This world map suppose to be making fun of the shallow mind of Hong Kong people. However, I am quite proud of our geography knowledge. Comparing to the stupid Americans who can’t even point out their own country in the map. At least we can name the relative location of all seven continents on Earth. We also know more or less some accurate information about those places. It may be stereotyped, but that’s the best you can do if you are asked to introduce those places within one line. There are still some places we are unable to name. But hey, we don’t travel there, we don’t buy stuff from there, we don’t export our goods there, who cares about those irreverent countries?
Washing without water
There will be a new meaning to the term dry cleaning. Washing clothes using nylon beads instead of water is an interesting idea. The only question is how much the nylon beads costs. Water is pretty cheap, it is hard to beat the cost of using water?
Skype founders launch another lawsuit against eBay
Another example on why our intellectual properties legal system is broken. It is simply ridiculous that someone found a technology company, sell it to pocket billions of dollars, then sue the new owner infringe his copyright.
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Games lessons
Some teachers are boring, some teachers are not. Some games are boring and some are not. Replacing classroom with games alone won’t solve the problem how to motivate students to learn in the first place. Force to sit quietly inside a classroom is bad, force to play a boring game is even worse!
Google’s big book case
Google is making the first step on the quest to fix the broken and unfair copyright laws. It is not surprising the greedy copyright holders and evil Microsoft object to what will benefit the public out of their own interest.
