When I am old and crotchety, one of these will sit on my desk. But probably not till then.
Category: ASIDES
Porno euros
No, really.
McMurder?
This is just bizarre.
The Memory Hole > CIA Films at the National Archives
I noticed a line in a post at The Memory Hole about CIA Films at the National Archives that grabbed my attention: US Germ Warfare in Korea Anyone out there interested? I don’t think the Freedom of Information Act extends to Canadians in Korea, but any American who wants to check this out has the legal right. I’d love to know more, for one.
EFL Geek: ESL & EFL in Korea – Teacher Dude’s Grill and BBQ
I quite like The Die Hard Lesson plan, which is a lesson plan posted at Teacher Dude’s Grill and BBQ. He explains the inspiration for the lesson plan here. If you check out the comments section to the latter, you’ll see me going on about related lesson plans I’ve used in the past: terrorist plots, terrorist hunting, bank heists, and alien-invasion-planning. Via EFL Geek
Stupid Questions
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a very interesting piece titled There is Such a Thing as a Stupid Question, and while some would think it’s more applicable to a classroom in which students and teacher interact in their shared mother tongue, I disagree. There are, in an EFL classroom, questions that are helpful to students, and questions that hurt students. More importantly, the idea that we can teach students to ask (and answer) the questions that will help them really progress is one I’ve written about before. I feel slightly vindicated seeing it written about in this way by …
Quizzery
Julia did a few quizzes lately, and this one caught my eye: What Disease Are You? You Are Heart Disease! You are one of the various varieties of Cardiovascular disease, which means you are lovable and make people laugh. You are genuinely a great person, charitable and playful. It’s hard to not be your friend. But seriously, please cut down on the saturated fats, I only mention this because I’m worried about your health.Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code sigh. I am not surprised. Ah well, this is perhaps a …
The Weird World of Coming Entertainment
Japundit on smell-o-vision being introduced to Japanese cinemas. Let’s hope a few cinemas remain free of this for those of us with respiratory problems, like me. And Marginal Revolution on two new trends: Want to play video games against your pet? And how will online availability change TV?
Simon World :: It’s Not Easy Eating Greens
A recent study in Hong Kong showed that vegetables imported from China had ridiculous amounts of pesticides, deadly amounts, in fact. I wonder how stringently the vegetable imports are checked when coming into Korea? And, I wonder about pesticide levels on Korean-grown foodstuffs. Anyone know? Because I for one know that horribly deadly pesticides are widely available here… stuff that’s banned in North America, for example. Via Simon World
New Orleans Shantytowns?
Economist Tyler Cowen posted on his own blog a link to his own piece in Slate where he suggests the key to rebuilding New Orleans is to recognize that the land in the city is still valuable, just less so than before, and to legalize shantytowns. I’m with the commenter who thought this must be his own economist version of Swift’s A Modest Proposal. I mean, yes, reggae and great Brazilian music may have come from slums and shantys, but then, a lot of great music has come from non-shantys. The notion that it’s a perfect place for Caribbean and …