For sure, it was a wonderful day today. It started out as a very cold, cloudy day, with the lowest temperature reaching 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and a bit drizzly. In the afternoon, however, everything turned great as I visited an unusual event in the city of Bentonville, AR.…
I have to, first of all, admit that I change my mind every so often. Fall last year, in the midst of my frustration with the slowness of my netbook, which had Windows 7 Starter edition pre-installed, I decided to buy and extra memory bar. With that 1…
Gimana ini ya? Sukses saja belum, tapi diam-diam sudah merencanakan beli gigi palsu.
Kebocoran oli adalah hal yang wajar dalam kehidupan bermobil. Nyaris semua mobil tua mengalami kebocoran oli. Hanya mobil-mobil tua luar biasa saja yang tidak. Mater, tokoh utama dalam film animasi Cars dan Cars II produksi Pixar-Disney adalah satu di antara sekian pribadi tua adiluhung yang tidak bocor oli. Sebagai hiburan, saya akan kutipkan di…
Anima Isaiah Esai yang sangat runtut dan berbobot! Jarang-jarang menemukan tulisan untuk portal online yang sesabar tapi setajam ini, sampai-sampai saya nyaris tergelincir merasa sudah mengenal garis besar pemikiran Berlin–biasa lah, perjalanan dari nol menuju satu itu selalu mencengangkan bagi saya. Esai ini merupakan tanggapan Nuruddin atas tulisan…
In studying the culture and religion of African American people, we will get to this famous debate on the continuity of African American culture. On one hand, Herskovitz argues that the African slaves managed to preserve their tradition since the slavery era and thus their religions, although now…
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day I don’t wanna say much. My advisor suggested that I read this book some three or four years ago when I started writing my thesis. I didn’t really do what this book suggested because for some reason I didn’t find…
Those who have had the chance to study linguistics must remember images of “points of articulation” such as this one–which I’ve borrowed from Ambernowak. However, I’m wondering how many of you know that charts like this one actually came from real scientific experiments which involved dozens of X-rays…
How To Keep Malala from Being Appropriated: 5 points on Malala, Obama, and Jon Stewart Again, Omid Safi taps us on the shoulder with his critical wisdom and wise criticism in the midst of America’s, if not the world’s, collective speechlessness before Malala’s words of wisdom. In a…
