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 [...]
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}
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 [...]
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}
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}
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 [...]
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}
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]