On Gentlemen Giving
iPods as Gifts

I am speechless, how could I have been so foolish all along! Miss Keira you are mein guardian angel!~

Portal

You maybe required to perform simple tasks... these tasks will be supplemented with insurmontable obstacles...

French try woman as president - but first on a sitcom

The president of France has problems: plummeting approval ratings, few political allies, an outbreak of pimples before an important speech, and now this. She's barely past her first 100 days in office and she's pregnant.

Catastrophe!

Internet's future in 2020 debated

"The less one is powerful, the more transparent his or her life. The powerful will remain much less transparent."

Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?

Competition in the food market by biofuels is an interesting point that I hadn't thought about.

"Governments also need to provide leadership in the form of economic incentives to minimise competition between food and fuel crops, and ensure that water, high-quality agricultural land, and biodiversity are not sacrificed on the altar of our convenience."

In China, Children of the Rich Learn Class, Minus the Struggle

“At the top of the pyramid will be exceptionally strong graduates from top American or European universities who become a sort of ‘international freemen,’ ” said Qiu Huadong, an author and editor who has written about the new elite. “They work several years in China, and then they go abroad for a while, shifting locations every few years. At the bottom of the pyramid will be those who didn’t get such an outstanding education, and they’ll be sweating and bleeding for China and globalization.”

China and U.S. involvement in Sudan

Unable to explain its awkward, unrealistic, and now disintegrating flirtation with this terrorist state, the White House understandably looks for a scapegoat:

China.

The title of the Washington Post’s September 6 editorial Responsible China? Darfur exposes Chinese hypocrisy pretty much conveys the political line of frustrated administration policymakers.

The United States and its European partners have called upon Sudan to let the U.N. force in. But China, which has enormous leverage over Sudan because of its investment in Sudanese oil fields, has failed to push the Sudanese into accepting the "realistic option" of a U.N. deployment.

Rather ironic that Sudan, which was supposed to serve as the keystone of Bush administration engagement with Africa, has turned into an exclusive sandbox for the Yellow Peril.

一江春水向东流

pictures of great libraries

The 9/11 report: a graphic adaptation

Gathering of friends, cooking, boisterous conversations, football game. Didn't care much about the football game, but all the others are dear to my heart.

An interview with Wang Guangya, China's ambassador to the U.N.