som tam & sticky rice
the spiciest dishes I had in thailand were not the curries, nor the tom yams, but the *salads*. here’s the most popular, papaya salad (som tam): (Recipes are from Vatch’s Thai Street Food by Vatcharin Bhumichitr.) 2 garlic cloves 3-4 small fresh red or green chilis green beans 6 oz young green papaya, cut into fine slivers 1 tomato, cut … Read More
against all odds
“The game that lets you experience what it is like to be a refugee”: new online game by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
namurian bucky balls
my apologies to buckminster fuller.
LDCs, MDCs & IPRs
writing a paper on pharmaceutical patents in china (yes, pressed for time), and I came across this–the type of story that gets me all into intellectual property again.
letter from moscow
I’ve been into reading the new yorker lately. Limonov is, at best, a problematic partner for Kasparov. In the seventies, he immigrated to the United States and modelled himself on Charles Bukowski–as dissolute in his prose as in his daily life. In his autobiographical novel, “It’s Me, Eddie,” contempt and self-pity are the prevailing emotions. He describes himself bumming off … Read More
architectural wonder
deputydog’s pick for 9 of the world’s most repulsive buildings. the main thing to remember is that the building is a man-made stain on our planet.
ste-catherine
was chatting with an italian who had never been to montreal before, and I guess it is kinda weird that you can go from a church to a strip club to a maternity wear store and then to celine dion’s diner in the space of half a block.
hegel
still progressing on philosophy of right (and by progressing I mean I want to scream out the window every 2 minutes). and I actually did scream when my TA told me (electronically) that I should be explaining “how the dialectic reflects as a trope Hegels conviction of the interdependence between reality, truth, dialectical method, freedom, and justice”… ARRGHHHHHH! this has … Read More
variations on glenn gould
oh yeah, I forgot to mention I went to the variations on glenn gould concert at radio-canada yesterday. it was kinda lame. I was expecting to be able to see the montreal pianist perform–but when we arrived there was nary a piano in sight. we watched a video montage of the 6-pianists-in-their-6-cities with crappy video and cheesy landscape shots fading … Read More
apple and locked mobiles
not impressed. apple’s latest software update for the iPhone disables devices that have been unlocked by their users. meaning that iPhone owners are forced to keep a contract with at&t in order to use their phone. not that I was intending to buy an iPhone anyway, but this is not cool. I wonder what apple intends to do about phones … Read More