刚看完，非常过瘾！超级暴力但绝对不血腥！好像《低俗小说》，也像《杀死比尔》，Quentin只是挂个名？

I’ve been playing with the new Gizmoproject.com. It’s a Skype-type VOIP software available for both Mac and Windows that pretty much has the same features.

Beijing Times' cover, features a picture of police in Bangladesh.

2. About 350 small bombs exploded within an hour of each other across Bangladesh, killing two people and injuring more than 100 in an unprecedented attack initially linked to banned Islamic extremists;

3. Daxing county abolished compulsory blood donation by quota in Beijing (voluntary blood donation has already satisfied the needs of the county);

4. Insurance on serious diseases for workers to be implemented;

5. Twenty travel spots in Miyun county re-opened today (they had been closed because of road collapse)

Two Brits headed west from Beijing on August 14 on bicycles. They are cycling all the way to London in order to raise £10,000 for Diabetes UK. Their ride will take them through northwestern China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and eventually across Europe and back home to London.

Andy Clapperton and Jon Smith have both been teaching in universities in Beijing, and having enjoyed other cycling expeditions around China, decided to set themselves a somewhat larger challenge. Andy is himself a diabetic, and this makes the load considerably heavier as they will be carrying large supplies of insulin in cool boxes on the back of the bikes.

Andy comments that 'besides raising money, the aim of the expedition is also to promote the ethos that diabetes shouldn't stop anyone achieving any goal they set their minds to. I feel there are a lot of misunderstandings about diabetes, and this is something we would like to try and challenge, particularly given the increasing number of people affected by the condition'.

For more information about the route and how to donate or sponsor, as well as the latest updates on their whereabouts and a range of excellent photos from across China, check out their website: cyclehome.net

FLG真是与时俱进啊。

Mathematician Yau Shing-Tung

If academic corruption in China can not be curbed, scientific and technological development in the country will be delayed by 20 years, world-known mathematician Shing-Tung Yau warned recently.

Yau, who is the only Chinese American winner of the Fields Medal, lashed out at rampant plagiarism in Chinese academia in an interview by a Beijing newspaper.

Improving research quality and curbing violations of academic ethics is critical, he said.

Yau, a professor at Harvard University, has many contacts with Chinese students and researchers and pays close attention to the training of mathematicians in China.

He said the papers of some members of China's Academy of Sciences are not even up to the level of Harvard undergraduates.

Many professors in Chinese universities prize the quantity of papers, while neglecting significant research. They even restrict talented students from conducting independent research by demanding their assistance in writing their own articles, said Yau...

...He mentioned that a Chinese student of his at Harvard plagiarized another professor's article. Yet when the student went back to China, he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was put in charge of a science foundation. His salary was became 20 times that of other young researchers though his true expertise was far inferior.

Yau said China's mathematical research was close to the top level in the world before the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, when much of academia was purged in the campaign for ideological purity.

With the rapid economic development in today's China, better achievements should be made by academia, he said.

"Chinese students are talented. They can have great achievement if led by good teachers and doing research in a healthy academic environment," he said.

Plagiarism is one of the chronic illnesses in Chinese academia. Several such cases of it involving recognized scholars have been uncovered in recent years.

This is a really nifty lifehack I found via Tipmonkies. Work Magazine has created an Excel spreadsheet that lets you sneakily check out jobs databases at work from an interface that looks like, no actually it IS, an Excel spreadsheet.

It’s a real Excel 2000 spreadsheet that plugs into Indeed.

• Your Google-logo-colored pylons at the extremely low-key "security" post.
• Your very user-friendly name-tag-generating/sign-in computer
• Your very, very fancy toilets.
• Your rack of primordial servers with the thin layers of cork that used to make the fire department so nervous.
• Your roaming dogs, one friendlier than the next.
• Your scrolling query screens: Hillary Duff … pits puppies … Yenifer Lopez … Spanish Dictionary (we were a bit disappointed not to see a Freakonomics, but maybe it got caught in your filter; people sometimes give it some pretty deviant spellings.)
• Your quartz rug, robust cacti, fancy yurts, and ecologically sound staircase in the Africa building.