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Typhoon Talim is starting to affect us right now, as you can see from the images below from the Central Weather Bureau : Update, 11:23 p.m. ...

Rhetoric doesn't actually get a mention, but the Taiwan News has an article about a discussion group on deliberative democracy that wa...

台籍菁英的搖籃：台中一中 (The Cradle of the Taiwan Elite: Taichung First Secondary School), by 朱珮琪 (Zhu Peiqi). This book is an extensively revised ve...

OK, why didn't anyone tell me that Tesco in Taichung has Dr. Pepper for a mere NT$25 per can? (That's about 77.383 cents US, btw.) D...

Academic Coach has set up a way to help an ABD blogger named "Badger" deal with the medical costs for her terminally ill husband....

I've posted a few article summaries on my "disserblog", Kun zhi ji (困知記) that pertain to intercultural rhetoric. So far the s...

This evening I finished reading 走出白色恐怖 ( Farewell to the White Terror ) by 孫康宜 (Sun Kang-i). As I mentioned earlier , her father was arreste...

My wife just took the Book Quiz... It's quite accurate, except for the part about "Celeste"... You're Babar the King ! by ...

I'm writing interview questions (actually a list of questions to send to a potential interviewee). Lately, my questions have been along ...

You're The Sound and the Fury ! by William Faulkner Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major cris...

After a day of working on my dissertation, reading and writing (mostly reading) and struggling in spots with where I want it to go and how I...

Went to 7-Eleven this evening and picked up 3 books I had ordered from 博客來網路書店 (which translates "Berkeley Internet Bookstore", a...

" Locally-Scaled Rhetorics " ("What changes when we rename/reframe what formerly went by the name 'public rhetoric...

According to Professor Camicao , even getting that book published and getting tenure doesn't help you if you really care about the idea ...

I love to hear about old dictionaries or encyclopedias that people come across, so was interested to read this entry by Konrad Lawson about...

Mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was at work preparing a presentation for the ISHR conference in LA. I'm still at it and the conf...

In the latest Chronicle of Higher Education , Donald Hall writes about faculty life in U.S. and European universities. Some of what he ment...

Netcraft reports that PHP-based blogging programs have been found to have a security hole: Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and conten...

Image of run-off from the scene of Sunday's fire (from Yahoo!-Kimo News) Here are a couple of articles in the English-language newspaper...

Turned on the news earlier this afternoon to hear that a big fire was going on at a chemical plant in the industrial park near Tunghai. Thic...