The Ministry of Transportation in Taiwan has a campaign starting from today until July 15 for reporting road sign mistakes. You can win up to NT$3,000 in prizes if you call or write to them providing info on where exactly the mistakes are. English spelling and usage mistakes seem to be the most common ones.…

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Laura Goodwin has an interesting take on Captain Kirk’s spanking habits . . . it seems the guy is always bending someone over his knee . . . male or female . . . ostensibly to "teach ’em a lesson" in manners but obviously there’s a good dose of sexual excitability in the good captain’s…

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Cancer tops the list for killers in Taiwan, around 27% of all deaths here are from cancer. See the article for the specifics. One thing that got me in the article is that Suicide is a top ten killer. Suicide. There are a LOT of people taking their own lives here. Suicide should be a…

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The Olsen sisters are now eighteen. The creepy countdowns can stop and we can be spared that particular homage to creepality. Howard Stern will just have to shut up or put up . . . I’m hoping for the latter but with a stern putdown on Stern from the Sisters Olsen . . . his…

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Dr. Omed of Dr. Omed’s Tent Show Revival fame is amazed and his wife amused to find that his Nun of the Week posts have been discovered by others . . . enough folks visit his site to push its ranking sky high. Well, that’s one of the reasons I go there. Of course, while…

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In the Standard . . . one third of English teachers who took the proficiency exam this year failed: In a major embarrassment, 203 English-language teachers must switch to other subjects or face the sack in September after failing to meet the government’s language proficiency requirements. That represents a third of just over 600 teachers…

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