Archive for April, 2007
NotCot
If you like cool, wacky, funny, clever design ideas look no further than the NotCot blog. I’ve already downloaded this great clock screensaver. The blood pillow is fun. Juno doesn’t need the dog sex toys, but maybe your dog does? Lots more at notcot.org!
(Via Ze Frank)
{design}
Doggy Paddle
Up till now Juno has enjoyed splashing around in the water, but not actually swimming:
The other day we saw someone whose golden retriever was swimming in the lake and ran over so that Juno could learn from a friend. At first she was afraid to dive in, but when the other retriever (who is about […]
Sacrifices
The LA Times reports that one of the leading US Airlines is doing so well that “874 top executives will receive more than $150 million in stock bonuses next week.” As for the 18,000 attendants who gave up vacations and agreed to a 16% pay cut after 9-11 delivered the industry a crushing blow, they’re […]
Separation Anxiety
Here is Juno holding three of her favorite toys very close. Two of these had to be bought in the States because Juno will tear through any locally bought toy in about 20 seconds. Having good toys keeps Juno from ripping up our apartment, so it is worth the extra expense.
While Juno is very good […]
Kurt Vonnegut
Why is it that so many Vonnegut remembrances describe the same experience?
If you read Kurt Vonnegut when you were young — read all there was of him, book after book as fast as you could the way so many of us did…
That includes Peter Sagal, whose comments I liked better than those in the […]
Good & Evil
Good Juno
Evil Juno
{Good, Evil, dog}
Burrito Tunnel
Who knew that New York’s turn-of-the-century pneumatic tube system could be used to deliver burritos all the way to from San Francisco? The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
UPDATE: Transcontinental direction reversed. Thanks TF!
{food, april fools}
Testing
Scott Sommers has written a wide-ranging and thoughtful post on education in Taiwan. The ostensible topic is globalization, but far more interesting to me is his take on testing. He argues that the prevalence of centralized testing in Taiwan is not a holdover from imperial times, but a new policy implemented by the KMT to […]
Dioxin
The Tainan City Government yesterday issued a medical report showing that residents living near a closed factory in southern Taiwan have extremely high levels of dioxin in their blood, in one case 30 times higher than the standards accepted by the United Nations.
… According to the report, one of the surveyed residents had 951 pg. […]
Asynchronicity
I never liked team sports, I never liked playing the dozens, I never liked being put on the spot … Its not that I’m introverted - I’m not. I’m just not “quick-witted” (or at least not as quick as I’d like to be). Some people love talking on the phone, love chat rooms, love instant […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
