According to the trend watchers over at BuzzFeed, Ecuador’s Mt. Chimborazo is currently all the rage in the blogosphere. That’s because the Andean peak is technically the tallest mountain in the world due to the fact that it sits on the equator’s bulge. (That’s when you measure distance from the center of the earth, not […]
I’m not making this up.
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Tom Fuller had a great story in this weekend’s IHT. It’s about Bangkok’s successful campaign to curb air pollution:
Black smoke billowing from tailpipes into the humid, tropical air was once a Bangkok trademark. But a decade and a half after Thailand began a battle for better air quality, this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged […]
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God help us.
DreamEssentials.com:
The Warm Whiskers freezable or heatable eye pillows help reduce eye puffiness and strain, headaches, facial tension and sinus pressure. Each animal is filled with relaxing lavender and chamomile.
Send this cuddly friend to bed with your little one or enjoy the therapeutic and aromatic warmth yourself.
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I’ve finally gotten around to uploading a bunch of images from when my family was in town over the holidays. It was lots of fun to see everyone; my mom, step-dad, and little brother Colin came from South Carolina, while my brother Mechum popped over from Seoul. (His girlfriend K also joined us toward the […]
The rai is a unit of land measurement here in Thailand. You’ll see references to land the size of so-and-so rai, etc. But exactly how much area, I was wondering yesterday, is one rai?
In researching the answer to that question, I stumbled upon this:
rai: a traditional unit of land area in Thailand. The rai […]
Vermont Country Store:
This Christmas your dog will be all smiles (and so will you) when he bites into this cheerful chew toy. Made of durable rubber and doggy tested, it will keep Fido grinning ear to ear as he fetches and funs with it to his heart’s content.
I would kill to see our family pet […]
Nat Geo:
Sometimes married couples just need to add a little spice to their love lives.
A Thai zoo is hoping that “panda pornography” will spark romance between its two giant pandas, which were married by proxy last November in an elaborate Chinese-style ceremony.
(Link is SFW unless reading clinical descriptions of pandas’ sexual practices is verboten in […]
Torrential rains hit Bangkok last night; I ended up stuck in a Starbucks — stupidly sans umbrella or even rain jacket — until the storm abated. I snapped these pics on my way back to my apartment. As you can see, there was some serious flooding. And more may be in store…
Perhaps this has something to do with coup-related Western media censorship, but A and I saw this on TV recently here in Bangkok. The full text of this screen — which appears sporadically for 30 seconds or so during English-language commercials that feature non-political content on the cable provider UBC — reads:
Please be advised that […]
AP/MSNBC:
RISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44.
Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper […]
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Tim Kreider had an amusing op-ed in yesterday’s NY Times regarding the recent controversy surrounding Pluto’s classification as a planet.
Pluto is what my old astronomy textbook rather judgmentally called a “deviant,” and I’ve always felt a little defensive on its behalf.
I’ve long regarded Saturn’s misty tantalizing moon Titan as the Homecoming Queen of the […]
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Two reader submissions to share:
Armor of God PJs:
The whole Armor of God Pajama set will help your children to depend on God to protect them from their fears, doubts, and uncertainties at night so their sleep can be restful and peaceful.
Thanks for the link, Dave T.
And from Benny C:
AP:
TURNER, Maine –Residents are wondering if an […]
And speaking of dogs, let’s just be thankful that there’re no devious little simians in Bangkok to tease hapless soi pooches.
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I love the street dogs in Bangkok. (Everyone here calls them “soi dogs,” as “soi” is the Thai word for “alley.”)
The canines here and scrappy and they’ve got tons of attitude. They’re usually friendly, and since Thai people are Buddhists and they generally don’t believe in hurting living things, the stray pooches are often […]