Sunday, January 31, 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Sukhwinder Singh & Sapna Awasthi: Chaiyya Chaiyya

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Today's the day for an all-singin', all-dancin' Bollywood train trip . . .

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Symphony of Science: The Unbroken Thread

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Featuring David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Carl Sagan, and Life . . .


Friday, January 22, 2010

Password: 123456









If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe: New York Times

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Monday, January 18, 2010

Eye | Land | View


Spring onions

Siege of Legco on Sunday 17 January 2010

Daisann McLane (hi, Daisann!) has a most excellent and exemplary report on Sunday's "siege of Legco" plus a youtube link: Learning Cantonese

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Bill Haley & The Comets: See You Later Alligator

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Crazy, man, crazy, from the film Rock Around the Clock . . .

Friday, January 15, 2010

Haiti cherie



Haiti earthquake relief, local online donations:

Hong Kong Red Cross or HSBC: 002-205490-006 or any 7-11 shop
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders or HSBC: 002-6-398222
Oxfam Hong Kong or HSBC: 001-537000-012
Salvation Army (Hong Kong)
Save The Children (Hong Kong)
World Vision (Hong Kong) or HSBC: 018-377077-003 or Hang Seng Bank: 286-364385-003
Google crisis response (for donations to UNICEF, CARE and others)

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Eye | Land | View


The Other Side

Bottom deck, slow ferry

Monday, January 11, 2010

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Sally Yeh: Night Breeze (晚風)

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

Sally Yeh singing a hit from the 1940s, Night Breeze. The clip is from Tsui Hark's 1984 film Shanghai Blues:


Thursday, January 07, 2010

Reading matters

The decade's top 10 American quotations: salon
Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? By Benjamin Popper: slate
Photoshop Disasters: PS

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Monday, January 04, 2010

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Frank Sinatra: Fly Me To The Moon

For the weekend, a guilty pleasure.

As good a way as any to start the year. Over to you, Mr Frank:

Friday, January 01, 2010