My jaw dropped when this ad appeared on the German technology magazine c’t. The top caption reads: “Lexware reigns.” The bottom one says: “When the bookkeeping is in order, the whole business is in order. All you need is a proper piece of software.” Lexware is a German software company specialized in personal/business finance software, [...]
YouTube has been everyone’s favorite soap box for quite some time now. For anyone who lives in a country where TV programs are just painful to watch, YouTube is such a lifesaver. Not only is it a great source of information and misinformation, it’s also a practical platform for citizen journalism. It has been so [...]
UPDATE (05/23/08) I tried to leave a comment on xenutv2 but kept getting an error message. UPDATE (05/22/08) Last week I asked Google and YouTube press support (and another Google employee) whether their Scientology channel was paid. The channel was listed in the “Sponsors” section of the site, for one thing, and Scientology has been [...]
Have a look at this ad from Intel. I followed some of the discussions in the blog community and tried hard to believe this is not racist. I can’t. Responses claiming this is not racist: If you think this is racist, you are a racist because you are not color blind. There are no women [...]
I just finished reading the wonderful American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. The graphic novel opens with Monkey King attending a dinner party in heaven with the gods. Monkey King is a fictional character from the Chinese Classic novel Journey to the West written in the 1590s. The wildly imaginative fantasy story chronicles a [...]
