The international call-center outsourcing thing gets a lot of bad press, so apparently Dell is making a PREMIUM domestic support service. For $12.95 a month, you can speak to an American support tech rather than an Indian one.
Angry Asian Man characterizes it as an example of the Western superiority complex.
This woman makes extremely elaborate bentos for her son. I don't know why, but I'm guessing Betty Friedan would offer suggestions.
EDIT: When I did a google search on the title of this post, I ran across this:
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NY Times article about a Cambodian deportee from the US who was able to naturalize and now runs a school and breakdance studio for underprivileged kids in Cambodia.
Yeah, shafted by the US government, helps poor kids, AND breakdances. This is one of the coolest guys of the century. Read the story.
This article is not exactly illuminating and intellectual, but it is definitely worth it for the video appended to the end of the article.
Sungkyunkwan ranks first in post-graduation employment rates, among Korean universities.
If they had a football team, it would probably be the Fighting Confucians. Which would be awesome.
[I considered making this a regular feature, but I don't have the patience to look up interesting vocabulary words every day.]
맞장구를 치다: give responses that make a conversation go smoothly
It's really hard to get used to all of these simple phrases with very specific but difficult to translate meanings. Such is life for the language student . . .