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Outdoor restaurant

Alain Bashung: Bijou Bijou

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.


Alain Bashung (1 December 1947 – 14 March 2009).

Thanks, Alain.

France mourns rock icon you may not know, by Charles Bremner: The Times

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Deluge of a Friday afternoon

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Street sweeper

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Ferry terminal

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Occasional rain: the ubiquitous 7-Eleven umbrella

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Dull to overcast

Reading matters

Same study, different results . . . take your pick:

Prostate cancer screening could cut deaths by 20% (18 March 2009): Guardian

Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives (19 March 2009): NYT

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Sunday afternoon

Mississippi Sheiks: Sitting On Top Of The World

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Recorded in 1930, simple and elegant, it doesn't get much better than this:

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Coastal fog + pre-dawn darkness - working radar = ferry collision: rthk

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Hand cart

Hong Kong: Legislative Council Questions

Some of the questions (and answers) from the LegCo meeting of Wednesday, 18 March 2009:

LCQ12: Counterfeit $10 coins
LCQ19: Government efforts in tackling climate change

Bonus: starting this year, Hong Kong Observatory is now categorizing typhoons as "typhoons" (118-149 km/hr), "severe typhoons" (150-184 km/hr), and "super typhoons" (185 km/hr and above): new typhoon categories and rainfall projection

Bob Dylan: bobwatch

Here's the cover of the new album.






Here's an "interview" with the bobster: bob dylan

The photo is by Bruce Davidson and is from his 1959 photo project, Brooklyn Gang: davidson

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Mooring bollard

The Sursiks: Little Paper Airplanes

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

YouTuba: Not (quite) Safe For Work:

Weather pr0n

A seriously cold front began to surge across a little island in the South China Sea at 4pm this afternoon. The temperature dropped as fast as the Hang Seng Index on a really bad day. And what had been balmy 10km/hr winds turned into hang-on-to-your-hat, leaf-stripping 60km/hr gales.

Awesome!

Bob Dylan: bobwatch

New Dylan Album -- Our First Listen: mojo

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Canopy

Postcards from Hong Kong : the way it was

From Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan, views along the tram lines in the 1950s: batgung

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The Other Side

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Waterfront

Reading matters

Capitalism's Deadly Logic, by Tariq Ali: The Nation

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Sunday afternoon

J S Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Prelude:

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Back street

Reading matters

Such, Such Was Eric Blair, by Julian Barnes: New York Review of Books

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A cold front from the north . . . overcast, colder, damper, and occasional heavy rains

Hong Kong: Legislative Council Questions

Some of the questions (and answers) from the LegCo meeting of Wednesday, 4 March 2009:

LCQ4: First aid treatment for heart attack
LCQ15: Improvement works in Mui Wo

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Damp and overcast

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Public pier

Reading matters

Social insecurity and final-exit strategies, by James Wolcott: vanity fair