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China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents - NYTimes.com
China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents - NYTimes.com
Thursday at 9:03 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Local governments in southwest China’s quake-ravaged Sichuan Province have begun a coordinated campaign to buy the silence of angry parents whose children died during the earthquake, according to interviews with more than a dozen parents from four collapsed schools. Officials threaten that the parents will get nothing if they refuse to sign, the parents say." - Ana via Bookmarklet
"Officials threaten that the parents will get nothing if they refuse to sign" - Except for the fact that it's the government and not some large corporation, this is exactly how it works in America, right? (Sealed out of court settlements that force you to never disclose what you got - if you don't sign, you get nothing, or worse) So China is becoming more and more "Western", for what it's worth. - Brian Johns
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One of the things I've found most fascinating about this whole thing is the disparity b/w the central government's response and that of the local governments. The central government was incredibly swift--posters and commercials that were "on message" were up everywhere w/i days. They'd issued the new rule almost instantly about parents who lost children in the earthquake being allowed to have another child. The local governments were a lot more disorganized. - Ana
were the local governments also in charge of school construction? - bob
Yes, and I imagine there was so much tension b/w these two groups in terms of how to handle the crisis. It's fascinating to see where the fault lines are located along China's official "everyone is doing great" storyline. - Ana
Brian, there's an important difference. If you refuse to take a company's settlement deal, you can still sue them, as a class or individually, and the courts will judge the case. If you refuse to accept the government's hush money, what are you supposed to do, sue the government in their own courts? Good luck with that in China. - ⓞnor
Interesting choice of words (re: fault lines). - darren
nor: true dat. - Brian Johns
Wrenching. - Richard Chen
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“Stone Temple Pilots in a stone temple”
22 hours ago - Link
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Ross's last day
yesterday at 5:55 pm - Link
Thanks Ross for all your contributions to FriendFeed! ;-) - Mitchell Tsai
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It’s Botox for You, Dear Bridesmaids - NYTimes.com
It’s Botox for You, Dear Bridesmaids - NYTimes.com
yesterday at 8:24 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"But for every accommodating pal, there’s another who feels going under the knife is beyond the duty of bridesmaid. Becky Lee, 39, a Manhattan photographer, declined when a friend asked her — and five other attendants — to have their breasts enhanced. “We’re all Asian and didn’t have a whole lot of cleavage, and she found a doctor in L.A. who was willing to do four for the price of two,” said Ms. Lee, who wore a push-up bra instead." - Ana via Bookmarklet
This can't be for real. - Casey Muller
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Horror-like. - Neil Kandalgaonkar
All for one day.... - Anthony Farrior
That's just so crazy! - April Buchheit
Woah, going too far! Why not temporary liposuction while they're at it? - Kevin Fox
Insane. I prefer an afternoon with manicures and pedicures. Sounds like a better way to spend a day together. - Rachel L Fisher
Haven't these girls heard of Photoshop? - Andy Wibbels
What a disgustingly shallow culture we live in. BTW - I grew up in LA and *I* didn't do Botox.. Valencia is where Magic Mountain is so maybe those amusement park thangs do Botox but I sure hope not all of the LA metro has gone that route. - Spidra Webster
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“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...”
