January 2012
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Dreaming of Li Bai - Du Fu
The pain of death’s farewells grows dim. The pain of life’s farewells stay new. Since you were exiled to Jiangnan – Plague land – I’ve had no news of you. Proving how much you’re in my thoughts, Old friend, you’ve come into my dreams. I thought you were still in the law’s Tight net – but you’ve grown wings, it seems. I fear yours is no living soul. How...
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“And just because he’s sweet and earnest doesn’t mean he can’t lay you out like a...”
– Glossylalia: Sometimes you just need someone who can say “yes please” and mean it. (via sexartandpolitics)
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Mosquito Press: An interview with Jinkee... →
mosquitopress:
BY THE STAFF
“What happened to Jinkee’s face??!” cried many on social media this week, after seeing the latest cover of Mega Magazine, with a virtually unrecognizable Mrs. Pacquiao.
Well, we at Mosquito Press have found out. We tracked Jinkee Pacquiao’s old face to a nursing home in…
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Science Publishers vs Scientists →
futurejournalismproject:
Are academic publishers the enemies of science? That’s what a recent Guardian headline says.
At issue for critics is a publisher-backed bill in the US Congress called the The Research Works Act. The bill would give publishers increased copyright control over publicly financed research and the papers and data that come from it.
Via the Guardian:
The USA’s main funding...
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Marshmallow Boy vs. Pokemon Kid →
tetw:
by Po Bronson
If I could use subtitles on this blog, this one would read: Why the most famous study of child-distraction is itself a huge distraction.
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[Random Salt] Ressa's reckless 'rappling' →
“Rappler”, a portmanteau word coined from “rap” and “ripple”, is the name of a fledgling web site that describes itself as a “a social news network where stories inspire community engagement and digitally fuelled actions for social change”, and whose team promises “uncompromised journalism that—hopefully—inspires smart conversations and ignites a thirst for change”. Such statements betoken...
Anonymous asked: what is the meanig of the song Muyin Paru Ninu"?
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Sex, Kink and Plagiarism →
futurejournalismproject:
Adam Penenberg writes at Fast Company that Amazon’s erotica ebook section is rife with plagiarized works. Seems “authors” are simply cutting and pasting stories found elsewhere (such as from Literotica), putting pen names on the titles and passing them off as their own.
Via Fast Company:
Writing a book is hard. All those torturous hours an author has to spend...
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“Many a reader will have no time for this; William Gass or Sir Thomas Browne may...”
– Pico Iyer, “The point of the long and winding sentence”
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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa implies blogger guilty of...
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“…there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the...”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”
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Stanzas from Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them. * The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. * We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We...
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Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem...
My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms tell me so. Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish at the same time. I think praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think staying up and waiting for paintings to sigh is science. In another dimension this is exactly what’s happening, it’s what they write grants...
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“The skin is composed of two main parts: the dermis and the epidermis.
Odd to...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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[Pro Pinoy] CSC bares seemingly contradictory... →
Former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Executive Director Malou Jacob was removed from her post and replaced by an Officer-in-Charge while she was out of the country on official business, following a Civil Service Commission (CSC) notice that it was disapproving the renewal of her temporary appointment.
Upon being queried via e-mail about this decision, Director Azucena ...
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My initial take on the Rappler-Corona-UST...
The Rappler story points out that Corona said he finished his Ph.D. in five years, while UST said he finished it in seven. That may be where the “lying” allegation came from.
That said, I don’t agree with how Rappler framed this story. If Vitug et al. had wanted to highlight Corona’s role in the situation, particularly given that he has supposedly fudged his academic record in ...
December 2011
20 posts
True Love - Wislawa Szymborska
True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it had to happen this way—in reward for what? For nothing. The light descends from nowhere. Why on these two and not on others? Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it...
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The Grammar of Light - Carol Ann Duffy
Even barely enough light to find a mouth, and bless both with a meaningless O, teaches, spells out. The way a curtain opened at night lets in neon, or moon, or a car’s hasty glance, and paints for a moment someone you love, pierces. And so many mornings to learn; some when the day is wrung from damp, grey skies and rooms come on for breakfast in the town you are leaving early. The way a...
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Prayer - Francisco Arcellana
Close all open things, Lord. Open all closed things. All those who have long received, let them give. All those who have long given, let them receive. All those too long apart, let them come together. All those too long together, sunder them. Let the wise be fools for once, Lord, And let the...
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Wanted : a more inclusive disaster response -...
Wanted : a more inclusive disaster response
(notes on my visit to Iligan City, 24-26 December 2011)
Iligan City was my base for my Ph.D. fieldwork and I stayed there from April to October this year. My stay in Iligan City was nothing but good, and thus when I watched news of destruction wrought by tropical storm Sendong (Washi) to lives and properties, I just felt I had to be back ...
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What's Old is New, and Vice Versa →
futurejournalismproject:
The Economist explores social networking history with a look at Martin Luther and the Reformation. The general takeaway: “Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation.”
Interesting is the how Luther’s “95 Theses” and other pamphlets spread throughout Germany and Europe:
The media environment that Luther had shown...
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[Pro Pinoy] Jacob disputes NCCA claims on her... →
Former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Executive Director Malou Jacob disputed the explanation of the cultural agency regarding her removal from her post, of which she was informed via e-mail while she was representing the Philippines in Australia for the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture. [Read more]
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[Philippine Daily Inquirer] Palace: Corona...
By Norman Bordadora Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:48:00 08/04/2010
THE VALIDITY of the appointment of Chief Justice Renato Corona has been acknowledged by President Aquino, his chief legal counsel, Eduardo de Mesa, said Wednesday. De Mesa made the statement at a news briefing, in the course of announcing the President’s Executive Order No. 2, which recalled, withdrew and...
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Is Corona's failure to file his SALN a valid...
From the full text of the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona:
“RESPONDENT COMMITTED CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND/OR BETRAYED THE PUBLIC TRUST WHEN HE FAILED TO DISCLOSE TO THE PUBLIC HIS STATEMENT OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES, AND NET WORTH AS REQUIRED UNDER SEC. 17, ART. XI OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION.”
From Supreme Court en banc resolution dated 2 May...
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[Pro Pinoy] NCCA cites 'technicalities' behind... →
Former Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Malou Jacob is said to have known that her removal from her post was imminent, in view of the decision of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to disapprove the renewal of her temporary appointment. Jacob, who lacks civil service eligibility, was notified by the NCCA that she had to clear out at once while she was...
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Critic of the month Eulalio R. Guieb III on... →
yccfilmdesk:
From Indio to Indie: A Redreamt Indiehood and Indiegeneity
Many are of the opinion that independent cinema will save the current state of the Filipino film industry. However, I often lose hope as an academe-based critic in the promise offered by films that we label indie or underground or alternative cinema, or whatever category that fits into our notion of this type of...
November 2011
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[Pro Pinoy] NCCA Exec. Director replaced while... →
Former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Executive Director Malou Jacob was officially representing the country at the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Melbourne, Australia, when she learned that the NCCA Commissioners, at a special meeting, had resolved that she be removed from her post immediately. She was told of the decision via e-mail on October 4, the same date...
October 2011
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Auden vs. Duffy
The More Loving One W. H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I...
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