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Bonus Army
I’ve been thinking a lot about Obama. According to Ezra Klein:
his answer to arguments against consensus rhetoric [see my earlier post] is that his rhetoric is behind that success, it brings in more voters and thus intensifies popular pressure for his agenda
More specifically, his approach is that of
Occupying the moral high ground of unity and […]
Recession
I forget where I read that looking at how often the word “recession” appears in the newspaper is as good a method as any of determining whether we are actually in a recession or not, it might have been the Left Business Observer, but I after seeing the word pop up a few times recently, […]
Love - ING
Over at Pinyin.info Mark Swofford notices a new trend of inserting “ING” at the end of Chinese verbs. When I twittered about this, Zonble pointed me to the above song by MayDay, the title of which is 戀愛ing (Lianai - ING), meaning “loving” or “romancing.” Interestingly, if you listen to the song they don’t pronounce […]
Lists of 2007
Photo by Chaabee Dheefa.
Here are some noteworthy year-end lists from 2007:
Highlights from Savage Minds (my other blog).
List of Scandalized Administration Officials.
The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year.
The year in media errors.
Top 25 Censored Stories.
A year of world changing ideas.
Some of the best photos on Flickr in 2007 (from which the above picture was […]
Year of the Dog
While it is still officially the year of the pig, for us 2007 was the year of the dog. Juno was already seven months old when we met her in December of 2006, and we took over full time ownership of her in February of 2007. Young retrievers are a handful, and despite her age, […]
Warner Taiwan Image Collection
This Japanese Era water and ink drawing of the Su-hua highway (which links Hualien with the North of Taiwan) was found on The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection.
Human Rights Day
This is a very complex picture (by Cooloud). Taiwan’s President and Vice-President were prisoners in this building during the White Terror. On Human Rights Day they announced its conversion into a Human Rights Memorial. However, at the same time, “not far from the ceremony, the police were forcefully breaking up a [peaceful] demonstration held by […]
Big Ears
I don’t have too many good pictures of Big Ears (the black dog) because when she was around the dogs were usually moving too fast for me to capture on film. Either they were running, or they were wrestling and all I photographed was a big ball of fur with black and brown paws sticking […]
Geothermal
Speaking of Iceland … one of the coolest things about the country is how well they’ve used geothermal energy:
In Iceland, there are five major geothermal power plants which produce about 26% (2006) of the country’s electricity. In addition, geothermal heating meets the heating and hot water requirements for around 87% of the nation’s housing.
I’ve always […]
X-Ray
In 2000 Shashwati and I travelled to Iceland for our honeymoon. We had a fantastic trip, but the flight back was very early in the morning on the last day, and we were still pretty groggy when we got to customs. Actually, we were the very first travelers to arrive at customs, which was otherwise […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
