Schott’s Vocab Commenter Thinks He’s Clever
Weekend Competition: What’s the Onomatopoeia?
This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to dance across their keyboards to provide the spelling of the sounds that surround us.
Commenter P. Solanki: The sound of the American dollar tumbling: Yuan-yuan-yuan.
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Internet comment threads are a painfully friction-less environment where this kind of undermining could go on all day.
Taken from, by the way, a video (w/ translation) of a concept for Chinese public transit involving a “straddling bus,” an Inspector Gadget-esque system of solar-powered buses that allow traffic to flow underneath them. Lasers are also involved, but I can’t say how. The good news?
It has huge skylight that will eliminate passengers’ sense of depression when enter.
Count me in.
“Straddling” bus–a cheaper, greener and faster alternative to commute (via engadget)
Rent-a-white-guy for your Chinese business meeting
Would love to see a business card for this new industry:
John Doe/ White/ Since 1973/JDoe@rentawhitey.cn
Chinese entrepreneurs are renting random white guys to pretend to be visiting businessmen, and to lend an aura of general Being Connected to the West to business meetings, conferences and receptions:
(via Boing Boing)
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China is expected to build more square feet of real estate in the next 15 years than the United States has built in its entire history, and it has no green building codes or green building experience,
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