Waw, there is a big event in Lindau, not far away from me.

Friendly Fuedalism - The Tibet Myth, an article on Tibet by Michael Parenti.

I had mentioned Sexy Beijing shows before (1, 2). The show has its own website now. Following is their new episode. It is about Sufei's relationship with her father and his childhood in Shanghai where his family fled to escape the Nazis. Thank Luke Mines, the producer of this show, for sending in the information.

A Chinese artist Ai WeiWei is bringing 1,001 of his compatriots to Kassel, Germany to take part in the Documenta art show. He call the project "Fairytale". Check this report on Chinadaily.

A video on this topic.

This set of illustrations are very popular these days in Chinese blogosphere. I found them here, but don't know who is the original author. The illustrated differences between German and Chinese are basically real, although some of them are exaggerated. Enjoy!

Blue: German
Red: Chinese

Self

Kid

Facing a problem

Update 05/07/07:

As seen in the comments of the post, the author of these illustrations are Yang Liu. He runs a design studio in Berlin. I keep here three pictures only as requested by him.

by Italian internet consulting company Casaleggio Associati.

It predicts in 2020 Lawrence Lessig becomes the new US Secretary of Justice and declares copyright to be illegal. :)

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous.

The dead are always looking down on us, they say
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich
they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats
of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity
They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch
Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon
They think we are looking back at them
which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait
like parents, for us to close our eyes

I am taking a long weekend for celebrating Chinese new year.

by jan isaac

It seems everyone knows it is pig year now.

The annual world question from The Edge is: What are you optimistic about?

As an activity, as a state of mind, science is fundamentally optimistic. Science figures out how things work and thus can make them work better. Much of the news is either good news or news that can be made good, thanks to ever deepening knowledge and ever more efficient and powerful tools and techniques. Science, on its frontiers, poses more and ever better questions, ever better put.

Check out the 160 response span topics such as string theory, intelligence, population growth, cancer, climate and much much more.

Another Sexy Beijing episode from danwei.org. In this episode, Su Fei tries to find out what's up with the Christmas spirit that seems to have invaded China's capital.