I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little weird and i get home around midnight… So here’s some more stuff I’ve been reading, that I would have blogged about it I took myself seriously.
I’m also in a slightly more odious than usual anti-Chinese government mood at the moment. I started a post listing all the sites I go to that are blocked here. I gave up when I realised that in an average day maybe half of what I access through a web-browser (as opposed to rss-reader) – excluding forums that I haunt – is blocked and requires access either through proxies or encryption. As a subjective addendum, I’ve noticed access via these methods has become inexorably more complex, and the most reliable results are obtained through combinations of the two.
The last straw was Technorati getting banned. That happened when I was onsite, one second happy link-trawling, next, the ominous ‘server timeout bullshit.
Some new blogs that made it to my RSS feed:
Theatre Notes, from Melbourne, seriously good writing on contemporary theatre.
Shenzhen Fieldnotes, updated infrequently but well-written socio-historic/cultural stuff from the borderlands.
fanfusuzi, another one from Hu Jintao’s imperial fiefdom of Shenzhen.
Things I read that I’d just have a post from del.ic.ious here if I was clever. (I still got FrontRow to run on my 4 year old PowerBook, remote-controlled by my new Sony-Ericcson K750c mobile…)
Female Prisoner Scorpion, Torture. Gang rape. Eye gouging. Group showers. Lesbian interludes. Knife-wielding chicks in capes. Japanese cinema anyone?
China’s New Home Life, glorious middle-class mediocrity for the workers of Communist Utopia.
Guangzhou, Shenzhen warn of unqualified drinking water sources. No longer even rinsing my mouth with it…
Report from the Nu River: ‘Nobody has told us anything’. Say it: Dams are Bad. Repeat until you get it.
China’s State Kidnappers. After over two months since he vanished, Hao Wu is now a victim of state kidnapping and abduction
Shattering the China Dream is where recently released AIDS-activist Hu Jia tells what being a victim of state abduction means.
Thomas Friedman: The Greenest Generation, from Peking Duck, yes turning off lights makes a difference. Even in China
Prior artwork? No, ‘prior art work’, it’s not about something you painted earlier either.
Scrapie in ancient China? Only if ‘crisis’ means ‘danger + opportunity’ … or something…
Guangdong Arranges Pollution Index And System. Wow, and it works too … I can see to the river … almost…
Ending on a happy note, like all good news, (snort), the awesome blog Music Thing has a series of pieces on on those 2.35 second pieces of music you know and love, including TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 4: The Mac Startup Sound, and currently close to my heart, Plexiglass Moog Modular used on Apocalypse Now … mmm now that’s what I call music.
EVA at Work, if NEON GENESIS EVANGELION echos across your internal cultural plain.
