Shanghai Diaries: The Blotter: April 2005 Archives

April 26, 2005

Chinese climbers to clean up Everest

http://www.azertag.com/en/index.shtml?language=english&catid=&news_year=&news_month=&news_day=&newsid=108387&themes_viewing=&themes_page=&themeid=&news_page=

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:32 PM

April 25, 2005

“This can never be a humane industry.”

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/25/BEARBILE.TMP

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:30 PM

Is Chery the next Toyota?

http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=businessNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=8276799

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:26 PM

“By any standard, Pudong is the place that best represents China’s changes in the past two decades and symbolizes the country’s future.”

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/22/content_2862689.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:22 PM

Hu’s your dictator?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A12427-2005Apr23?language=printer

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:19 PM

Nogger Black: Racist ice cream

http://slate.msn.com/id/2117270/fr/rss/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:14 PM

April 22, 2005

Craigslist launches Shanghai site

http://shanghai.craigslist.org/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:11 PM

“Our conclusion is that Hong Kong people are no smaller than western men, where their penises are concerned.”

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG326685.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:00 PM

“Damn, Shorty, you got knocked the f*ck out!”

http://www.celebritygirlfight.com/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:43 PM

Why Google is like Wal-Mart

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67287,00.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:32 PM

April 20, 2005

Chinese official orders end to anti-Japanese demonstrations

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/asia/20china.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1113958820-6ttncKrOQsUnGumn/tR9yA

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:40 PM

Who is China’s “model worker”

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/19/content_435635.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:30 PM

Shanghai sentences two Americans for selling fake DVDs, proving China is cracking down on piracy

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/20/content_2852506.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:21 PM | Comments (1)

You think the United States has a Social Security problem?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-19-china-social-security_x.htm?csp=34

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:13 PM

Wait. So now you can see the Great Wall from outer space again?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/19/content_2847636.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:07 PM

No so fast, Mumbai

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=d5ba5a408fa73cfbc2eee2e094d26670

Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:57 PM

China wants your trash

http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5348850.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:56 PM

April 15, 2005

“Straight Outta Compton”: EXPLICIT CONTENT ONLY

http://www.blog.ni9e.com/archives/2005/03/explicit_conten_1.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:30 PM

China’s internet filters strong, sophisticated and subtle

http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67221,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:02 PM | Comments (1)

Why, oh why, would Carl Lewis put this music video on his website?

http://www.carllewis.com/video.music.1.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:53 PM

Who is to blame for high gas prices in the US?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/15/content_2833238.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:37 PM | Comments (1)

More Shanghai couples have second child

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/15/content_2833453.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:32 PM

But what about all the NFL fans whose last name really is ‘Mexico’?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-falcons-ronmexicojerseys&prov=ap&type=lgns

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:54 AM

April 14, 2005

Anti-Japan protests in Shanghai?

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001471.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:38 PM | Comments (2)

Beijing intends to ban smoking at all Olympic venues

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/13/news/cigs.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:29 PM

April 13, 2005

“It’s incredible. I never thought that a pig could be so clever, dexterous and versatile.”

http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/metro/userobject1ai1004125.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:12 PM

Japan’s not the only country that cooks the textbooks

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Focus/GD13Dh02.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:06 PM

What’s on President Bush’s iPod?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/politics/11letter.html?ex=1270872000&en=c229fbecc4aec5c6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:58 PM

Image America

http://robertclark.americanphotomag.com/flash/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:45 PM

Yao Ming is a gadget geek

http://www.mysan.de/article77085.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:29 PM

“Maybe piracy is the only way”

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050418-1047554,00.html?promoid=rss_world

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:25 PM

Unintentionally sexual comic book covers

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=uscc_part1

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:22 PM | Comments (1)

Britney’s pregnant, y’all!

http://pagesixsixsix.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=340

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:17 PM

April 12, 2005

Watch Tiger’s amazing shot on No. 16 at The Masters

http://www.jaffejuice.com/2005/04/tiger_did_it_ak.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:44 PM

BOOM goes the dynamite!

http://caffeine.worldmagblog.com/caffeine/archives/013907.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:24 AM | Comments (2)

April 11, 2005

Hotel bellboys can double the size of their tips, on average, by showing guests how the TV and air conditioning work

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/04/what_do_we_know.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:59 PM | Comments (1)

Shanghai police to install SMS hotline

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/06/content_431807.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:05 PM

Cui Jian says censors making “progress”

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2005/04/10/990632-ap.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:19 AM | Comments (1)

April 8, 2005

Shanghai women have the firmest breasts in China

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/08/content_432572.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:46 PM | Comments (5)

A Newark to Shanghai direct flight?

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2005/04/04/daily46.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:35 PM

Listen to Andrew Bird on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic

http://kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&air_date=4/6/05&tmplt_type=show

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:13 AM

April 7, 2005

Leave Shanghai … or die

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050407/ap/d89aboh02.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:53 PM

April 6, 2005

Ron Mexico?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0405051vick1.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:54 PM | Comments (1)

Implausible claims made by Vanilla Ice in his 1990 No. 1 hit “Ice Ice Baby”

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/26DougErickson.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:12 AM

China killing off suicide websites

http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=32393

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:07 AM

April 5, 2005

The Chinese love us

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/GD01Ad03.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:54 PM

A good blog about the Beijing music scene

http://www.chaile.org/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:30 PM | Comments (1)

Pinyin to Unicode converter

http://www.foolsworkshop.com/ptou/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:04 PM

Are you an Intellectual Building Manager?

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200504/01/eng20050401_179087.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:18 PM

Want to see the house I grew up in?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=350+Market+Street+Bloomsburg,PA+17815&ll=41.000934,-76.456432&spn=0.041628,0.048409&t=k&hl=en

Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:52 PM