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Wikihistory is a funny short story about revert-wars in a fictional time-traveller forum ("International Association of Time Travelers"). Anybody who had a look at a talk/ history page on Wikipedia previously will be reminded of similar invisible wars going on on hot/ sensitive topics there too.
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!
Via boingboing
- Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop
Photoshop tutorial for transparent, glassy letters.
(tags: tutorial photoshop) - TechBlog - How to: Block brute force attacks with iptables
Stopping the scriptkiddies right at the ip filter
(tags: administration iptables) - Color + Design Blog / Colors of Religion: Buddhism by COLOURlovers
The most prominent colour concept in Buddhism is that of the rainbow body, which is the highest level of meditative achievement wherein the body is transformed into pure light
(tags: articles webdesign) - 125 Code Snippets for web designers
title says it all.
(tags: development webdesign) - Improve your photography with clasical art.
Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color...
(tags: photoshop photography tutorial) - Asia's Monsoon - Photo Essays - TIME
Some of the worst floods in memory strike parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal, killing hundreds and displacing millions
(tags: photography articles)
Having lived for many years in Shanghai and being asked the same questions over and over again, I decided to write a series of articles with tips for living here. As a starter, a list of sites which should answer all your questions and cover most of the things i may write about in my articles later.
Community, Directories
Shanghai Expat - Number one expat community in Shanghai, you can get most of your questions answered here and more. Their directory sucks however.- Schanghai.com - German expat-community in Shanghai and China
- SmartShanghai - Great directory of food, pubs, clubs, etc, and a community.
- City Weekend - Directory of everything, their magazine is available for free in many places.
- That's Shanghai - Another magazine and directory, I read the mag, but don't use their site.
- Shanghai Eats - Food directory.
- Live in Shanghai - Info on many things, i never used that site. Looks informative
Food Delivery
Mmh... Pizza...
- Pizza Hut Delivery - I suggest you get somebody to sign up for you, since the address entry is not so trivial (bad translations)
- Papa John's Pizza - Quick delivery, much better than Pizza Hut. You need to find the closest shop here and see if they can take the order in English.
- Hello Pizza - "Same ingredients as the pizza market leaders!" :-o
Mmh... Sandwiches...
- Citydeli - Possibly the most expensive Sandwiches in town? :-D
- NYC Deli - Prices seem ok, but I am too lazy to order over the phone... you guys need online ordering!
- Icistreet - If you happen to be working or living in XuHui, check out this low-cost sandwich place.
- iiiit.cn - Horrible flash site, broken online ordering, link goes to their pdf formatted menu
- Coolzey - Shops along Shanxi Rd.
All in one delivery...
- Sherpa - Oldest one, and probably the most expensive one too, great food though.
- Mealbay - Haven't tried them, similar to Sherpa.
- Dial A Meal - Haven't tried them, similar to Sherpa, don't know any of their restaurants either :-P
Online Shops
- Books Direct - English language books in China, free delivery.
- Newegg China - Electronics, Chinese only site
- Taobao - forget ebay, Chinese only site
- Amazon.cn - Amazon's attempt to enter the Chinese market, Chinese only site
Language
ChinesePod - I quite like these podcasts, not only focusing on learning Chinese but also making you understand the culture- Melnyks - Similar to Chinese pod, spoken by a Canadian. (I think that guy has terrible accent, but some people think, he's the best thing since sliced bread.)
News, Blogs
- Danwei - Media news in china, may be not interesting for some
- ShanghaiBites Food blog, did not update it for few weeks.
- Likealocal.cn - Another local food blog. From personal experience I would not recommend trying any food from roadside stalls, but otherwise it should be save :-)
- Shanghai Daily - English language newspaper in Shanghai. Forget China Daily
Maps, Metro
- SmartShanghai's Downtown Map and Metro - Interactive maps of shanghai and the metro.
- Explore Shanghai - Excellent interactive map of Shanghai Metro, drag between stations to get travel time and price, click on a stop for more information. The map of downtown is not bad either, the whole site looks very promising, I hope they won't shut it down any time soon.
