December 2009
7 posts
Democracy now
Last weekend people in 17 of Taiwan’s 25 counties voted for a slew of local candidates. We knew it was election season because when we arrived in August, there were already scads of colorful flags and makeshift billboards featuring the smiling, Photoshopped faces of candidates cluttering roads and overpasses.
(Looks like they like change in Taiwan, too. Behind No. 16 is our building.)
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This video has been making the rounds as Tiger Woods and his traveling lady-circus continue to suck the air out of the news cycle. It’s from the Apple Daily, Taiwan’s juiciest and most popular paper, part of Hong Kong-based Next Media. The paper recently launched computer graphic “reenactments” of shocking news events to draw younger readers. Woods’ weirdly robotic...
The world's greatest rest stop
Aaron and I drove in Taiwan for the first time last week. The freeways were easy peasy. City streets, however, requires video gamer alertness and agility, as scooters dart and weave with abandon and trucks merge in front of one’s Honda Fit, which is just a smidge larger than a Smart Car.
As we barreled south on the 3 freeway, one of the island’s 10 incredibly well-maintained highways,...