So my Mac Powerbook keeps going to sleep. (It needs a little rest.) With the following message in the console:

A researcher has embedded electrodes in a pigeons brain that can be used to remotely influence the bird’s flight. Pictures here.

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.

There are some reviews of Eric Clapton’s Shanghai concert up on his web site. The set lists of the concerts in other countries make interesting reading. There’s only two place in which Cocaine was not performed: China and Singapore. Think about it.

Baseline Mag has an overview of how MySpace coped with rapid growth. Basically a good lesson in how not to build a dynamic database backed website. 

Shanghai To Issue Spit Bags To Taxi Drivers. Nice. Would you rather ride around with a bag of spit all day or wind down your window and expectorate?