hawgblawg: Mandela Morocco/Algeria postscript
I posted a photo of Nelson Mandela in a kufiya on December 21, 2012. He was wearing it Algiers, which he visited in May 1990 to see his former FLN contacts, who gave him and his comrade Robert Resha...
View Articletabsir.net: Goodbye, Lawrence, Goodbye Mr Chips
The extraordinary British actor Peter O’Toole died yesterday at the age of 81. His most famous movie, without question, was Lawrence of Arabia. But he made many other performances, including Becket...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Frustrated by professionals
Today's Get Fuzzy: Who are the most accomplished professional frustrators? My vote would go to the people who design menus for voice-response systems. Recently, for example, I needed to report a "lost...
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Leiden Anthropology Blog: Notes on Utopia: An Exhibition
The display in Museum De Lakenhal brings together works by expressionist and constructivist artists produced between 1900 and 1940. Instead of radically contrasting the styles, a very interesting...
View ArticleAAA blog: RACE Posters
RACE: Are We So Different? posters now available on the AAA Online Store. Order your poster today at the special AAA member price of $4.99.Filed under: Advocacy, RACE: Are We So Different?
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: MARC PIERINI: Making Sense of Turkey’s Foreign...
Making Sense of Turkey’s Foreign Policy MARC PIERINI It has become an understatement in Western diplomatic circles to say that Turkey’s foreign policy is becoming more difficult to understand. In...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Gezi not an incident related to...
The book, titled ‘Through the Eyes of Journalists: Resistance and Gezi Park Photographs,’ includes photographs taken by 21 photo journalists during the events Gezi not an incident related to terror,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sorry!
Henry Hitchings has an op-ed in the New York Times (12/13/2013), "A Poor Apology for a Word", in which he claims that the British (and especially the English) are particularly fond of the word...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Hard to follow Turkish politics. BDP Deputies,...
Just this morning I hear the news in Twitter that some high profile businessmen, including infamous Ali Ağaoğlu, close to AKP circles are detained… ************** Hakan Şükür, a former well-known...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Vize meselesi
Vize meselesi English: Schengen Agreement signed 1985-06-14, on show in Schengen Treaty Museum in Schengen, Luxembourg (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dün hükümet Avrupa Komisyonu ile vize muafiyeti...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Despicable human scum
For those wondering why on earth an official announcement about the solemn business of executing a traitor would use wildly overheated language like "despicable human scum" and "worse than a dog"...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: 19 Aralık 21:00′de canlı @SosyalKafa- @aforgutu nü...
Perşembe geceleri 21-22 arasında Netd.com’dan canlı yayındayız. [www.netd.com] Koordinatör ve Sunucu: Erkan Saka (@sakaerka) İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Editörler ve Sosyal...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: Denial and the new, nimble, agile corporation
Some time in the last year, I spend 40 minutes and 55 slides telling a roomful of senior executives about a trend that was “on approach.” Trend X emerged sometimes in the 1960s and was now moving...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Twitter and malaria fight poverty: It’s...
Child receiving a vaccination. Photo by PV2 Andrew W. McGalliard [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s official because it’s in the Financial Times, in whose pages in November 2013 I take issue...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sneeze, hiccup, cough
Exceedingly few people (almost none) can write the Chinese characters for the Mandarin word for "sneeze" (dǎ pēntì). I suspect that most people would also get one or both of the characters for...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: O.M.F.G! I Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry....
No doubt you've seen it in your local paper or on the news, or in a Smithsonian blog, or a White House communiqué. We've all just learned that Gargett was wrong all along, that there was never any...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: monkey see…
The monkey is reading about the “three represents“, a direct dig at former General Party Secretary Jiang Zemin. And, if weixin memes are to be believed — if not totally, perhaps partially — then...
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Leiden Anthropology Blog: Fieldwork with my brother as ‘the other’
Why film? Over the past year I have often been invited to show my film Get it?! to a variety of people, varying from health professionals to general audiences to policemen, civil servants, and people...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Not only jailing journalists, Turkey tops Google...
Turkey tops Google content removal request list Government requests to remove content from Google continued to rise in the first half of this year Censorship (Photo credit: IsaacMao)...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Can you tell the difference between English and Chinese?
… from the pitch contours alone? It should be easy, right? Chinese is a tone language, English isn't, etc. So try it… I've chosen phrases at random from a published collection of Mandarin Broadcast...
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