Ottoman cruelties
A passage from The Historian.
Compared with the pairing of First World employers and Third World workers, the hiring of migrant domestic workers in the global South involves more ambiguity and contestation in the power geometry of employment relationships. The encounter between Taiwanese newly rich employers and Filipina downwardly mobile migrants, in particular, is theoretically interesting in this regard. For [...]
THE BATTLE between the State and Maoists is well known. But in Chhattisgarh, another battle has been fast gathering steam — between the State and civil society, between a policed existence and the idea of democracy, between coerced media and free speech. Himanshu Kumar is now at the centre of that battle via tehelka.com and [...]
For some strange reason, Taiwanese love Plurk. So even though I don’t use it myself, I’d like to have my status updates posted there. The problem is that Plurk allows posting to Twitter, but not the other way around. After some research, I finally figured a work around. The trick is to use both Ping.fm and [...]
But Skype requires me to look at you while you’re talking, which is totally ridiculous. The only sci-fi show that understood this was Star Trek. Bones and Jim would use their flip phones to talk quickly about beaming or health issues. The only time they’d fire up the videophone was when a Klingon was sitting [...]
via news.bbc.co.uk I love the (mis)match between the caption and the photo, but I also admire the BBC for not assuming it was the women who used the make-up.
Re-posted from Savage Minds. This is a view of the building where I work. The College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University, in Hualien, Taiwan. And here is a picture of the view (on a more typically cloudy day) looking back, from the balcony near my office. Most of the people who live [...]