When I heard that Sylvester Stallone’s new “Rambo” flick takes place right here in Thailand, I knew it’d be a must-see. I haven’t laid eyes on the film yet, I’m sad to say, but some early reviews have just rolled in:
Joel Stein, writing in Time, interviews Stallone and opens with this exceptional lede:
Sylvester Stallone […]
The world’s flags given letter grades is a tongue-in-cheek look at national symbols that are rarely viewed from an artistic standpoint:
Some time ago, browsing through my friend’s atlas, I realised that there are significant differences in quality between the flags of different countries. Some are good, some are bad. Some countries have clearly taken care […]
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The New York Times recently ran a travel story by Joshua Kurlantzick about Bangkok street food. Austin’s phenomenal blog Real Thai gets a deserved mention, and I’m not just saying that because he gave me shout-out today due to our mutual love of all things waffle-related (i.e. the infamous Thai waffle-coated hot dog that I […]
BBC News:
Some of India’s richest people are paying $150 a night to live like peasants at a “native village” in the southern state of Karnataka.
The village, Hessargatta - just outside India’s IT capital, Bangalore - is designed to encourage the preservation of some of India’s rural traditions.
It offers visitors the chance to qualify in tasks […]
Editor and Publisher:
In the most radical move from print to digital advertising by a major newspaper, the Chicago Tribune announced Monday it is eliminating help-wanted ads from the newspaper on weekdays.
Instead, there will be a listing of basic information in the business section every Tuesday. The listing, called “Careerbuilder QuickFind,” will refer readers […]
Remember Scrivener, the excellent OS X writing application that I mentioned back in July? Virginia Heffernan, in a recent New York Times Magazine story about Mac OS X alternatives to Microsoft Word, gives Scrivener an excellent review:
Our redeemer is Scrivener, the independently produced word-processing program of the aspiring novelist Keith Blount, a Londoner who taught […]
The Wall Street Journal’s Informed Reader blog (tag line: “a survey of insights from media around the world”) has quickly become one of my favorite sources for international news from a variety of publications.
Recent posts include:
– “Malnutrition Plagues Peru Despite Economic Growth,”
– “African Farm Boom Defies Continent’s Grim Image,”
– “How Nerdy are […]
I was too busy this year to put together my annual Bloggers’ Favorite Books list (previous lists: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). But here’re some other round-ups that you might enjoy:
– “PW’s Best Books of the Year” — from the staff of Publishers Weekly.
– The New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2007″ and “A Year […]
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