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As a follow up to Primary Day, I voted on Runoff Day. As reported, Bill DeBlasio is the Democratic candidate for public advocate and John Liu is the Democratic candidate for comptroller. More importantly, for NYC history, Liu is on the path to becoming the first Asian American in citywide political position. Time writer Ling [...]

Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims in the Philippines Source: www.google.com On September 26, 2009, Typhoon Ondoy brought a month's worth of rainfall to Metro Manila and nearby areas in just a few hours, causing severe flooding which resulted in the loss of many lives and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. …     http://www.google.com/landing/typhoon-ondoy.html    

LIFE – Google Books Source: books.google.com     All issues of LIFE magazine now online free via Google, and you can search them! Three things I noticed in my birthday issue: co-ed college dorms were really controversial, ads had 200 times more words than they do today, and “Shaky”, the world's most powerful computer at the time, [...]

Fell behind on stuff. I did see “The Informant!” on Sunday — Matt Damon is terribly amusing, but it’s a weird feeling to realize that the way to portray corporate malfeasance and one man’s financial corruption is via comedy. Damon showed how his character was so average, yet clever, and mentally ill (probably). Scott Bakula [...]

Gizmodo Gallery 2009: We're Back For Another Year! – Gizmodo Gallery 2009 – Gizmodo Source: gizmodo.com We're pretty happy to announce that Gizmodo Gallery is returning again after our successful run last year in New York, and this time it will be bigger and better.     Free gallery of tech gadgets this week on Elizabeth St. [...]

I voted on Primary Day; did you? There will be a runoff between John Liu and David Yassky in the NYC Comptroller race. John Liu could be the first Asian-American elected to citywide office. Disclaimer: I had Yassky as a prof back in law school. Further disclaimer: I’m not going to mention who I voted [...]

Try To Remember Source: www.youtube.com From the Taiwanese drama “Silence”- song originally from the Broadway musical The Fantasticks, sign language performed by Park Eun-hye     Today, try to remember    

Another time to remember, as we have done it previously. Things change, but life has moved on, and the worst of our fears hadn’t arisen. Time.com on “The Challenge of Memorializing 9/11” And, from Slate, a photographic look of the skyline, the way it used to be.

As I noted previously, in a vague way, there is an opening in the 2nd Circuit of the US Court of Appeals, and with Pres. Obama nominating Asian Americans for federal district court… well, at least we can hope around here in the NY area of what made happen for that next level: US Senator [...]