March 26, 2012 • 753 notes • bombing
fivefootway: more of hong kong

fivefootway:

more of hong kong

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January 2, 2012 • 1 note
#bukitbrown #singapore #sgig (Taken with instagram)

#bukitbrown #singapore #sgig (Taken with instagram)

January 2, 2012
#bukitbrown #singapore #sgig (Taken with instagram)

#bukitbrown #singapore #sgig (Taken with instagram)

January 2, 2012 • 8 notes • fivefootway

fivefootwaybroadcast:

They lived on a floating village and didn’t have any field to play football. So they built one. TMB Panyee FC is now one of the best teams in Southern Thailand. True Story.

Reclaim your city and make the difference. 

January 2, 2012 • 3 notes • alternative-route
alternative-route: Fireworks by Birdman of El Paso on Flickr.

alternative-route:

Fireworks by Birdman of El Paso on Flickr.

January 2, 2012 • 552 notes • hyperform
January 1, 2012 • 5 notes • alternative-route
alternative-route: M for morning by CoolbieRe on Flickr.

alternative-route:

M for morning by CoolbieRe on Flickr.

January 1, 2012 • 1 note
Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic erudition, to connect their thinking with earlier traditions of social and technological criticism. They desperately need to believe that their every thought is unprecedented. Sometimes it seems as if intellectual life doesn’t really thrill them at all. They never stoop to the lowly task of producing expansive and expository essays, where they could develop their ideas at length, by means of argument and learning, and fully engage with their critics. Instead they blog, and tweet, and consult, and give conference talks—modes of discourse that are mostly impervious to serious critique.
Evgeny Morozov in The New Republic
December 30, 2011 • 10 notes
#sgig

#sgig

December 30, 2011 • 2 notes

My Person Of The Year 2011 is…

TIME Magazine has crowned “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year 2011. I’m not sure I agree. Protestors differ in their motivations, sacrifices and commitments. To lump them as one and crown them all… I can’t help but feel it’s a bit of a cop-out.

The old lady who stopped to rescue little Yue Yue who was run over in a crowded Chinese market would be My Person Of The Year in 2011. In a year often plagued by hopelessness (Eurozone, Durban, and yes, even in that crowded Chinese market), her actions provided hope. And in a year marked by protests, the lady was the antithesis of “The Protester”: Her “rebellion” was but an act of human decency, nothing heroic.

Her ordinary, wrinkled face would have looked good on the cover of TIME.

October 4, 2011 • 4 notes

So you won’t pay for a newspaper?

Musings on the pay wall View more presentations from TzeYong

October 3, 2011 • 484 notes • life
life: In a W. Eugene Smith photo that, somehow, captures both tenderness and horror, a U.S. Marine cradles a near-dead infant that the Marine found wedged, face down, literally under a rock while clearing out Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. Hundreds of Japanese civilians in the islands committed suicide rather than surrender to the Americans. see more — In Combat: LIFE’s Great War Photographs

life:

In a W. Eugene Smith photo that, somehow, captures both tenderness and horror, a U.S. Marine cradles a near-dead infant that the Marine found wedged, face down, literally under a rock while clearing out Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. Hundreds of Japanese civilians in the islands committed suicide rather than surrender to the Americans.

see more — In Combat: LIFE’s Great War Photographs

August 24, 2011

Something for Singapore’s next president to think about

Got this in my inbox today. 

Sender: Barack Obama

Subject: Dinner?

Friend —

I’ve set aside time for four supporters like you to join me for dinner.

Most campaigns fill their dinner guest lists primarily with Washington lobbyists and special interests.

We didn’t get here doing that, and we’re not going to start now. We’re running a different kind of campaign. We don’t take money from Washington lobbyists or special-interest PACs — we never have, and we never will.

We rely on everyday Americans giving whatever they can afford — and I want to spend time with a few of you.

So if you make a donation today, you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to be one of them. Please donate $5 or more today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinner-with-Barack

We’ll pay for your flight and the dinner — all you need to bring is your story and your ideas about how we can continue to make this a better country for all Americans.

I always look forward to meeting supporters like you — and this will be the kind of casual meal among friends that I don’t get to have as often as I’d like anymore, so I hope you’ll consider joining me.

But I’m not asking you to donate today just for a chance to meet me. I’m asking you to help us build this campaign if you believe in the kind of politics that gives people like you a seat at the table — whether it’s at the dinner table with me or the table where decisions are made about what kind of country we want to be.

It starts with a gift of whatever you can afford.

Please make a donation of $5 today, and we’ll throw your name in the hat:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinner-with-Barack

I’ve said before that I want people like you to shape this campaign from the very beginning — this is a chance for four people to share their ideas directly with me.

Hope to see you soon,

Barack

August 22, 2011 • 534 notes • life
life: In 1969, 27-year-old Capt. Muammar Gaddafi overthrew the king of Libya in a bloodless coup, promoted himself to Colonel, and declared the country a socialist state. Ever since, he’s remained one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and a man of profound contradictions. He describes Libya as a popular democracy, but his word is law. He has sponsored terrorists and violent revolutionaries, but has frequently acknowledged his actions while avidly courting Western approval. see more — Gaddafi: The Last Supervillain? Wow, you would never have imagined, looking at this pix…

life:

In 1969, 27-year-old Capt. Muammar Gaddafi overthrew the king of Libya in a bloodless coup, promoted himself to Colonel, and declared the country a socialist state. Ever since, he’s remained one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and a man of profound contradictions. He describes Libya as a popular democracy, but his word is law. He has sponsored terrorists and violent revolutionaries, but has frequently acknowledged his actions while avidly courting Western approval.

see more — Gaddafi: The Last Supervillain?

Wow, you would never have imagined, looking at this pix…

August 21, 2011
#Sunset #sgig (Taken with instagram)

#Sunset #sgig (Taken with instagram)