Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water filled quarry in Songjiang. Wow!

A match between China’s under-23 squad and Queen’s Park Rangers was stopped early for a massive fight. More here and here.

Yahoo Pipes is very cool. Proof at last that the Internet is a series of tubes.

Malaysia is reviving a ban on the multiracial Asian faces.

According to this article, Sichuan Sinomanic Technology LLC in Chengdu have developed a MIPS based PC that will sell for RMB1000. This is admirable and I wish them lots of luck. The ComputerWorld article says the PC is based on a chip from Raza but another article from Pacific Epoch (translating from qq.com) says it is based on the Dragon (also MIPS). Time and a screwdriver will tell. I would guess it is based on the Raza Alchemy family. If so, it could also be a DVD player and IP STB - which would be pretty cool.