That weird, shiny, spaceship-like gob of postmodernity on Second Ring Road is officially alive. “Busses full of local students mingled with other architecture fanatics to get a first official glimpse of the cities newest archi-gem” last Saturday, reports the architect website Archinet. At the opening event, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, who designed this perfect landing pad... Read more »Read more »
The rapidly approaching 18th National Congress has claimed is first victim. Ren Changlin, 53, suffered a heart attack during his 30th consecutive hour at his post at a security bureau in Shenyang, Liaoning province on October 30. He “threw himself into the work,” notes Shenyang Daily. There’s no indication that Ren was forced to work so... Read more »Read more »
Via Discovery We’ve just switched servers, and as you may have noticed, many of our posts have been randomly disappearing as a result. This is normal — however annoying. But we’re going to step out of the way and let the DNS properly propagate. By this time tomorrow, hopefully all the problems will be solved. In... Read more »Read more »
Let's play a game: how many points will Maya Moore score in her WCBA debut tomorrow for Shanxi Xingrui Flame vs. Bayi? I'm going to set the over/under at 59.5 (take the poll after the jump). Shanxi has no other scorer (currently 0-2), and while Bayi is 2-0, we're going to go out on a limb and say the team has absolutely no one who will be able to stop her. Remember, JR Smith scored 60 playing in a CBA game this past season, and he's nowhere as good as Moore relative to the competition. Read more »
Hosted by Big Think, The Way of Ai Weiwei is Ai Weiwei’s first blog since the government shut down his previous one in 2009. From the “About” section: Read more »
Jeremy Lin had a pretty good outing in his Houston Rockets debut on Wednesday, a 105-96 win at Detroit, scoring 12 points with 8 assists and notching a plus/minus of +23. He was overshadowed, however, by another Houston newcomer, James Harden, who played a more or less perfect game: 37 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds,... Read more »Read more »
In the early morning of August 19, @安娜830321 of Shantou, Guangdong province posted this message on her Sina Weibo: “So drunk, but still gotta drive home."
She didn't make it home. As Tea Leaf Nation tells us:
The next day, local news in Shantou, Guangdong Province, reported that a white BMW rammed into a road barrier in early morning and the female driver was killed. Read more »
Here are two sets of impressive visuals featuring Hong Kong, both uncovered by the blog Hong Wrong. In the first, by Edwin Lee, we see an array of motion time lapse shots taken from 13 different locations – Lion Rock Peak, International Centre of Commerce, 39 Conduit Road, Harbour City, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Fa... Read more »Read more »
Jacob of the excellent YouTube channel Beijing Shenghuo shows here that he can take great still frames as well. We sample some more pictures from his 39-image album after the jump. If you’re interested in purchasing large prints of pictures he’s taken from around this city, you’ll want to go here. Read more »
The video description doesn’t tell us much except that the person getting beat up was a “thief” who, after pulling his small-time heist, had the gall to duck into an Internet cafe. He was pulled out and beaten up, methodically. All of this was filmed, and it’s a nasty, brutish — anything but short — affair. Read more »
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