The U.S. election ends soon. If McCain would win, then the U.S. people would surprise me again. Lessig is really quite worried at the moment, and he gives his reasons and his urgent plea. I want Obama be elected. Let us wait and see.

This piece is submitted to the Knight News Challenge 08. We have an extended version here: http://www.icuihua.org/wiki/index.php/Knight_08_Application. Project Title: iCuihua – a wiki-based Chinese community for class-action lawsuits 项目名称： 爱翠花 － 一个基于维基的集体诉讼中文社区 Describe your project The purpose of our iCuihua project is to develop a wiki-based community that helps ordinary Chinese people come together to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]