FiveThirtyEight.com is predicting Obama to win with 94.9% chance. 359.8 electoral vote against McCain’s 178.2.

Free Internet during Olympics! … only for reporters…
Hu stands by Games pledges, web curbs lifted

Two interesting articles that makes up a perfect pair:
– Business Week: America for Sale
– The New Yorker: Buy Shanghai

This reads like a novel, specifically, this reads like Ian McEwan’s Atonement, the Chinese version. It means, you have to read to the very end.
From: EastSouthWestNorth: The Weng’an Mass Incident.

Cool site! Perfect timing for me i guess. 🙂 How to Clean Stuff

Hilarious!!An Engineer’s Guide to Cats, from YouTube.

Have to admit I have a weakness for any newly proposed high-rises for San Francisco!Transbay plan would sprout new S.F. skyline

Peter Hessler’s previous article(The Road Ahead) in National Geographic won National Magazine Award for written content.

Another great piece of reporting by Peter Hessler: The Road Ahead, via National Geographic, China issue. April 2008.

good stuff: 15 pieces of wisdom from Steve Jobs

The most interesting review of Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution” I’ve seen to date: The Most Misread Person of 2007

Forbes: How To Make Friends, Japanese-Style

Finally! From NYT: Web Access and E-Mail on Flights

Hilarious! Don’t miss the comments at the end of the article! 🙂 Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others

From Scientific America: Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement
Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics?

The assessment of American’s economy from the Economist. Sounds like a psychic reading: it looks like a recession is coming, but wait, maybe there won’t be one. hmmm… tricky. America’s Economy: Getting Worried Downtown

iPhone might not show up in china market (officially) anytime soon because “sharing revenue is not the Chinese way.” Reuters: China unlikely to see iPhone soon.

Found the eight part video on youtube: Fantastic Planet Part 1 (english)

I’m in love with this little chocolate shop on Fillmore: Bittersweet, the Chocolate cafe

NYT: I, Robot: the Man behind the Google Phone

best article on the subject so far:Greenback Blues

Murdoch, a Folk Hero in Silicon Valley

Got this from Alice: Bear Rescue. Alice said “The moral of the story is, when you are in danger and there is nothing you can do, go to sleep.”

Here is a new role that Microsoft starts to dress itself into: A Victim?! NYT: Behind the blockage of Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick

This is SO COOOOOOL! NYT: A Cellphone without Borders

Using this to calculate how much i’m running each day. 🙂 Google Map Pedometer

A Sobering read…NYT: Choking on Growth, As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes