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Notes on Farish Noor's lecture on megaprojects
I couldn't get online during the lecture, so I wasn't able to live-tweet it. So I'm sharing my notes to get this info out of my head. The notes are incomplete and I hope to hammer them into better shape with a bit of help from my friends (yes, you!). Lecture is less a history of megaprojects in Malaysia, more a history of urban planning in Southeast Asia.Premise: we do not make history we are
There's a lot of bad information out there. The recipe for napalm. Grooming techniques. Vomit porn. All things I would rather not know about. Bad might be a characteristic of the information; the info lets you do bad things. Sometimes, bad information is incomplete information. To make an informed decision to buy a house or to send a child to a school or to vote, we need information on the
Testing out titles and designs for a book
Instead, Ferriss decided to look for some data. He took 6 prospective titles that everyone could live with: including ‘Broadband and White Sand’, ‘Millionaire Chameleon’ and ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ and developed an Google Adwords campaign for each. He bid on keywords related to the book’s content including ‘401k’ and ‘language learning’: when those keywords formed part of someone’s
Ops Bilang draft intro
My greatest fear is that everything I've accomplished will turn out to be shit. I imagine I am like King Midas, except everything turns not to gold, but to shit. King Midas was the Greek king who boasted that he was richer than the gods. The gods cursed Midas to turn to gold everything he touched. At first it wasn't so bad, but then he sits down to eat and the leg of chicken turned to solid gold
Here's how I broke my arrest cherry
The Anti-ISA candlelight vigil on Sunday, August 1, 2010, was supposed to take place on the padang at Dataran Petaling Jaya. The police blocked access to the field and told the crowd to disperse. The organizers tried to negotiate with the police, but, after several warnings to disperse, the riot police moved in, arresting several people, and they pushed us into Amcorp Mall. officials In the
"The Prick of Political Imagination"
Law is about sovereignty, not justice. via ltimmel.home.mindspring.com Again and again, I keep returning to L. Timmel Duchamp's essay on fictionalizing her own detainment. Posted via email from Tshiung Han's posterous
Robert Glück on New Narrative
How to be a theory-based writer?—one question. How to represent my experience as a gay man?—another question just as pressing. These questions lead to readers and communities almost completely ignorant of each other. Too fragmented for a gay audience? Too much sex and "voice" for a literary audience? I embodied these incommensurates so I had to ask this question: How can I convey
Cahiers de Corey: AWP F
It's the steady, slow accretion of connection that counts for the most and lasts the longest. via joshcorey.blogspot.com Joshua Corey's report on the first annual Arena Wisconsin Poetry Festival. Posted via email from Tshiung Han's posterous
Patent holder's demand: stop discussing my patent - Boing Boing
But one thing I'm dead certain of is that it is not illegal to discuss a patent's technical workings. The entire point of the patent system is to give a monopoly to an inventor in exchange for full disclosure of the invention so that other inventors may study and learn from it. In other words, the patent system exists to encourage discussion of patented inventions, not to censor them. via
Notes from the underground: A fresh breed of literary magazines - Features, Books - The Independent
You'd be forgiven for believing, what with all the nay-saying surrounding the publishing industry, that the best use for the space is as a cubby hole for your shiny new iPad. Think again. Stemming from the edgiest enclaves of the book-loving universe, a glut of new literary magazines is giving a home to freshman writing and established prose. From the cool, rock'n'roll aesthetic of Pen
Notes on Mary Manning Howe - Passages from Finnegans Wake
Via flashpointmag.com Mary Manning Howe, the mother of poet and critic Fanny Howe, reading passages from Finnegan's Wake. I haven't read Finnegan's Wake, but when I do, when I'm older, I'll return to this. Click on the link for more info on Mary Manning Howe. Posted via email from Tshiung Han's posterous
Roger Ebert's review of Dogtooth
Dogtooth BY ROGER EBERT / July 7, 2010 Cast & Credits Father Christos StergioglouMother Michelle ValleySon Hristos Passalis Older daughter Aggeliki PapouliaYounger daughter Mary Tsoni Christine Anna KalaitzidouKino International presents a
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Jools Holland Show
Via youtube.com Playing their track "War." I'll post up the Nick Catchdubs remix in a minute (if I can find it). Posted via email from Tshiung Han's posterous
Blue Wednesday
Just got back from Annexe Gallery from Blue Wednesday. I was in a rictus of a smile as Happy Unicorn Collective was performing. The odd blend of politics, playfulness, parody, bananas and candy floss was win. Highlights include the "pookie face" outro for song about Sodomy2, Chi Too and Fairuz Sulaiman feeding each other candy floss and bananas during aforementioned song, Koon Tan's poem about
The morality of information
There's a lot of bad information out there. And incomplete information is bad information. Conversely, complete information is good information. Take child sexual abuse. To act, you should have a sense of the big picture. I think everyone gravitates towards good information. We progress towards a complete understanding of the stuff we care about, or the stuff we need to know. But if you go deep