We're checking out some improv comedy tonight at Beer Mania. More laughs there than in these links, but nevertheless: ...

So belated. But better than never links. ...

This is it, people. The big the Beijinger party is tomorrow afternoon from Galaxy Soho. Read our review of last year's party while you prepare, maybe over links. ...

Cankersores are the worst. The worst. The bane of conversation when it falls on the tongue. The only upside is it keeps you from saying something stupid, perhaps about links. ...

Belated Mother's Day wishes. Links follow. ...

Quite the links edition today. Also, I just realized Wednesday was Fibonacci Day. Cheers to that! ...

Apologies for the site’s hiccups this evening. This post. These links. ...

In the age of hypersensitive geological instruments and scientific tools, isn't it nice to know that the best way to detect earthquakes is with a warm-bloodied creature called a dog? Right, no. It's a quaint idea -- using canines to predict the earth's tremors -- but after implementation in one Chinese city, it's also something else: really annoying. Here's AFP with the story: ...

Hope you had an interesting Cinco de Mayo, which a man called Nads calls Cinco de Man Shots. Links time. ...

It's basically been accepted, since this Economist cover story, that Chinese president Xi Jinping got the idea for his "Chinese Dream" from a Thomas Friedman New York Times column. But where did Tom Friedman get the idea? Isaac Stone Fish of Foreign Policy decided to find out. ...

"Poorly parked BMW in Beijing spray-painted with insults," via SCMP So many good stories, so little time. Luckily, this links post. Hopefully we'll see some of you at the That's Beijing party happening now at the Hilton. ...

Surely at some point we've all encountered street racers or speeding motorcyclists in China, usually young people with too much money and too much time. And how many of us have been able to suppress the thought, I really hope they get into trouble. Death? No, not that. But trouble -- a hefty fine, a 12-point driver's license deduction, a single-vehicle wreck... Usually, though, these people don't need our m ...

Thai ladyboys parade in Dongguan, via Reddit It's the holiday, so you're probably not reading these links. Carry on. ...

Images of Sichuan earthquake, via The Big Picture (Boston.com) Happy May Day holiday links. ...

Happy World Intellectual Property Rights Day, everyone. Don't steal other people's creative content. ...

These links posts are getting longer, but not for lack of selectivity on our part. Five New York Times stories are featured in tonight's edition, led by Ed Wong's much-bandied piece on pollution's effects on tots. ...

What separates losing 10,000 dollars from not losing it? The honesty of the person who finds the money, nothing more. In Hong Kong, 23-year-old pub manager Lin Ho-kit fell asleep on a bus and dropped a small bag containing HK$74,000, or about 59,000 yuan ($9,500). Other passengers, probably not knowing there was a small fortune inside, kicked the bag off the bus, where it was scooped up by 60-year-old Chan ...

The United States Senate has shamed itself, its country -- where 90 percent of the people can be in favor of an issue that gets defeated -- and democracy. The first two statements are indisputable. The third is a logical conclusion one could draw by looking at how the Chinese reacted to Wednesday's victory for the NRA and spineless politicians over common sense and long-overdue legislation. Evan Osnos has t ...

A loaded links edition today, with a couple of extra images. We’ll have some more fresh stuff for you in a couple of hours. ...

Morbid details have emerged in the story of the British toddler who was crushed by a "falling screen" last Monday in a Shanghai restaurant. The accident happened at Kervan Orient Express just after 8 pm when the three-year-old boy, playing with a seven-year-old girl, fell down and "touched the partition screen, which fell and hit him in the head," according to Shanghai Daily. The partition is taller than an ...