Monday, October 30, 2006

Chinese Censors Lift Wikipedia Ban!

We thought we'd never see the day, but the Chinese censors have lifted the long-standing ban on Wikipedia! Maybe they finally realized that because anybody can edit Wikipedia, they can just delete the stuff they don't like anyways. Of course, the Chinese government can organize more people to edit and delete articles than the rest of the Wikipedia community combined! Now the battle is likely to turn the other way, as Wikipedia bans Chinese IP addresses from presenting the world with lies and half-truths about topics sensitive to the regime.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Weird New Balls on Kunming's Green Lake

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Street Markets in Kunming, China

 

 

 
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Touristy Kunming, China

 

 

 

 
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Portraits from Vietnam

 

 

 

 

Photos taken by my close friend and cycling partner, Charlie Glasser.
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Hong Kong Light Show

 

 

 

 
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Children of Vietnam






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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Photographs from Our Vietmam Ride









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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Riding a motorscooter in Hanoi



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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Strange Question for October

What do raindrops look like when you are sky diving? That is, we are used to seeing raindrops as streaks falling through the sky, but if you are falling at the same speed as them, canceling their relative motion, do they just appear as smooth spheres of water, perhaps weighted a bit more on the bottom side due to gravity?

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Monday, October 09, 2006

Vietnamese kid makes a gun out of bamboo





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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Vietnamese Scooter Wash

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Interview with a Vietnamese Britney Spears Fan

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Three drunk guys drive a motorcycle in Vietnam

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Photos from the North Vietnam Highlands

 

 

 

 
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

After school riding in Vietnam

Most days of our ride included at least a couple of stretches of road just covered with excited children who were suprised to see crazy white cyclists coming their way. I was lucky to have the video camera out for this one.

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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Driving a Vietnamese Earth Mover

This is not something you plan when you set out to ride your bike through Vietnam. Without speaking a word of Vietnamese, I managed to convince these lively construction workers that it would be really cool to let me drive their earth mover. And it was.



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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu

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Reenacting the Vietnam War in a tasteless act of disrespect for those who gave their lives at this very spot.

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