Some people just have way too much time to kill! Wait in queue for 6 hours just to buy some sales.
从傍晚5时排队到深夜11时，在等什么？结账！昨天下午，读者顾先生致电本报，反映周末五角场巴黎春天搞促销，人山人海致使他排队6小时才轮到结账。
队伍转了几个弯
前天下午，顾先生来到巴黎春天购物。恰逢店庆促销，商场内挤满了人。傍晚5时，他在6楼购物完毕，前往收银台结账，没走几步就被眼前一幕吓倒 了：收银台前排起“长龙”，见头不见尾，把商场的过道都填满了。他顺着人流几经“曲折”，终于走到队伍最后，“前面大概有三四百人”。
17时排到23时
顾先生说，当时排队付款的地方有2台收银机，但不知为何只开了一台，直到晚上9时，他还没排到，“晚饭也没吃，一直在排队”。队伍里也怨声一片：“那么多人，竟然只开一台机器！”直到深夜11时05分，顾先生才把账结掉，疲惫而归。算了一下，足足排了6个小时！
记者在名品导购网等论坛看到，有网友戏称这两天五角场巴黎春天“爆棚”，“乘电梯、试衣、付款等，每个环节都需要排队才能完成”。
Monday, November 16, 2009
50 Best Websites 2009
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1918031,00.html
Some sites are popular (Twitter, Facebook), some are plain good (Google, Amazon, Wikipedia), some are fresh (Etsy, Kiva), some are resurrected from death (Delicious).
1. Flickr -- mainstream
2. California Coastline -- aerial photographic survey of coastline.
3. Delicious -- 2nd life of del.icio.us
4. Metafilter -- community weblog
5. popurls -- pop urls
6. Twitter -- mainstream
7. Skype -- mainstream
8. Boing Boing -- blog
9. Academic Earth -- online course
10. OpenTable -- book your table
11. Google -- ...
12. YouTube -- mainstream
13. Wolfram|Alpha -- computational knowledge engine, this is deep
14. Hulu -- video sharing
15. Vimeo -- video sharing with m in the middle
16. Fora TV -- video clips by intellectuals
17. Craiglook -- search craiglist, craiglist, please buy me.
18. Shop Goodwill -- goodwill shopping
19. Amazon -- mainstream
20. Kayak -- Expedia? Priceline?
21. Netflix -- mainstream
22. Etsy -- eBay? no, but something like that.
23. PropertyShark -- property shark, smells property like blood
24. Redfin -- online real estate brokerage
25. Wikipedia -- mainstream
26. Internet Archive -- name says it
27. Kiva -- global micro credit
28. ConsumerSearch -- review products, any type
29. Metacritic -- critics for media, any type.
30. Pollster -- poll
31. Facebook -- mainstream
32. Pandora and Last.fm -- FM
33. Musicovery -- web radio, should it be called Radiocovery?
34. Spotify -- p2p music streaming
35. Supercook -- super cook
36. Yelp -- US version of dianping.com
37. Visuwords -- ha, graphical words linkage
38. CouchSurfing -- hospitality exchange network
39. BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager - you get the idea from this long naming
40. Mint -- manage your finance
41. TripIt -- trip it
42. Aardvark -- social networking
43. drop.io -- private sharing, drop your stuff for io
44. Issuu -- your own publishing
45. Photosynth -- turn photos into 3D, yah, but still shown on a 2D screen
46. OMGPOP -- RPG, oh my god pop?
47. WorldWideTelescope - universe, virtual, telescope
48. Fonolo - dig out the corp 800 number
49. Get High Now - a book promo site? how it makes to the list?
50. Know Your Meme - video blog of meme
Some sites are popular (Twitter, Facebook), some are plain good (Google, Amazon, Wikipedia), some are fresh (Etsy, Kiva), some are resurrected from death (Delicious).
1. Flickr -- mainstream
2. California Coastline -- aerial photographic survey of coastline.
3. Delicious -- 2nd life of del.icio.us
4. Metafilter -- community weblog
5. popurls -- pop urls
6. Twitter -- mainstream
7. Skype -- mainstream
8. Boing Boing -- blog
9. Academic Earth -- online course
10. OpenTable -- book your table
11. Google -- ...
12. YouTube -- mainstream
13. Wolfram|Alpha -- computational knowledge engine, this is deep
14. Hulu -- video sharing
15. Vimeo -- video sharing with m in the middle
16. Fora TV -- video clips by intellectuals
17. Craiglook -- search craiglist, craiglist, please buy me.
18. Shop Goodwill -- goodwill shopping
19. Amazon -- mainstream
20. Kayak -- Expedia? Priceline?
21. Netflix -- mainstream
22. Etsy -- eBay? no, but something like that.
23. PropertyShark -- property shark, smells property like blood
24. Redfin -- online real estate brokerage
25. Wikipedia -- mainstream
26. Internet Archive -- name says it
27. Kiva -- global micro credit
28. ConsumerSearch -- review products, any type
29. Metacritic -- critics for media, any type.
30. Pollster -- poll
31. Facebook -- mainstream
32. Pandora and Last.fm -- FM
33. Musicovery -- web radio, should it be called Radiocovery?
34. Spotify -- p2p music streaming
35. Supercook -- super cook
36. Yelp -- US version of dianping.com
37. Visuwords -- ha, graphical words linkage
38. CouchSurfing -- hospitality exchange network
39. BabyNameWizard.com's NameVoyager - you get the idea from this long naming
40. Mint -- manage your finance
41. TripIt -- trip it
42. Aardvark -- social networking
43. drop.io -- private sharing, drop your stuff for io
44. Issuu -- your own publishing
45. Photosynth -- turn photos into 3D, yah, but still shown on a 2D screen
46. OMGPOP -- RPG, oh my god pop?
47. WorldWideTelescope - universe, virtual, telescope
48. Fonolo - dig out the corp 800 number
49. Get High Now - a book promo site? how it makes to the list?
50. Know Your Meme - video blog of meme
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Obama talked with Chinese youth
1:52 p.m.: Still, he comes out pretty strongly in support of unrestricted Internet access, despite the price paid for openness (such as terrorist organizing online), the good far outweighs the bad.–Sky Canaves
1:53 p.m.: At last, a tough question: has he heard of the Internet firewall and if Chinese people should be allowed to use Twitter and Facebook–both of which are blocked in Chna.
