Science fiction in Poland has a long history and dates all the way
back to the late 18th Century. Perhaps the best known Polish sci fi
writer of all time is the great Stanisław Lem (1921-2006).

Lem's books
have been translated into over 40 languages worldwide and have sold
over 30 million cop… Read full post »

Some have called him madman, lunatic, visionary.

So who is Huang Mingchuan? Outside of Taiwan, film director HMC (黃明å·) is
not well-known, and even inside Taiwan, he has been relegated to the
sidelines
of the commercial film industry. Even worse,… Read full post »

Oklahoma science fiction writer Jim Laughter — his real name — has
seen the future, and he’s not laughing.

 

In his new novel, the
59-year-old grandfather envisions so-called ”polar cities” for future
survivors of devastating climate change disasters that might direct… Read full post »

Longtime Alaskans might remember a humorous poster called "The Alaska Dryrotta" that made the rounds of Juneau and Anchorage during the 1980s.

The author was listed as "Leinad Moolb," surely a pen name, and he
uncorked the "message found in a bottle floating down the Mendenhall
River on a bright sunny… Read full post »

What I am really trying to emphasize is that this issue is not so much about comfort or preference, but about the brain chemistry of the reading brain. And my hunch is that reading on paper is superior, brain-wise, vs screen reading. Not to say that screen-reading is bad or should… Read full post »

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Earlier this year, I wrote a rather contentious commentary in which I spilled the beans on how celebrities today get stars on the famous Walk of Fame in Hollywood. And I asked the national media to start reporting the back story to the Walk of Fame “awards,” since they are not… Read full post »

Full title is: "Let's Stop Pretending Getting a Star on the Walk of Fame Is a Real" and it's googable now at Google.com, and it's bound to raise some eyebrows here and there, pro and con. Your POV? 

 

Let's Stop Pretending Getting a Star on the Walk of Fame Is… Read full post »

'Truthiness a la Taiwan' called into question by unsigned editorial in Taiwan's most prestigious English newspaper

-- Does Jimmy Lai lie?

TAIPEI -- The Taiwanese news animation shop responsible for the
animated Tiger
Woods car crash video and other "news-in-motion" gems has been slowly
reinventing the n… Read full post »

''GRAND ILLUSIONS: A Christmas Poem for 2010''

 - by Daniel Halevi Bloom (1949-2032_

Gather round my friends, it's time
I've just about reached the end o' the line
The ride's been good, wonderfull, great!
and while it's time, it's not too late
to tell you all, with all my heart:
...no regrets," je n… Read full post »

Bruce Watson tells me:

 

As political correctness working its way into contemporary language, business jargon is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned, rough and tumble crudity. This, after all, is the language of intense competitors, who often pride themselves on their unvarnished, brutal… Read full post »

Floating an idea:

whose time has come: ?

let's call 9-11 day in future years as REBIRTH DAY in the USA, wtih appropriate and solemn, yet forward-looking observances held nationwide in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001. GOOD IDEA? Are other names floating out there? What names?… Read full post »

A rock pop song in Taiwanese....by Wu Bai band, commercial for local store chain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPclskt2HE

Shock news: there is no copyright for the famous Desiderata! Anyone can make a poster or song of it and keep the profits. See the hundreds of YouTube videos now. And Les Crane was sued in 1970s for making CD, will he get money back now? Legal eagles want to know.… Read full post »

Beloved Dead, a poem for peace in 1940, by Max Erhmann, author of the Desiderata (1927)

Before you read this, think VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN, RWANDA, DARFUR
CONGO, 911

"Let nations cease this begging in prayer for peace
As long as one nation is savage, all must remain savage
We humans are not fallen go… Read full post »

Beloved Dead, a poem for peace in 1940, by Max Erhmann, author of the Desiderata (1927)

<i>Before you read this, think VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN, RWANDA, DARFUR
CONGO, 911</i>

<b>"Let nations cease this begging in prayer for peace
As long as one nation is savage, all must remain savag… Read full post »

GO placidly amid the hot links and the distractions,
and remember what peace there may be in unplugging.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons online and never never flame others or engage
in any kind of cyberbullying or cyberstalking.


Key in your truths quietly and clearl/…

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As digital advances continue to transform the global media world day by day, a Taiwanese company, E Ink Holdings, has taken on an important role with its development of E Ink, which is able to render text on e-reader screens. The original goal of creating e-books, of course, was to make…

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Praying for a Pokkuri Moment: ''No Muss, No Fuss''

by Danny Dan Daniel  Bloom (1949 - 2032)

WEBPOSTED -- When it's time to meet your Maker, do you want to hang in there as
long as possible, even if you are bed-ridden and in pain and in an
assisted-living residence, or do you… Read full post »

Roger Ebert the celebrated and cerebral film critic in Chicago tweets on POKKURI: the Japanese term for "popping off" in one's sleep and dying a peaceful queit painless death. RE: ebertchicago: Danny Bloom on "Pokkuri," the Japanese word for popping off suddenly. There's even a Pokkuri goddess. http:… Read full post »

I  want to introduce you today to the word "snailpapers." What's a snailpaper, you ask? These are the newspapers we read every day with news that is often 12 hours old by the time it reaches us. Inside, the news is even older.

Maybe you are reading this commentary in… Read full post »

Some novel uses for snails, or why the term "snailpapers" for print newspapers is  a step backwards for mankind, and yet at the same time, a step forward into the future of backward thinking, and still, at the very same time, a cute way to think about our daily ritual of… Read full post »

Do you still read your daily snailpaper, and does this cute cartoon by Mary Susan MacDonald in Toronto remind you of your own daily ritual of going to the door to find your snailpaper being delivered on time, but with news inside it that is 12 hours old......?

Is the
New York… Read full post »

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Vatican Museum, Michelangelo's Pieta. 1971. Rememher......

 

Ask me why he did it and where he is now.... Read full post »