Xeni Jardin of boingboing.net wrote the following: In an item about RSS for the current issue of Wired Magazine, I wrote: “Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting Reload for hours in a paranoid funk.” Responding to this, Steve Rose of RSSJobs writes, “FYI, RSSJobs [...]
The first time Scott presented to me his argument that English teachers in East Asia should be thought of as economic migrants, I have to admit I was a bit taken aback. Perhaps because it was 2 in the morning at 45 on Heping East Road and I’d had one too many beers, or maybe [...]
Definition: The act or acts of using public information networks such as newscasts or newspapers in a misleading, devious, or mischievous way, to disperse a hidden propagandic message that seems plausible to the population. First usage: Coined by Bob Corduroy on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, Wednesday 17th of March 2004. The word has gotten [...]
John Quiggin is “increasingly puzzled by the failure of the Zarqawi scandal to make a bigger stir.” Perhaps its because there are too many other scandal’s going on at the same time?
Did you know that there are more police in Manhattan than there are U.S. troops in Afghanistan? Richard Clarke explains: …, actual military and intelligence assets that were in Afghanistan – looking for al Qaeda, looking for bin Laden – were removed and sent to Iraq. Now, in the last few weeks, they’ve been returned. [...]
Thanks to my friend Ann, I just found a web site devoted to the Lepcha language: The Lepcha language is spoken in Sikkim and Darjeeling district in West Bengal of India, in the Ilam disctrict of Nepal and in a small enclave in south-western Bhutan, altogether probably by upwards of 50,000 people. Lepcha is unmistakably [...]
A couple of days after September 11th, 2001, we had our cable TV and cable modem installed. It was a blessing, because we could finally get on the internet and look at some real news from the European papers. In fact, that’s what started me blogging, because I would forward articles I found online to [...]
Everything in Taiwan is about food – even politics: With the pan-blue camp’s post-election protests going into their sixth day, some Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters have begun urging people to attend the rallies — and eat the free food being served there to protesters. In a widely circulated e-mail, DPP supporters asked recipients to [...]
I don’t particularly like the idea of the United States acting like a global police force, killing or capturing anyone in the world they perceive to be a threat. Nor is it clear that capturing and killing Bin Laden would have prevented the events of September 11th. However, I am fascinated by the confusion that [...]