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english
April 4 to 10, 2005
Outsourcing is giving rise to overworked employees in call centers in India. Rigid
english
linguistic training is making employees question their cultural identity...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't every LCD monitor have these features? http://
english
.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200503/200503160032.htm...
Some songs sung in Simlish are being groomed for mainstream radio play in
english
, like this one...
March 7 to 13, 2005
"I don't see / the point of Haiku / in
english
" - the first(?) haiku poetry slam...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Using Skype (voice over the Internet), John Perry Barlow was called at random by two young women, one in Vietnam and one in Korea, wanting to learn how to speak
english
. Here's his reflections on "th...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A dialect map of American
english
. I had a suspicion that "San Francisco Urban" was a dialect, but didn't know it was official...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Mexican labor is getting too expensive for the U.S. - jobs are now moving to China. You can now buy Mexican trinkets in the U.S. that were made in China...
November 22 to 28, 2004
The story of Mr. Wu, a farmer in Tongzhou, China, who invents robots made with metal, duct tape, and second-hand batteries: http://www.china-pictorial.com/chpic/htdocs/
english
/content/200405/7-2.ht...
November 8 to 14, 2004
BTW, this site ("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken
english
but is also sometimes highly politically incorrect and not worksafe. You've been warned...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Most of the mainstream media's reporting of the latest bin Laden video is pretty narrow. Here's the full transcript: http://
english
.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Time-lapse road trip - LA to New York in five minutes: http://www.lacquersound.com/
english
/opener1.htm...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Chinese net surfers are creating a new language, a mix of Chinese and
english
...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Do you like Jim Woodring's surreal comic Frank? Here's the first animated short based on same: http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/
english
/festival/sakuhin_backnumber/15/frank.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The world's first movie recording on a preformatted holographic disc: http://www.optware.co.jp/
english
/what_040823.ht...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The latest Bulwer-Lytton contest results: http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/
english
/2004.ht...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Samsung's new 3 million pixel camera phone: http://
english
.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200407/200407110024.htm...
June 7 to 13, 2004
For the Euro 2004 soccer championships,
english
fans are encouraged to smoke dope instead of drink alcohol in order to minimize potential riots...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Going through the Frankfurt airport? You may have to look through their new retinal scanning system: http://www.dw-world.de/
english
/0,3367,1446_A_1113690_1_A,00.htm...
August 12, 2003
The
english
to 12-year-old AOLer Translato...
July 16, 2003
Also, the 2003 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which celebrates the world's worst writing: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/
english
/2003.ht...