- Google Ditu - Chinese only maps. Not really useful if you can't read and write Chinese characters.
Hotels, Flights, Trains
CTrip - I use this to book china flights and hotels- China Train Schedule - Can't vouch for their accuracy, never took train here.
- Cheap Budget Hotels - List of cheap motel chains in shanghai, I have stayed in many of them. Good choice if you are on budget. (The beds will be most likely (quite) hard, to suit the Chinese taste)
Jobs
This three links are all you need for your job search. If you are looking for a specific company, you may want to try going to that company's website directly. For internships there are dedicated websites (can't think of any), also your country's chamber of commerce in shanghai may have a list of internships and jobs available.Visa, Housing
Emoo.net - I get my Z-Visas done through them, saves you a lot of time and pain. They also provide other services which I have not tried.- SmartShanghai Housing - One of few housing links i will include here. Usually you will get ripped off or end up paying far too much for an apartment in a foreigner ghetto. Find a local to help you out if you don't want to pay more than RMB 6000 or don't feel like getting ripped off.
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6 billion Others is massive project to "create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet's inhabitants." Six directors traveled across the globe to interview a variety of people on various topics... Be sure to check out all sections of the site...
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"What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe?"
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A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage.
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Al Gore in pictures. Check out his office...
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Print out, cut out, fold it, glue it. Simple.
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Collection of scales for the bass
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A reason why todays music sucks? Sounds plausible to me
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Good Wikipedia article explaining the effect above
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Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground...(tags: environment china)
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Bass lessons
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A Mystery Giant Marine Turtle (or is it a decomposing whale)...(tags: photography environment)
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Instrument tuner. It can help you to tune a piano, a guitar ... Windows, Linux and possibly Mac OS X
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Series of Video tutorials on bass playing
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eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache.
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China's Three Gorges Dam reservoir has been fouled by pesticides, fertilizers and sewage, and more than 600 kilometers of the Yangtze river are critically polluted(tags: china environment)
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(tags: funny)
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The state of XHTML on the Web today is more broken than the state of HTML, and most people don't realize...
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Great new theme for the google reader. CSS FTW!
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IN PRISON: You get three meals a day. AT WORK: You get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
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More mysql optimization tips.
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Astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system for the first time.
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Shanghai suffered the worst air quality since 2001 as the effects of sandstorms in China's north moved south Monday.(tags: environment shanghai)
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An international English training school teamed up with the Shanghai Charity Foundation to hold a peculiar, and even controversial, charity auction for needy and disabled children in the city last night...(tags: shanghai)
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This pictorial HOWTO depicts a step-by-step method for cooking pancakes.
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These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we're in a hurry, quickly dashing off emails with typos, grammatical shortcuts...
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This document represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google's ranking algorithm...
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"Tips for learning to speak Mandarin Chinese". I kind of gave up learning mandarin... haha
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Von der Reichskanzlei in die Antarktis? Polarforscher sezieren den Mythos um "Neuschwabenland" und "Neuberchtesgaden", die angebliche Eisfestung der Nazis. Linke Paranoiker und Neonazis haben eine Mär um U-Boote, Ufos und Atombomben gestrickt...(tags: articles)
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German. Interesting commentary about the climate warming and that humans may not have influenced it as much as they would like to...
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German TV science show
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It's friday, so let's relax a bit and have look at the covers of various chinese magazines from March April 2007.
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cforms is a plugin for Wordpress, offering convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.
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A Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page.
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German hypocrite politicans and the solar industry. The consumer is the ass, again(tags: environment politics)
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Google pinyin input. Seems interesting. I don't have windows.
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Google OS X download page
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Yahoo's new search engine. Quite nice.
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Next time you decide to go out to eat, keep in mind these ten restaurant secrets. You may be better off eating at home...
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Flash-based slideshows out of photos, videos...
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At 33 Sichuan Zhong Lu, they brew their own beer and it's not expensive
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In the most polluted city on earth, the smog is so thick that it seems to consume its source.
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Canadian, European and Australian cities continue to dominate the rankings this year...
