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- Since I came back to Hangzhou on Friday, I've been loving almost every minute. The minutes I don't love are the ones where I'm s...
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They finally have a proposal for the high speed rail lines they're building with Obama's $8bil project. 200mph between SF and LA!
(thanks, Omer!)
All the disposable chopsticks in China
[01 September 2010]
For those of you who laugh at me for carrying around my own chopsticks everywhere:
Begin with China's 1.3 billion people. In one year, they go through roughly 45 billion pairs of the throwaway utensils; that averages out to nearly 130 million pairs of chopsticks a day. (The export market accounts for 18 billion pairs annually.)
Greenp
Arcade Fire: The Wilderness Downtown
[30 August 2010]
This is pretty awesome. An interactive music video written in html5 by the Arcade Fire. It takes you on a trip back home.
Requires Chrome or Safari (and doesn't seem to work on mobile safari).
[http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/#914+Elmwood+Ave,+Wilmette,
What has the world come to. [nsfw]
[30 August 2010]
And I quote:
You want a new female dog* to sexual intercourse
Freedom to Travel
[29 August 2010]
Residents of what countries have the most freedom to travel.
America's not too bad, though I wouldn't mind holding a UK passport. The odd thing is that, while HK isn't too high on the list, most of its residents also hold a UK passport, which puts them at the top.
I'm glad I'm not a Chinese resident. Barely better than being from North Korea.
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Words (Short Film)
[14 August 2010]
Beautiful lilttle short. Reminds me of a more comfortable Baraka.
(via hulkamaniac)
Colorado College
[12 August 2010]
So Forbes has CC ranked as the 51st best school in the country. This is far from what I had thought, but still places us above Berkeley and some other good ones.
Note also that it's the 105th most expensive, which I guess means we got a good deal?
Google directions as song lyrics
[12 August 2010]
I particularly like how to get from west philidelphia to a town called bel air.
(via zf)
Memos from Tiger Oil, Houston
[10 August 2010]
Memos from the boss at Tiger Oil, in 1978. These are hilarious.
And I am so grateful that i don't work for this guy.
(via df)
Which Came First
[15 July 2010]
So a chicken and an egg are laying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette and says "well i guess that solves that problem.
Seriously, though. Isn't half the point of this question that there is no answer?
(via daisy)
NY Times: Pollution in China? What Pollution?
[13 July 2010]
One of the many ways China is so effective at blocking information.
Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China, according to the World Health Organization, and pollution is a key reason thousands of wealthy Chinese emigrate to the West every year, despite the country’s ballooning riches. Expatriates can be
Hacking the Price is Right
[13 July 2010]
Terry Kniess watched every episode for four months to find patterns in the products on The Price is Right. And he nailed the final prize, right on the nose.
(via kottke )
Collective Nouns Illustrated
[25 June 2010]
A great collection of illustrations from various artists of collective nouns. Worth a look through.
(via kottke)
David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
[17 June 2010]
David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, gives a TED talk on how perhaps creativity is the reverse of most people's romantic view. Rather than the passion coming first and the form taking shape later, he suggests that much creativity has the form in mind, and the passion comes later.
Not only is David Byrne a genius musically, but he put together a pre
The Economics of the World Cup
[17 June 2010]
Wow, that's a lot of money.
(via marginal revolution)
On the Safety of Nuclear
[17 June 2010]
Alex Tabarrok of [Marginal Revolution] () writes his response to Obama's address yesterday on the oil spill:
Most important, nowhere did the president mention two hard ideas that the public must accept if we are to move to a cleaner energy future: nuclear power and carbon taxes. Nuclear power is among the cleanest sources of energy, po
Free as in 'Me'
[15 June 2010]
This is an excellent article discussing the use of re-linking to articles, with or without credit, with sometimes bad motives. I feel pretty guilty quoting it here, though because i don't make a dime from this site, I think he'll be cool with it.
Very well worth a read. It's long, but worth it.
The part that really made sense to me, when critic
Coke & Mentos
[13 June 2010]
These guys made a car that went 221ft using nothing but Coke & Mentos! Brilliant!
Calvin minus Hobbes
[13 June 2010]
A look at Calvin and Hobbes if Hobbes actually is a stuffed animal. Kind of depressing.
Bearded Beanie
[13 June 2010]
For those who can't grow one but always wanted to!
(Or for those who just get freaking cold in the winter. I'm getting one when I move back to Chicago.)
Colors
[11 June 2010]
For those of you who don't follow xkcd, the online comic for geeks, I highly recommend it. On his blog, he recently ran a survey. A simple survey which showed a bunch of colors and the participants were to name the colors using any amount of text (for example, "blue" or perhaps "blue
Shanghai: Twenty Years Later
[11 June 2010]
I think seeing something like this for Hangzhounor Kunming would likely break my heart.
Where Smart People Live
[11 June 2010]
Note the difference between the city I was raised in and the city in which I work.
China's Habit
[11 June 2010]
Thtis is disgusting.
Six out of 10 doctors and professors smoke — at work, too, according to Li Xinhua, a tobacco control official at the Ministry of Health. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco kills a million Chinese yearly and that the figure will double by 2020. Lung cancer is up 465 percent since 1980 and ac
How to save the news
[07 June 2010]
A great article on how google is trying to save the journalism industry.
Note also that this page (in The Atlantic) is not cluttered with ads, making it even more enjoyable to read.