What’s wrong with this picture: Initial D (2005), the Japanese anime re-made in Hong Kong using real Chinese actors, Shawn Yue & Jay Chou… Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), written by an American, Arthur Golden, made into a movie cast with famous Chinese actresses, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, and one Malaysian, Michelle Yeoh? It’s not [...]
Light again is the predominant symbol of lives lost, this time from the devastating tsunami of 2004 that claimed an estimated 216,000 innocent victims. Photos below from the first anniversary in Thailand. These and more in the New York Times story World Reflects on Fury of Asia Tsunami
Relatives of tsunami victims light candles during a [...]
I hope nobody got salmonella or E.Coli this Christmas! I love these critters, but couldn’t find the perfect person to give these to for Christmas. They’re cute plushy reminders of the fact that we share the earth with equally destructive buggers. I heard of these GiantMicrobes stuffed toys before but just recently ran into [...]
Cooper Union Alumni Kevin Clarke is having another show of his genetic portraits. His portraits begin with the DNA analysis of a swab of check tissue or a hair root. He then over lays their genetic code with carefully selected images that relate to the subject. While he is definitely onto something new with these [...]
We got spammed with a couple of “buy viagra” comments on our blog the other day (see below). I wonder how common this is? Those viagra sellers will do anything to promote their product. Can you imagine when the AI in BlogBots gets a bit better? We’ll have BlogBots scanning the pages of MySpace, Livejournals, [...]
Microsoft agreed to use the Firefox’s RSS icon as a standard in their new browser due in 2006. The icon ” ” in the Firefox browser appears on your browser when a page you are visiting contains an rss feed. by clicking that icon you can add that page in to your bookmarks as [...]
Meanwhile my post about the discovery of a pre-classic Mayan mural (100 B.C.) in Guatemala goes un-posted: Earliest Known Mayan Painting Found NYTimes.com I always romanticize about being part Mayan, but if anything I’m probably more Aztec, wandering warriors of Northern Mexico with a limited vocabulary [compared to the Mayans] but none-the-less were able to [...]
