Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou thinks that the Guanghua Computer Market (光華商場) is an “eyesore.” I suppose he is also responsible for the police who chase away the food carts in the various night markets around town. What kind of Taipei would the mayor like to see? I suppose it would look something like Singapore – [...]
Watch this short video to see Rumsfeld rendered speechless by his own words. If only the White House press corps were half as good as this protester… {rumsfeld, war on terror}
How hard is it to be a teacher? Malcolm Gladwell has a nice piece about how hard it is to judge the difficulty of someone else’s job. I think that misunderstanding over degree of difficulty issues is one of the major reasons for conflict between insiders and outsiders. We bridle at the school teacher who [...]
One of the hardest things about learning Chinese is the lack of good dictionaries. I have one of the best – the ABC dictionary with “over 10,000 characters and approximately 200,000 words and phrases” in its electronic form (also on my Palm). It serves me pretty well for most tasks, but almost every day I [...]
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Since their recent upgrade, I’ve switched from using my desktop client, NetNews Wire, to using Google Reader online, something I was never willing to do with any previous online RSS client I’ve tried. It is still in Google Labs, which means it hasn’t even graduated to a proper “beta” software product and so still has [...]
To those 8 million American workers who were recently “promoted” to supervisor. Congratulations! {unions}
I’ve begun spending more and more time thinking about the implications of “fan fiction.” My graduate assistant last year told me she practiced English by reading Harry Potter fan fiction online. One of the larger sub-genres of fan fiction is called “slash” and refers to the homoerotic relationship between Kirk and Spock on Star Trek [...]