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My votes:

The Shrive vs. Arthur Dent

An unstoppable killing machines vs. a mostly harmless human? Well, the human's victory would be about as ridiculously improbable as it gets, wouldn't it?

Kahlan Amnell vs. Drizzt Do'urden ( Read more... )

They're starting to escape the pens we feeble humans put them in...

Only in New Zealand: attack with a deadly... hedgehog?

(Okay, not deadly. But still.)

(...and even that's open to debateI was listening to "Next" just now, and the thing I couldn't stop thinking was, wow, this is about China. I'm sure this isn't groundbreaking at all, but in some ways I feel like the theme of the song - reckless urge toward progress at any cost - actually fits reform-era China even better than post-Meiji Japan ( Read more... )

I love Singapore, I really do. It's a wonderful city with some fascinating quirks. But... but...

I may have to reconsider after seeing the feeble attempts at rapping made by the bureaucrats at the Singapore Media Development Authority. [You'll need sound. If you dare.]

How did anyone think that this was a good idea?!

This is a bit old by now, but it strikes me that the news probably didn't get far outside of China, so I figured I'd link to it.

It ain't only people mad at the Chinese government who use the Olympics as a staging ground for protests. Sometimes, it can get a lot more personalDamn, I want to shake that woman's hand. And the hand of the person who ( Read more... )

I wish that I'd seen this article, on the way that the city of Hohhot (the capital of Inner Mongolia - one of the places I went over the October vacation) is using Mongol ethnic culture to promote itself and redefine its identity, while I was still writing my thesis. Nevertheless, it's still an awesome article - especially since the issue of " ( Read more... )

Apparently one of the major topics that the Chinese media is writing about with regard to the film "Lust, Caution" is the fact that young people who have seen the film are rushing off to try the sexual positions in the film, and run the risk of hurting themselves.

This country needs a dose of sex ed, and maybe some good porn, stat!

And maybe other people too. But since TKiY (and notachnai too, I think) and I talked about this here place here not that long ago, I wanted to make sure they saw the article.

Fortunately, the World Park in southern Beijing isn't going anywhere, as far as I know. I'll need to make it down there one of these days...

Holy crap, what happened to the Kong?