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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-13

November 13th, 2008 · No Comments

al gore’s assault on reason is an assault on interestingness (is that a word). its liberal cliff notes for idiots #
al gore qua public intellectual…i thought it was lame until i realized that most americans are dumb enough for it to be of some help #
usb 3 is coming out next week? #
http://tinyurl.com/6dljxo newcastle u. [...]

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Gong Li became a Singaporean and some Chinese people are pissed

November 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

What, so this is news today? Well, news in China is always of the form “event+internet reaction,” which itself is some kind of recursive phenomenon, especially when there are naked or scantily clad people involved–with violence, corruption, repression following behind that.
So when Gong Li became a Singaporean, as they tell us she has (her husband [...]

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Music I’m listening to: Dido’s “Safe Trip Home”

November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve never been a Dido fan, i don’t even know the name of any her songs save that “White Flag” one, but I did download her recent one. And although there are many nice tunes on it, there is one in particular that sticks out. The song is called “Look No Further” and i suppose [...]

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Should Uighur use the latin or slavic alphabet?

November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

That’s the debate going in one of the bbs threads on uighurbiz and something that i am altogether not familiar with. Of course I don’t know much about what happens in that region at all, but that is what informative sites like New Dominion are for.
According to the posters, who are writing in Chinese, [...]

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