OMG... where did the time go?!!! I can't believe it. It's gonna be here so soon.
The international Olympic committee (IOC)'s not-so-secret deal with China about internet censorship. Read all about it here.
I love the Feedjit widget (in the right hand column). I love seeing my visitors are coming from all over the world and even though I've been writing less over the past 2 months I've been getting more visitors than ever. Woohoo! Makes me feel popular (even if people are only spending 3 seconds on this blog, haha).
I want to go to New York so bad...ly!! I keep hearing about the place from people that have been there or lived there. And the similarities with Shanghai are just.. well, they are there.
I somehow clicked on something and clicked on something (it may have just been an ad) and just ended up at this page at National Geographic.
Now, you tell me if this sounds like Shanghai or not?
Everything changes in New York, and nothing does. Maestros still wield batons at Carnegie Hall, and lunch at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal is always a good time. You can’t find a cab in the rain, but you can always get a bagel with a schmear. Yet the city that never sleeps keeps evolving. Plays open and close. Restaurants come and go. New neighborhoods blossom. In Chelsea, the old Barneys store is now the new Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. High-heeled fashionistas have replaced white-aproned butchers in the Meatpacking District. Such churn keeps the more than 8,200,000 New Yorkers on their toes even as it makes them appreciate the old favorites all the more. New York remains one helluva town. Welcome!
This is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages where people give their own interpretations and designs of the Olympic Mascots.
Some examples:
