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bear parade electronically published collections of poetry and short fiction, free for everyone
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ass hi books More online fiction by Tao Lin Software Studies: SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND (a new book by Lev Manovich)
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The Transom Review: Walter Murch Transom Tool: Recording Phone Calls
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TRANSIT (KLANG VALLEY) A group of concerned citizens have formed ‘The Association For The Improvement Of Mass Transit’ (TRANSIT), which includes the following modes of public transportation: - Bus -...
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Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy....
View ArticleSpeaking truth to power (March 2009 edition)
Quick post (which is what I should have been doing all along).The phrase "speaking truth to power" originated from Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci in relation to his concept of "hegemony."I learned...
View ArticleBFM 89.9 interviews
I wish I could subscribe to BFM podcasts in iTunes, but the RSS link doesn't seem to work. They need to put the podcasts on Odeo or something instead of using their own in-house RSS feed.
View ArticleMy writing elsewhere
Government, Publishing and the Infinite Game at Project MalaysiaHigher Standard of English Needed at The Nut GraphShort & Sweet Festival '08 Week 1 review at Writers Connect
View ArticleWhat have I done?
There wasn't anything in the fridge except the vegetables I bought from Yahqappu yesterday. I'm a rice-meat-vegetable-tofu person. I like my basic food groups. I stood around thinking about what to...
View ArticlePoetry Slam April '09
I'm trying to find info on the last Poetry Slam in KL. It took place last June at URBANscapes 2 at KLpac. The theme was "Death by Pudding," which means that competitors had to pudding, chocolate or...
View ArticleCollective action and Clay Shirky
I've talked myself into giving a session at BarCamp KL on Sunday. After I picked up Here Comes Everybody a couple of weeks ago, below is a summary of the ideas found in Chapter 6: Faster and faster....
View ArticleCollective Action and Clay Shirky
Here's the slideshow for my presentation. Aizat recorded the talk so I'll put that up when I get hold of it.
View ArticleThat's why he eats at home
The taxi driver broke it down for me:RM1,500 downpaymentRM50 per day for road tax and other upkeep costsRM20 for gasHe made RM120 working the whole day.
View ArticleSympathy for the taxi
Taxis get a bad rap, like in this Star article. Even though I've paid some ridiculous fares in my time, I find myself having to defend taxis to my friends. I take a lot of taxdis so here's what...
View ArticleThoughts on the final Improv Lab @ Findars
Improv Lab normally takes the format of this: three invited artists present their compositions based on improvisation. That's act one. Act two is all three artists putting together a devised...
View Articlethe 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...
View ArticleBlue 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...
View ArticleHypnotic 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
View ArticleRoger 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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
View ArticleNotes from the underground: A fresh breed of literary magazines - Features,...
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...
View ArticlePatent 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...
View ArticleCahiers 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....
View ArticleRobert 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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleHere'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...
View ArticleOps 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...
View ArticleTesting 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...
View ArticleThe personal life of information
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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
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