Tag: Links

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. The best documentaries of 2010 — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Thanks to A for the link)
2. Haïkuleaks — tag line: “Cable is poetry: 65 haikus in 1830 cables”
3. Citywalk: A Daylong Stroll in Bangkok — Wall Street Journal
4. Thailand’s antigovernment red shirts gear up for elections — The Christian Science Monitor
5. The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace — The Chronicle Review
6. 100 football blogs to follow in 2011 — The Guardian (thanks to D for the link). Side note: not included in the list, but should be (for goalkeeping nerds only): Ministry of Glove
7. Thailand again sullies its human rights record — Amnesty International’s Benjamin Zawacki in the Bangkok Post
8. Thailand’s Misrule by Law — Thitinan Pongsudhirak in the Wall Street Journal
9. Gone With the Myths — author Edward Ball, writing in the New York Times, on revisionism and the Southern secession.
10. Oxford study: What’s the future of foreign reporting? — Nieman Journalism Lab
11. Video: Extreme Climbing to top of 1768 ft radio tower — Not recommended for those who are scared of heights.

Video above: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes.

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Thai “yellow shirts” rally to block charter reforms — Reuters
2. Is this a portrait of a human 50 million years from now? — io9
3. Remote Bhutan Aims to Draw Investors to the Himalayas — Wall Street Journal
4. Experts try to convey danger of Indonesian volcano — The AP
5. Thailand Confronts Its Issues With Abortion — New York Times
6. Radio reporter covers D.C. with an iPhone only — PoynterOnline
7. Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches — New York Times
8. Picture Cook — visual recipes
9. How to Write a Great Novel — Wall Street Journal

Image above: From Hunter Davies’s book Postcards from the Edge of Football: A Social History of a British Game, via The Run of Play.

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Pressure cooking — Austin Bush on David Thompson and the kerfuffle surrounding foreigners cooking Thai food. Related…
2. …BBC News: Thai restaurants spark food fight
3. Distance Runners Are a Paradox for Insurers — New York Times
4. Journalism of tomorrow: More info, less facts — Journalism and the World
5. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks — The Chronicle of Higher Education
6. The Parking Lot Movie — www.theparkinglotmovie.com — entertaining new documentary about parking lot attendants in Charlottesville, Virginia
7. A Poet’s Return Home to Thailand’s Violent South — New York Times
8. The Future of Public Transport in Bangkok — Sustainable Cities Collective
9. This Is Not a Blog Post: Blogs and Web magazines are looking more and more alike. What’s the difference? — Slate
10. The Southeast Asian Arms Race — Asia Unbound/Council on Foreign Relations
11. The Phenomenal ‘Chinese Professor’ Ad — James Fallows/The Atlantic

Image above: The World in Words.

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Seven questions for Jay Rosen — The Economist
2. Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends — WSJ
3. For Blind Soccer Stars, Field of Vision Is Overrated — Wired.com
4. Support for Same-Sex Marriage, State by State — NYT
5. Colorizing classic statues returns them to antiquity — HarvardScience
6. Why good goalkeepers are worth their weight in goal — BBC Sport
7. In Scarred Land, a Haven for Victims of Acid Burns — NYT
8. A Conversation with Times of India Diplomatic Editor Indrani Bagchi — In Asia/The Asia Foundation
9. The Empty Chamber — The New Yorker
10. Russia in color, a century ago — The Big Picture
11. Tilt-Shift Bangkok — tiltshiftbangkok.blogspot.com

Image: Petchburi Road, via TSB.