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

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

Haiti Didn't Become a Poor Nation All on Its Own

What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be), by Carl Lindskoog: common dreams

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

South China Morning Post

More cuts at Hong Kong's SCMP: asia sentinel
Thanks, Gavin!

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:


Friday, January 08, 2010

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