December 17, 2003

• Great post. World's largest book is unveiled.
• Happy to eat buffalo mozarella. Why not yak?
• Mozzarella, mozzarela. I need coffee.
• And another "l" in that second "mozzarella". Holy Jesus.
• Deloping a knack for Yak.
• Also "developing"....de loping Yak is a whole 'nuther beast.
• I'm also very interested in this: Travelers & Magicians a movie from bhutan made by one of its lamas.
• Seconded re: homunculus above. With added profanity for emphasis. @#ck&%* Great Post
• So many links, but so very interesting. Thankyou.
• I post a thread on socioeconomics and yall get stuck on yak cheese? Next thread will be on prairie oysters and hopefully we'll get the meaning of life.
• 42.
• (''33'')
• Bhutan army sees action at last
• They're after our yak butter tea!
• And after yak butter comes yeti...But be he monkey or be he ape?
• I think the idea of Gross National Happiness is really interesting, I just hadn't had enough time lately to read all the links. Please keep posting on socioeconomics, if only to make social scientists feel special.
• In Bhutan, it's happiness that counts Gross International Happiness
• I covered a somewhat analogous topic at kuro5hin, a year ago.
• The main link in that write-up is now dead. Find the referenced lectures on this page(Scroll down to "Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures").
• Bhutan gives TV cautious embrace
• a movie from bhutan made by one of its lamas. Here's an article about the lama and the movie.
• Photos of Bhutan at TrekEarth
• You know, if my abilty to learn new languages hadn't evaporated when I was in my 40s, and if I hadn't discovered that spending a couple of weeks at an altitude of 1 mile makes my arthritis really bad, so 2 miles would be a real problem, and if I thought that I wouldn't wimp out over the lack of modern "amenities", I'd probably consider moving to a place that puts the happiness of its population in first place. Maybe. But the idea is attractive.
• Well, if TV is there, happiness must be rapidly increasing. Next we can send them a MacDonalds so they can have their Happy Meals. /sarcasm and sadness
• In 1941, James Hilton, the British author of "Lost Horizon," was on a lecture tour of the United States. Inevitably, a reporter asked him: In all your wanderings, what's the closest you've found to a real-life Shangri-La? "A little town in northern California," the writer responded, presumably with a wistful, far-away look in his eye. "A little town called Weaverville."
• No doubt China would dispute that, as they've got their own official Shangri-La. "Kill, Kill!"
• Bhutan, The Last Shangri-La Bhutan, The Last Place
• I'm also very interested in this: Travelers & Magicians It's finally out on DVD.
• "A little town called Weaverville." *writes down on list of places to check out one of these days*
• Jigme Singye Wangchuk will abdicate the throne in 2008 in favour of his 25-year-old son
• Not what you expect to come home to after a hard day repairing the road
• Bhutan's king abdicates after 34 years
• Bhutan holds fake national poll
• Reluctant citizens gear up for first election