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Plagiarism in Thai Universities
I stumbled upon an excellent article on plagiarism over at Inside Higher Ed: LINK Plagiarism is such a deeply rooted and widespread problem in Thailand, I think it deserves its…
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Our New Thai House Part 5 – The Blessing Way
The end of 2007 coincided with the milestone of 98% or so of the basic house being completed, so we decided to move in on New Years Day. We invited…
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Robogeisha
I can’t decide whether this is a joke or just the queen mother of Japanese B movies: Whatever the case, it gets minus ten points for the mislabeling of a…
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Manzai Conspiracy Theory (not really)
So I didn’t even know about the Two Ronnies until today. They apparently had a show on BBC from 1971. In Japan, Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi formed their manzai…
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Yoshi Ikuzo – Precursor to Japanese Hip-hop (yo yo)
He’s kind of the Grandmaster Flash of Japan, except he didn’t contribute anything to turntablism and he raps in the Tohoku (instead of Bronx) vernacular. Also, he includes kamishibai (link)…
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There were better days..
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Nikkeis from South America paid to leave Japan (and not come back to work ever again)
I’ve really been out of the loop, but this was a really interesting read: Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home Even though the dumbass running the program can’t keep…
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Vietnam destiny
Found this crazy story over at Monkeyfilter about a Vietnam vet who met up, through a series of highly impossible yet seemingly predetermined events, with the daughter of a man…
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Working Around Planned Obsolescence
All of the PCs I’m using at home are ones I brought over from Japan in 2006 so they are all either very well-used or broken now. My main laptop…
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PETARDED
PETA doesn’t like fishmongers tossing fish at the Pike Place Fish Market PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted a fly on live TV PETA needs to hurry up and merge with…
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Learning to speak Thai
Andrew Biggs (I always think of him as the Dave Spector of Thailand although that’s far from being accurate) wrote a couple of great columns over at the Bangkok Times:…
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Oh My Pakuri
This is funny but for most of it you need to be able to read Japanese. Thanks to T for turning me onto these on YT.
