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Pandamonium

In Beijing I went to the panda house at Beijing Zoo.

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The Writer Who Tried to Vanish http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ How Can I Get My … (What people searching google are looking for) http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=704 The Significant Objects Project http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=708 How to Avoid Camera Loss http://www.dailygifblog.com/2009/12/how-to-avoid-camera-loss.html Haitians to blame: Robertson http://www.theage.com.au/world/haitians-to-blame-robertson-20100114-ma3i.html Ekaterina Sedia: On

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Internet Review of Science Fiction Suspending Publication in 2010. I enjoyed reading the site and had two articles published there. http://irosf.com/news-item.qsml?id=220 Paul McAuley on depicting science in fiction http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2009/12/sciencefiction.html Weird Books http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/weird/index.shtml Japan planned ‘karate ladies’ escort for Thatcher http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8433689.stm

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Forbidden Kung Fu

In Beijing I joined up with a small group tour.  The tour lasted 3 weeks and took us from Beijing to St. Petersburg.  There were 14 other people on the tour, plus the tour leader.  It was a really fun

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Total Eclipse of the Terracotta Pandas

After Huang Shan, I visited Chengdu in Sichuan Province. On July 22 there was an eclipse in some parts of the world. I saw a partial eclipse in Turkey and basically there was nothing to see, so I wasn’t holding

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Stone Monkey Gazing Over a Sea of Clouds

Hi Everyone, While the Chinese authorities have been busy dealing with earthquakes, repressing minority groups, censoring the Internet (Facebook was recently added to the long list of web sites banned in China) and detaining Australian business leaders for political reasons,

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A Metropolis Infested With Foreign Adventurers

I’m in Shanghai at the moment. I flew to Osaka and had a great time catching up with lots of friends. I visited a few of my favorite places in Osaka (Spa World, izakayas, and okonomiyaki and yakiniku restaurants) and

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