The Dinengdeng Debate: Authenticity and Cuisine

The photo was of Dinengdeng as served in La Preciosa in Laoag. Dinengdeng is soupy delight. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin Share by email mlq3 Sat, May 05 2012 21:14:12 0 likes  ·  0 comments Here’s the review by Market Manila, back in 2007. Market [...]

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History and Reality: Part IV, Then and Now

I was struck by the ongoing project of a Russian, Sergey Larenkov. He has juxtaposed World War II photos and their present-day locations, resulting in many haunting images. Only a few places in the world have been fully photographed for Google Street View. So to see how it works I decided to try with places [...]

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History and Reality III: The Landscape of Memory

Seventy years ago, today, on April 8, 1942, a great earthquake took place (apparently magnitude 7.5), on the eve of the surrender of our forces in Bataan: and you can read about it in a young officer’s Bataan War Diary. Continuing on my blog entries on the use of old maps, photographs, data, and even [...]

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History and Reality: Part II: The Grand Sweep of Events

So we started off with overlaying historical maps on Google Earth. Let’s start this entry with our part of the world. Let’s then take this map: The Imperial Powers in the Far East and Pacific, 1941 shared by the UNC School of Education and produced by the United States Military Academy, Department of History. Overlaying [...]

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History and Reality: Part I: Making Sense of Maps

Since the second season of Game of Thrones has started, quite a few viewers and readers will be hunting down maps of Westeros, the imaginary world in which the series takes place. The Map of Westeros belongs to a tradition of Fantasy Maps, which not only help the reader visually navigate the imaginary worlds created [...]

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Pulse & SWS Survey Results on Impeachment

I. Pulse Asia Ulat ng Bayan Quarterly Survey, February 26-March 9, 2012 Pulse Asia’s Summary Share PulseAsia: Story Pulse Asia is pleased to share with you some findings on the Impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona from the March 2… Pulseasia Public Opinion: Answers to Questions Share Pulseasia Wed, Mar 28 2012 [...]

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Tie silk blossoms to the dead tree

(Francisco Goya, The Inquisition Tribunal, circa 1812-1819) Judiciary performs a divine function where ordinary humans decide the fate of others. When this divine function of deciding the fate of others is bestowed in a Judge, we expect him to perform it with the highest standards of scholarship and utmost impartiality. He must be detached from [...]

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Feign Madness But Keep Your Balance: More Heat than Light

‘I know what you’re thinking about,’ said Tweedledum; ‘but it isn’t so, nohow.’ ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’ ‘I was thinking,’ Alice said politely, ‘which is the best way out of this wood: it’s [...]

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Borrow a Corpse to Raise the Spirit: Overlawyering the Proceedings

(Siege of Minas Tirith, by Stephen Hickman) The 14th of the Thirty-Six Strategies, is the second Stratagem for Attack: Borrow a Corpse to Raise the Spirit. By confusing common sense with legal technicalities (the institution of law), the Defense seems to have found a new avenue of attack. The trial has increasingly become about procedures, [...]

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