So apparently, as everyone predicted, this Wii thing is getting really popular. Which makes it all the more surprising that Nintendo has left one particularly a huge market virtually untapped ( Read more... )

Below is a translation of a Taiwanese news story. It reports one proposed solution for Asians who are worried about fallout from the Virginia Tech shootings: wear something to identify yourself as non-Korean ( Read more... )

Here's a question: outside of a hospital, how many times in your life have you been next to a dying stranger ( Read more... )

Danwei, a website that covers the Chinese media, has an article called Chinese media reacts to Virginia Tech shootings. It includes a translated excerpt of an post on Sina.com, a big Chinese web portal/forum/thing.If it were put into a political textbook more than a decade ago, this incident would probably have been used as evidence of the decay of ( Read more... )

A while ago, a friend of a friend told me a story. She is a baby-sitter-slash-English-teacher for this young kid, and he always wants her to read him this story called "The Stone Rabbit," and she's not really sure why. I thought it was sort of an unlikely children's story, and for some reason that made me want to rewrite it ( Read more... )

By coincidence, I'm reading two books in conjunction: Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, an entertainingly breathless account of how big the universe is, how unlikely is any given aspect of that universe, especially you, and how amazing science is for being able to figure it all out; and Daniel Quinn's Beyond Civilization, which ( Read more... )

So. The Johns-Hopkins Nanjing Institute. Institute? Fine, I don't even know what it's called. Happy now? Anyway, in case I haven't mentioned this, I got in. I have until the 17th to make a decision, but I'd like to do it before that.

I virtually1 attended an online Q&A for prospective HNC students (Center, not Institute) the other day. Interesting ( Read more... )

I finally watched The Departed. It's always hard to objectively evaluate a remake of a movie you love, which of course is what The Departed is.

( If you haven't seen at least one of them and plan to, then obviously don't read this )

Here is a translation of a TVBS report. Although the crime itself is newsworthy and certainly bad, the writing is so unbelievably offensive that I ended up feeling sorry for the criminal and feeling like the reporter and maybe the victims were the ones who belong in jail. The Chinese-language media in action.

Enjoy:270lb fat chick! pretends to be ( Read more... )

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