be frequent updates of local and international junk.
That’s all. Go there. I’m sure the site can use feedback as well.
When
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told
I’ve been testing a lot of apps. A very interesting one is iPlayboy, from Playboy magazine. It’s bad porn but a good magazine, especially since you can read issues from its cultural heyday – the Mad Men era of the 60s.

yo, everyone’s gotta go look at mathematicians in sarongs. that is effing hilarious. americans are the funniest people in the world, hands down, not even trying.
I spend a lot of time on Slate, Metafilter and Digg,
so this is a random metasite of metasites ? :-)
Looks great.
on the down side ,there is the possiblity of latapata flooding kottu,replacing original contents from the first page.
good point chandre. i had to click down to kottu page 3 to see the entry for this post (posted less than 24 hrs ago) and it was on 1st page when i posted my commet above.
don’t take this the wrong way but talking about metasites do we need posts about posts in slashdot (of all places!) about articles in other sites? :-)
anyway i love kottu and you have done a great job so it’s your call. i for one will always click down.
point, i stuck it in the sidebar
This looks a little like the garage sale my parents had at their house last summer.