In this “Thinking Allowed” interview with Stuart Hall, he discusses the Middle East and has some interesting things to say about our inability to judge the importance of history as it is unfolding. I especially liked his comments about how the manner in which history unfolds is as important, if not more important, than where [...]
If we come downstairs before Juno she will often sneak into the bedroom (where she isn’t allowed) and steal socks from the laundry basket. (Somehow she always manages to steal a matching pair!) When she comes downstairs she will then dance around looking somewhat ashamed, with her tail between her leg, as if to say: [...]
On the trip to Cambodia I finally had some time to read Jon Lee Anderson’s excellent New Yorker Article on the counter-insurgency in Sri Lanka. Because the piece isn’t available online (except for this Scribd posting which I don’t expect will stay online for long), I thought it worthwhile to share some quotes: The “Sri [...]
Catching up on Cambodian history as we make our way to Phnom Penh, I came across some interesting historical context for the current squabble over Preah Vihar temple. The temple is mentioned in John Tully’s A Short History of Cambodia, during a discussion of King Sihanouk’s nonaligned policy in the 1950′s: Another running sore was [...]
Today’s New York Times article about how Swedes are choosing new names for themselves probably belongs in the large folder of non-trend trend articles in the Times. (“Last year, there were 7,257 name changes” out of a population of over nine million…) But be that as it may, it gives me an excuse to link [...]
This is the best Nigeria scam e-mail I've seen so far. ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Ministry of Foreign Affairs <no-reply@mfa.gov.ng> Date: 2010/12/23Subject: An Open Letter To All Scam VictimsTo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Federal Republic of Nigeria Lagos Liaison Office 13/15 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, G.P.O Box 1727, Lagos. Re: An Open Letter To [...]
A lot has been written about WikiLeaks. Too much perhaps, which is why I’m a little reluctant to add what might seem like an obvious point. But it seems important to me, so here we go: The real importance of WikiLeaks is that it burst the security clearance bubble. A short time before cablegate happened, [...]
Three tips on using Google’s new ngrams word search.
台大人類學系演講 講者：Dr. P. Kerim Friedman（傅可恩）（國立東華大學民族文化學系助理教授） 講題：”Tomorrow the Community Shouldn’t Blame Us for Revealing Their Secrets”: Collaborative Filmmaking and Ethnographic Refusal. 時間：2010年12月10日（五）下午2：30-4：30 地點：台灣大學水源校區行政大樓人類學系201室（台北市思源街18號） ～～歡迎參加～～
I finally figured it out. The last time I traveled abroad for a conference I tried setting up a Google Calendar to schedule my conference events and it was a complete disaster, but this time finally go tit working and I thought I'd write a quick note about how I did it, including getting the [...]