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This probably counts as an abuse of blogging, but for posterity, here is the stream of 40-odd tweets I posted during last Friday's opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. I've flipped them back into chronological order and removed the extraneous material (and some typos):Well, here we go. Good luck, Beijing! 7:52pm Alright. Gotta ...

With the possible exception of Disney villains, Imagethief cannot think of a group of people that more richly deserve their miserable fates than Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen and his cavalcade of cupcakes. If I sound unsympathetic here, that is because I am unsympathetic. Really, how dumb do you need to be? On all sides? Girls, here's a free ...

Yes, it's more fluorescent, green pigs. Details here (AP) and here (Xinhua). It used to be when you saw a green, glowing pig you automatically assumed a nuclear accident nearby. How times have changed. Naturally, this will all yield great benefits for science or agriculture:''This technology promises to breed excellent transgenic pigs and even ...

From the China Daily, here are the top ten Google searches in China for 2007: Interesting (also for what it says about the English speaking world), but the real gem in this article is right down at the bottom, where they list the top English language search terms on Google China:And for unexplained reasons, the most googled English word was ...

I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...

Imagethief is not normally a fan of self-referential blog memes. They foster a groan-inducing chain-letter sense of obligation. If included, is it churlish of me not to participate? They also smack slightly of sexually transmitted diseases. I gave it to five friends and they gave to five friends...and then we all went insane and died. What's worse ...

A busy day today, so no time for witty exposition. However a few links did catch my eye today:Thank god I'm a commie boyFrom Danwei, David Moser's fascinating essay on China's schizophrenic media, including the startling revelation that John Denver was one of the first pop singers to get permission to play in China. There's no accounting for ...

Imagethief was fascinated to stumble across an article on Xinhua this morning covering the development of technology here in China to enable blind men to surf the Internet (the article was specific about men) . The odd gender-emphasis aside, this is noble and right, and deserves to be applauded, even if it has been done ...

That was the year that was. And I suppose that this is the year that will be. Until we reach 2007, in which case it will become the year that has been. Speaking of has-been (and how's that for circular), I wanted to take advantage of the new-year to link back to a few favorite posts and to recap the statistics for the site. In eighteen ...

Actually, a bit longer than I expected. From AP, Mini-p*rn on video iPods: SAN FRANCISCO - Purveyors of p*rn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages — especially when it is portable. One online social network of amateur pinup girls said ...