a shameful waste of madhouse time

PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News
I noticed something in the weeks after I first listened to “The Giant Pool of Money.” I became a customer for ongoing news about the mortgage mess and the credit crisis that developed from it. (How one caused the other was explained in [...]

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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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Clicking around Google China, I found some stuff that might be of some help as I prepare to head up to Beijing later today.
One of them is the SMS alert function, where you can subscribe to stuff like overall medal count, the weather, and individual sports. I suppose they will just SMS you the results, [...]

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OK, so internet addiction is old hat but I am continually amazed by the stuff that people will do just to get their fix. There are other, perhaps extenuating circumstances: broken homes, parental neglect, problems at school—but some young people in China are really falling through the cracks. Read an article about how an [...]

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I just spotted the Google China translate and tested out of some its functions. Obviously, I don’t know well it translates traditional Chinese into Arabic, because I don’t know much Arabic, but I did try some stuff with English and Chinese.
This first picture shows what happens when you want to translate the word ‘blowjob’ into [...]

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An article from the Berkman Center for the Internet & society regarding teenage girls as “cyberpioneers of the internet”–it refers to a Pew report and a NY Times article on the subject. The whole subject of digital natives is quite interesting, to me. I am not quite one, being 30–the same age as Apple computers. [...]

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came across this on my Google reader…guess the site’s supposed to use video and some other bells and whistles to make you feel like you can shop Shanghai’s stores without actually boarding the plane.

Pearl | Shopping pearl at ShangBy.com via kwout

anyway, you can buy pearls and some other stuff. don’t know if it’s all [...]

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this is just something of a test to see how much of the html and javascript works from within the kwout.

Peijin Chen | Photography via kwout

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OK, so first there were screenshots, and then there were programs that DropimageURL that just turned the whole web page into a picture–and now Kwout (think: QUOTE), where you can screen capture part of the web page—while keeping the links live. I think that’s pretty neat, and so my first date with Kwout seems to [...]

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