Anarchocyclist

hey all. just letting you know that these days i’m mostly blogging about language learning, over at Language Fixation.

Here’s a little taste of the articles i’ve been reading online lately. Firstly, i’ve been curious about what obama is gonna do as the new emperor of the world. I think it’s a good bet that the character of his appointees will indicate his direction. Along those lines, check out what Paul [...]

While the news here seems to be about russia invading, there seems to be less attention on the US training and military partnership with the free-market-loving georgian government. Their military expenditures have increased drastically lately, and the region is of strategic importance for oil pipelines. Here are two articles that i read today, [...]

Someone just sent me a link to a really interesting analysis of the politics of the latest batman movie. I thought it was quite insightful. The author writes about the joker as commentary on terrorists, supposedly just insane with no plan, hating our freedoms. Batman is shown to be a white male [...]

As i mentioned previously, radio canada has some really excellent mandarin content. The link i gave before was to a flash player version, which has several different shows listed in it. But for those of you who (justifiably) are annoyed at flash, there’s also a podcast xml file for one of the [...]

I’ve been hunting around for sites with lots of chinese material to listen to, and i think radio canada has the best stuff so far. BBC world service had some stuff, but you need realplayer to listen and it’s broken in firefox3 beta on windows (which i have to use at work), plus all [...]

Just in case you’ve never heard about all the shady things that the political police do, check out this article about the FBI using paid informants to infiltrate vegan potlucks. Yes, that’s right, if you don’t want to eat animals, then the government basically views you as a terrorist. Relatedly, there’s also [...]

So we’ve mostly sorted out a lot of details about our house, and we’re beginning to focus more on the garden. So far we’ve nearly covered the back yard in cardboard (and we’ll be putting more layers of cardboard and newspaper on top), and i’m searching for sources of dirt or compost to stick [...]

So everyone has moved into the new house, and we’ve sorta sorted things out now. 6 of us total, and everyone seems quite interested in the garden project. I’m thankful we haven’t put anything in the ground yet though, since it just snowed last night. For those who don’t know the climate [...]

I just found an interesting article on current events in India, called “From Champaram To Rajghat : A Pilgrimage To Save Seeds, The Land And Our Farmers“, by Vandana Shiva. In it, she compares the current corporate practice of patenting seeds and forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year instead of saving them, [...]