Dear Korea: Thanks to Oranckay, I see you share another trait with Canada. You’re thinking far too much about America. It won’t do you any good. Trust me, I know.
Month: January 2005
Nature as Jenga
via the Viridian website, some bad but unsurprising news. We’ve been brought up to think that nature is roughly stable; that, even if big bad things happen like, say, the melting of glaciers or climate change, they’re going to happen slowly, stably. Carbon-merchants want us to think that for now, since it ensures our continued consumption of their wares, traded for our play money. But nature’s quite possibly much less like a Lego castle than a Jenga Tower. Remember Jenga? It’s a game I remember from birthday parties of my childhood, but it’s back now. You see in the boardgame …
Daniel Hsia
An unusual entry in the film category, this is a link to a page with several very amusing short films by a fellow named Daniel Hsia. I especially liked “Generation Gap”, but I won’t link to the films directly because you should sit down and watch them all.
connectkorea
There’s a new English-language Korea portal up out there. It’s called connectKorea, and some of the media in the subpages is actually worth looking at. They’ve linked to me, and emailed to check it’s okay, which is always nice. The “texts” section has a few very interesting things, including a quick infosheet on the “Blood Types” myth so popular here in Korea, and a depressing graphic that suggests there are many more child prostitutes per capita in South Korea than anywhere else in the world, according to UNICEF estimates. And finally, a funny documentary about the Asian squat, something I …
Parlor Game – Tell Me What To Consume
Via Marvin’s Electric Smack Shack. Marvin asked for some recommendations of good stuff, so I’m obliging. He asked: Recommend to me: a movie a book a musical artist, song, or album a LiveJournal user not on my friends list (or a blogger not on my home page) what I should have for dinner a website a quote Then put this in your LiveJournal/blog and I’ll do the same for you (if I notice it and get around to it — let’s be honest — but I’ll try). Well, if anyone wants to make a similar set of recommendations to me, …