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http://www.blogday.org

I have celebrated the blog day since 2006.

I don't know the origin of this day, but it is just for fun.
Here goes the rules on the official site :

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org

It reminds me the mail fraud of fortune letter so I don't want to alarm to recommanded bloggers.

Actually, I posted the same thing of Korean version in my Korean blog, but I skip it here because the blogs are written in Korean.

OK. Here's the recommanded blogs :
http://my.opera.com/ricewood/blog/
He is Danish. Most of his posts are personal, but many of them are very interesting. So popular, there are many comments of other people.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Krugman's blog. He posts very enthusiastically. There are many interesting posts, so I refer to some of them.

http://www.socialfiction.org/
The title of blog is always changed when visited. The blogger seems to be interested in civilization and evolution. I can't imagine his/her characteristic.

http://dbqp.blogspot.com/
I've never heard about the visual poetry, until visiting this blog. The blogger seems to be interested in the art of text and letters.

http://my.opera.com/kiyoshi/blog/
She is japanese. There are many emotional posts. I can visit other cultures in here.

Sulkyunsel is a very famous essay in Korea. The title "Sulkyunsel(슬견설)" means "A discourse about louse and dog". The writer, Kyubo Lee(이규보, 1168-1241) lived in Goguryeo Dynasty which is the ancient kingdom of Korea.

I tried translating this essay :


----------------Translated Sulkyunsel-------------

One guest came to me and said

"I saw a horrible scene yesterday. A bad guy was hitting a dog with a bat, and it was so cruel that I was greatly sorrowful. Therefore, I swared I would never eat any meat of pig or dog."

After that, I answered

"A bad guy was catching and burning lice with a brazier, and it was so cruel that I was greatly sorrowful. Therefore, I swore I would never catch or kill any lice"

Then, the guest was disappointed and said angrily,

"Lice is worthless life, isn't it? I saw a big dying animal and felt sorrow, but you answered with lice. You are kidding me."

Hence, I think I had to explain my opinion.

"Of course, no creatures with vitality and blood wants to die including cattle, horse, swine, sheep, bug, ant and so on. It is not true that big ones want to live and small ones want to die. Therefore, there is no difference between the death of dog and louse. Therefore, I didn't intend to ridicule you but answered like that using this comparison. Bite all of your ten fingers. Do you feel pain only from thumb and nothing from others? All of these are parts of one body and each has its own skin and muscle. Hence, these pains are equal. As a life with vitality and vigor, how can it be possible that someone wants to die and other wants to live? Go back and think deeply. When you regard tentacles of snail as horns of bull and small birds as great phoenixes, I will be willing to talk about Tao with you."

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