About the chatty new Steve Jobs.

15 April 2010
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Dan Chung on Chinese migrant children and vanishing barriers to brilliant videography.

21 March 2010
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The rejuvenating elegance of automobiles.

20 March 2010
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Will McLaren’s new flute make music in F1?

13 March 2010
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How ‘Consequences by NOOR’ tells a photographic story of global climate change.

2 March 2010
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A New Zealander on the sound of Swiss German.

28 February 2010
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Lukas Mathis of Ignore the Code points out a well-written article on Swiss German from a travel blog called Thinking Coral. The Schwiizerdütsch post is from July 2007, and the last post on Thinking Coral was written in August 2009.  It is a 3-year-old post on onomatopoeiac qualities of a Swiss dialect that appears to […]

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Lanxiang = killer rabbit in Google hacking battle?

25 February 2010
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Chinese news media are skeptical about whether a vocational school known for training bulldozer operators is responsible for hacking Google. If a story published on 18 February by The New York Times is true, rival Microsoft should send recruiters immediately to the Lanxiang vocational school in Shandong Province and compete against Chinese search engine Baidu […]

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Blame the Olympian who cannot defend himself.

19 February 2010

Conclusion to a story on Vancouver luge track design in the 17 February edition of The Wall Street Journal: “As often happens during Olympic controversies, numerous committees and federations are involved and it is often unclear who bears ultimate responsibility. The IOC and Vanoc have both said they aren’t responsible for the tracks because they […]

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The peaceful Aussie army behind the scenes at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

18 February 2010
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