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And it’s not from me.

I’ve been digesting everything I have experienced from the past 6 months and think that a recent Geeks-on-a-Plane entry sums up the state of web services here succinctly.

In a word: robust. The level of interactive and on-demand services is relatively the same, if not better than what I experienced in Korea and the US. And sites like Xunlei really make you feel bad for anyone that cannot stream movies por gratis.

I also recommend a detailed interview with Kai-Fu Lee that I bumped into after a brief mention by Evan Osnos. Here is the pdf.

And to whet your appetite, here is a small presentation Lee recently gave in Beijing:

- Inside the Military’s Secret Terror-Tagging Tech (Wired)
- Revolutionary Ultrasonic Nanotechnology May Allow Scientists To See Inside Patient’s Individual Cells (ScienceDaily)
- Electronic Memory Chips That Can Bend And Twist (ScienceDaily)
- Solar bus shelters for San Francisco (CNet)
- Mainland, Taiwan Reach Cooperation In TD-SCDMA Trial Network Construction (China Tech News)
- Computer graphics researchers simulate the sounds of water and other liquids (Cornell)
- Cisco Unveils Rackmount Servers for UCS (Datacenter Knowledge)
- Take a Bite Out of Food-Borne Illnesses This Summer (MSN Health)
- Reading the Surface of the Brain (Technology Review)
- Tony Hawk Ride feets-on (Engadget)
- Project Natal video hands-on, impressions, and further details (Engadget)
- CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype (TechCrunch)
- Book Reviews: Vintage Games (Slashdot)
- Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 (The Windows Blog)

Wiki entry of the day: Commons Picture of the Year 2008: Results

- What I Learned as a Car Czar (WSJ)
- How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans (Guardian)
- Stone Age Superglue Found — Hints at Unknown Smarts? (National Geographic)
- Why We Stare, Even When We Don’t Want To (Wired)
- Candyfab 6000: latest rev of 3D sugar-printer (BoingBoing)
- Humongous Earthworms (forgetomori)
- Crime and politics in Guatemala: An indictment from the grave (The Economist)
- The Alzheimer’s Project (HBO)
- Space Monkey Pictures: 50-Year Anniversary (National Geographic)
- Robot farmhands prepare to invade the countryside (NewScientist)
- How to Build a 100-Million-Image Database (Technology Review)
- AMD Demonstrates first working 40nm DirectX 11 Silicon (PC Perspective)

- Why There’s No Wii 2, Xbox 720, Or PS4 On The Horizon (SAI)
- Multi-threading reviewed (CNet)
- Wind is not the future (CNet)
- French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access (PhysOrg)
- NASA’s GCN: ensuring supernovae are seen around the globe (ArsTechnica)
- Spitzer Space Telescope starts a new life (ArsTechnica)
- Expanding the gamut: Sharp to increase color range of LCDs (ArsTechnica)
- LGA 1366 explained: Intel’s first new desktop socket in four years (PC Authority)

- The Evolution of House Cats (Scientific American)
- A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks (NY Times)
- Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking, Stupid (NY Times)
- HTML 5 and Web video: freeing rich media from plugin prison (ArsTechnica)
- Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later (CNet)
- Mozilla: In the Shadow of the “Don’t-Be-Evil Bulldozer” (All Things Digital)
- Top 10 industry-changing applications (IT News)
- Ultra-powerful laser could make incandescent light bulbs more efficient (Engadget)

And the ridiculous claim of the day involves a notion that never dies, “the power of prayer”: Prayer is too scientific!

- Green GT’s All-Electric Supercar Unveiled (Inhabitat)
- Zooming in on extrasolar planets and hunting for oceans (ArsTechnica)
- Monster mashup: mapping every plane in the air (ArsTechnica)
- Silicon Valley Meets Land With No Time to Waste (Bloomberg)
- Google Holodeck for Street View (Google Blogoscoped)
- InvenSense gloats about world’s first 6-axis MEMS-based motion sensing solution (Engadget)
- A tiny wobble reveals a massive planet (Bad Astronomy)
- First Acoustic Superlens (Technology Review)
- 10 semiconductor companies in trouble (EE Times)
- Homebrew PC features 2MHz hand-wrapped CPU (Engadget)
- Carbon nanotubes: Saladin’s secret weapon (Royal Society of Chemistry) :: btw, the historical Saladin was in Kingdom of Heaven, a good movie

Today is the annual Dragon Boat festival, so it feels a bit like a weekend.

Here are some other things happening on the mainland:

- Top political advisor meets KMT chairman (Xinhua)
- 2 or 3 more overseas banks to go local (Xinhua)
- China to ease controls on investment approval, top planner says (Xinhua)
- Vice Premier: China hopes for more investment from multinationals (Xinhua)
- China debates its bond with North Korea (LA Times)
- How The New “Yuan Carry Trade” Will Add To China’s Global Muscle (Daily Markets)
- Tenants of China’s ‘Optics Valley’ eye broader terrain (EE Times)

And in other areas of East Asia:
- ‘Peace clock’ gets set back to one (Japan Times)
- “150-day battle’: N. Korea succession drama? (MSNBC)
- Is North Korea About to Blow Up the World? (AWC)

Wiki entry of the day: Language planning

- Eco Watercraft electric waverunner makes no sound, burns no fuel, zaps no fish (Engadget)
- Drone Operators Ask Industry For “Open” Systems (National Defense Magazine)
- Robots get real: where are they used (CNet)
- How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’ (CNet)
- Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species? (Scientific American)
- Japan’s big guns prepare to rejoin global arms industry (Times Online)

And the featured “I can’t believe they said that” blast-from-the past: Japs are Human from Time in 1945. The numbers and POV are otherworldly, illustrating just how much things have changed in 65 years.

- Silicon Valley VCs don’t want Obama’s money (CNet)
- Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness (CNet)
- The Coming Superbrain (NY Times)
- Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load (PhysOrg)
- Plugging In $40 Computers (NY Times)
- Dutch Supercomputer Establishes New Record in Go (HPC Wire)
- Ancient termite spilled its guts in amber (MSNBC)
- What made those old, 2D platformers so great? (Significant Bits)
- Soccerbots learn how to fall gracefully (NewScientist)
- The 10-year satellite forecast: Fewer, but bigger things flying over your head (Layer 8)
- What Makes You Uniquely “You”? (Discover)
- Creationist (heh) Astronomy (HAHAHAHAHAhahahaha) (Bad Astronomy)

And a blast from the past: From Voodoo to GeForce: The Awesome History of 3D Graphics (Maximum PC). Be sure to also check out Bitchin’ Fast 3D.