1 Brazilian Real = 4.1297 Mexican Peso

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 68.1636 Yemeni Rial

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 6370.69 Vietnamese Dong

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 6.4448 Mexican Peso

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 1.3424 Yemeni Rial

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 125.4597 Vietnamese Dong

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.1269 Mexican Peso

1 Algerian Dinar = 1.9509 Yemeni Rial

1 Algerian Dinar = 182.3378 Vietnamese Dong

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.1845 Mexican Peso

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0168 Yemeni Rial

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 1.5684 Vietnamese Dong

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0016 Mexican Peso

1 Lithuanian Lita = 84.7941 Yemeni Rial

1 Lithuanian Lita = 7925.012 Vietnamese Dong

1 Lithuanian Lita = 8.0172 Mexican Peso

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.642 Yemeni Rial

1 Nigerian Naira = 60.0013 Vietnamese Dong

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0607 Mexican Peso

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 9.9622 Yemeni Rial

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 931.0815 Vietnamese Dong

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.9419 Mexican Peso

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 36.309 Yemeni Rial

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 3393.5014 Vietnamese Dong

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 3.433 Mexican Peso

1 Japanese Yen = 2.3471 Yemeni Rial

1 Japanese Yen = 219.3605 Vietnamese Dong

1 Japanese Yen = 0.2219 Mexican Peso

Which is the only palindromic song by a palindromic group to have entered the US charts?

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That’s what Pakistan can become, warns Patrick French. (Via Nikhil Mehra.)

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.. his collection of “vintage knick-knacks, fab furnishings, collectible art, one-of-a-kind porn, and plastic food” and LOTS of books!

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Once while eating dinner in Montreal, our friendly, intoxicated waitress plopped herself in my lap and proceeded to tell us about how obsessed she was with the CD that was playing - singing out the lyrics at an ungodly volume and flinging her arms about. Wow, I thought to myself, people who listen to Morcheeba sure seem to have a lot of fun, and promised to check them out.

Several CDs later, they are firmly one of my favorites. And their trip hop meditation, 2003’s Charango remains one of my most played CDs.

Morcheeba (Mor = more, Cheeba = pot) are brothers Ross and Paul Godfrey with singer Skye Edwards (who has since been replaced). Part trance, part ambience, Charango is full of smooth, snogworthy jams. And just as you surrender to its seductive groove, Slick Rick shows up with a rap called “Women Lose Weight”.

Lamenting his wife putting on weight after having kids and stalled by his mistress who wants a clean break before she shacks up with him, he decides the easiest way out of it all is to kill the spouse. Considering different ways to do the deed, he finally rams his car into her Chevy over a long lunch break one fine day. It is an unexpected, stunning, tongue-in-cheek social commentary that makes it a CD you won’t forget easily.

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I loved Nina Paley’s brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you’re reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.

Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley’s account of her husband’s move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:

The film returns us to the message that is made clear by every village-performance of the Ramlila: the epics are for everyone. Also, there is no authoritative narration of an epic. This film is aided by three shadow puppets who, drawing upon memory and unabashedly incomplete knowledge, boldly go where only pundits and philosophers have gone before. The result is a rendition of the epic that is gloriously a part of the everyday.

This idea is taken even further. Paley says that the work came from a shared culture, and it is to a shared culture that it must return: she has put the film on Creative Commons—viewers are invited to distribute, copy, remix the film.

Of course, such art drives the purists and fundamentalists crazy. On the Channel 13 website, “Durgadevi” and “Shridhar” rant about the evil done to Hinduism. It is as if Paley had lit her tail (tale!) and set our houses on fire!

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