yesterday at 5:26 pm - Link
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Risking Limbs for Height, and Success, in China - New York Times
yesterday at 4:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"So last September, Ms. Zhang decided to take over where nature left off. She checked herself into a hospital here and a doctor cut her shinbones in two, applied a medieval-looking brace to her legs and taught her how to turn its screws so that metal pins would pull her bones apart nearly a millimeter a day, or around four-hundredths of an inch. Today, Ms. Zhang is three and a half inches taller than she was six months ago, though she can not yet walk." - Ana via Bookmarklet
This is from a few years back (I'd read it when I was still living/working in China). The recent article I posted about bridesmaids being asked to get botox and boob jobs reminded me of this article. - Ana
I can't believe this, but I can understand it. We want to have bigger breasts, bigger dicks, longer legs, etc. When are we going to be happy with who we are? - Eric Thompson
The surgery worked well for Ana though. - Paul Buchheit
yikes... - edythe
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Only Remaining Rhyme Rapper Can Think Of Is 'Cliff Clavin' | The Onion
Thursday at 3:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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“"Good friends" on FriendFeed is really just a proxy for "Tom"”
Thursday at 9:42 am - Link
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China Sets Zones for Olympics Protests - NYTimes.com
Wednesday at 11:15 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher for the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, criticized the broader trend in creating protest zones during international events. He described Beijing’s protest zones as inadequate and said Chinese citizens would be very reluctant to use them, given the political priority that the party has placed on the Olympics. He said the police might use video cameras and collect names of demonstrators." - Ana via Bookmarklet
Reminds me of the "Free Speech Zones" we set up in the U.S. during various presidential events. - Brian Johns
This entire event is making me mad. I hope the world notices and starts to care. - Sacca
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How to Interact with Foreigners, and other Olympics Propaganda
Wednesday at 10:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Etiquette for Interacting with Handicapped Athletes: Pay attention to avoiding taboo subjects, quit using bad platitudes, and do not use insulting or discriminatory contemptuous or derogatory terms to address the disabled. Say things such as, “You are amazing,” or “You are really great.” When chatting with the visually impaired, do not say things like “It’s up ahead,” or “It’s over there.” When chatting with athletes who are paraplegic in their upper body, do not say things like “It’s behind you.”" - Ana via Bookmarklet
Is there going to be a national letdown after the olympics? The build up and focus seems greater than usual. - Chris White
Wow. Regarding the visually impaired guidelines, is it okay to say "Watch out for that moped driving on the sidewalk"? Also, why is it insensitive to tell an upper body paraplegic that something is behind them? - Kevin Fox
@Kevin: presumably because they can't turn their head (or torso) to look, but I think it's far-fetched. - Tudor Bosman
Ahh, that makes sense but is still counterintuitive to me. If the disabled person is looking for something and it's where they can't see I would think it would be helpful to let them know, rather than stay silent and wait for them to have to turn around in hopes of finding it themselves. Also, I was thinking more along the lines of "Where's the stadium? It's behind you" rather than "Check out the pretty girl behind you!" But now I understand. - Kevin Fox
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Estelle Getty of ‘Golden Girls’ Dies at 84 - Obituary - NYTimes.com
Tuesday at 11:29 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
:( I know people will "Like" this, and they should feel ok about doing so even though it seems sort of morbid. But I really did love the Golden Girls, and reading about her death makes me very sad :( - Ana via Bookmarklet
I was thinking the Like was for Getty's work and I think others hopefully get this is a like of applause, not "yea, she's dead!." - Chris Reed
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According to bumpshack.com, Getty was the second youngest among the Golden Girls and was actually younger than Bea Arthur who played her daughter: http://bumpshack.com/2008/07/2... - April Buchheit
Golden Girls was one of the few shows that actually made me laugh out loud late at night. Estelle played a significant role in that ensemble. - Anne Bouey
Sad. Golden Girls reruns kept me company for dinner through my first year of working. - Clare Dibble
Aww... I thought some parts of the show were corny, but I loved watching a lot of the episodes. - Mitchell Tsai
Wow. I would have thought she would be more like 100. They did a really good job of making her look 80 twenty years ago. Golden Girls was definitely a ground-breaking and funny show. - Robert Felty
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This phishing scam is so impressive
Tuesday at 4:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Please don't enter anything into the Google account box! - Ana via Bookmarklet
I keep getting that one as well. The worst part is that Gmail gets confused due to forwarding and actually claims that it was mailed by Google! - Paul Buchheit
Hmm I'm getting "Server not found", tried via Browserpool.de. - Philipp Lenssen
It may have been shut down. I imagine that these things don't last long. - Paul Buchheit
dead link now .. - Raza
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ErieBlogs.com: Erie PA News and Events for Monday May 12, 2008
July 21 at 2:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Ana Yang, who ran the Obama office in Erie, has returned to her job with hot start-up FriendFeed. Yang worked on campaigns in five states for Obama. He lost all five primary races. McCain supporters must hope she decides to help out in the general election." - Ana via Bookmarklet
Even people in Erie are making fun of me. - Ana
Oh SNAP. - Kevin Fox
We love you Ana! We're glad you joined FF!! yeah! - Susan Beebe
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“My bounty of Olympics tickets means I will handsomely repay every single person in Beijing I’ve ever owed a favor to, and also, shore up a lifetime of indebtedness from others. Ah, the true spirit of the Games!”
