Another great business. It seems the t-shirt companies really try the hardest to stand out. Read the yellow one:
Say what you will about commercial radio in the United States – and there are lots of negative things that can be said, especially when it comes to the complete lack of local news, or for that matter much of any other community service beyond remote dance parties – one thing done relatively well is [...]
We love reading the reviews, or blurbs, they place on the video jackets that talk about each movie. Their goal is to convince you to buy the film. Many of them are quite funny. Some of them are just words they know people want to hear – for instance, many family movies say the same [...]
Piracy is alive and well in Indonesia. Not the sort of piracy we read about today off the coast of Somalia, or even more recently closer to India. That’s not to say that Indonesia is not acquainted with piracy on the high seas – this region has a long, colorful history of piracy. Over the [...]
Bad TV writing is not just an invention of the American media. This quote was seen on a television news program’s crawl after the eruption of Mt. Merapi in October: “The death toll has climbed – another person has died.” While any death from a disaster such as this is tragic, the issue [...]
As part of my Fulbright I’m researching famed British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his travels around the Malay Archipelago. Wallace produced a couple of important papers about evolution while he was here, and those papers are the primary focus of my work. Wallace though was also a major collector of the flora and fauna. [...]