Archive for March, 2005
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Change
No, you are not lost - this is Keywords, I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 1.5 and figured it would be easier to adapt an existing theme rather than convert my heavily modified older theme to work with the new software. Upgrading means I can use a host of new plugins, as well as easily switch […]
Grimsey
I’m not much of a fan of Bobby Fischer (for obvious reasons), but I thought the fact that he is getting a visa from Iceland offered a chance to share a story I remembered reading in the Iceland edition of Lonely Planet. It is about the island of Grimsey, a small island North of Iceland […]
ISBN
When I travelled in mainland China in the late 80s there was a black market in currency, trading government issued currency specially printed for foreigners, which allowed one to purchase speciality items not available in the local markets, for local currency. When I first arrived I was soon instructed in the fine art of recognizing […]
Propaganda
The Center for Media and Democracy is working with Free Press to gather a quarter million signatures on our petition mobilizing the American public to fight fake news and government propaganda. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that at least 20 federal agencies have made and distributed pre-packaged, ready-to-serve television news segments to promote […]
General
I recently discovered, looking around my site’s stats, that many people are subscribed to the category feed “General.” This is a big mistake on my part, because I don’t use that category and so those people are not getting any updates from my blog! The problem is that this is the default category to […]
… in Translation
I have to admit being completely hooked on ABC’s TV series Lost. One of the amazing things about the show is that the writers and producers have taken a real risk by having so much dialog in Korean. That’s why I was interested to read this interview with Daniel Dae Kim, one of the show’s […]
Hillary?
Courtesy of The Onion:
Race [an invited post]
On Monday the NY Times ran an op-ed pice by Armand Marie Leroi, an evolutionary developmental biologist, on the concept of “race.” This paper reproduces an argument which has been gaining wider currency as a result of genetic studies: that, contrary to what anthropologists have to say on the subject, perhaps “race” isn’t a purely […]
Bloglet
Many people are still subscribed to receive e-mail updates of this blog via Bloglet. I urge all of you to sign up for a free bloglines.com account and subscribe to the list that way instead.
First of all, bloglet is very unreliable. That means entire months might go by that you fail to receive regular updates.
Secondly, […]
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