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Businessweek on what is wrong with Lenovo ads in the US (and a collection of Lenovo ads)

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Lenovo’s Olympic ads - BusinessWeek
I think they use completely different ads here in China. The sumo wrestler/Xpad 300 ad is this one:

Here’s even more bleeding edge avant-garde one for the Z60:

And here’s a Chinese one featuring Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi from way back when:

This Xpad 300 one is rather tepid by comparison:
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Tags: America · China · computer

Movies that I’ve watched: Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the better movies that i’ve seen in awhile. The film, shot like a documentary, takes place in 1970s America, where the Vietnam War wages and on a cultural schism has opened up between those that support the establishment and those that were against the war. What English filmmaker Watkins did was to add [...]

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Tags: America · movies

Where have all the gringos (of Miami) gone

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Just caught this on iconoculture.com regarding the demographic changes in Miami. As someone that has only been there on vacation, the Cuban and Latino culture was less obvious, mostly because we were in South Beach with tourists from around the world. The rest of what I know is just what I read about anti-Castro folks [...]

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Greenpeace halts illegal e-waste shipment on its way to China

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Just something I saw in China CSR.com…this thing was on the way from Oakland to China. I guess there are some loopholes in Hong Kong law that allow e-waste to get through, even though it’s technically illegal. Technorati Tags: china, greenpeace, hong kong, oakland, US, e-waste, waste, environment, computers, electronics

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Tags: America · China · Hong Kong

Old Stranger article about why musicians are moving from Seattle to Portland…

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I dont know why but Portland has been figuring on my mind lately. Probably because I am thinking if there is something better than becoming a lifer in Shanghai or some kind of nomad. As much as I would just love to be able to roam , i think it would get old–maybe it already [...]

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Tags: America

Criminals in the Bush administration: the unofficial list

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Criminals In The Bush Administration « Suzie-Q via kwout

Read it to believe it. This is a list of all the criminals in the Bush administration. And they didn’t even include all of them. You can find the exact methodology and standard of inclusion from the link.

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Tags: America

Tariq Ali on the life and death of Benazir Bhutto

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I didn’t know this, but Tariq Ali actually knew her. This is piece from the Guardian, reprinted in Truthout:
A Tragedy Born of Military Despotism and Anarchy
By Tariq Ali
The Guardian UK
Friday 28 December 2007
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair [...]

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Tags: America · Middle East · terrorist