Xinhua has an interesting opinion piece about the recent unbanning on mobile phones and computers in Cuba. First, the title of the article: ?????????? meaning “Starting with the freedom from want”. The political significance of the phrase “freedom from want” comes from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union address, and comes, as we say [...]
Entries from August 2008
Xinhua, Cuba, and freedom from want
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: China
Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
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Well, i think that’s the name of the bridge, but too lazy to look it up now. IT was a beautiful day, after the rain and sleet were finished: with clear [...]
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China is the coolest country in the world?
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
At least that’s what it said on some guy’s T-shirt. I passed by a guy wearing a white T-shirt on which was written, in black letters, “Game On! China is the coolest country in the world…” I think there might have been another phrase in there as well, but i don’t remember now.
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Portishead’s Third
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Portishead’s latest album isn’t really trippy or hoppy. Pehraps I’ve just been out of the loop since their first album was released ages ago (haven’t followed them closely since, though I did like that album quite much); but they deifnitely have evolved into something differenet altogether. In this album the massive trip-hop machinery behind vocalist [...]
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