December 2010
WatchSalman Rushdie on video games and the future of storytelling
WatchAspiring Poets Need Not Live in Paris
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Errors found on new Philippine peso bills →
MANILA, Philippines - Geographically-challenged Philippine maps and a rare parrot with the wrong-colored beak have perturbed the country after the central bank rolled out error-filled new editions of its peso bills.
The new-generation banknotes, rolled out earlier this month and containing the signature of President Benigno Aquino who took office this year, bombed spectacularly in the graphics...
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“Gossip is a social solvent, a way of building alliances and friendships. No...”
– Jeet Heer, The Globe and Mail
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Reading you all "the riot act"
geekhideout:
The phrase “read them the riot act” is an idiom, meaning to speak angrily toward someone and threaten punishment if the anger-causing behaviour does not quickly cease. Like most idioms, the expression’s etymology is not immediately apparent from the words themselves. But unlike many idioms whose history is either unknown, non-literal, or probably both, when someone is “read the...
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Coming soon to journalism: Universal instant... →
What if we could instantaneously transcribe recorded speech? How would that change journalism?
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WatchSo you want to be a journalist. [/via Thysz Estrada]
“Will the Court send the accused to spend the rest of their lives in prison on...”
– G.R. No. 176389 aka the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Vizconde Massacre case, as penned by Associate Justice Roberto Abad (via armorhues)
“This is the stuff we’re made of, half indifference and half malice.”
– José Saramago, Blindness (via leflaneur)
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Citizen Liu's call for invasion of China
Liu Xiaobo’s exact words in a 1988 interview:
“(It would take) 300 years of colonialism. In 100 years of colonialism, Hong Kong has changed to what we see today. With China being so big, of course it would take 300 years of colonialism for it to be able to transform into how Hong Kong is today. I have my doubts as to whether 300 years would be enough.”
In 2006, he had a...
The Nobel War Prize →
“Norwegian politicians who comprise the committee, led by Thorbjørn Jagland, a former Labour prime minister, wanted to teach China a lesson. And so they ignored their hero’s views. Or perhaps they didn’t, given that their own views are not dissimilar. The committee thought about giving Bush and Blair a joint peace prize for invading Iraq but a public outcry forced a retreat.
For the record,...
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