Archive for July, 2006
Tooth Fairy
When I was a kid the tooth fairy only gave me a quarter, this site says the going rate is a dollar, but this news story has me thinking that something in the double or triple digits might be in order!
{inflation, stem cells, tooth fairy}
Oil and Sugar
No, this isn’t a post about the Middle East, but rather about the small ways in which something as simple as buying gas can be quite a different experience here in Taiwan than in the states.
For one thing, every station here is full service. I say “full service” but they won’t actually do anything useful […]
Waste
Via BoingBoing, a lecture by veteran print journalist Tom Stites who explains why “less affluent Americans have abandoned newspapers and are angry at the press.”
When I was breaking in as a reporter, … The newspaper I worked for wanted to sell papers to every household in the area. They wanted 100 per cent market […]
Panorama
I stitched together a 360° view of the valley as seen from the National Dong Hwa University campus. If you have QuickTime installed you can explore the image in QTVR as well.
{dong hwa, hualian, taiwan, 台灣, 東華大學, 花蓮}
TIFF 2006
I love international film festivals, because you see so many movies that you would otherwise never get to see. The Taipei International Film Festival has consistently been one of the best run international film festivals, and I always try to make it to some of the films if I can. This year grading kept me […]
Joba
Joba is a new exercise machine from Panasonic. It is a home version of those mechanical bull rides you find in bars out West (at least according to the movies, I’ve never actually been in such a bar). It is being targeted at women here in Taiwan:
The poster plays on the Chinese word for “right […]
Never Again?
This is so important that I can’t believe the NY Times wants you to pay to read it. So here it is: Kristof’s latest article on Darfur … and Chad.
{Chad, Darfur, genocide}
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
