Items of Interest:

1. Argentinian Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is a total PILF.
2. As for school: Senior CRAPstone Seminar
3. TEDtalk: Some of the more interesting and stimulating ways you'll spend 20 minutes on the internet. My personal favorites so far:
- dance performance: Pilobolus perform "Symbiosis"
- demoGRAPHICS: Hans Rosling: ( Read more... )

http://explodingdog.com/january2/imrunningoutofrope.html
http://xkcd.com/201/
http://xkcd.com/187/

http://xkcd.com/106/
http://xkcd.com/96/
http://xkcd.com/5/

"[T]he loss of a state or the destruction of a family is not [caused] by the lack of saints and sages, but is the result of not using them."
- Han Ying's Illustrations

"How well I know that loyalty brings disaster."
- Chu Yuan, from Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Li SaoThat's my Chinese history homework. This next one was my Away message for a short time ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading and underlining the shit out of Pico Iyer's The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. I read this book and feel not unlike the raccoon-eyed teenager weeping to NIN in her bedroom whispering, "They don't understand me like you do, Trent." The quotes that strike the deepest chord with me are at least ( Read more... )

I have, over the past semester, been discovering what the Indonesian music scene has been up to, and am delightedly surprised that, more than ever, I am liking what I hear. Gone are the days when I settled for buying the pop-rock pap of peterpan and Sheila On 7 just because they were the best Indonesia could come up with. Indonesia is developing/ ( Read more... )

"It is taken for granted that a good postwar situation is the result of victory, the bad the result of defeat. ... Victory is not at all necessary for the achievement of aims. ... [Captain B.H. Liddell Hart] was unique in the military profession in that he questioned the role of victory on the battlefield. 'The object in war,' wrote Liddell ( Read more... )

One could say it is just a different collection of biases, but that would be missing the point. Everyone is a collection of biases. Learn from all of them. Now that that bit of preachiness is over and done with, allow me to share my delight at finding that Al Jazeera shows are officially available on YouTube for free. Palestine as CNN let alone ( Read more... )

I realized today I'm going to miss my family when I return to MA. As in genuinely -- not extremely or greatly -- but sincerely. Quality over quantity. And I can't remember the last time I felt that. I'm not sure I ever felt that at all ( Read more... )

"ahhhhh! merchantilism! colonialism! decolonialism! neocolonialism! ahhhhhh!" --Brock. The ahhhs are those of giddy enthusiasm, not terror. I agree wholeheartedly ( Read more... )