Love Scams
My (online) bank sent me the following five-pointed warning message about people online wanting to scam money from me, but there is something suspicious about this because each…
Tag: commodity
Predator journals target ISSH2021 – be warned.
So, a process warning to those not used to getting chatty friendly emails from parasite journals that will charge you to publish. The ISSH2021 conference gets hit by…
Soapbox: on slips and trips.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…
Opium in HCMC
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
Lost in the supermarket
https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war https://norient.com/video/shopping-is-civil-war
The Corporate Menagerie – Thesis Eleven
An article on the malaise that afflicts the UK university system, applicable to the US and Australia too possibly, not wholly tongue-in-cheek and riffing on true stories. Everyone…
Centrifugal Citation Conformity Machine
I was recently in an information briefing (which was very useful) about Web of Science and citations/searches. Here are some thoughts on how the system at present breeds…
Mother of Pearl
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some review snippets lifted from Angela’s blog:…
How to guides… Poppy cultivation
This amazing detailed description is from a book I had been battling to get hold of for a year or more – Amer Farooqui’s “Smuggling as Subversion” 1998:…
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of which an immense, even monstrous, accumula…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Smuggling – of tea to Scotland?
The Commission of Customs Scotland to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, reporting on the subject of trade with India, in 1812, examined Earl, Osborne and Ferrier (traders)…
Enviro-mental-ism
Want Electric Ride.
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…
English heritage trinkets
Apparently on sale at National Trust sites are mugs with this marking underneath. Thanks Katherine S for the pointer. My view is to welcome this as an historically…
Brand PhD. #gnnnngg
Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
Winston
War criminal notes. Someone scratched out his eyes. Apparently when the note is wet and rubbed with a coin, the ink comes off. Still legal tender – money…
Shopping is Civil War (with videos)
Here from the NoOrient site is my commentary on some recent shopping trips… Filed under: commodity, music, trinketization