“Three in four Chinese think the world likes China, while only one in 10 thinks foreigners don’t like the country. More than 80 percent believe China takes other countries’ interests into account when formulating foreign policy. Just 3 percent think China’s economic growth has a negative effect on other countries. Only 1 percent knew a lot about the recall of Chinese products for quality and safety reasons.” — John Kamm - Blinded By the Firewall - washingtonpost.com
“The cabinet-level General Administration of Sport does its job well. It predicts which Olympic events could yield gold medals to China, allocates extra money to train athletes in those sports and dispatches scouts to locate children who fit certain sports molds. Those scouts may recruit a 6-year-old village girl with double-jointed elbows into a diving program, for instance, because a decade later she could arc into the water with a smaller splash.” — China’s Gold Rush - NYTimes.com
iTunes Still Tops Music Charts; Amazon Primed for Growth? - Steve needs to do whatever it takes to go DRM free and he needs to do it fast.
Got screened for LASIK this morning. My eyes are still dilated. Everything is so bright and fuzzy!
perspctv is a pretty amazing dashboard of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. You can see the latest estimates of the popular vote and the electoral vote as well as tallies of news articles, blog posts and Twitter tweets about each candidate. You can see many of those stats in a timeline. And, there’s even an embeddable widget. Nice. (via lalamax)
Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards" - Glad Apple is admitting this and taking steps to address it.
The iPhone 2.0.1 software doesn’t seem to like the NetNewsWire app.
Yes, I’m misserable and very intolerant today - of anything that comes close to being conservative, republican, or the like. I have no tolerance for you. I’m closed minded, narrow, hateful. Because you - are a moron.
Today, McCain had a field day making fun of Obama for suggesting that properly inflating our tires and getting tune ups can have as much of an impact on our energy needs as the proposed off-shore drilling. The McCain campaign even gave reporters tire gauges with the words “Obama’s energy plan”.
But, as you can read on this TIME piece, Obama was wrong! Properly inflating our tires and getting tune ups can have MORE of an impact on energy use than what we can expect from off-shore drilling. And the impact is immediate. Not in 20 years!
But McCain and his pals are too stupid to know… or sadly, they know, but they also know that voters are stupid, moronic, to unbelievable levels. Need proof? BUSH.
CNN: What's with Batman's voice in 'Dark Knight'? -
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Any nationally syndicated article that begins with “What’s With” is bound to be a little wonky.
Tyler calls this: “The Seinfeld approach to trend pieces.”
Ah, so I’m not the only one who hates Christian Bale’s Batman growl. Reassuring.
Organic Farming Takes Root In China : NPR - I love NPR for a million reasons, but one of the big ones is that they do stories no one else is doing. While many news outlets are content to look at China as a monolithic culture focused like a laser beam on economic growth, NPR digs into things. NPR shows us that caring about what you put in your body isn’t a Western thing or a democratic thing. It’s a human thing.
Biking in Bryan Park.
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Despite Flaws, Kindle a $100m Success for Amazon - If true, not too shabby!
Biking in Byrd Park.