Krugman says: “the Clinton plan basically is the Edwards plan” (and both are better than Obama’s plan) http://tinyurl.com/24fzwn # Season 2 of “The
Talking about racial injustice in class, a student really wanted to know if, given power, Blacks would behave the same way towards whites. # Even
I wish I could convince my colleagues to use box.net and google groups instead of CC’ing 9MB e-mails to everyone … #
Wow. I didn’t know Siouxsie Sioux had a brand new album out. How cool is that! # [status] Kerim is happy he asked Juno to guest lecture on animal
Musicovery works surprisingly well… http://musicovery.com # [reading] NY Times Ends Subscription-only Access: After two years (to the day,
A little girl came into the supermarket to tell me that Juno was crying. I put her in charge of petting the dog till we came out. # “assume that
[reading] New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux: The latest iPods have a cryptograph.. http://tinyurl.com/ywovkz # [reading] Idea
@jencardew I use parallels without any problems, but I don’t use atlas.ti. I use Journler to store my fieldnotes… # [reading] Giant web woven by a
[status] Kerim is eating guava instead of apples dipped in honey. http://tinyurl.com/yrekxx # Victor Mair explains the Sanskrit origins of the
[blog] 200: The Savage Minds Facebook group just reached 200 members! Join us to hook up with other .. http://tinyurl.com/295356 # Maybe he’s just
An English-Chinese dictionary so good, it mentiones no less than 16 guest stars on The Simpsons! http://tinyurl.com/2wc8uq #
[reading] Border Crossings: Jobs Abroad Support ‘Model’ State in India: The Indian state of Kerala.. http://tinyurl.com/2f62xl # SelectedWorks is
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” http://tinyurl.com/2pmvq4 # [reading] Naomi Klein’s Disaster
[reading] RIP: author Madeleine L’Engle: Snip from NYT obituary (urls added): Madeleine L’Engle, w.. http://tinyurl.com/38zckh #
Good news on the Treo saga: UPS returned it without charge and the ebay seller gave me a full refund. # [reading] Everything You Suspected About
[reading] ClaimID supports the Open Social Web: Today, Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, a.. http://tinyurl.com/39kqkx # [reading] Police
[status] Kerim is playing with the dog instead of working. http://tinyurl.com/2ob4kh # I have used Amazon.com since the beginning, and every time I
Back in Taipei. If Japanese zen rock gardens have an opposite it is Taipei! Still, good to be home… #
Young Japanese women all walk around (and even bicycle!) while looking at their cell phone. They all seem very good at thumb-typing. # “about one
Arrived in Kyoto. Enjoyed talking with the MBA student from Inner Mongolia in the Taxi from the airport. # The MBA student asked if it is true that
[reading] Suspicious timing: So, was Gonzales’ resignation yesterday specifically timed to happen .. http://tinyurl.com/275khr #
[reading] Edwards Goes After the ‘Corporate Democrats’ — Is This a Turning Point for His Campaign.. http://tinyurl.com/3y7slq # The Italian version
Arrived in Taipei via the new express train from Hualien (2 hrs. vs. 2:30-3hrs). Sticking around till Thursday. #
How to publish your facebook status on twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2vrp8p (Shows that Facebook is slowly opening up.) # Are scientists
Goodby Pandora (doesn’t work outside the US) and LastFM (more like a virus than software), hello Deezer! http://www.deezer.com # China Airlines
Switching from RSS2Twitter.com to twitterfeed.com to serve my feeds to Twitter. # Reading: US Farmers Using Prison Labor: Nicole Hill, The
Unsubscribed from 80 RSS feeds. 290 remaining. Not so bad as it sounds, since they are grouped in folders (eg. academic journals). # NewsTrust
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. #
If corporate meetings were run like the comments section on Digg: http://tinyurl.com/2hlo3j # 1kg encourages travelers to add an extra 1kg of
Planning for our Kyoto Trip (Suggestions welcome!!!): http://tinyurl.com/2du96q # @June: Lots of wind and rain here, but nothing too serious.
