Phnom Penh: Robbers who strike while wearing only underwear, their bodies slathered with oil to make them slippery and harder to catch, have resurfaced in southern Cambodia.
Police thought they had quashed the “underwear gang” last year, with residents starting a community watch program, said Takeo province police chief Sok Tum Sok Tum, but the thieves resurfaced when the villagers stopped. – AP
“Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves “relatively unafraid” of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says.”
“Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.” Read the rest of this entry »
From Shopdrop.org:
“The basic idea is simple: one takes crap from home that they do not need, and places it on display racks in stores. The meaning behind the idea is the creativity that can be put into such an operation. Say one has an old ratty tweed blazer and has no use for it. Use a pricing gun to put a reasonable price on the object, grab a cheap hanger, put it in a department store bag and head to Limited Too. Enter the store, and when nobody’s looking, throw on the blazer. Now is when you casually look at the price tag, look discouraged, take it off, put it back on the hanger and place it on the display rack, among the many pink and baby blue girly teeshirts.” Read the rest of this entry »
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and simulation.”
Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra” in Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, Ed. Brian Wallis (New Museum 1984), pg 262
As of July 2005 froginmythroat has been migrated from phpwebsite 0.7 to WordPress 1.5, an open-source blogging platform which provides the following advantages: Read the rest of this entry »
Cambodian + Blogger = Clogger (see the Clogger Google group)
The Wired article, Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia (July 20, 2005), is about Khmers in Cambodia (as opposed to foreigners in Cambodia or overseas Cambodians) getting into blogs. One such blog is Youth Vision, a blog infinitely more popular than the one you are reading now.
A comprehensive list of Cambodian blogs, expat and local, can be found at the Global Voices wiki in the Cambodia entry.
(NB: This was originally posted to the Sorehand mailing list, August 29, 2002)
Regards dealing with RSI/OOS (Repetitive Strain Injury/Occupational Overuse Syndrome) I haven’t found any cure or quick fix, but have found that a combination of things can make it easier and less painful. It’s a matter of pain management rather than cure.
The following is not regurgitated out of books, but my own actual experience of computer-related RSI and RSI management.
These remedies may not work for you, you will have to find out what does. Read the rest of this entry »
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