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Meet Bubbe (Yiddish for “grandma”). She’s 83. She’s feisty. She’s the starlet of “Feed me Bubbe,” this awesome Kosher cooking vodcast. The site’s produced by her grandson — complete with recipes,...
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The annual global warming cruise
This is Vinson Nash, my room mate. He is sitting on the rooftop in winter, wearing a Hawaiian shirt in waist-high snow. It is a warm day, despite the snow. “Welcome to the annual global warming cruise...
View ArticleFriends and lovers — And the Internet
Despite being a product of a innovative age, the Web looks backwards. It is a repository of everything old. I was struck by a strange bout of curiosity today, and I googled my first, for the want of a...
View ArticleMy grandfather's letters
It’s raining like it rains in Singapore. Sweet smell of tarmac and flowers. In the back of my mind, that smell is mixed with Tiger Balm and Axe Oil and mothballs, the smell of my grandfather’s room...
View ArticleLike sending a bottle out to sea
Are you as lonely as I am? Because I am pretty damn lonely. A couple of weeks ago, WordPress introduced a new, short-lived “Surprise me” feature. According to the Times, The idea was that when a...
View ArticleAnother view of home
A community board meeting in Queens revealed, surprisingly, a view of Singapore. Tonight I covered a community board meeting in which entertainment giant Genting was trying to sell its proposal for a...
View ArticleBe afraid. Hackers want you to build an urban farm.
Meet the (m)hackers(?) of Brooklyn. The NYC Resistor turns 3 next weekend! I spoke to Stratos who’s part of their group: “They’re a hacking space where you can go there to learn about electronics and...
View ArticleThe easy mountain
The locals in Yantai, China always asked if I’d gone up the hills on the cable car — it was a source of pride and a symbol of modernity in that quiet coastal town. But one of my best memories working...
View ArticleIn case of fire, run into the garden
Infinite abundance, on demand. The New American Dream. “In the American mind,” writes Chris Suellentrop in Wired, “renters are regarded as an unsavory lot, willful dissidents from the American dream.”...
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Singapore satellite imagery appears online after Home Affairs Minister...
Cryptome publishes images of “prohibited places” available on Google Earth, offers snub to Singapore’s Official Secrets Act. Aerial footage of Singapore’s military sites appeared online hours after...
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