Archive for August, 2007
Tweets 2007-08-22
Unsubscribed from 80 RSS feeds. 290 remaining. Not so bad as it sounds, since they are grouped in folders (eg. academic journals). #
NewsTrust seems to give better results than other sites which allow users to rate news stories (ie Newsvine). http://beta.newstrust.net #
Now I’m really glad we switched our flight to Eva Air!!! http://tinyurl.com/39dlv9 #
Tweets 2007-08-21
Unlikely the same thing could happen twice, but we decided to change our Japan flight from China Air to Eva Air … same price same times. #
Qurratulain Hyder passed away. http://tinyurl.com/337qon I wrote about River of Fire here: http://tinyurl.com/2ug5yx #
Tweets 2007-08-20
If corporate meetings were run like the comments section on Digg: http://tinyurl.com/2hlo3j #
1kg encourages travelers to add an extra 1kg of educational materials for underprivileged children to their backpack. http://1kg.org/ #
Prices
Almost every night the news features at least one story about rising commodity prices. A few extra cents for spinach or milk might not seem earth shattering, but I know how hard my students scrimp and save to get buy. At the school lunch buffet I load up my tray with a bit of everything […]
Tweets 2007-08-18
Planning for our Kyoto Trip (Suggestions welcome!!!): http://tinyurl.com/2du96q #
@June: Lots of wind and rain here, but nothing too serious. Biggest problem is keeping the dog happy without her usual morning exercise. #
Live radar of the storm: http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V5e/observe/radar/radar.htm The eye is now in the Taiwan Strait, but there’s a long tail … #
The storm has been […]
Tweets 2007-08-17
96% of Taiwanese high school grads will go to college: http://tinyurl.com/25zx7m More here: http://tinyurl.com/2p7mbj #
Typhoon just downgraded from a "Super Typhoon" to a regular old Category 3 Tyhpoon. http://tinyurl.com/33lbb5 #
What will Phil Schaap do? http://tinyurl.com/2zpyrd #
Chinese Democracy
Three interesting quotes about democracy in China. Each pointing in a different direction:
The first from a Rick Perlstein review of Mann’s The China Fantasy in The Nation:
Nicholas Kristof dishonored the fifteenth anniversary of the massacre in 2004, Mann points out, with a column titled “The Tiananmen Victory.” The democracy activists had won: “After the Chinese […]
Tweets 2007-08-16
The story behind the Clearview font used on highways throughout the US. http://tinyurl.com/33s4u2 #
My NHI post accidentally got taken offline. It is now back up. http://tinyurl.com/23umm7 #
Waiting for "Super Typhoon" Sepat to hit this Saturday. (Don’t worry, we are safe and well prepared.) http://tinyurl.com/3ywzr5 #
Tweets 2007-08-15
Finished the DaVinci Code, now reading about Pierre Plantard on WIkipedia. http://tinyurl.com/ytttbj #
Wikitization
Back in the old days, when Wikipedia was new, there were just a handful of rules, and one of the key ones was “Ignore all rules.” Or, more specifically:
If a rule prevents you from working with others to improve or maintain Wikipedia, ignore it.
Wikipedia has changed a lot since then. Just read Andrew Lih recount […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
