I've been thinking about my life's trajectory after college (certainly a familiar theme among all of us these days I'm sure) and I've been refining and adding onto my plans. As I said earlier, I got into Beijing Normal University's language program for this fall, and I've got a good grasp of how I'm going to pay for it so, barring any emergency, I' ( Read more... )

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Yes, we've all heard of global warming. How about global dimming? This is totally news to me but apparently the theory's been around for years. What on earth is going on, and what implications does it have for the earth's climate? Anyone know?

For those of you interested in insects and spiders, particularly those found in and around the house, What's That Bug? should be a very cool site. These guys get emails from people with pictures of bugs they find, and they identify them. Sounds pretty lame, but it's actually pretty fascinating to see various types of insects and spiders people run ( Read more... )

If not, I recommend you check it out. I caught it on Adult Swim at 1 AM. It's an anime by the same director of Cowboy Bebop and Macross Plus. Definitely reminds me a lot of Cowboy Bebop, but at the same time its quite different. Still has the same music genre-themed anime feel to it as Cowboy Bebop, only this time it's hip-hop rather than jazz. ( Read more... )

A video of some guy snorting powdered wasabi. DON'T EVER DO THIS!!!!!

I read an interesting New York Times article about mandatory study sessions for Chinese Communist Party members. Apparently (at least according to the article) the sessions are intended to revitalize a troubled Party undergoing a credibility crisis ( Read more... )

I've heard of Allofmp3.com before, and after seeing Brad's post I was intrigued about the legal issues surrounding it (Wunan always says I'm destined to go to law school... heh I always deny it but sometimes I wonder :P). Here's what I've found from digging around, mostly on Museekster.com (which seems biased in favor of Allofmp3) and Wikipedia ( ( Read more... )

Here's a pretty funny Will Ferell clip doing Bush on global warming. I especially like the frisbee bit.

Guys, I have a proposal ( Read more... )