happy bday, bhumipol
thailand’s revered king (BBC).
Intro: Between the Two Revolutions
The first public reaction to the idea of reactualizing Lenin is, of course, an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK – today, even on Wall Street, there are people who still love him: Marx the poet of commodities, who provided perfect descriptions of the capitalist dynamic; Marx of Cultural Studies, who portrayed the alienation and reification of our daily … Read More
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
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“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
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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
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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
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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.