Tuesday at 6:27 pm - Link
I'm waiting until after the olympics to go to Beijing. Just seems like the right time to go. - Chris White
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Kleiner bets the farm - Jul. 8, 2008
Kleiner bets the farm - Jul. 8, 2008
Tuesday at 5:04 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"About three years ago he began steering his partners toward an emphasis on alternative-energy projects, or "green tech" in Kleiner parlance. The new eco-focus has attracted plenty of hoopla, most notably late last year when Doerr hired his pal Al Gore as a Kleiner partner. Yet the firm's shift toward energy investing is only part of the story. As important is Kleiner's steady drift away from the industry that made the firm what it is today: the Internet. Kleiner's investments defined the Internet's first generation. Without Kleiner there was no Netscape, and without Netscape there was no cash-gushing dot-com boom. " - Ana via Bookmarklet
Kleiner Perkins has an entrepreneur in residence at NREL right now. I bet if you could use the internet or similar technologies to track where the power you consume was generated, they would be all ears. - Clare Dibble
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“Anytime someone says, "Pretty please", you know that whatever you've just agreed to do is going to suck.”
Tuesday at 4:11 pm - Link
Ana, it just involves shipping a package, it's not that bad :) - Sanjeev Singh
Yeah, once I read the request, I discovered as much. Sanjeev, I just wouldn't have expected you to use the phrase "pretty please"... made it seem like it was going to be a lot worse :) - Ana
What also bugs me: People who offer you food, prefaced with "This tastes kind of funny to me, I don't really like it. But, here, you might like it" - Jason Kaneshiro
How about "Sweetness Please " ?? :)- - Peter Dawson
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The Dark Knight Movie Review - The Boston Globe
Tuesday at 3:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I have been thinking about the movie since I saw it on Saturday, and I've found myself liking it less and less. Not to say it was bad--I definitely still liked it a lot, but I think this review captures the issues I have with it (I tend to read reviews after I watch a movie). From the review: "These are good and necessary things to ponder, yet they're nearly lost in the cross-cutting clutter. You come away impressed, oppressed, provoked, and beaten down, holding on to Ledger's squirrelly incandescence as a beacon in the darkness." - Ana via Bookmarklet
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“How do I create a filter on FriendFeed so I never see another LOLcat again?”
July 21 at 2:57 pm - Link
Shouldn't we be asking you that question? - Hao Chen
I have just opened myself up to a world of pain. - Ana
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Seriously... you don't know how to do this? You didn't watch my video :-( http://tinyurl.com/56q67o - Ross Miller
Ross, great video! but i think you put the wrong link. I think you meant: http://tinyurl.com/575nyy - Dan Hsiao
Seriously though, if you want to filter Google Reader items to eliminate keywords, this can help: http://tinyurl.com/6h43ue - Kevin Fox
LOL +1 Kevin - Hao Chen
I Haz an App for dis :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
LOL double for Kevin :) - Shannon Jiménez
LOL @ Kevin's rickroll ....hehehehe! - Susan Beebe
Hahahaha! - Steve Isaacs
I give equal props to Ross, Dan and Kevin :) - Stephen Mack
Kevin totally wins this. - Akiva Moskovitz
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“"Hanging w Ana. Not really enjoying myself."”
