Is Hard Currency Becoming A Thing Of The Past? Doug Bernard | Washington DC Daniel Suelo is a man who has figured out how to live without money. Making his home in a high cave near the desert outpost of Moab, Utah, Mr. Suelo lives, eats, sleeps, scavenges and does just about anything else he […]
China’s Internet Catnip
Posted April 16th, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC-4)
Sex, Politics, Murder and the Web Doug Bernard | Washington DC In other times, the political excommunication of former Chinese rising star Bo Xilai would have been a relatively simple affair. Bo, the party boss of Chongqing, had for years built himself firm control over what happened in his province, along the way winning something […]
Censorship on Tomb Sweeping Day
Posted April 10th, 2012 at 1:07 pm (UTC-4)
Alice Xin Liu Every year around this time, China marks the Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day. It’s traditionally marked as a day for the living to celebrate the departed, marked by outings to cemeteries. Celebrants leave tea, burn paper or incense, and generally sweep the tomb down clean and clear. But this […]
Google Glass Is A Gas
Posted April 4th, 2012 at 7:58 pm (UTC-4)
A Look At, Or Through, Google’s Latest Technology and the Internet are all about innovation. Like a shark that must continually swim to pass water over its gills, if a tech company doesn’t innovate, it probably won’t last very long. Most of the innovations are, frankly, yawns. Some are crazy brilliant, while many others are […]
