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“While the hi-tech world is swooning at Steve Jobs’ feet after the dramatic unveiling of Apple’s iPhone, your correspondent is cursing and swearing in front of his Mac keyboard, wishing that Apple’s famous engineers and designers would turn their attention to some very real Mac problems that beset users in China.”
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“The Govt. of India lost its marbles again along with a large part of the media in Delhi…. most of the channels started carrying an obscure video from youtube as headline news… they started showing this skinny guy’s youtube video as headline news.”
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“Earlier this week I posted a trailer for an upcoming documentary about beltelnut girls in Taiwan. The producer sent me a link to his Flickr gallery of his photos of betelnet girls.”
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“The man, the myth, the Marmot unplugged. The Marmot’s Hole is surely the most influential and highly-trafficked expat site in the Korean blogosphere. Many an expat read him and his guest authors faithfully, more like a newspaper than anything else.”
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“A few weeks ago I wondered aloud why Tor hadn’t been blocked, and came to the conclusion that the Chinese government is not concerned with determined users circumventing the GFW for non-threatening purposes, and allows Tor as a backdoor for this reason.”
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“I posted a portion of my last post, Why hasn’t Tor been blocked? II to the or-talk mailing list and received the following response from Roger Dingledine, one of the lead Tor developers.”
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CHINA - What the Chinese Want“Foreign Policy Passport have unearthed the top search terms for Baidu’s question service–those “why do …” or “how to …” queries. This is interesting because it directly answers the questions “What do Chinese people want to do?” and “What are Chinese people interested in?”
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“I love to drive, but I hate our streets. I drive an average of 45 kilometers a day, and consume 14 liters of gas a week. This list summarizes everything that pisses me off about being a driver in Metro Manila.”
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SOUTH KOREA - (MUST WATCH) Dong-A TV goes to Hooters” Th Dong-A Ilbo’s Internet TV unit visits the Apgujeong-dong training ground of Hooters, where Korea’s future Hooters Girls are learning the ropes from experienced American professionals ahead of the Jan. 18 opening of the country’s first Hooters branch.”
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“ONLY individual media practitioners, not media organizations, are covered by the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press…Or so argue lawyers of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo in his motion to dismiss the civil class action suit filed against him by 23 of the 45 journalists he has charged with libel since 2003.”
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“.. the prime epitome of double-pricing standards lies with the actual governing authorities themselves.”
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“When I was in New York for New Year’s Eve, I met a student at SIPA, Columbia’s public policy school. He used to work in Singapore, and gave an interesting explanation for why social change is slow in the country.”
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“The reports didn’t say, but we can assume the many whorehouses within walking distance of the immoral bubble tea shop were left untouched by authorities.”
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One Response to “links for 2007-01-15”
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January 15th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hi,
Awesome collection of really interesting links…
I wonder if my blog could be listed in the Indian blogroll. I’ll quickly provide the reciprocal link.
Goa Blog is a blog of Goa (india) the exclusive blog for Goa state issues. Goa Blog gets a trafiic of 150 unique visitors a day… and increasing. its a month old domain.
Also, to the webmaster.. could you please email me your contact email.
regards
Goa Blog