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Walk Like an Australian, Finale
A few days ago I mentioned Monica Tan's visual thought-experiment. She is an ethnically Chinese native of Australia now living in Beijing, who put her photo among pictures of eight Chinese-Chinese...
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Three Final Aspen Photos
Bill Clinton made an appearance on the final Saturday evening session of the Aspen Ideas Festival, as he has done a number of times in the past. Ron Brownstein of National Journal was his interviewer...
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Happy Independence Day
It's the best of holidays: summer, freedom, hot dogs, Americana. Three patriotic thoughts on this day.1) First, the general idea from our neighborhood parade this morning, in DC: How do I and my...
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Google+: So Far, So Good
Recent posts having been so long, I'll try to make this terse:- I have used Google+ for most of the past week; it's being rolled out gradually to see how the system scales, much as Gmail was...
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In Which I Become a T-53A Pilot (without trying)
It appears that the U.S. Air Force Academy has decided to purchase a bunch of Cirrus SR20 airplanes for its flight training fleet, where they will be designated as T-53As. Here, via Cirrus, is an SR20...
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Google+ vs Facebook: the Trust Factor
Following my initial report earlier today, here are a few more assessments. If you're in the tech world you've probably seen these already, but for those who haven't, the implications are interesting...
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Is Jiang Zemin Dead? Real-time Illustration of News Control in China
For the past 24+ hours, anyone following various social-media feeds* about China has seen rumors, then official denials, then silence, about the possible demise of former president Jiang Zemin, shown...
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Sen. Inhofe Pushes His Luck
As reported here back in April, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma (right), a long-time pilot and advocate for aviation, had two unusual aviation experiences recently.The first was that he landed on a...
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Plus ça change, Twitter Town Hall Dept
Fifteen years ago, I did a cover story in the magazine called "Why Americans Hate the Media." After the jump I have a long passage from the article, whose main point was to compare the questions that...
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Viewers' Guide: Language, and Living Buddha
If you're tuned into the VOA's Chinese service this morning at 9:30am EDT, check out my wife, Deborah Fallows, talking about her book Dreaming in Chinese.She was going to be on for the full hour...
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What the Inhofe Case Tells Us
Yesterday I summed up the state-of-play in the saga of Sen. Inhofe v. the FAA: - he landed on a closed runway while workmen were standing on it, creating panic and outrage at the local airport and...
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Your China News Roundup of the Day
1) On the Jiang Zemin situation, NMA of Taiwan weighs in with a somewhat coarse but amusingly illustrated account. (Again, no joke, good wishes to members of his family.) I am always a sucker for NMA's...
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The Economic News
In the early 1970s, when I was studying economics in graduate school in England, the ruinous Great Depression was nearly 40 years in the past. One big focus of attention in our courses was how it could...
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On Obama and the Economic News
Earlier today, I wondered whether the Obama Administration had accepted the Republicans' (incorrect and cynical) claim that it was possible to belt-tighten and budget-cut our way out of a collapsing...
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The Future of Gmail: Less is More?
If you use Gmail, you may have noticed recently a little line of red type in the upper right hand section of your screen, saying "Preview Gmail's new look." You can see it in the screen shot below,...
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Fact-Checking 'Corner Office'
It's not often you have the chance to fact-check, personally, the anecdotes in a New York Times business profile. But as I read, on an endless plane flight, today's "Corner Office" interview by Adam...
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More on Gmail's 'New Look'
This weekend I mentioned that the "new look of Gmail" was remarkable mainly for how much more white space, and how much less info, it presented to the user on each page. As a reminder, sample shot of...
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Headline Juxtaposition of the Day
Via reader Rick Jones in California: Extra credit question: Discuss possible connections and disconnections. More on this topic soon.
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A Miscellany on Google Design
1) The designer Khoi Vinh (right, from his site) was design director of NYTimes.com from 2006 to 2010. He actively likes Gmail's new "sea of white" look, about which I am less enthralled. Hey, I'm only...
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Did the CIA Really Use Fake Vaccinations to Get bin Laden?
I had no intention of getting into this, with so many other meat-and-potatoes topics backed up -- the rise of debt, the fall of Murdoch, technology, airplanes, Chinese troubles, the historical role of...
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