The dichotomy paradox leads to the following mathematical joke. A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were asked to answer the following question. A group of boys are lined up on one wall of a dance hall, and an equal number of girls are lined up on the opposite wall. Both groups are then instructed [...]

Two month ago in August, I signed a petition for Hu jia, urging our Chinese government to release Hu jia as soon as possible. He was jailed because he wrote several articles to criticize the ill behaviors of our government. Before that, he was already one of the leading figures of promoting human rights in [...]

Read this if you wants to know how crap the Chinese legal system is, and how hopeless a Chinese can be: Courts Compound Pain of China’s Tainted Milk

I found it here.  Andy Tanenbaum Sep 21 1988, 9:45 pm There has been much discussion about GNU recently. Let me state a couple of simple facts. 1. Stallman is ideologically opposed to having any part of GNU be sold for profit. If MINIX 1.3 costs $79.95 without GNU stuff and MINIX 1.4 costs $79.95 with [...]

An thought provoking talk. Must see. Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? Key points: Remoteness affects the quality [...]

feel proud, if you know that we could not vote in China.