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As I traveled around Europe, I saw globalization in action, and made the following observations.
Being able to drive through various countries without needing to go through customs checks at the borders was wonderful. Unencumbered travel is a great experience.
The preservation of local or national cultures is of the utmost importance as people from various countries [...]
Three more female teachers have been jailed after it was discovered that they had sex with students in Tampa, FL. MSN has a video report on this. Plus, if you do a search on MSN Live, you’ll get plenty of search results summarizing recent news stories about similar events.
What bothers me about these reports is [...]
I was listening to the radio one morning, and realized the sound effects they were using to advertise a website were the clicks of a keyboard likely made in the 80’s — you know, long key travel, spring-loaded action, hard clicks. But it worked.
More importantly, it is the only sound that can approximate a keyboard [...]
If I’d taken some sociology classes in college, I might have gotten this point sooner: humor is driven, by and large, by societal norms. Furthermore, it is usually in contrast (marked or absurd) to those same norms. Allow me to illustrate.
Japan: most of us know that public conduct there has been driven by very strict [...]
I’ve been against the war in Iraq from the start. After we went in, I thought we ought to stay in there and clean up our mess, that we couldn’t leave the country the way it was — in shambles. But now, things are so bad, for everyone around, that I have no clue what [...]
» Go to this postFor the moment, this is a rhetorical question. I’ve been re-thinking the way I publish my photos online in view of the recent and very prominent theft of Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir’s photos from Flickr. Call me naive, but I really believed, and still would like to believe, that people will wish to stay legal and pay [...]
» Go to this postIn March of ‘99, I visited Rome. It was my first trip to Italy (still is) and I had a wonderful time. I stayed with my brother, who at the time was on a 3-year fellowship there to do research. He studies myths and religions and does comparisons between deities in various cultures. He also [...]
» Go to this postAs if we weren’t trillions of dollars in debt, Congress happily approved the spending of more than $70 billion more to continue the peace-bringing wars (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard of one) in the Middle East. This is completely irresponsible behavior in view of the financial and human reality. They can window-dress things all [...]
» Go to this postThe story of this movie is simple, and normally bankable: small town girl makes good in big city. This is a story with plenty of room for nice little twists and turns that make a movie worthwhile. However bankable the story is, the movie feels fake all the way through. Granted it’s a musical, and [...]
» Go to this postAlso back while I was in college, I saw this joke about a supposed American aircraft carrier trying to convince a Canadian lighthouse to divert their course in order to avoid a collision. Well, I stumbled onto again (through StumbleUpon), and wanted to share it. Click on image to enlarge.
» Go to this postI just had to share this article. It was published in the Deutschland Financial Times, it’s written by the managing director of a divorce law firm in Europe, and it sheds a very interesting light - from a woman who should know - on what’s called the “office piranha”: the younger, nubile assistant to the [...]
» Go to this postIn Italy, a priest’s gotten so fed up with girls coming to church with bare midriffs, that he’s posted a sign on the entrance, saying: “God knew what your navel looked like even before you were born, so there is no need to expose it in church.”
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