Sorry, but it's raining. I have no little sarcasm, and no made-up theme, for Hyphen Lynks this week. It's just the news, plus a few undigested opinions, from all over the place. Please feel free to insert your own sarcastic comments below. Or to suggest themes. Above, enjoy a vid of Our Tamlyn expla...

Okay, at the risk of being called one of those whiny minorities for whom you can't ever do anything right, this new development in the Avatar casting issue is ... weird. And problematic. Via Derek Kirk Kim's blog, I found out that M. Night Shyamalan and Co. have booted Jesse McCartney, who was set t...

So. New Year, new Asian American president. New products. New TV shows. New parade. Woo hoo. Yeah, I’m excited but, four days in, the euphoria has kinda worn off. Now what? We don’t have a lot of moving forward news yet this year. Everybody’s waiting for the inauguration, and kinda ignoring th...

Via Broadsheet I saw this story about an Asian Canadian man who has invented a responsive android that can both do complex chores (including read to you), and also respond to touch (including telling you when it feels pain, and slapping you for touching its private parts.) Naturally, this bot is an ...

Why is this man jumping? Well, could be he's just been awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing by the National Endowment for the Arts! That means $25,000, just for him, and all the status and free drinks a poet can stand. The man is Bryan Thao Worra, and he's a Minnesota-based Laotian American poet...

Seems like Asian American educators are in the spotlight these days. From Washington, DC public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee on the cover of this week's Time to principal Edward Tom in Whatever It Takes , a new documentary about a struggling school in the Bronx and its fearless leader. Rhee has ...

Fighting words from Dr. Munawar A. Anees, whose appeal of his sodomy conviction in Malaysia was denied last month. Dr. Anees was caught in the crossfire 10 years ago between the two opposing forces of modernity in Malaysia, and bears this bizarre political scar as a result. This strange story has it...

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is resigning, according to the San Jose Mercury News and other sources. Yang has told Yahoo employees that he will stay on until a replacement is found. Yang is one of the most high-profile Asian American chief executives in the country, and one of the great stories of the Inter...

I was reading a CNN article about gas prices affecting bands that tour around the country. The article featured a photo and some sound bites from San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire - one of the bands that performed at the Hyphen Music Issue release party back in 2006 - who happens to have Ko...

I was on my way to East West Players' 42 Visionary Awards last night (post to follow) when I crossed a major intersection in Hollywood and saw this:  Please excuse the sepia tone. I wasn't trying to be artistic. My kid sister changed it while she was playing with my camera and I was not bad ass...