Currently Targeting... china
(Jan.06.10) -
China Youth design Android-ed Iphone Knockoff in Record Time ---»
...A great post from CES 2010 coverage details how fast and smart the youth hackable movement is, especially in China. The big question everyone wants to know how to ignore seems to be, replicating mp3’s and windows 7, ok, but replicating hardware manufacturing and design? Of course, who knows which app store it will be […]
(Jan.03.10) -
China Oil Spill ---»
...Looks like another massive toxic leak polluting China’s rivers has cut loose from an oil pipeline in Shanghai… like the previous benzine leak into Heilongjiang in northern China’s Songhua River in 2005… Xinhua, the official state news agency, said the leak was caused by construction work and that a crew of 700 people was struggling […]
(Jan.16.09) -
John DeFrancis, Scholar of Chinese Language, Departed at 92 ---»
...Sadly, John DeFrancis, one of the most influential scholars and teachers of Chinese language, died a week ago on Jan 2nd 2009, and no one even wrote an obituary until Jan 15th! Right on the heels of an excellent new show coming up at the Met, from January 23 – September 13, 2009 of paitnings […]
(Oct.01.08) -
Skype Surveillance Targets Skype Surveillance Users ---»
...New news from the nytimes on the information warfare frontlines: besides the somewhat documented Golden Shield Surveillance Project of China, also known as the Great Firewall of China, and joining carnivore and skynet and whatever other massive surveillance content filtering networks with all their far flung acronyms from whatever info war countries that need to […]