Obama’s answer is that he’s too clumsy to use Twitter, but supports free information. He says the differences between China and the US are due to different “traditions” but that the free flow of information is a strength for the US. Seems sort of relativistic.–Ian Johnson
1:52 p.m.: Obama acknowledges that as president, he sometimes wishes information wasn’t so free. But ultimately it makes him a better leader and makes democracy stronger.–Sky Canaves
1:51 p.m.: Obama handed a card - which he briefly looks at before taking a question from Huntsman about Twitter. Obama says his thumbs are too clumsy and never used Twitter but believes in free flow of information. –James T. Areddy
1:50 p.m.: Hunstman asks an Internet question chosen by a U.S. press corps member– It’s a curveball– The Great Firewall question. –Sky Canaves
新民网图文滚动播报：美国驻华大使洪博培：第一，有这么多互联网使用者的国家，有6000万写博客的人，你知道防火墙的事情吗？第二，我们是不是应该自由的使用TWITTER?
新民网图文滚动播报：美国总统奥巴马：首先让我说，我从来没有使用过TWITTER。我注意到一些年轻人，他们一直很忙，有各种各样的电子 器材，很笨重。但是我还是非常相信技术的作用，非常重视开放性。在信息流动方面，我认为越是能够自由的信息流通，社会就变得越强，因为这样子，世界各地的 公民能让自己的政府负责，有一个问责制度，他们自己会思考，这样会有新的想法，鼓励创造性。所以我一直是坚定的支持互联网开放的使用。
1:53 p.m.: At last, a tough question: has he heard of the Internet firewall and if Chinese people should be allowed to use Twitter and Facebook–both of which are blocked in Chna.
Obama’s answer is that he’s too clumsy to use Twitter, but supports free information. He says the differences between China and the US are due to different “traditions” but that the free flow of information is a strength for the US. Seems sort of relativistic.–Ian Johnson
1:52 p.m.: Obama acknowledges that as president, he sometimes wishes information wasn’t so free. But ultimately it makes him a better leader and makes democracy stronger.–Sky Canaves
1:51 p.m.: Obama handed a card - which he briefly looks at before taking a question from Huntsman about Twitter. Obama says his thumbs are too clumsy and never used Twitter but believes in free flow of information. –James T. Areddy
1:50 p.m.: Hunstman asks an Internet question chosen by a U.S. press corps member– It’s a curveball– The Great Firewall question. –Sky Canaves
新民网图文滚动播报：美国驻华大使洪博培：第一，有这么多互联网使用者的国家，有6000万写博客的人，你知道防火墙的事情吗？第二，我们是不是应该自由的使用TWITTER?
新民网图文滚动播报：美国总统奥巴马：首先让我说，我从来没有使用过TWITTER。我注意到一些年轻人，他们一直很忙，有各种各样的电子 器材，很笨重。但是我还是非常相信技术的作用，非常重视开放性。在信息流动方面，我认为越是能够自由的信息流通，社会就变得越强，因为这样子，世界各地的 公民能让自己的政府负责，有一个问责制度，他们自己会思考，这样会有新的想法，鼓励创造性。所以我一直是坚定的支持互联网开放的使用。
Thursday, November 12, 2009
车又被蹭了
上次是我蹭别人，这次是公交蹭我。早上公交车变道，把我的车右侧后视镜给弹了回来。我也没听见什么大的动静，以为就是后视镜。到了公司一看，前轮上边也蹭了一些公交车的蓝漆。点儿背！打算有空自己掏钱修了。奇怪的是，我昨天做梦，就梦见在那条路上发生了刮擦。
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
disneyland@shanghai
disneyland@hongkong has never taken off. now it will be ground for sure. it is still a hassle to go to hongkong from mainland, even we are now all part of china. to make the message clear, another disneyland will be built at shanghai. wait a minute, how popular that mouse can be in china? this is a big question mark.
put all the buzz aside, chinese are just smart. now the residents around that area are busy. to make sure they can get more money from the government, they are building more fences, more greenhouses, and even fake hills restlessly. government is not dumb ass. it has been said that government is leveraging the satellite technology. the system will alert if the landscape is changed.
put all the buzz aside, chinese are just smart. now the residents around that area are busy. to make sure they can get more money from the government, they are building more fences, more greenhouses, and even fake hills restlessly. government is not dumb ass. it has been said that government is leveraging the satellite technology. the system will alert if the landscape is changed.
Monday, November 02, 2009
a cab driver with stanford phd
http://taxidiary.blogspot.com
"Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too."
That's one twisted country, and luckily I am out there. The feeling is, you stay longer on that island, you have less way out. You are sucked in, sweating the dole life.
"Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too."
That's one twisted country, and luckily I am out there. The feeling is, you stay longer on that island, you have less way out. You are sucked in, sweating the dole life.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tipping points
Tipping points are the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.
- The Law of the Few
- The Stickiness Factor
- The Power of Context
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.
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