Archive for February, 2005
Churchill
I have not commented on the Ward Churchill controversy for one simple reason: I’ve never read his work. For those who don’t know, Churchill has stirred up a lot of strong feelings by comparing those killed in the World Trade Center to “little Eichmanns” - a statement he defends in this article:
I have never […]
Underreported
Doctors Without Borders has a list of the “Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2004.” Get informed.
{media, news, crisis, humanitarian, 2004, doctors without borders}
Martinez
This is a story that would certainly be generating much bigger waves if it involved a Democrat, rather than a pro-torture (i.e. pro-Gonzales) Republican:
Freshman Sen. Mel Martinez, a Cuban immigrant, shattered a 216-year tradition of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday when he used the ceremonial occasion of his first floor speech to speak three sentences […]
Fish tank
Here is my first foray into video blogging, a strange toy fish tank I saw in Chinatown. I took it with my digital camera, which has a video capture mode.
(Click image to play streaming video. If it doesn’t work, use this backup link.)
{video blog, vblog, fish tank, china town}
Kung Fu Hustle
Why, oh why, do they make us wait so long? It took forever for Shaolin Soccer to make it to the U.S., will we have to wait as long for Kung Fu Hustle?
{Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer}
Parrish
I’m teaching at Haverford College this year. Not many famous people went to Haverford, a very small school, but one of them was Maxfield Parrish. Known mostly for his wistful, romantic paintings which make for popular calendars.
I never much cared for his work until I saw his illustrations for children’s books.
I really like his illustrations, […]
Happy Year of the Rooster
新年快樂!
Not my picture, but one I found on Flickr using the “rooster” tag. Here are more with the “chinesenewyear” tag.
{chinese new year, rooster}
Naked
They say that on the internet nobody knows your naked, but one can feel quite naked after living one’s life online for some time. Unless you use a pseudonym, you eventually leave a trail of grumpy comments left on various blogs in the wee hours of the night. Fortunately, these comments are generally not consolidated […]
Yudhoyono
On February 6th, Human Rights Watch wrote the following letter to President Yudhoyono of Indonesia:
You have made it clear in the past that, unlike the previous Indonesian administration, you do not believe a military solution can be found to this long and devastating conflict, in which serious human rights abuses have been committed by both […]
Roundup
From around the web:
Google Maps! (via the Map Room)
How to fold a map. (Via 43 folders.)
AppRocket - looks like Quicksilver for the mac, but for all you Windoze users. (via Alex King)
Social Security (via Ish)
Arthur C. Clarke on the tsunami’s aftermath
A Russian limerick.
{software, maps, technology, limerick, russian, science fiction, windows, google}
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