96% of Taiwanese high school grads will go to college: http://tinyurl.com/25zx7m More here: http://tinyurl.com/2p7mbj # Typhoon just downgraded
The story behind the Clearview font used on highways throughout the US. http://tinyurl.com/33s4u2 # My NHI post accidentally got taken offline. It
Finished the DaVinci Code, now reading about Pierre Plantard on WIkipedia. http://tinyurl.com/ytttbj #
My shared items from Google Reader aren’t getting forwarded to Twitter right now. Till that’s fixed, go here: http://tinyurl.com/yrkw7f # John
Rudy Giuliani’s Five Big Lies About 9/11 http://tinyurl.com/3ct2bd # The linguistically interesting title 《當我們假在一起》http://tinyurl.com/2dt8vj #
“Thanks to the ephemerality of Amerigo Vespucci’s reputation as an explorer, America was given an enduring name.” http://tinyurl.com/35ka6q # NCIKU
Really enjoyed Erin McKean’s Wikimania 2007 presentation: http://tinyurl.com/ysantb Her blog: http://tinyurl.com/2j4oab # Full list of talks I
Had a great time last night at the wikimania blogger meetup with Isaac Mao and Rebecca MacKinnon. http://del.icio.us/ilya/blogger-meetup #
Directions to the wikimania venue are as detailed as you would expect (be sure to watch the video): http://tinyurl.com/ynwzaz #
“Facebook is a roach motel: Apps and data in, but not much coming out.” Paraphrased from: http://tinyurl.com/2zmg2a # 60 Seconds in the Life of the
Reading“Facebook: What’s In It For Journalists?” http://tinyurl.com/29mbxq # Reading:“Transitional justice and Taiwan” http://tinyurl.com/yp7w7u #
A “typo of the day” blog for librarians who like to keep their catalogs typo-free. http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/ #
A soldier discharged under Chapter 5-13 stands to lose all benefits and even has to pay back their bonuses. http://tinyurl.com/25mus3 #
Most Dishonest Wall Street Journal Editorial Ever: http://tinyurl.com/ypl2ct More here: http://tinyurl.com/3dyzup #
Working on a personal Google Map of Hualien for friends, visitors, and personal use. http://tinyurl.com/383syf # Some free articles on Taiwan’s
New blog added to the blogroll: 地圖會說話, about Taiwan & Maps. http://blog.pixnet.net/Richter # Added to the blogroll: New Yorker Blogs, featuring
Seen in a vegan restaurant in Manhattan: http://tinyurl.com/3769gh Reminded of it by this French ad campaign: http://www.combat-avenir.com # More
“Factual inaccuracies we were unable to correct” http://tinyurl.com/38uaxn #
The junkyard of art: http://www.deletedimages.com/ # Oddly Titled Government Documents: http://worldcat.org/profiles/dcornwall/lists/5775 #
Question: How will the iPhone handle Chinese input? On my Treo I can draw with a pen + a 3rd party app. The iPhone has neither… # Everything you
Mice that were both stressed and fed the junk-food diet accumulated about twice as much fat as non-stressed mice. http://tinyurl.com/yu2y7y # Do
Added to the blogroll: SCOTUS Blog. http://www.scotusblog.com/ # Colorblind Justice. http://tinyurl.com/3a8w4h # Hong Kong protest song, “Folk
Blogging about queuing up! http://standinaqueue.wordpress.com/ More here: http://tinyurl.com/2u6aqw #
Taiwan’s DPP should do something like this instead of starting fights: http://tinyurl.com/2fk2pa #
Most Americans think like you. http://tinyurl.com/22kd8t # http://www.hellokittyhell.com/ # “For Google, it is fair to say that censorship
Of the three main library sharing websites: Librarything, Goodreads and Anobii, only Anobii.com properly recognizes Taiwanese ISBN numbers! #
Idea for Google: If there are links in the top ranked posts which might be relevant, make those links clickable in the search results. #
Seems that brick kiln slavery is a problem throughout China, not just in Shanxi. http://tinyurl.com/2e85ps #
Taiwan’s education minister has a “reputation for sending out bizarre messages”!? http://tinyurl.com/36gmzh # “colonialism is a major explanation
