Daily Archives: November 13, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-13

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 … Continue reading

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Gong Li became a Singaporean and some Chinese people are pissed

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Should Uighur use the latin or slavic alphabet?

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 … Continue reading

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