Anthony Pantekoek // Entrepreneur, writer, editor, translator, teacher, photographer, and father living and experiencing life in Taiwan.
D. Gorton/The New York TimesSecretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. on March 30, 1981, the day of an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. More Photos �
"As Nixon always said to me — and he took great pride in it — ‘Al, I never took a dollar. I had somebody else do it.’ ” - That comment pretty much sums up Republican ethics for the last 40+ years...
Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, spoke this week at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand and covered 10 amazing tips for entrepreneurs. They were truly insightful
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This one is sadly of the purely rumor variety, but it’s worth mentioning for its potentially game-changing effects. Like it did with the Nexus One, if Google were to take a direct hand in developing a tablet computing device with a trusted partner, it could be a serious contender in the newly emerging tablet wars.
The cited report says the Google Tablet has already been in development for the past 19 months. HTC is a plausible logical choice for the trusted partner as well, given its existing relationship with Google and the Android operating system. Still, with nothing yet official on the books, the Google Tablet is the most speculative entrant on this list for now.
This would definitely be my choice of the bunch.
By David Bandurski — In yet another volley in the stand-off over Google and Internet censorship in China, the State Council Information Office, the external voice of China’s government and the core body charged with controlling the Web in China, released a statement on Monday rejecting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Internet controls in China.
Brian and dave discuss what it might mean to be a true craftsman and why the idea of craft has become so popular of late. Other issues discussed include the question of why craft seems to be focused almost exclusively on programming and why everyone does not aspire to be a craftsman? Programming as performance art, programs as literary artifacts, and code "habitability" round out the discussion.
...All-in-all, terrorism experts are counting the trees and missing the wood when they analyze the US foray into Yemen in the limited terms of hunting down al-Qaeda. The hard reality is that Obama, whose main plank used to be "change", has careened away and increasingly defaults to the global strategies of the Bush era. The freshness of the Obama magic is dissipating. Traces of the "revisionism" in his foreign policy orientation are beginning to surface. We can see them already with regard to Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine problem, Central Asia and towards China and Russia...
October 31st, Wuhan. “Walking Mother” Chen Yurong wore out 4 pairs of shoes in 7 months. She walks 10 km everyday to reduce fat tissues in her liver so she can donate part of her liver to save her son, who has a congenital liver disease. November 3rd, her wishes were fulfilled and the operation was carried out.
Much has and will be written about the rise of China as as nation, but what isn't reported enough about is the people, and I don't mean the politicians, who are behind what is driving the country.