Google Books now shows a map of “places mentioned in this book” here is Verne’s Around the World in 80 days: http://tinyurl.com/27g3ac #
Citation Plagiarism : http://tinyurl.com/2hm97p # “saving ourselves from idiots whose capacity for self-delusion is far greater than their capacity
The collapse of the Soviet Union can be traced to 1985 when Saudi Arabia stopped protecting oil prices. http://tinyurl.com/374zhy # JUSTIN RYE ON
Got a card from my graduating seniors. One of the things it said was, “I love Juno. Please don’t fail me!” #
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques http://tinyurl.com/2cqtsh # Bookfinder.com will search used books and sort by shipping price, including
Taiwanese Beat Europeans to South America : http://tinyurl.com/yommb2 #
Obama’s dislike of “bitter and partisan” politics makes him too cautious. But at least he’s come out with a plan. http://tinyurl.com/2zf2zb #
“commentators who’ve pushed the myth of the DDT ban have been … dupes of an industry even deadlier than malaria” http://tinyurl.com/ypkhv4 # “lots
L:Sunnyside, NY 11104 # “What she is saying is that this is not law, it’s politics,” http://tinyurl.com/ysaqxy More here: http://tinyurl.com/237vad #
L:taoyuan, taiwan # Installing Google Gears before my flight. (Now, if only my battery would last more than 3 hours…) http://gears.google.com/ # I
Launch: Google Maps adds Street View : http://tinyurl.com/27n65n # “If the president wants to go to war, our job is to find the intelligence to
“This Is Nollywood” tells the story of the Nigerian film industry. http://www.thisisnollywood.com # Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer” beautifully
My favorite podcasts: http://tinyurl.com/2bz2yx # Ann Wright | What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq’s Oil for US
“the culture war is still more important to them than real war” http://tinyurl.com/25qwje #
Technorati.com gets less useful with each upgrade/redesign. But there is a secret back-door which cuts out the crap: http://s.technorati.com #
Binding Arbitration and Consumer Bargaining Power : http://tinyurl.com/2xuwhh # Trying out OpenDNS. The OpenDNS folks are super-nice and the
Seadevils and Species Unknown http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22deep.html # If Kafka had a YouTube (i)Channel : http://tinyurl.com/2tqynh
Fear of eating: Why would the administration refuse to regulate an industry that actually wants to be regulated? http://tinyurl.com/yqmhce # Posing
Rare Risk and Overreactions : http://tinyurl.com/3d3e2p # Fears for Democracy in India : http://tinyurl.com/ypa8uz # Poking a Pet Peeve :
Encountering phrases of the form “What would X do” # So, I asked myself, What would Mark Liberman Do (WWMLD)? But somehow I guessed it started with
The “I”m a Mac” ads are even funnier in Japanese! http://tinyurl.com/yffb6x # Excellent Newsweek article on Taiwan’s Democracy :
War vlogging : http://tinyurl.com/3x6zdk # Leper messiahs : http://tinyurl.com/ys6vce #
Juno is tied up outside while the house is cleaned. She just stares at the door and cries. Won’t even play with her favorite toys… # … Gonzales
Installed a google custom search searchbox on my blog and homepage. Searches all my sites! # My Aborigine students were all dressed up for a
I can’t imagine doing web development without Firebug. http://www.getfirebug.com/ # Blogrolls suck. I haven’t updated mine in years. I don’t even
Building An Open Source, Distributed Google Clone : http://tinyurl.com/ys29jy # Class, Thy Name is Rudy : http://tinyurl.com/3beuu4 # Talking with
Testing out a new feature on this site: A daily digest of all my Twitter posts. I’m using Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools. There may be a bit of