SALDEF calls on community support for hate crime victim

A few months ago, I wrote about Florida hate crime victim Kanwaljit Singh, who was followed after closing up his convenience store and shot six times while driving over a bridge -- targeted for wearing a turban in accordance with his Sikh faith. Fortunately, he survived and is slowly on his way to a full recovery.

The person or people who attacked Mr. Singh have yet to be apprehended. The FBI and local law enforcement are still investigating the incident and have released information about the missing suspect truck: S-10 or GMC Sonoma-style truck, single-cab, dark blue or black truck with a license plate and Ford decal or emblem on the right rear bumper: Florida Sikh Shot While Driving Fears Loss of Business, Suspects Remain at Large

Fund This: Code Monkey Save World

Hey, fellow geeks! Just want to make sure you knew about Code Monkey Save World, winding down the final hours of its Kickstarter campaign. The project is a graphic novel collaboration based on the songs of popular internet singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton, written by our friend Greg Pak, and drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa. It's already successfully met its fundraising goal many times over, so this is your chance to get in on this.

Code Monkey Save World got started when Greg sent a tweet to his old college friend Jonathan Coulton about writing a supervillain team-up comic based characters from his music. They crafted the tale of Code Monkey, the put-upon coding monkey from the eponymous Coulton song, as he teams up with the lovelorn supervillain from Coulton's song "Skullcrusher Mountain." They have adventures.

Here's the video with some more details:

Ming-Na Wen kicks some ass in the Agents of Shield teaser

Marvel fans, check it out... Over the weekend, ABC dropped this badass 30-second teaser for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a new action TV series spinoff based on the international peacekeeping organization seen in last summer's The Avengers and, of course, Marvel Comics. The show, which was officially ordered to series last week, features Chloe Bennet and Ming-Na Wen, who you get a quick glimpse of in the teaser:

Son surprises mom with a house for Mother's Day

So... this guy wins Son of the Year. For years, Mike saw his mom toil through long hours, financial hardship and health problems. From battling cancer -- and beating it -- to losing her home in the economic downturn, she's been through the wringer, and after all that, she lives in a shared apartment and works seven days a week to provide for her family. So this Mother's Day, Mike surprised her with something special.

He bought her a house:

This couple survived the Aurora movie theater shooting. Exactly one year later, they're getting married.

Eugene Han and Kristin Davis were among the 58 victims who were wounded during the deadly movie theater gun attack in Aurora, Colorado last July. To commemorate their survival, the couple is getting married on the one-year anniversary of the shooting: Couple that survived Aurora movie theater shooting to marry exactly 1 year after the attack.

Eugene was shot in the knee and hip in the attack, when alleged shooter James Holmes opened fire during a crowded midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. He still has bullet fragments inside his body. Kristine suffered scratches when Eugene pushed her to safety.

Rather than let July 20, 2012 be haunted by memories of the attack, the couple has purposely decided to associate the anniversary with a positive memory -- they're getting married:

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An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets in America: This is The Geography of Hate -- a cartographical collection of every geotagged tweet in the continental U.S. between June 2012 and April 2013 in which the word "chink," "gook," "nigger," "wetback," "spic," "dyke" "fag," "homo," "queer" or "cripple" was used in an explicitly negative way.

Mother's Day Is All About Families: "This Mother's Day, I urge Congress to think of their own families -- the multiple generations that will come together to honor their mothers, aunts, married daughters, and sisters -- and remember the responsibility we as a nation have to the rest of the mothers and families in our communities."

How Kickstarter Turned a Tweet Into a Geek's Dream Project: Comic book scribe Greg Pak recently joined forces with his old college buddy, internet singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton, to create an original graphic novel Code MOnkey Save World -- successfully funded through Kickstarter many times over.

Poor Little Tiger Cub: The first major study of tiger moms is out. The kids have worse grades, and they are more depressed and more alienated from their parents.

34 Signs You Grew Up Filipino: Hoy! From karaoke at family gatherings, spam and eggs for breakfast, and sending cardboard boxes of goods to the motherland -- here are 34 clues that you grew up Filipino.

The Role of Asian Greeks Today: The first Asian American frat was formed in New York to combat racial discrimination. In the 1940s, Japanese American women in SoCal formed a sorority in the face of anti-Japanese sentiments. So what's the role of Asian Greeks today?

This Week's Angriest Posts

Not necessarily the angriest, just the most viewed.

Columbia football player charged with hate crime assault

What does this racist video have to do with recycling water?

Man clings to hood of moving car to stop hit-and-run

Mike Song's mom is cooler than your mom.

Five killed in bachelorette party limo fire

A long time ago, when Star Wars characters were mythical Chinese warriors

Steven Yeun joins the cast of I Origins

82-year-old Sikh man attacked in brutal hate crime

Judith Hill is "Feeling Good" on The Voice

Angry Reader of the Week: Gloria Lee

Hell of a week. Stay Angry.

