Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Life Lessons
The inscrutable Maktaaq has tagged me with creating an imaginary curriculum of improbably practical courses, a sort of term or two of remedial life skills. Apparently the original idea was composed by a wyvern, but when you are reading the writings of whale blubber, that sort of thing happens sometimes. By the way, the rest […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
The curious case of Raise the Red Lantern’s DVD transfers
Raise the Red Lantern, one of the prettiest movies ever to come out of China, has suffered from some terrible DVD releases. But at long last, while I wasn’t looking, it appears the latest two NTSC (and Region 1 or 0) editions don’t suck. DVD Beaver raves: Acceptable visual quality! And subtitles that make sense! […]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Stephen Fry, mobile phone reviewer
Mr Fry (he’s a brit, so he nae gets a dot after his social title) is Britain’s most talented . . . reviewer of mobile phones? Quite. I assure you this is the most insightful state-of-the-smartphone you are likely to read. (Þ: Fireball Gruber.)
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I’m internet famous
Let’s just not contemplate what was in the bottle.
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Why is India so much poorer than China?
So I was musing on the routine China-this, China-that coverage these days, and I started thinking, “hey, what about India?” And then I learned something that most everyone else who has asked that question already knew: India’s per-capita GDP is about a third of China’s, and is about half of China’s PPP GDP. Here’s lots […]
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I am not making this up
This appears to be the real trailer for a real cartoon.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Book Club
Due to an oversight, neither The Lovely One nor I had a book to read on the airplane trip back, so we bought some in Schipol. I think she was a little weirded out that I chose This Is Paradise! by Hyok Kang. The hook is that Mr. Kang is a rare escapee from North […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Wired Cola salutes Apple
Here at Wired Cola, we’re all about leveraging synergy in our quest to become the most cybermorphic purveyor of fictive beverages the worldâ„¢ (a trademark of Globadom® LLC) has ever known. But this is our corporate blog, and here today, we’re going to leverage a little synergy by paying homage to our friends in the […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Vacation detritus
Things that can be exported from Greece to the joy of others: ouzo, loukoumi, halvadopita. Things you should leave in Greece: mastic liquor (locally, “mastiha,” but the transliteration is not universal). Don’t believe the review on that page: mastic liquor is weird, like a girl-drink that took a turn for the weird, and remember you […]