Archive for August, 2006
LoSheng & Hushan
Been too busy to write much, but there are two worthwhile Taiwan related causes that I’ve been meaning to blog about:
First off: residents of the Lo-Sheng sanatorium, a leprosarium built by the Japanese colonial government at 1930s, are being forced to leave their homes to make way for a mass-transit line:
But with the bad body […]
Insecurity
I’m flying to England this week, and like many other travelers, I’m pissed about the new regulations. But more than that, I’m quite skeptical that they serve any purpose other than to keep the public afraid (and therefore supportive of policies and regimes that seek to further limit their rights). One writer who has a […]
Achieving Representation
According to Crooked Timber, this powerpoint slide is Rumsefeld’s plan for ending the war in Iraq:
Maybe we should put Edward Tufte in charge of the war?
{rumsfeld, tufte, war on terror}
Synchronicity
The Wikipedia disambiguation page for “synchronicity” lists one of the meanings as “A goal or result of synchronization.” I mention this just so you aren’t expecting me to talk about anything exciting here, like Jungian psychoanalysis … This is just a boring post about how I’ve figured out ways of syncing my laptop and my […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
