October 7 2008: Link Dump no.1
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I’ve been abusing my Facebook profile in recent weeks, treating it as a link depository for everything I come across that I find interesting. I get the feeling people are getting sick of the streams of Palin!hate that’s getting prime-time position on my profile, so well, I’m going to subject the readers of this blog to it instead. I’ll be posting these link dumps every time I reach ten ‘good’ links – whether the frequency be every two days, every week, every month, is dependent on what I find!
A warning: the majority of the sites I subscribe to (if not a personal blog), are centered upon political, economic, social, and race issues. Thus, the links I share will most likely reflect this, though I will try my best to diversify as much as possible.
- Joe Klein: Palin Was Fine, But This Debate Was No Contest
Being confident and folksy, and able to spout party lines and provide snappy soundbites is all well and good, but unless you can actually make sense of a question and provide a response that actually answers the question, it doesn’t mean shit. - Jeff Jarvis: Why focus on the crap when brilliance is only a click away?
I’m sick of being judged for spending a lot of time on the Internet – why should one have to justify oneself for spending time engaging with others and absorbing the streams on information that are available to us? This article explains it in more eloquent terms. - Robert Lusetich: House of credit cards may fall
Basically the very thing I’ve been extolling for years – don’t spend what you don’t have. You don’t need a credit card. You don’t need the latest gadgets, bought with a loan that you can’t pay back. Tighten your belt. Hold onto your pennies. Weather the storm. - Melbourne Metblogs: Street Postmodernist Wisdom
It’s a very short post when compared to the others on the list, but I think the image in the post is a good representation of something that us Gen Xers should contemplate. - Grady Hendrix: Change Or Die
It’s the story of domestic film industries (particularly Asian in this case) – without protectionist regulations that demand a certain ratio of domestic/foreign productions, domestic cultural productions always go down the shitter because they can’t compete with the larger American market. - Jeff Yang: Could Obama be the first Asian American president?
The title sounds ridiculous, I know. But it makes sense: “…Obama’s continued reminders of the duty of parents to their children and citizens to their society sound elitist and patronizing. To Asian Americans, they sound … well, they sound familiar. They’re at the core of the ethical foundation many of us have inherited, that fusion of post-Confucian philosophy and immigrant ethos the media often calls “Asian values.”" - Bruce Moore: Power of speech all ours
Story of how the unique Australian accent developed as a result of growing up with different dialects over a couple of generations in colonial times. - APA Top Ten: Favorite Asian American characters in literature
I’m embarrassed to say that I only know four of the ten on the list – Jubilee, Mona Chang, Cho Chang, NiuNiu (and Claudia Kishi as an honourable mention). I really should read more about people that I can ostensibly ‘relate to’ better, as an Asian Australian. - The Greens: The People Plan
Plan by the Greens Party for increased public transport services in Melbourne by 2020, easing congestion on roads. Unfortunately slack on details and facts (e.g. projected cost of the project, long-term goals), but even if only 10% of the plan is implemented, it’ll be a great addition to the infrastructure we currently have. - National Asian-American Survey
Really interesting study on the political persuasions of Asian-Americans, and the way they’re likely to vote come November. Largely more support for Obama, but interestingly, Vietnamese-Americans are more likely than other Asians to vote for McCain, probably due to his involvement in the Vietnam War, and many of Vietnamese-Americans having migrated because of the Communists.
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Thanks for the links, they give a good read and something to think about. Although now that you’re doing it on both facebook and your site I’m bombared with them, HELP ;)
Chans on October 7 2008 #
Wow, I found some of those links really interesting – especially the defence against the internet and also the credit card one – I stand by wholly on your view that we don’t need credit cards. They’re nothing but trouble!!
April on October 7 2008 #
Great links – stumble upon by any chance? I find some of the best links on there. :)
Reply: Heh, I don’t use StumbleUpon anymore actually. I subscribe to heaps of news sites, politics blogs, racial blogs, etc, and just keep following links.
Kelly on October 7 2008 #
Ahhh, <3 2 and 3. Kind of funny, I was just thinking about 3 this morning. :P
Noellium on October 8 2008 #