This past week was an absolute shit-show. Many a late night with “The Big Boss Man” Kevin away tending to both personal and business affairs. Trying to keep up on the reading but easier said than done and to make things worse, it’s starting to get warm(er) in Hong Kong. Winter seems to be on the way out for sure and there goes our 3 month’s of temperate weather which everybody looks forward to every 9 months. Not a whole lot of ground-breaking stories over the last few days, some residual privacy stories, but that’s about it.
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-Eugene
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#1. China, Where U.S. Internet Companies Often Fail
#2. BBQ North Carolina
My fellow blogger brother Nick Schonberger recounts a mythical BBQ tour of North Carolina… I told him to come to Hong Kong and do a similar BBQ pork tour.
#3. Supplements vs. Whole Foods
Legitimate question as to when is a good time to forgo natural, whole foods in favor of more concentrated and more convenient supplements.
#4. MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA (UNTITLED) PERFUME LAUNCH / THE VIDEO ROOM & THE IDEA OF MAKING A PERFUME / MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA (UNTITLED) PERFUME LAUNCH / THE INGREDIENTS ROOM & THE SCIENCE OF SCENT / MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA (UNTITLED) PERFUME LAUNCH / THE MIRROR ROOM & THE DESIGN OF THE BOTTLE
Maison Martin Margiela invited a few different bloggers to partake in a little pre-launch info session for their new perfume with quite a bit of story involved.
#5. K2: A Trek to Danger’s Doorstep
Fuck Mount Everest… K2 is the real shit. Two brothers go to the base of K2 and go into detail the dangers as well as the outlook of the personalities that look to tackle the summit.
#6. Software Makers See a Market in Censorship
Proxies and all that shit are a market created by China’s censorship as expats and those in the know want their “Twitter” and “Facebook”.
#7. Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone is Risky
How embarrassing but it has happened to me before… Article talks about how there are an increasing number of injuries due to people texting and talking… many I assume go un-reported.
#8. Scaling the Digital Wall in China
On a similar note to link #6, there are a growing number of Chinese citizens that aren’t content with the censorship with a wealth of knowledge behind the confinement of China’s Internet fortress.
#9. Can You Transform Your Whole Life in 60 Days?
My friend Dee has been wanting me to go do Bikram or any form of yogo for awhile. I pretty much brushed it off as being something that really can’t be all that hard. Link (yeah it’s from Oprah’s website :/) features a woman who turns her life around through this 60 day yoga period. I still have to go to yoga, just so I can do it and claim I was right all along and that it’s a joke haaaa.
#10. Bugatti Veyron operating costs so expensive, it’s cheaper to use a private jet?
If you can afford a $1,000,000 million dollar car, chances are you don’t really care.
#11. Song of praise: How Rwanda got its groove back
The Rwandan genocide was among the most horrific acts of humanity of my generation, I still remember listening to CBC radio and hear the chilling stories of the barbaric acts that went down. But fast forward, music has become a regenerative movement that really brings a more positive light to everything.
#12. Our Basic Human Pleasures: Food, Sex and Giving
Giving just as good as sex? Perhaps they say.
#13. Eight Ways to Rebuild Haiti
The views of eight different people on how to rebuild Haiti. Each is a pretty short read.
#14.Chinese Site Criticizes Investor for Its Google Support
Yahoo invests in Alibaba, Yahoo supports Google’s non-censorship in China, Alibaba gets angry. Ok summed up in one sentence… moving along now.
#15. Dear Mark: Trans Fat
We all know Trans Fats are bad… but why exactly?
#16. What’s Our Sputnik
Taiwan despite being largely resource-less has built up quite the infrastructure for business and innovation. But the US continues to be dependent on some many other external factors. The author lays out what the US needs to do to sever dependency ties on various resources such as oil etc.
#17. A Gangland Bus Tour, With Lunch and a Waiver
Sign a waiver, get a lunch and tour the heartland of Los Angeles gangland.
#18. Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently
This seriously bothered me for awhile as a I knew that it was possible to tie your shoes so that you didn’t have one side facing upwards, looking all asymmetrical. Hard to explain, but if you see the images you’ll understand. If you are tying your laces Granny Knot-steez (aka the wrong way), the fix is luckily very easy.
#19. Is China an Enron? (Part 2)
Following up on Link #18 from last Link Dump… the author re-looks at his argument and introduces some new factors including the two different forms of Chinese economies at work, Command China (Communist Party) vs. Network China (the capitalistic tip).
#20. Google Chrome Extension: StayFocused
I’ve used this extension as of today which sets a time limit on websites you choose. Not as useful as I thought cause my main time waster is probably not Facebook (the only one I added)… but actually I’ll add Amazon to the list.
#21. The Wonderful World of Coconut Products
Breaks down all the yummy (I actually hate using that word) coconut-related products. Don’t let the saturated fat fool you, coconuts ain’t no joke.
#22. Believing You Can Be Smarter Actually Makes You Smarter
You can basically trick yourself into believing/doing anything… I truly believe that.
#23. Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part V: The “Science”
Breaking down the conventional wisdom that saturated fat leads to coronary heart disease.
#24. 4 Things That Could Keep 3-D TV Out of Your Living Room
Hold your horses, still some things to take care of before you see everybody rushing out to get 3-D televisions.
#25. FDA Debates Tougher Cancer Warning On Tanning Beds
WTF, this girl started tanning as of grade 6? Worst parenting ever!
#26. The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Website
The New York Times as of 2011 will start charging for content in a metered format. That is, you can read X # of articles for free before they start charging. I’ll pay FOR SURE… you know I ride the New York Times hard.
#27. The New York Times’ Online Meter Will Hardly Move The Needle
TechCrunch is quick to pipe in and say that this don’t mean shit cause there are a ton of readers on the New York Times that read only a handful of articles each month.
#28. Henry Rollins Hits the Road
Black Flag’s Henry Rollins drops some interesting insights into his political voice and offers a cool answer as to why he won’t ever get into politics.
#29. Shades of Prejudice
Yes, it pays to be a light-skinned minority… relatively speaking. So while Harry Reid probably shouldn’t have voiced an opinion many were thinking, you can expect some certain perks in bad situations when you’re a lighter shade.
#30. Medical Miracle Nears a Milepost
Diane Van Deren is somebody I actually read about last year… a long distance endurance runner who after undergoing brain surgery faces some difficulties to life but some un-expected performance benefits. Basically she’s a beast who isn’t affected by certain
#31. If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online
Kids are spending something ridiculous like 17 hours a day consuming media. Fuck a TV or a cell phone, my little Eugenes won’t get any of that.
#32. Snack Time Never Ends
You wonder why we’re so fat eh? Snack time has been an institution these days for kids… elevated blood sugar levels all the time, junk food… yet another thing I won’t let me happen to my little shits when they enter the world.
#33. The Balkan Burger Unites All Factions
Think of a hot dog but in burger form with a mix of different meats and spices. Sounds absolutely delicious. Oh yeh, political beef need not apply.
#34. When Fingers Would Fumble, Chefs Turn to Tweezers
Tweezers are the new spatula… actually that probably isn’t the best comparison cause I don’t know my way around the kitchen all that well to really say what is what. But yeh, plating/handling food, now comes courtesy of medical tweezers… they mention how it’s the Western version of chopsticks.
#35. Jersey Shore Casts Members Now Wreaking Havoc in Manhattan’s Upscale, Non-Guido Clubs
I wasn’t able to watch Jersey Shore episodes 7 and 8 for some reason… but this sounds pretty funny. I wonder what’s going to go down as they blow up even more.