Month: February 2008

삼거리 극장 (The Ghost Theater, aka Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater)?

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UPDATE (17 Feb 2008): I have a copy on its way. Lime ordered it for me. Last time we checked, it wasn’t available anywhere, but now it is. Whee!  Ever since I heard about this film, I’ve wanted to see it, but I’ve never seen it on any shelf, or advertised here, and it’s never available at Yesasia.com. And yeah, it does exist — there’s even a trailer here er, here: And yeah, in one way, it looks like another Fox Family, a film I hated in the theater (though it grew on me later), but even if the ghosts …

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Nonfunctional Systems & The Art of the Avoidable Cataclysm #1: The Namdaemun Arson

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An anonymous editorial in the Digital Chosunilbo asks: The pain of the Korean public will not be easy to heal. Watching the face of the nation disappear into flame, Koreans acutely felt the fear that the country they believed had grown into an economic powerhouse may be just a mirage floating above the desert sand. What would foreigners living in Seoul call Korea now? How can they trust in this country after seeing what has happened? The following is my first attempt (in what I imagine may become a series of attempts) to answer that question. The longer I’m in …

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WARNING! RSS FEED MAY CHANGE!

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Hi all. I will be experimenting with returning the RSS feed to its original state, ie. not mirrored through Feedburner but rather running directly off this site. The reason is that I’m making efforts to control the amount of data that gets out on “restricted” posts, a feature that I stopped using a while ago but have decided I would once again like to use as I “professionalize” my blog into a multi-purpose writer’s homepage-type site. As discussed here, Feedburner (and Google in general) don’t recognize feed authentication of this kind. This might explain why, for some users, protected posts …

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