July 21 at 8:06 am - Link
Really? I would think that most people would find hanging with Ana to be a lot of fun. - RAPatton
While hanging out w/ a friend of mine this weekend, I guess I was being sort of a pain. He meant to send this as a text to another friend of his, but accidentally sent it to me instead. This was definitely the funniest thing I've had happen to me in a long time, and for future reference, a good way to send a hint ;) - Ana
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Ha! See, anyone that thinks that is a good hint would be a lot of fun to be around. - RAPatton
Glad you were able to find the humor in it, not sure if I would! LOL! - Trish Robinson
wow...that was such a mini sit com. :) - Anna Haro
If I were you, I'd work 'Not really enjoying myself' into conversations from here on out. - Akiva Moskovitz
Working w Ana. Not really enjoying myself. - Jim Norris
are you sure he didnt mean to send it to you? maybe it was just a passive aggressive move. i should employ this technique myself! - eviltom
did you text your friend back with something witty once you got the text? - Charles Hudson
Actually, I discovered this text a few hours later (didn't take my phone into The Dark Knight) when we both got back to the car. I showed him the text and was like, "Um, did you mean to send this to me?" and I swear I have never seen anyone look so mortified in their lives :) - Ana
Passive aggressive texting? - Hao Chen
Did you start behaving afterwards? - christian
Reading Ana's Friendfeed updates. Not really enjoying myself. - Adam Lasnik
we like you on friendfeed :) - Pokai
I'm reading the comments on this post of Ana's. Not really enjoying myself. - Akiva Moskovitz
But I enjoyed this. :) http://friendfeed.com/e/ad4a74... - Hao Chen
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2 Die in Bus Blasts in Southwest China - NYTimes.com
July 21 at 3:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I know this isn't funny, but I laughed out loud when I read this part: "Last weekend, the police in a rural region of Yunnan Province killed two people after a violent clash with 500 rubber farmers. The farmers, armed with knives, injured 41 police officers and damaged several police cars in a confrontation rooted in a long-running dispute between farmers and a local rubber company, state media reported." For some reason, I was picturing farmers fighting off the police using rubber knives and chickens. - Ana via Bookmarklet
I was picturing little toy soldiers, except rubber and farmer. - Jim Norris
Gmail/Google Talk
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“The interns finally won the war of attrition and I had to break down and subscribe to their FriendFeeds”
July 21 at 11:20 am - Link
Where's the emphasis on FINALLY? - Ross Miller
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Beijing beset by ... locusts? - The Boston Globe
Beijing beset by ... locusts? - The Boston Globe
July 18 at 2:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Beijing Olympic organizers may have a Biblical-level challenge on their hands - a plague of locusts buzzing down from Inner Mongolia, where they've already chewed up 5,000 square miles." [snip] "Unlike other unwanted visitors, the Chinese government can't keep out the winged insects by denying them visas." - Ana via Bookmarklet
well, at least it's only locusts. considering the set of 10 plagues, it could be worse. for example, darkness. (because then no one can see the events!) - eviltom
smog is kind of like darkness - Chris White
We'll have to make sure we remember to mark our door with blood. - Ana
Don't the Chinese only allow one child per household? That's kind of a modern twist on the old tale about taking the firstborn...now it's all children except the firstborn! - Colin Wright
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“Aggressive soap dispenser in the FF bathroom. Do you think soap stains?”
