Posted in Bookporn on December 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I thought it was about time I bookporned the place I’ve become attached to (in both senses of the word): the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, in all its vasty, lofty glory.
Its glory is not confined to the mere aesthetic; it is a place where a Southeast Asian specialist can dissolve quietly [...]
Posted in Links on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Philosophical Lexicon
hysterical
(tags: philosophy hilarious dictionary language reference)
Braille Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
faille!
(tags: hilarious)
LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art?
"Most games, as Poole argues, are work-like. They have a tightly designed structure in which the player has to earn points to win specific rewards… The trouble with these [...]
Posted in Bookporn on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hanoi is without question, for me, the crazed, dirty, artsy, gutsy, eccentric capital and lifeblood of Southeast Asia. Take Paris. Grime down the buildings and filth the gutters; change all the signboards into Vietnamese; add a million streetside phở vendors, a million ardent touts, merchants and basket carriers, citywide communist broadcasts twice a day and [...]
Posted in Reflection on December 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
On the move again; my next words will probably hail from Vientiane, Luang Prabang or Hanoi.
This will be my first extended encounter with the remnants of the French colonial empire — I’ve always been much more familiar with the doings of the British Empire, and I understand its legacies almost innately: the trauma [...]
Posted in Links on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I Heart Global Warming // Current
Greenland is thawing (stunning cinematographic evidence provided) and things are changing faster than we can understand, and I still can't watch those last five minutes of the video without feeling an indescribable sorrow
(tags: helplessness video currenttv world environment climatechange)
World Without Water // Current
Current Vanguard looks at the global water crisis [...]
Posted in Miscellany on December 3, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I mentioned in the passing, in an earlier post, that I had come across a bizarre interview between George Bernard Shaw and a Saudi mystic. Firstly, a correction: the mystic in question is not Saudi as I had initially thought, but was born in Meerut, India; he was a Sufi Sheikh by the name of [...]
Posted in Bookporn on December 1, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I am not generally a complete sucker for gimmicks. BUT.
In Suntec City, a colossal, scrupulously modern shopping complex in Singapore, there lie the fruits of the labour of sheer genius. Behold, the Food Republic: a Singaporean hawker center made to look like a library.
This is clearly a ploy: it is a pernicious, utterly unholy conspiracy [...]
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