Archive for November, 2005
Voter Identification
The Justice Department overruled objections to a Georgia voter-identification law:
A team of Justice Department lawyers and analysts who reviewed a Georgia voter-identification law recommended rejecting it because it was likely to discriminate against black voters, but they were overruled the next day by higher-ranking officials at Justice, according to department documents.
What were the objections?
The […]
Ghost Town
This amazing map, “based on more than 40,000 postings on Internet ’safe lists’ by Katrina survivors” and documenting the migration of a small portion of the more than one million evacuees, tells a horror story. According to last month’s Mother Jones, New Orleans is being turned into a ghost town:
Fully armed National Guard troops refuse […]
Equanimity
Tehelka reporter Sonia Faleiro has written a wonderful story about Chharanagar, which she’s posted up on her blog, along with some pictures she took when she was there. (She used one of my pictures for the print edition!)
The community’s children accept this police presence in their lives with equanimity. Says 13-year-old Haresh Macherekar, “Our parents […]
Vaccinate
That’s a lot of needles!
China has vowed to vaccinate all of its estimated 14 billion poultry to contain the spread of bird flu.
{bird flu, chicken, China, flu, 中國}
Kurt Engfehr
We are very pleased to announce that Kurt Engfehr has agreed to be an advisor on the film. Kurt was co-producer and editor on both Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 911. Not only did those two films win an Oscar and a Golden Palm, but Kurt’s editing work on Columbine also earned him the American […]
Beveridge vs. Bismarck
Taiwanese love to complain about their country and how it is going down the drain. And they also like to idealize how much more advanced and modern America is by comparison. When I was in Taiwan this past summer, everyone was bitching about the poor quality of health care. It is true, there are a […]
Bug Vote
Do you use Devanagari on a mac? Firefox? Then please vote for this bug. Firefox 1.5 is almost ready for release and they still haven’t fixed this. Seems it affects most Indic scripts. Safari handles Devanagari just fine, but Firefox for the mac cannot. The more people vote for the bug the more attention it […]
第一賣冰
There is an old saying in Taiwan:
“The number one job is selling ice desserts and the number two is being a doctor.”
I personally wonder just how old this saying really is, but that’s how the Taipei Times introduces the phrase 「第一賣冰、第二做醫生」in a story about an entrepreneur who has struck it rich selling seafood flavored […]
Paperclip
What I want to know is, when Kyle gets his house, will he trade it to me for a red paperclip?
(via BoingBoing)
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India Together
Tarun Jain interviewed me for this India Together piece about the Budhan Theatre and the film. Last year Tarun wrote this excellent article on the Budhan Theatre.
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
