Friday, April 2, 2010

  1. http://bit.ly/dx4TNi Largest online B2B2C shopping mall in China expected to go live 2nd half of 2010:Chinese Baidu 百度 & Japanese Rakuten 楽天
  2. http://bit.ly/ds5XJ8 China's "one-bedroom" capsule apartment comes equipped with a plastic pail under the floor and an electrical outlet.
  3. http://bit.ly/ds5XJ8 Now China has "one-bedroom" capsule apartments modeled after Japan's capsule hotels. Less than 2 square meters, 50 yuan
  4. http://bit.ly/b0TZ9h Yahoo Japan in talks with China's Taobao to link their Internet shopping sites. One humongous pool of online shoppers!
  5. I love you, yes I do. http://idiomsgallery.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-fools-day.html
  6. European currencies, post-obsolescence, as coin art http://bit.ly/9meMyt Greece's debt crisis is the most serious test yet for the euro
  7. Check out the character 射 shoot, in "drive-by shooting" http://bit.ly/aybrur 駕 = mount horseback/drive. Crowd shot in DC had been to funeral
  8. @djsiry dad and Ken go back a long way. Dad initiated the Daewoo project, etc.
  9. @djsiry it was fun bumping the iPhone with you. I didn't even realize you were involved in cleantech (my dad is too: http://bit.ly/dlyWjU)
  10. Curiosity killed the kid? http://bit.ly/bjmb7y Kids lured to social sites by curiosity. Teen's suicide tied to cyberbullies on Formspring.me
  11. http://bit.ly/aVZgNT Luxury car brands evolve away from "bigger is better" approach. "premium car"= technology, no. cylinders less relevant
  12. Smart package design: an ambitious Coke bottle goes square in the name of eco-friendliness http://bit.ly/92CHti Sweetened with herb stevia?
  13. "Being there feels like you're in on an amazing secret" http://bit.ly/cKZe3y underground spot wows with house music -Northeast Washington DC
  14. DJ Tiësto, the reigning king of trance music, wants to play wider, more diverse sounds http://bit.ly/9Lhj09 Obamamania was hypnotic trance?
  15. http://bit.ly/b4oYnS US & European banks offer huge pay packages for Asia-Pacific region bankers. Levels last seen before financial turmoil.
  16. She did daredevil stunts,made headlines as “The Flying Flapper of Freeport” http://bit.ly/dzp9ZV Aviation Pioneer Elinor Smith dead at 98
  17. http://bit.ly/9Gqgf1 "boys evolved to fight off wolves more than to raise their hands in classrooms" "hard-wired to learn more slowly"
  18. Roger vs. Florence http://bit.ly/awSnYo protective carapace of irony vs. acceptance and shelter in makeshift modest nest. Generational gap.
  19. nuclear-arms deal. ICBM http://bit.ly/apibFW SLBM http://bit.ly/dqSmGw nuclear bomber http://bit.ly/bczVf7 new START http://bit.ly/cKuz6i
  20. http://bit.ly/agWufV Brussels. Is EU government transparency hurting reporters? Get complicated policy-making proceedings from its PR people
  21. http://bit.ly/cKuz6i U.S. & Russia to sign The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) April 8. Drastic reduction of ICBM, SLBM. Yay!
  22. RT @SFBART Ever feel like two trains are racing when they run on parallel tracks? Check out this video by @sharonhahnd http://bit.ly/9j8KmL
  23. Bottoms up! http://bit.ly/9bzNnK A true view of planet Jupiter's south pole. (polar stereographic projection) Yes, it rains hot helium there
  24. Ars Gratia Artis http://bit.ly/cOa6ub Since 1924 there have been around 5 lions used for MGM logo including Tanner and Leo the current one.
  25. http://sfbart.posterous.com/train-race "This video by Sharon Hahn Darlin captures the feeling that you are racing against the other train..
  26. Figures of cult status, fetish: http://bit.ly/dbfiOB North Korean traffic girls are beautiful, shapely, sexy, dolled up in crisp uniforms.
  27. parallel tracks: http://bit.ly/bbezU6 a pair of San Francisco cable cars http://bit.ly/aiEG7e a pair of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains
  28. http://bit.ly/9e5eFt consumption audience + aspirational audience = target audience, 30%-60% of exposure audience. Works in India, Peru...
  29. Cool. 酷. http://bit.ly/9ZSCk2
  30. New York’s Museum of Modern Art MoMA adds the at symbol @ to its permanent collection http://bit.ly/9xLnrg now "Twitter is technically art"
  31. http://bit.ly/aHnuqQ Warner Bros & IMAX, in cooperation with NASA, invites you to experience IMAX Hubble 3D, narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio
  32. shallow pickle 浅漬け, sticky pickle べったら漬, rice bran pickle 糠漬け, lucky gods pickle 福神漬... http://bit.ly/dwHjzW tsukemono galore!
  33. http://bit.ly/aOyXwG "Bogie, Rhett Butler, Han Solo ... Greenberg?!" Writer/director Noah Baumbach, "It's kind of major, learning to drive."
  34. spring ="youthful sky" http://bit.ly/cgOmjP Lilly Corrieri just celebrated her 102nd birthday, does Sittercize, does well in spelling bee.
  35. http://bit.ly/aZ5h9H Kremlin picks Russian "Silicon Valley" site, Skolkovo. Energy, IT, telecommunications, bio-medical, atomic technologies
  36. “the greatest bubble in history" http://bit.ly/dkJHcD extreme negativity a year ago to extreme optimism heading into the market's recent top
  37. Apple app iGroups: http://bit.ly/aJ9wdg patent application “Group Formation Using Anonymous Broadcast Information” surfaced today at USPTO
  38. "Long before the Downfall meme there was the periodic table" http://bit.ly/aQJi1K an older meme shares Chatroulette's philosophy: Hot or Not
  39. http://bit.ly/clwLvp Exceptional amount of winter rain ="wildflower bloom should be most impressive this year" potentially historic flooding
  40. "ever wondered what's behind the long gaze into pooch's big brown eyes?" http://bit.ly/dlwAeI BFF, "an entire 'conversation' without words"
  41. Just spent 2 hours having tea with my neighbor Pat, who happened to be at Hotel Club Presidente in Puerto Montt when the earthquake hit.
  42. http://bit.ly/d3fwjC Apple & AT&T "a deal with the devil" illuminates the deeper crisis besetting the nation’s communications infrastructure
  43. Geo-location. FourSquare, Gowalla. Booyah' MyTown iPhone game app has 1.4 million users http://bit.ly/dlQIu7 retailers brands partnerships
  44. Geolocation. FourSquare, Gowalla. Booyah' MyTown iPhone game app has 1.4 million users http://bit.ly/dlQIu7 retailers brands partnerships
  45. RT @ki6h RT @michael_raphone: Zombie Nietzsche: "God is undead"