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Well, I’m in Daejeon, or as the local tourism board says “It’s Daejeon!” I got in at a bit after 6 pm local time last night and was on the 7:50 pm bus from Incheon Airport to Daejeon. Two and change hours later, I was in Daejeon. My friendly seatmate helped me get a cab and directed me to Chungnam National University, where after my cab driver got rear-ended (slightly), and asked in a combination of Korean and pantomime if…

Greetings from SFO. In 20 minutes I’m going to board a plane bound for Seoul (it’s a 12 hour 40 minute direct flight). Then I’m off to Daejeon for one night, and then back to Seoul for the rest of the week. Thanks to everyone for all their support and help! If you want a postcard from Korea, email me your postal address.

Alright, peoples, here’s where I’m tapping the collective wisdom of the interwebal series of tubes. I’m off to Korea on Saturday and will be there until Sunday, April 29. I’ll be mainly in Seoul, but will also be traveling to Daejeon and Busan. What are things that I can’t miss while I’m there? What should I make sure to do/eat/see? Logistics: Mobile phone: I’m thinking about renting a cell phone, when I get to the airport. But then again, I…

I spent the afternoon making miniature potato knishes to take to a Passover potluck this evening. Happy Passover to all my Jewish friends, and to those who are celebrating just for fun (like me).

The Dominion Post: Pitcairn Island is celebrating the arrival of its newest resident, a baby girl who is the second child to be born on the remote island in the past 21 years. Adrianna Tracey Christian, born on March 3, is Nadine Christian’s fourth child and a ninth generation descendant of Fletcher Christian, the Bounty mutineer who settled the Pacific island in 1790. Because of the difficulty of getting medical treatment on the isolated, inaccessible island, for the past 21…

Wired News: By Cyrus Farivar04.02.07 | 5:00 AM Imagine you could treat cancer by taking a pill, then directing a laser light toward the location of the tumor. The growth would dissolve with no chemotherapy, and no harm to healthy tissue. It might sound futuristic, but a select number of cancer patients already benefit from the method, called photodynamic therapy. An upgrade for the procedure could save thousands more cancer patients from the horrors of chemotherapy. “It’s an approach that…

My Q&A with Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com is now online. For some reason, the San Francisco magazine website sucks and my article isn’t available online. So, you’ll have to make do with Esme’s scan of the piece. If you do manage to get a print copy, apparently there’s a brief bio about me in the front of the magazine.

The Associated Press: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday described bilingual education as teaching “the language of living in a ghetto,” and he mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages. “The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, Gingrich said. The former Georgia congressman, who is considering seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, made the comments in a speech to the…

PC World: It’s been barely a week since the release of the Apple TV, the new box from Apple that allows for streaming video to a television, but hackers from coast-to-coast have already been able to turn the $300 multimedia box into a full-fledged computer. The Apple TV comes with a stripped-down version of Apple’s OS X, but retains many of its basic features, such as directory structure and file format. Hacking the Apple TV is the latest in a…

Shafer had a great piece yesterday on Slate about lying, memory and journalism. He also linked to a piece in The New Republic about how David Sedaris embellished at best and lied outright at worst in many of his crazy stories: Even so, in the end, I decided Kid Sedaris probably did volunteer at Dix. Why? Because I called him and asked. He says he did, and I believe him. During a long conversation from his temporary roost in Tokyo–where…