Timely Snow

In the last Democratic Presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses, there was a designated “You Tube moment”, which you can see, on You Tube:

It was probably damaging for Hillary Clinton, because of her initial reaction (”I want to hear this”). It certainly wasn’t her day in general, but she should have been able to see [...]

As part of our new project, we’re refreshing our equipment and revisiting decisions made at the turn of the millennium. Some of that information has been preserved by Sujai Kumar here. So far, we’ve decided to:
1. Use the Canon HG-10 , which is a high definition hard-disk based camcorder that uses [...]

Very cute. Today’s the day, as you’d know if you really were from the future.
I particularly liked:

- Greet people by referring to things that don’t yet exist or haven’t existed for a long time. Example: “Have you penetrated the atmosphere lately?” “What spectrum will today’s broadcast be in?” and “Your king must be a [...]

Gary Feng picks up on the “you’re number 1″ story…
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That’s funny. It reminds me of games we used to play in English classes. It’s not hard to phonetically transcribe English in Chinese. The real fun is to make it reads like a real Chinese sentence. my version: [...]

This article provides an interesting example of the limitations of the “universality” of Chinese characters. Look at the picture; as the article notes
The characters read “You Are No. 1!”
That’s not a translation: the Cantonese pronunciation of the characters 腰呀冧吧温! (”yiu a nam ba wan!”) approximates the English sentence.
The problem for the mainland media is [...]