So last Saturday the Rolling Stones played in Shanghai. Here’s my notes on the gig. 

The website for Xiang Yang Market has been closed down by the powers that be. It seems it was a fake. A fake website for a market selling fakes… Oh, the irony.

Dilbert on manufacturing overseas

Prospect has an article by Mark Kitto, founder of “that’s shanghai”, telling how he was squished by the powers that be. 

Xiang Yang market is the place to go in Shanghai to buy “watch, bags, shoes, clothes” It is right in the heart of Shanghai - prime real estate. So it is, of course, being closed and moved in favor of yet another tower block. We’ll miss it - it added color to the neighborhood. The traders have set up a website - haggling looses something in cyberspace though.

Danwei (probably the most interesting China blog) has made an amusing video of the building site to the north. 

According to this article there is a link between brain development and your surroundings. Dull surrounding == no brain growth. Interesting and changing surroundings == new neurons. This has long been held for baby development. But now it appears that the same is true for adults. So escape your cube, open a window, tear down the latest HR brochure and head for the hills.

Monochrom asked Austrians to draw logos from memory. Meanwhilehttp://www.allthelogos.com/ is a database of over 90,000 logos

List of keyboard shortcuts for the Mac:

Very cool video of multi-touch interaction from NYU.