We've done a bit of seasonal decorating -- even put up some holiday lights. Have you seen them yet? If you search on the names of, say, some special days in December, you just might.
“他们给营销商的建议是‘别告诉我我需要什么，我知道自己需要什么。’第二条建议是：‘别用形容词’……他们不愿意觉得自己无法判断质量。培养他们就要从质量入手。”---- [FT]
Interesting in this issue is a heated response to the attacks various anti-pseudoscience crusaders have made against UFO proponents:
You don't have to believe that aliens exist, but you can't deny that UFO phenomena have occurred; you can say that UFO research is not orthodox science, but you can't judge it as pseudoscience.
It would be more convincing if the same issue did not have an article claiming that a NASA moon base had been invaded by aliens.
Also in this issue are a report on the Shenzhou space program, three UFO sightings reports, a look at ancient Egyptian civilization, and two SF stories, the 1992 classic Mousepad by Wu Yan and a more recent story called Time Stopped for Me by Yang Peng.
The magazine is switching to a monthly format starting next year. The cover story for January's issue is "Do we want Darwin or Design?" It'll be interesting to see where they fall on that one...
The response has thus far been enlightening and unexpected. Enlightening in that we’ve been learning tons about how to make our products more useful. Unexpected in the ways that people are using Google. One sales guy, David MacDonald, emailed this to the entire UK office:“Yesterday whilst on the Google Space stand at Heathrow T1 I was approached by somebody who asked me if I worked for Google, as soon as I confirmed he smiled. He went on to explain that he had been in Pakistan as part of an International Disaster Response Team to help in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. They had been desperate to use what resources / maps they could find and that Google had been invaluable in helping. It turned out they had used Google Earth to trace the geography of the landscape, locate villages and roads.This may be the best part of doing experimental projects. You think you’re onto a good idea, but then something unexpected like this makes it even better.
He was so happy to see me and to show his appreciation, I really felt humbled and proud.”
我的一个大学同学，去了美国六年之后回国偶然在babyface被我碰上。要说我的眼睛真贼，茫茫一片人海中豁然就把他认出来了，缘分那！所以说，娱乐场所应该经常去，有免费获得鲍鱼火锅大奖的机会。
我的同学叫清风，因为我帮了一点点举手之劳的小忙非要请我吃鲍鱼火锅，客气客气太客气了，美国人民现在都流行这摸客气摸？鲍鱼火锅在唐宫海鲜舫，清风看过我的博客，知道我爱吃螃蟹，他扬言要让我把螃蟹吃恶心了。这是不可能的，总是有人挑战我吃螃蟹的极限，都最终以失败告终，这些人怎么就是不服输。不过不服输没关系，要想挑战尽管来，估计我下辈子的螃蟹都有指望了。
这次的挑战者是一只冻的大花蟹，一斤六两。说句实话，花蟹不是我的强项，不过唐宫的冻花蟹喂得很胖，壳里全是嫩嫩的蟹肉，充满了鲜香的味道。以至于鲍鱼火锅上桌的时候我已经基本吃饱了。鲍鱼火锅是用活鲍鱼切片放在鲨鱼骨汤里面涮至而成（让我咽下唾沫先），味道香浓鲜美，沾上相应的调料之后又让鲍鱼的味道不那摸单调。剩下的鲍鱼鲨鱼骨汤可以继续涮青菜和蘑菇，一碗一碗上来还可以泡饭吃。
非常可惜的是，我花蟹吃得太饱了，鲍鱼火锅上桌的....
