Not sure if you’re up to date on the latest Google vs China developments. But it sure is exciting. Well, especially if you’re concerned about human rights, freedom of speech, The Communist Regime, censorship, internet freedom, IT, search results, security, privacy, Fortune 500 companies, corporate communications, and all other equally boring issues. Hell, this news [...]
so that’s what happened today!!!
frankly i preferred watching the guys play, it was way more exciting volleyball wise. AND they do not keep on doing stupid hugs and whatnot. not so much. girls have such an obsessive need for support and consolation. and they can’t jump properly, can’t serve properly, can’t spike properly. no wonder [...]
It continues! The burning of the flame. as in, ppl burning the flame. nvm
the protests continue in San Francisco.
interestingly:
Richard Gere, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist who has been a consistent advocate of human rights in Tibet.
Gere belongs to the International Campaign for Tibet, one of several organizations that took part in Tuesday’s protests.
but anyway what’s cool [...]
what a day. it was really amazing. the short summary of it is that there were widespread and highly charged up protests throughout the route, the procession was repeatedly disrupted, cut short, many banners were put up, lots of Tibetian and RSF flags were waved. stunning.
now for the details.
more Olympic news: Sarkozy has just threatened to boycott the opening ceremony unless 3 conditions are met, i can’t remember all but one of them is for beijing to open dialogue with dalai lama. coz china recently started more suppression activities against tibet. hai. terrible.
and, they are so worried about the olympic flame+paris, that the [...]
i guess it’s a big thing here: liberty. they like as much to meddle in other’s affairs as america does. the olympic flame is arriving in paris on monday, the Mairie de Paris (er i guess that equals to something like government administrative unit of paris? crap it’s hard to translate stuff without a page [...]
hell that title really caught my attention. now how to translate it..hm dum dum.. = “puzzle” or “brainteaser”. the chinese puzzle. [it came from a DirectSoir article. french free newspaper]
i suppose you (do you?) know that during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame, there were 3 journalists from Reporters Without Borders who unfurled a [...]
i guess France, being such a large country, has many different newspapers, but this classification taken from the Lonely Planet guide entertained me to no end:
Le Figaro – centre-right, aimed at professionals, businesspeople and the bourgeoisie
Le Monde – centre-left, popular with professionals and intellectuals
France Soir – right-wing, working and middle-class
Libération – left wing, popular with [...]
In a pair of landmark studies, two groups of scientists announced Tuesday that they have reprogrammed human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells, whose potential to mature into any other kind of cell in the body may ultimately prove key to curing a number of diseases. CNN July 20
So the two independent groups [...]
I was reading StraitsTimes, and they had a small article on the sad tourists who arrive in Paris only to face the cold wind and dearth of public transport. [hey i like the word dearth] There were some people who were trying to get to Versailles. That’s impressive, coz Versailles is this huge palace that’s [...]