Absurdity, Allegory and China

The Kingdom from another angle.

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U.S. Social Networking Pavilion at the Shanghai’s World Expo?

January 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments

A provocative question was posed at DigiCha in the title of a blog post a few days back: Will Google, Facebook and Twitter Please Join as Sponsors of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010
What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st century [...]

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The Truth Will Get You Blocked

June 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments

At approximately 16:57 this afternoon (June 2, 2009) in Tianjin Flickr flickered off. Actually there was no flicker about it. Someone here in China threw the switch and that was that. Twitter too has flown the coop. In the moments leading up to the June 4th Tiananmen Square 20th anniversary China has decided that too [...]

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A poem from The Book of Buddhist Twitters

January 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I. Novitiate
Just Me & Rinpoche
Rinpoche’s dressed in red again,
I’m full of fidget and sitting pains;
he warns it’s all my former lives in hell.
He knows more than I ever can
about making concrete karmic gains;
I just pray for the ringing of the bell.
“So look! Here I am today
together with the Rinpoche
and this is just a tweet to [...]

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