Africa Liberation Day in Accra, Ghana
Michael GallagherSunday will be the 50th anniversary of Africa Liberation Day, a meeting which initially took place in Accra, Ghana in 1958 and is now celebrated throughout Africa as a holiday…
Bundle wrap
I am spending the day packing for my trip tomorrow. Since I have take so much of the actual equipment as carry-on, this leaves me with my suitcase for everything…
Aluka, Timbuktu and the New York Times
Aluka has been featured in a New York Times article about its digitization efforts with the Islamic Manuscripts of Timbuktu, a project that is only starting to appear on the…
Aluka in the NY Times: Timbuktu
Sorry for the shameless work related plug, but Aluka is in today's New York Times with a good article about its digitization efforts with the Islamic manuscripts of Timbuktu.Be sure…
Untenable
This life is untenable,an elm in a plastic pot.A thrush of grass bendingbefore the oncoming cyclone.A brilliant spectacle.
July 2006, on the East Coast of Korea
The dark lapping watersoff Samch'ok,endlessly tidingsoothed me to sleep,in turn fueling fitful dreams.Water intersected thought and purpose,and I focused,in a rare moment of Zen,on the barbed wire in the waterand…
A map that cost his life
I am referencing this from another blogger, which can be read here, who got the information from Wikipedia, which can be read here.This Korean cartographer, Kim Jeong-ho (김정호) wanted to…