As noted here previously, Taiwan is 1911 years behind the rest of the world in counting years. 2007 is thus the year 96 in Taiwan. So I was wondering … what will happen to Taiwan’s computers in four years? Will Taiwan have its own Y2K crisis in the year 100? Now it is true that [...]
I recently wrote about a great new Taiwan mapping service called UrMap, well now they’ve added satellite imagery far more detailed than Google offers for Taiwan. Here is our house: If you click on the image it will take you to the flickr page where I’ve added annotations. If you click on the link, you’ll [...]
Juan Cole explodes the “Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2006“, the most prevalent one right now being the idea that a “surge” of troops could help us win the war: The US put an extra 15,000 men into Baghdad this past summer, aiming to crush the guerrillas and stop the violence in the capital, and [...]
Steve Benen, who is guest blogging over at Political Animal, quotes John Edwards answering a question as to whether he would give balancing the deficit high priority: I think that, if we’re honest, you cannot it, it’s just common sense in the math, have universal health care, and invest in energy, and make a serious [...]
Last election bloggers, many of whom had initially supported the tech-savvy Howard Dean campaign, felt that they had to drag the Kerry campaign into the 21st century. If the official Edwards web site is any indication, this election will be very different. The Edwards campaign has embraced virtually every possible new technology: Flickr, MySpace, YouTube [...]
An article from last month’s Nation magazine talks about what Edwards has been doing this year, since he founded his Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC: Between visits to shelters and job-training centers and delivering his new stump speech, full of ringing challenges to view poverty as “the great moral cause of our [...]
Since it has now been officially announced, I’d like to throw in my endorsement: Over the next two years I’ll be writing an ongoing series of posts about why Edwards is the best man for the job, but the main reason is quite simple … He isn’t afraid to speak out about poverty and inequality. [...]
Just how many different ways has the Bush Administration tried to hide once-public information sources from the public record? Help us count the ways. {Bush, secrecy, war on terror}
One of my students asked why Christmas was spelled X-mas? Here is what Wikipedia has to say: The word “Christ” and its compounds, including “Christmas”, have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern “Xmas” was commonly used. “Christ” was often written as “XP” or “Xt”; there are references in [...]
It is impossible to read a history of press coverage of the civil rights movement without reflecting darkly on today’s era of secret surveillance, clandestine prisons, and prosecutorial threats against newspapers that expose government misdeeds. As the struggle in the South illustrated, only when reporters throw spotlights on the ugliest behavior does the conscience of [...]