Forum: Futurists & Theorists
04-11-2013
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,064
eastern premises
A couple of recent samurai films from Japan.
13 Assassins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Assassins) - wikipedia
13 Assassins Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgPC74-Tde8) - youtube
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Forum: Futurists & Theorists
04-08-2013
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Replies: 27
Views: 135,935
mad dogs and englishmen
You don't have to go out in the midday sun to appreciate the full-contact gentility of old-school British entrepreneurship.
The Mission to Siam, and Hue the capital of Cochin China, in the...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
03-25-2013
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Replies: 73
Views: 9,157
foreign mud(dle)
As charming as it is to be treated once again to an article tossing down the “Indo-Pacific” concept like a rattle from a think tank high-chair, the colicky deployment of fabulist buzzwords is neither...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
03-18-2013
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Replies: 687
Views: 72,438
fishers of men
Japan could tender a significant diplomatic coup in the restive region by gifting the Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands to Taiwan, pending a pledge by the PRC to (solemnly) recognise sole Taiwanese...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
03-18-2013
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Replies: 687
Views: 72,438
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
03-13-2013
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Replies: 687
Views: 72,438
Speaking of interests.
Notes On...
Speaking of interests.
Notes On Nationalism by George Orwell (http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat)
A vision of the future... (fiction)...
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Forum: RFIs & Members' Projects
03-10-2013
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,293
'clausewitz guy' speaks
'nuff said, I guess.:)
The Art of Strategy by R.L. Wing (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Strategy-Translation-Tzus-Classic/dp/0385237847) - amazon
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Art of Strategy by RL Wing - Review...
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Forum: RFIs & Members' Projects
03-10-2013
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,293
have sun - will travel
The 1963 hardcover copy of Griffith's translation was usually the first thing I'd throw in a suitcase when travelling, it has wabi. The more recent Denma translation is unusually insightful, in this...
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Forum: Futurists & Theorists
03-09-2013
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Replies: 27
Views: 135,935
two shades of grays
Modern Strategy by Colin S. Gray. Straightforward and readable so far. A useful mainstream foundational primer for the layperson.
Modern Strategy by Colin Gray...
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Forum: Futurists & Theorists
02-28-2013
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Replies: 27
Views: 135,935
what, me horror?
The Silence of Animals, the new offering by international man of misery, John Gray.
The Silence of Animals (http://www.amazon.com/The-Silence-Animals-Progress-Modern/dp/0374229171) - John Gray...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
02-10-2013
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Replies: 687
Views: 72,438
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
02-10-2013
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Replies: 687
Views: 72,438
what a difference a day makes
I love the smell of honesty in the morning.:)
WW II Quotes (http://www.wwiidogtags.com/blog/wwii-quotes/jan-2/) - wwiidogtags.com
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
02-08-2013
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,319
to chill out is glorious
Year of the Snake has tended to be uneventful in the last century. Kong Hee Fat Choy. (http://goodcharacters.com/newsletters/gong-xi-fa-cai.html):)
Previous Year of Snake:
1905 - 1917 - 1929 -...
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Forum: Futurists & Theorists
02-01-2013
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Replies: 27
Views: 135,935
welcome to the magic theatre
It is not for everyone. John Gray's Straw Dogs.
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (http://www.amazon.com/Straw-Dogs-Thoughts-Humans-Animals/dp/0374270937) - Amazon
John N....
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
01-22-2013
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Replies: 8
Views: 990
a little bit of herstory
Indeed. Current scholarship from the Korean Zen lineage suggests that Bodhidharma's teacher, Prajnatara, was actually a Yogini. Fascinating.
Prajnatara: Mother of Zen?...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
01-21-2013
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Replies: 8
Views: 990
nothing comes from nothing
Reading this comment brings to mind another common Chan/Zen saying, sometimes phrased as, "Why did Bodhidharma go to China?".:rolleyes:
The Story of Bodhidharma...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
01-21-2013
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Replies: 8
Views: 990
rub a dub dub
Thanks for posting these. The author displays an exceptional level of writing skill.
As the old story goes, polishing a stone may not make a mirror, but it is possible that it improves the...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
01-11-2013
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,319
fearful symmetry
Interesting architectural discussion of contemporary adaptations of Hakka Walled Village mentioned in post #5.
Hakka vs. Panopticon...
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Forum: Americas
01-06-2013
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Replies: 281
Views: 9,131
don't make amokery
That may have been a marketing gambit to use a somewhat loaded term that was 'exotic' but still in fairly common parlance. The cover hype suggests the publishers were going for a Peter Benchley size...
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Forum: Americas
01-06-2013
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Replies: 281
Views: 9,131
small world
If the protagonist was a fictional former kempeitai in the seventies, he's probably even more fictional now. So you're probably okay. Unless...you're not over seven feet tall perchance?
Amok...
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Forum: Americas
01-06-2013
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Replies: 281
Views: 9,131
amok
Tangentially related but of possible interest is the phenomenon of amok. A Malaysian acquaintance, who was incidentally married to an incomparably gracious Iban lady, once mentioned that the number...
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Forum: Asia-Pacific
01-03-2013
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,319
chiong sua lor
Walao! Now mesti ada 6Cs mah.
Cyber Wargame Centre opens at Singapore Polytechnic...
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Forum: Military - Other
01-03-2013
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Replies: 98
Views: 3,096
i got yer puzzle right here
Better nip this in the bud.
Dorakyura Tsū: Noroi no Fūin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania_II:_Simon%27s_Quest)
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Forum: Military - Other
01-03-2013
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Replies: 98
Views: 3,096
that is the question
Don't ask me. I just work here.
Why Power Corrupts. (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Why-Power-Corrupts-169804606.html?device=ipad#) - Smithsonian - Oct, 2012.
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Forum: Military - Other
01-03-2013
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Replies: 98
Views: 3,096
what a piece of work is man
Enjoy.
Public Opinion on US Torture, 2001-2009 (http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/articles/US_Public_Opinion_Torture_Gronke_Rejali.pdf) - Reed College Symposium Paper
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