Morning Reading 3.30.2012

Morning Reading
I struggle in trying to decide if different cultures are really that different.  At the end of the day, we are all humans and have certain tenancies as a result.  I can't tell if this proves my point or proves it wrong, but it does something, that's for sure.  Perhaps unfair to judge from one video, but at the very least it seems Chinese men are better dancers than Chinese women, probably the opposite of the "West". - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/videos-viral-chinese-song-inspires-queer-funny-dances-and-outdoor-workouts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Is there a better example of a product that only comes from places where the people that use it want to go? iPad owners as a whole probably don't want to go to China, but tea drinkers probably want to go to all the places tea comes from (which are on the whole "exotic").  Is this actually true? - Uncornered Market
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2012/03/tea-gardens-bangladesh-panorama/

Back to the first point, would US press (or Americans in general for that matter) call someone a "chubby girl"?  Perhaps so. - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/facebooks-zuckerberg-on-vacation-in-shanghai-netizens-chatter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Morning Reading 3.27.2012

Morning Reading
Is China still a Police State? - Seeing Red in China (Tom?)
http://seeingredinchina.com/2012/03/26/china-is-still-a-police-state/

Sorry if I haven't posted other articles about this, but the Chongking drama is really getting out of hand:
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/27/chongqing-mystery-who-was-neil-heywood/?mod=WSJBlog

Nokia stores selling non-Nokia phones? - Isidor's Fugue (Brian Glucroft)
http://www.isidorsfugue.com/2012/03/nokia-stores-selling-variety-of-phones.html

Morning Reading 3.26.2012

Morning Reading
In case you haven't been keeping up with these . . . - Book Dedications (Wayne Gooderham)
http://bookdedications.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-literate-passion-letters-of-anais-nin-henry-miller-1932-1953-ed-by-gunther-stuhlmann/

Debating a Hard Landing - Patrick Chovanec (Patrick Chovanec)
http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/debating-a-hard-landing/

Calculated Risk on Propublica on Fannie and Freddie (Meta) - Calculated Risk Blog
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/03/propublica-fannie-and-freddie-principal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29

LAZY LATE EDITION!

http://www.isidorsfugue.com/2012/03/inside-android-store-in-zhuhai-china.html

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-underground-park-on-nycs-lower-east-sid?ref=popular

Morning Reading 3.21.2012

Morning Reading
What is interesting about this picture? - Isador's Fugue (Brian Glucroft)
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rsVFBUPOwF7yr88YFu7rb3zwmJ7SucfefVqDx3bjXfA?feat=embedwebsite

I love Amazon
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-buys-kiva-systems-775-million-2012-3
http://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-what-we-choose-2010-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-makes-ordinary-control-freaks-look-like-stoned-hippies-says-former-engineer-2011-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-visionary-2011-4

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Morning Reading 3.19.2012
Bike marathon . . . bike-a-thon?  I guess you have to bike that far to get anywhere in LA - The Atlantic (Nate Berg)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/03/la-unofficial-late-night-bike-marathon/1521/

Another reason Mark will complain about technology.  The old fashioned way works better? - Time (Maia Szalavitz)
http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/?iid=hl-main-lede

Apple, China, and the Truth.  I am sure you read lots of stuff on this, but I liked this one the best because of the spin it puts on it - New Yorker (Evan Osnos)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/03/mike-daiseys-mistakes-in-china.html

The Daisey-ian response
http://mikedaisey.com/audio/prologue.mp3

So who attacks who first?
China v. Japan
North Korea v. South Korea
China v. Taiwan
United States v. China
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577288983989668016.html

Morning Reading 3.13.2012

Morning Reading
How big is Atlanta's airport? - Atlantic (Mark Byrnes)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/03/scenes-above-atlantas-massive-international-airport/1465/

The perfect loaf of bread?  For some perhaps - Lifehacker (Alan Henry)
http://lifehacker.com/5892768/bake-bread-in-a-coffee-can-for-perfectly-round-evenly-baked-loaves-with-little-crust

Rough pre-game meal at the Olive Garden - Yahoo! (Chris Chase)
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/entire-arena-football-team-cut-during-pregame-meal-190741599.html

China v. South Korea? - Wall Street Journal (Jeremy Page)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/13/china-south-korea-in-row-over-submerged-rock/?mod=WSJBlog

Where has Chinese taxpayers' dollars gone? - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/video-where-has-chinese-taxpayers-money-gone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29

Morning Reading 3.12.2012

Morning Reading
A Train Journey from Iran to Turkey - Uncornered Market (Audrey Scott)
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2012/03/iran-turkey-train/

Blogging Over Thyme
http://www.bloggingoverthyme.com/
This is the girlfriend of one of the other students in Sara's class.  She is in culinary school and writes about it.  It is new to me and I honestly haven't read more than a couple of posts, but I am going to try to start from the beginning and thought you might enjoy it too

High Speed Rail in China - Seeing Red in China (Tom ?)
http://seeingredinchina.com/2012/03/12/high-speed-railway-collapse-in-hubei-a-tragedy-averted-by-luck/

Capital Gains from My Favorite Economist - The Economist (Scott Sumner)
http://www.economist.com/economics/by-invitation/guest-contributions/proper-tax-rate-capital-income-zero

Morning Reading 3.8.2012

Morning Reading
Tarp Charts
http://dealbreaker.com/2012/03/tarp-charts/

http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/TV/Westwing4.html

Morning Reading 3.7.2012

Morning Reading
How cool are these!?!?!?
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/06/night-biking-gloves/

Morning Reading 3.5.2012

Morning Reading
Gentrification from a decidedly positive viewpoint - David Lida (David Lida)
http://davidlida.com/?p=1672

An interesting editorial from the Editor of Caixin
http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-news-watch/article/The-rise-of-Chinas-state-capitalism-is-not-a-point-of-pride-but-a-reason-for-worry

Propublica on the Financial Crisis and Banking Sector (didn't read it yet)
http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions

The National People's Conference in China is in full swing:
http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/chinas-politics-in-rare-bloom/
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/05/china-npc-2012-the-reports/?mod=WSJBlog
http://english.caixin.com/2012-03-01/100362616_all.html
http://english.caixin.com/2012-03-05/100363875.html

Morning Reading 3.1.2012

Morning Reading
This is meta - Finding la Mancha (Mark "Moccasin" Eisinger)
http://findinglamancha.blogspot.com/2012/02/wednesday-february-29-2012-can.html

USA! USA! USA!
http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2012/03/italy-0-usa-1-match-highlights.html

Light Rail and Congestion - The Atlantic (Eric Jaffe)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/02/does-light-rail-really-alleviate-highway-congestion/1358/

Elephant on the Tube - The Atlantic (Samuel Medina)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/02/elephants-and-whales-london-tube/1359/

Boxpark (I think I posted something on this before, but I think it is pretty cool) - And it Feels Like Coming Home (Rachella)
http://anditfeelslikehome.blogspot.com/2012/03/boxpark-pop-up-on-steroids.html

$35 "Computer" - A VC (Fred Wilson)
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/raspberry-pi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29