July 18 at 10:55 am - Link
ack, yet another FF to decipher by context (took me a minute here!) - Lindsay Donaghe
i was attacked by pink Y! soap a week ago... i too feared it would stain - so I had a little wet white t-shirt for a bit, luckily I had a sweater at my desk. Happy to report it did not stain! - Erin
um. no... i don't think it stains, and i've been attacked by it many a time :P - Dan Hsiao
I've noticed the same problem. We have those Method dispensers and if they get at all stuck they end up firing antibacterial goodness into your shirt. I've taken to shielding. - Kevin Fox
that's not soap it's dispensing. - eviltom
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“Ana "FriendFeed mom" takes the interns out to lunch in the minivan”
July 17 at 12:41 pm - Link
Stop hitting your sister! - Ana
Do you cater as well? - Louis Gray
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Don't forget the juice boxes! - Kevin Fox
as the mom, you are officially allowed to hit the kids if they misbehave - eviltom
Cool... :-) - Mitchell Tsai
So, who got the most time-outs? My money's on Dan. That boy's got trouble written all over his face. - April Buchheit
@April I'd respond to that but I've been grounded from using FriendFeed... - Dan Hsiao
Dan! I'm telling Ana! - Kevin Fox
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Looser Olympic Security in Hong Kong - NYTimes.com
July 17 at 8:11 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Not too interesting an article overall, but here's this little tidbit at the end: "The Hong Kong Jockey Club, which operates the territory’s horse racing tracks, has already suffered an embarrassing security lapse. A track steward discovered last year that someone had installed under the turf an elaborate system of pneumatic tubes and valves designed to fire tranquilizer darts into the bellies of race horses." - Ana via Bookmarklet
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Coldplay Kicks Off Summer Tour In Los Angeles
Coldplay Kicks Off Summer Tour In Los Angeles
July 15 at 3:59 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I'm going to the show on Friday in San Jose! I listened to Viva La Vida on repeat too many times until I had a hard time falling asleep because the song kept playing in my head, and I had to force a moratorium on listening to it. It's been 3 weeks. Time to re-immerse myself anew! - Ana via Bookmarklet
FriendFeed needs a "Hate" option. - Mike Yang
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I hate you, Mike. - Ana
See, you need an outlet for that hate. - Mike Yang
That's what private rooms are for. - Ana
Silly Ana, hate should not be confined to private rooms, it should be given room to breathe and grow and eventually lead to bombing the heck out of far far away places. BTW discovered on the Jet Blue flight home from Mounatin View yesterday Sirius radio has an "all Coldplay" station for the next month. - Steve Craft
Does anybody have any extra tickets for San Jose's show? I need 2 to 4 tickets. Ping me. - Randy Ksar
coldplay rocks! like'em - pestwave
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“Yay! New FriendFeed dishwasher is operational!”
July 15 at 10:31 am - Link
Nothing can stop you now - RAPatton
And 3 new high-flush-capacity-yet-still-water-efficient toilets too! Yay for plumbers! :) - Ana
Yay! Then we can take down the sign that says 'Please do not flush any tissue or napkins in the toilet.' That kind of wording always confused me as a child. What else am I supposed to do with the tissue? Still, not as bad as the time we sent off my grandpa on a cruise and the toilet said 'don't put any foreign objects in the toilet' and I was trying to figure out how French toilet paper was different than American and why it mattered. - Kevin Fox
I always read that type of note wrong, Kevin, giving too much punctuation. "Do Not Flush: Tissues and Napkins in Toilet"... so, I wouldn't flush. - Louis Gray
@Kevin - There is no toilet paper flushing allowed in South America (or Central America). You put it in the wastebasket next to the toilet. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to stink too bad. - Robert Felty
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Google's Marissa Mayer appointed to board of local modern art museum
Google's Marissa Mayer appointed to board of local modern art museum
July 15 at 11:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
This was the link I'd actually wanted to share, the SFMOMA press release (http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pr...), but that page didn't have an image on it, so I had to link to this page instead. I blame the limitations of the FriendFeed bookmarklet. - Ana via Bookmarklet
I wasn't aware that she was already on the board of the San Francisco Ballet. Cool. - Kevin Fox
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“Silicon Valley for Obama team needs someone w/ php and drupal experience. Desperately. Big time commitment (probably 10-20 hours per week for the next 3 weeks) but big reward (well, helping the free world is its own reward :) Let me know if you are interested or know someone who would be :)”
July 14 at 11:32 pm - Link
Stanford University has a very active Drupal community on campus. Lots and lots of good resources. I can imagine they would definitely rally. Get me some details and I can ping their email list or contact me and we can work on a connection. - J.J. Toothman
I imagine the SV4O team will have a tougher time recruiting since Obama rolled over on telecom immunity and wiretapping. - seth
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had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“Me to Mike: "I'd like to use your hotel suite to throw a party before a girls' night out w/ my friends." Mike to me: "wow, this is like the beginning of some sort of male fantasy".”
July 15 at 9:21 am - Link
Make sure you have enough pillows - RAPatton
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