Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Fourteen ways to die in Shanghai English translation of a controversial, internet-propagated map that lists places and methods for bumping yourself off in Shanghai. # Huichunji pharmacy sells sleeping pills. # Suzhou Creek is uncovered. # The #57 bus goes directly to the zoo. You can jump into…
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The Perils of China's Growth to the Chinese
STUFF : WORLD NEWS – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website China facing epidemic of suicide, depression 26 July 2005 BEIJING: Suicide is the number one cause of death among people aged 20 to 35 in China, where an estimated quarter of a million people a year – or 685 a day…
Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest
ACKSON, Miss. – A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the “idiot” in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” has won this year’s Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched off a literary spat. Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine that has sponsored the contest for…
Library leader questions Patriot Act -Kafka-esque
Books by Kafka, Orwell, Camus, etc… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The president of the American Library Association has one word for the USA Patriot Act’s so-called library clause — “Kafkaesque.” “It’s very reminiscent of the ’50s and the ‘red scare’ where people showed up at libraries trying to find which political books professors had read, because…
The Observer | Comment | Ruaridh Nicoll: Clowns and coppers
The Observer | Comment | Ruaridh Nicoll: Clowns and coppers There were some surprising faces among last week’s anarchist army. On Edinburgh’s Princes Street, an ancient lady with a white bun tied tight on top of her skull was weaving in and out of the Black Blocers and crusty Clowns, bowing and bobbing like a…
Canada Wins Award for Stupidest Country
National Post NATIONAL POST canada.com Entertainment Canada wins dumbest government at World Stupidity Awards; Bush wins one award Canadian Press Saturday, July 23, 2005 MONTREAL (CP) – The Canadian government secured a surprise win Friday, beating out such luminaries as Iran, North Korea and the United States, for the dumbest government of the year at…
Toilet Democracy
Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. But what does 25 years of independence mean to the ordinary Zimbabwean? Does it mean standing in a long queue waiting for a bag of sugar or questioning what has led a black man to oppress his fellow comrades? These are just a few of the thought provoking questions scrawled…
China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat –
China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat – Yahoo! News China fights Falun Gong sect in U.S. – ex-diplomat By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Thu Jul 21, 7:36 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s diplomats and agents in the United States help Beijing to carry out a crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual…
25,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed Since Invasion
Xinhua – English Nearly 25,000 civilians killed in Iraq since US invasion: report www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-19 23:15:42 LONDON, July 19 (Xinhuanet) — Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US and British troops invaded the country in March 2003, with an average of 34 deaths every day, a British research report said on Tuesday….
Bush: I know I said one thing, but what I MEANT to say was….
Asked on June 10, 2004, whether he stood by an earlier White House pledge to fire anyone found to have leaked the officer’s name, Bush replied: “Yes.” On Monday, he added the qualifier that it would have to be demonstrated that a crime was committed. Sources in the White House say that Bush will add…