first morning in beijing. no windows in hotel, decreases motivation to do anything. must get out of here. #
http://tinyurl.com/6pz2h2 Shanghai expo 2010 tickets on sale Sept 28, price=160 rmb #
eating mexican at lugas. pouring rain made awning collapse. i survived. #
apple store in beijing: haven’t gone in yet but it looks awesome #
angola, please don’t [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-14
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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Adbusters: Hipsters and the dead end of western civilization
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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters via kwout
OK so this writer lays it on a bit thick, but I think he/she does have a very valid point. He doesn’t see any subculture with cajones, and he/she is right because there is nothing of that sort. Hipsterdom is very much connected, [...]
Some Olympics photos from Marc Aspland of the Times UK
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Olympics in Pictures via kwout
This picture is from the Times UK photographer Marc Aspland: quite nice and painterly. He’s photoblogging the Games but if you’re in China you probably have to use a proxy to read his typepad.com blog.
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我可不是一个阿陆仔
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Nien 生活紀錄 - 阿陸仔呀阿陸仔呀 via kwout
The Taiwanese are always fulla hate for the mainlanders, with good reason at times. However, it’s gotten a bit out of hand–maybe not in the case talked about in the blog above, but because mainland-bashing is now one of their favorite pastimes, and they never say anything positive about the [...]
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Can you buy Opening Ceremony DVDs at the Shanghai Book City?
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
视频:奥运会开幕式DVD上海热卖_视频新闻_新闻_腾讯网 via kwout
According to this report, you can or will be able to soon.
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China: we only hear what we want to hear
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
美国侨报:世界应无恙,当惊中国殊——百度新闻搜索 via kwout
I was looking at this Baidu news page, scanning through some of the headlines. You notice that most of them are about how impressed the world is with the Olympics, with some obligatory fellow-feeling from the overseas Chinese newspapers. You might as well go ahead and call this the “Beijing Consensus”—though that term [...]
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Shanghai Expo tickets to go on sale Sept 28 for expected price of 160 RMB.
August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
上海世博会门票9月28日首发 价格拟160元_社会频道_新华网 via kwout
What is more interesting to me is this weird picture from the Xinhua article where I got this information. Maybe this design image has appeared somewhere else on the internet before, but this is the first time that I’ve seen anything like it, though, like with the Olympics, the Expo is one [...]
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CBC on “man-kinis”
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Want to beat the heat? Try a ‘man-kini’ via kwout
I love fun journalism, or at least pretend to for the sake of not seeming like a totally uptight egghead.
The CBC has a series called “Olympic Vignettes”and this one is about how men roll up their shirts to keep cool. It’s been dubbed the “man-kini”, which [...]
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