Category Archives: Asian

Things relating to Hong Kong and other Eastern places

June 4th, 20 Years after Tiananmen

By Ian | June 3, 2009

(also on YouTube)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ
In the words of Nicholas Kristoff, an eyewitness, as he recalls in the NYT on the June 4 massacre at Tiananmen Square:
The night was filled with gunfire — and with Chinese standing their ground to block the troops. I parked my bike at Tiananmen, and the People’s Liberation Army soon arrived from the [...]

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Celebrating Lunar New Year and Long Life with Tam Kwai Lan

By Ian | January 27, 2009

This weekend was the start of Chinese year 4707, which is Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac.

As always we celebrated the Lunar New Year with 2 dinners, one on the evening and one on the new years day (plus a Saturday dim sum!), with as many family members in attendance as possible.
The [...]

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Gung Hei Fat Choy for Chinese year 4706, Hello Rat!

By Ian | February 6, 2008

as we hit another Lunar New Year, in this case Year of the Rat/Mouse. (where’s my cheese? Probably somewhere under this 30 cm of snow!)

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Japan link roundup Sept 07

By Ian | September 4, 2007

I’ve gone and collected another set of Japan links once again, cause its the future, or at least one piece of it….
Via TokyoMango : Takeshi Kitano ( sometimes credited as ‘Beat’ Takeshi and best known in the West 1995 for his role is the 1996 “Johnny Mnemonic” film adapted from the William Gibson short [...]

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Japan link roundup Aug 07

By Ian | August 14, 2007

ToykoMango: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl, a great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work for Louis Vuitton. It’s like the crazy, postmodern, luxury, Japanese version of Alice in Wonderland.
Jean Snow: How to Wrap with a Furoshiki, a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish [...]

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Recent Links for August 10th : the ProtoType Way; Superflat Panda; Nefertiti

By Ian | August 10, 2007

A prototype-checklist : doing common things the prototype way (or taking advantage of those extra 100 KB in your page) – A great set of code examples of doing things the Prototype way. – Javascript
TOKYOMANGO: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl – Great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work [...]

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Recent Links for August 9th : space launches using lighter-than-air vehicles ; Japanese Mottainai Furoshiki wrapping

By Ian | August 9, 2007

A vision of cheap space launches using lighter-than-air vehicles essentially balloons built specifically to carry light payloads to the stratosphere, from which a larger space-going vehicle could be launched.- first stage would use a lighter-than-air ascent vehicle to reach a stationary craft hovering above the earth at about 140,000 feet.
Remember : “slow is cheap, [...]

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Culture Links for the Week of July 13th 07

By Ian | July 13, 2007

Mr. Free Software; Mr CyberPunk; No Pandas in Toronto; Newspaper failures; Curse of Craigslist; Swarm intelligence; Mr Singularity; The Plan vs. Reality; Piracy in Perspective; INFEST WISELY in Vega or BitTorrent

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Links for the first week on July 07

By Ian | July 7, 2007

Amazon Web Services; Rails For Linux; Really DRY; eBay’s answer to 20% of itself; All the News That’s Fit to Wiki Out; the dreaded non-coding architect; Ajax Rain; Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling go to Hormiga Canyon; Arthur C. Clarke’s Maelstrom II: the movie; Kanye West Is Akira;
Is Tokyo a virtual world inside Second Life; HP Kawaii Horror.

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Tales of the BunnyFish : Kozyhdan Solo Show @ Magic Pony

By Ian | June 15, 2007

Tales of the BunnyFish is a new exhibition for Kozyndan at West Queen West’s Magic Pony from June 28 till July 29 2007.
So What’s a BunnyFish?
The bunnyfish is a unique being from a highly sentient race that has lived in the seas for many thousands of years unbeknownst to man. We have been following [...]

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