East West Players presents Chess, May 9 - June 9

Chess is a musical about a love triangle between two chess players, an American and a Russian, during the Cold War. Former ABBA bandmates wrote the music and Tim Rice wrote the lyrics. If you're in Los Angeles this month until June 9th, you can catch the East West Players production at the David Henry Hwang Theater. Here's some more info:

Angry Reader of the Week: Gloria Lee

Hey, good people. Here's what's up. It's time to meet the Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, and this is a way of showing some appreciation and attention to the people who help make this blog what it is. This week's Angry Reader is Gloria Lee.

Man clings to hood of moving car to stop hit-and-run

No, this is not a death-defying stunt from the latest Fast & Furious movie. This is real life, and that's a man trying to stop a driver from fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run accident... by hanging the hell on to the hood of her moving car: Video shows man clinging to car after hit-and-run.

This is the wild ride of Elton Kim of Roswell, Georgia. He took matters into his own hands when a woman backed into his wife's car in the parking of lot of their dry cleaning business, then tried to speed off. The woman drove for two miles with Kim clinging to her car, and the incident was caught on video by a passing driver:

What does this racist video have to do with recycling water?

Oh hellll no. Racist video alert. This one doesn't come from dumbass frat dudes or a ditzy college gal. This one comes courtesy of the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works: City Of LA Department Of Public Works Under Fire For Producing Controversial Video Mocking Asians.

The video, shot at the Japanese Garden at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, shows a guy in yellowface dressed as a geisha, doing the usual tired-ass Asian accent mockery. This is all somehow supposed to teach viewers about using recycled water -- and is paid for by taxpayer money. Yeah. Watch:

"Thank You, Mom"

Happy Mother's Day! In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mother's Day, 18 Million Rising has launched the #TYMom (Thank You Mom) campaign. This includes a sweet video featuring folks thanking and expressing their love for their awesome moms (I'm in there somewhere too). Check it out:

John Cho is back on the bridge in Star Trek Into Darkness

Excited for Star Trek Into Darkness? Director JJ Abrams summer sci-fi action sequel is just about ready to hit theaters, and John Cho is back at the helm of the starship Enterprise as Hikaru Sulu. Here's a brief behind-the-scenes featurette with John talking about his return to the franchise's space-faring adventures:

Columbia football player charged with hate crime assault

At Columbia University, a football player is accused of a hate crime after he allegedly assaulted and threatened an Asian student with racial slurs: Columbia University Football Player Charged With Hate Crime.

The victim, a 19-year-old Asian student was leaving a dorm with two female friends when the suspect, defensive lineman Chad Washington, heckled the women. When the victim tried to defend his friends, Washington followed him, called him racial slurs, and shoved him against a wall.

Washington now faces a misdemeanor charge of aggravated harassment as a hate crime:

13-year-old meets bone marrow donor who saved her life

Don't tell me that registering to be a bone marrow donor doesn't make a difference. It makes a difference. Leukemia survivor Vicky Tran is living proof. Last week, on the one-year anniversary of the bone marrow transplant operation that saved her life, 13-year-old Vicky met her donor, Vincent Pan, in person for the first time: Bone Marrow Donor Meets Girl Whose Life He Saved.

Internships with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Check it. The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Washington, D.C., offers part-time and full-time internships during spring and fall semesters and full-time internships during the summer.

Interns at the Initiative are responsible for assisting the staff in researching a wide range of AAPI issues, including education, health, sustainable neighborhoods, economic development, civil rights, and labor and employment. In addition, interns will help write policy memos and proposals, coordinate events, and conduct outreach to national and local AAPI organizations, elected officials, and ethnic media outlets.

The application period for summer interns has passed, but you might be able to get in under the deadline (May 15) for the fall session. Here are some more details on how to apply:

New Music: Mint Condition Mixtape by Azuré

Some fresh new sounds... Bay Area rapper Azuré just dropped his latest mixtape, Mint Condition, and it's good stuff. It's some of that feel-good hip hop, with Azuré's cool flow and features from Na(T)ive Son, Dave Steezy, Allie Yamaguchi. Here's the previously released music video for "Slow Motion" featuring LV:

Nicole Wong appointed White House internet privacy adviser

This week, news broke that President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter's legal director, to be the White House's first chief privacy officer: White House picks Twitter lawyer as Internet privacy officer.

Wong is a respected Silicon Valley attorney with more than a decade of experience in copyright and privacy law, dealing with technology issues at both Twitter and Google. According to CNET, she will take on a new position as senior adviser to White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park.

They call her "The Decider," and it looks like she's got her work cut out for her:

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings National PBS Broadcast Premiere, May 10

Make plans, set your DVRs and take note that the the PBS national broadcast premiere of Life on Four Strings, a documentary portrait of ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, is going down this Friday, May 10 at 9:00pm (check your local listings). Three years in the making, award-winning filmmaker Tad Nakamura tells the heartfelt story of a musical sensation whose instrument of choice happens to be the ukulele. And he totally shreds. Take a look at the trailer:

Judith Hill is "Feeling Good" on The Voice

In case you missed The Voice... Here's vocalist Judith Hill, reppin' Team Adam, with an awesome rendition of "Feeling Good" on this week's edition of the NBC singing competition. Ladies and gentlemen, Judith has got the goods. You know I am a fan. Holy smokes, can she sing her ass off. Behold: