Info Tech
Y100
As noted here previously, Taiwan is 1911 years behind the rest of the world in counting years. 2007 is thus the year 96 in Taiwan. So I was wondering … what will happen to Taiwan’s computers in four years? Will Taiwan have its own Y2K crisis in the year 100? Now it is true that […]
UrSatellite
I recently wrote about a great new Taiwan mapping service called UrMap, well now they’ve added satellite imagery far more detailed than Google offers for Taiwan. Here is our house:
If you click on the image it will take you to the flickr page where I’ve added annotations. If you click on the link, you’ll go […]
Edwards 2.0
Last election bloggers, many of whom had initially supported the tech-savvy Howard Dean campaign, felt that they had to drag the Kerry campaign into the 21st century. If the official Edwards web site is any indication, this election will be very different. The Edwards campaign has embraced virtually every possible new technology: Flickr, MySpace, YouTube […]
Aura
In his classical work, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin wrote that modern technology would free art from its “aura”:
for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced […]
Deaf Video
Teresa at Making Light has a great post about how deaf people are using YouTube:
Why did it not occur to me that the signing deaf would be using YouTube as a public forum? This is transformational. Many of them aren’t comfortably fluent in written language. For many more, sign is and always will be their […]
Go Go Go! Good Good Good!
[Be sure to see updated links at bottom.]
Even if you aren’t a foreigner who’s vainly attempted to book tickets online in Taiwan, the irony of the following graphic from Taiwan Rail’s English language homepage is hard to miss. With its awful graphics and stilted language it certainly doesn’t instill confidence.
Don’t get me wrong. Taiwan’s rail […]
East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki
As someone who has run several wikis, I know all too well that they are only as good as their user-base, so because I would really, really, like to see the East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki succeed, I urge anyone who cares about research in/on East Asia to get involved!
Here is the official announcement […]
Mouse Trap
Thinking of building a better mouse trap? Now with Google patent search you can instantly browse 576 previous mouse trap patents.
[via Boing Boing]
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Color
Via Language Hat, I discovered a revolutionary new approach to sorting one’s books: by color! The funny thing is that this is how I usually look for books - by color. Unfortunately I’m often wrong about the colors I’m looking for … or only have a vague sense influenced by one of various design elements. […]
ClaimID
Are you a social web junkie? Then you might want to gather all your online identities into one place. Even better, registering for a ClaimID account automatically gives you an OpenID account, which can be useful as more and more sites start offering support for OpenID.
Here is my ClaimID profile.
(via Alex King)
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An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
