"The Other Hawaii"

Interesting stuff about Hawaiian independence movement.

Anthropology of the Web 2.0 -- Michael Wesch on YouTube

Michael Wesch, Assistant professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University, has created another fascinating contribution to YouTube, this time a lecture to the Library of Congress integrating video into a highly informative and thought-provoking multimedia presentation about the social world of YouTube. I spent my rainy Saturday morning watching the whole thing, and apart from the fact that I can't get the song "Numa Numa" out of my head, I'm thrilled that I did, because it makes me really excited about how anthropologists can engage Web 2.0 in new ways to guide our products as well as our research design.

Saakashvili speaks with Al Jazeera - 15 Aug 2008

I've been frustrated by what I've heard in the media here on what is happening in Georgia, which tends to be repetitive, shallow, and lacking a sense of historicity. Georgia is a place I haven't paid a lot of attention to up until recently, but any changes in the role of Russia in the lives of its neighbors to the west attracts my interest. So this lengthy interview with President Saakashvili was quite fascinating to me. So was this BBC report about Ukraine extending a technological helping hand to the West, presumably for potential future Russian "adventures" (to use Sakashvili's language).

For a blogger recap of what's been going on, check out Shashalnikya on livejournal.

Love Client #9

Ha! My favorite commentary on Spitzer thus far.


(Discovered through Vinylboy20, friend of a friend on Livejournal, who has his own commentary on the subject).

Let's come together

I found out about this advertisement for the EU arts subsidy program through a particularly funny Wait Wait Don't Tell Me this past weekend.

Japanese Video -- What to do if Mugged Abroad

Passed along to me by a Hungarian friend through Facebook. Oh, our wonderfully globally connected world is good for something. Apparently posted on YouTube by someone who found it on Kontraband.com.