Archive for April, 2008
I really shouldn’t be blogging right now (6 more pages of papers to write what?!), but I really felt like I had to share this article. My own nationalistic feelings about my homeland, uh, diminished a lot over the last few years, especially due to my work in the summer of 2006 with the Open [...]
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Tags: 2008 olympics, china, human rights, olympics
More Voices on Red Stripe
In the last few days, I’ve been relieved to see that Jamaican bloggers are finally coming out of the woodwork about the Red Stripe situation. This is going to be a continually updated collection of links:
Stunner’s Afflictions: “I would love to see other sponsors in corporate Jamaica as well as the media, take a similar [...]
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Tags: dancehall, Jamaica, red stripe, sumfest
Bad Stripes
I read on the Jamaican Observer a few days ago that Red Stripe is dropping its sponsorship with Reggae Sumfest. Every day since, I’m surprised that more dancehall/reggae-related blogs haven’t picked up on the news yet. This is Big News. Red Stripe has been sponsoring Sumfest since 2001, when the name of the show was [...]
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Tags: Class, Jamaica, red stripe, reggae, sumfest
Cross-Post at HCFC’s Blog
I wrote a quick post over at Harvard College Free Culture’s blog about Damian Kulash’s op-ed in the NYTimes.
Just proving to my mom that I can still write about things that aren’t about dancehall (hi Mom!)
Forthcoming: A photosummary of my spring break trip with Alternative Spring Break to Dallas, TX to help rebuild a church [...]
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Tags: net neutrality
Lambs on the Lam
The newest post on Drawn! today caught my eye. The illustration, besides already being well-done and cool, references a Scythian Lamb!
From Wikipedia:
“The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz) is a semi-legendary plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit. The sheep were connected to the plant by [...]
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Tags: drawn, History of Science, scythian lamb
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