Posted in Miscellany on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
拆字
囚人出去或為國
患難到頭始見忠
人有憂愁優點大
籠開竹閂出真龍
– 胡志明
Chai Zi, by Ho Chi Minh
Who knew that Ho Chi Minh wrote poetry? Let alone a poem that, on closer inspection, appears to be comprised of four lines of fiendishly clever Chinese wordplay?
This poem is entitled 拆字 (Chai Zi), which might be translated as “split-word”. The term Chai Zi is also known as 测字 [...]
Posted in Bookporn on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[First posted at HNN as an exhibition review]
Books are beautiful, even in death and deathly times. So says a new photo exhibition of dying books, immortalized in print and on display in Cambridge University’s Gonville & Caius Library.
Entitled Last Folio, the exhibition presents Yuri Dojc’s photographs from an old Jewish school in eastern Slovakia, a [...]
Posted in Links on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006), Indonesian author (Prampage)
resource website on the extraordinary Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer – includes collections of articles in original Indonesian and in (at times rather dubious) translation.
(tags: resource pramoedya indonesia literature artforsociety)
Posted in Links on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visualizing Empires Decline
speaking of Edward Tufte! watch the empires crumble – or develop a serious case of decolonization boils. but where are the Dutch? or indeed the Americans? the Philippines should ooze out of Spain and ricochet immediately into a new beast looming on the horizon.
(tags: history visualization decolonization data innovation)
Bosses at Student Loans Company [...]
Posted in Articles & Writing, PhD on November 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The PhD writing process is beginning. I can’t tell you how terrifying it is to stare at the glare of the empty screen, the cursor pulsing coldly overhead, and two years of thoughts churning like indigestion in the frontal cortex. Stare long enough and madness descends: one’s hands begin of their own accord to rattle [...]
Posted in Links on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Edward Tufte: Books – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
on theory and practice in the visualization of data
(tags: modernpressures essentialtoolsinthemodernworld reference visualization graphics design data toread)
Have the Very Wealthy Achieved Victory in Their Class-War? | | AlterNet
"The bottom line: top-1% households made 12 times more income than bottom-90% households in 1974, 42 times more in [...]
Posted in Miscellany, Reflection on November 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Having been deprived of internet in my home for nearly three weeks (a pitiful incarnation of Richardson’s Pamela, I have been called!), I rise now like a phoenix from the ashes of virtual disconnect — with a backlog of approx. half a million emails, posts, news items and internet miscellany to now deal with.
Only a [...]
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