Here’s some good background on those red envelopes, Hongbao, shared on Lunar New Year
The modern concept of hongbao emerged in early 20th-century China. Elders would give money wrapped in red paper to children during the Lunar New Year as a talisman against evil spirits, known as sui (祟).
But the gift giving traditions go back to about 200 BCE, way before Santa flew across the world.
Here’s some good background on those red envelopes, Hongbao, shared on Lunar New Year The modern concept of hongbao emerged in early 20th-century China. Elders would give money wrapped in red paper to children during the Lunar New Year as a talisman against evil spirits, known as sui (祟). But the gift giving traditions go…
If this isn’t infectious, I don’t know what is. Questlove drops a trailer for a documentary about 50 years of SNL musical guests.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, at Life is Sacred, found research on non-violent resistance campaigns. Chenoweth and Stephan even discovered something so important here that it gets a name: the 3.5 Percent Rule. Everywhere they looked where a nonviolent resistance campaign engaged the “active and sustained participation” of at least 3.5% of that nation’s population: they won.…
And it’s happened once againI’ll turn to a friendSomeone that understandsAnd sees through the master planBut everybody’s goneAnd I’ve been here for too longTo face this on my ownWell, I guess this is growing upWell, I guess this is growing up Sometimes a cover takes an original in a new direction or changes the weight…
From Sian Cain in The Guardian, You’ve always wondered, here’s the answer: do dogs actually watch TV? “We watch TV for enjoyment, for emotional realism, for whatever personal preferences we have,” Mowat says. “I think dogs watch TV because they’re checking if it is real. “There’s a reason why dogs go over and sniff the…
Mike Davidson writes about the recent Southern California fires in a post titled, 47 Years Later, The Palisades Disappeared Overnight. It tells a story of growing up in a particular time and how Los Angeles overcame its smog epidemic. Plus, his father was a unique position to contribute as a meteorologist. What eventually did it?…
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, Flow really was a magical movie. No talking, just a motley crew…
This was originally posted on reddit a while back, and I’ve been meaning to post it here. The what I wrote 52 short stories across 9 different genres that totaled over 52,000 words. My constraints were one short story every Sunday, at least 500 words, and I’d publish them on my personal website. I’d consider…
A Haiku Garden: Selections from the Everyday Photo Haiku Project is published on Amazon! I created the book, which contains 104 of the most interesting photo haiku from the project. All photos and haiku done on an iPhone (4s then 6).
For some time, I’ve been meaning to play with web friendly mapping and visualization tools such as d3.js, datamaps.js or crosslet.js. D3 is quickly becoming the defacto standard for displaying statistical visualizations on the web, and other libraries are hooking in to add additional capabilities, like mapping. Communicating data effectively is the future, if not…
