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Now that the semester is over, I had some time to go over some of articles in the " Forum " section of the Taiwan News . Two arti...

From the January 21 Taipei Times : Plan divides universities A proposal championed by the Ministry of Education's higher education dep...

I'm a little slow in linking to this, but this post from Wil Wheaton's blog cracked me up. His conversation with his kids about why...

Although I've taken the Blogora off my "Other blogs I frequent" list (b/c I don't look at it very frequently anymore), the...

" Satan-Worshipping Bushes? " (from Language Log )

Well, I succumbed to the donut craze that has been sweeping the island recently and stopped at our new local (well, not that local) donut sh...

Found this site-- joshreads.com --via Collin 's blog. Being a Spider-Man fan, I went directly to the posts about the Spider-Man comic ...

There's a little discussion going on at Languagehat about whether or not the popular saying, "The Chinese word for 'crisis...

From The Guardian : "Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Mr Bush said. "'Bring 'e...

Mark Liberman has a post about Dave Barry up on Language Log that includes a sampler of quotable quotes from Barry's "Ask Mister L...

Today was the last day of Intercultural Communication for this semester. We spent the class (and last week's class, too) talking about ...

Yahoo! now has a beta version of a video search engine up and running. Some of the students in my Intercultural Communication class have be...

We're nearing the end of the fall semester here (not a moment too soon), which perhaps explains my recent inattention to this blog. I...

The BBC News has several articles about the slow relief efforts in eastern Sri Lanka. The efforts in this part of the country are being hamp...

I see that the Weather Channel "magnet" says it's 45 F right now, with winds at 15 mph (that must be in the city--up here on D...

It's quite possible you've seen this blog already, but if you haven't, The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami weblog provid...

Had dialogue presentations in class today. (For the blissfully uninformed, this is where students write a dialogue, have me correct the gram...

The Christmas parties and dialogue presentations that are going on downstairs are competing with the Scholars Baroque Ensemble recording of...

Which File Extension are You?

We were awakened this morning to a horrendous crashing sound. At first we thought our enemies were finally attacking us directly. (Yes, the ...