Home Is Where The Heart Dwells

I have long heard about Google’s participating in China’s internet censorship, but details, such as what Google hides and how, remain unknown to me. Now with the website “google v. google.cn” I can easily see them. Here is an example of comparing the searching results of “communism” from google and google.cn:

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Big Think和Youtube两个视频分享网站最近推出了教授和公共知识分子作为主角的视频系列，将来可能成为新的网上教育平台。例如, 哈佛法学院的德肖维茨教授近来成了网上的明星。
美国高教纪事给出了头条介绍和评论.
可以从这里直接点击观看视频.

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下文发表于<高教纪事>(The Chronicle of Higher Education),作者是美国一所大学的教授. 看来凡是想要控制网络的人–无论出于好心还是恶意–都不喜欢Tor这样的软件.高教纪事的按语里是这样介绍的: “A professor’s use of software to protect his privacy as he surfs the Web does not go unnoticed. Paul Cesarini, an assistant professor of visual communication and technology education at Bowling Green State University, describes his experience.”这倒让我对Tor好奇起来,看来该下载试用以下这个软件. 只是之前还真没注意过学校的使用协议,希望哈佛不会像Bowling Green State University对Paul Cesarini教授一样因此而找我的麻烦.

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(For a previous comment, please see Truth to Be Told: Flat Cat Controversy in China Ends)
Ever since Chinese netizens discovered the original paper tiger, which they called Nianhua Laohu, truth has been revealed. The only thing left is for the national and provincial government agencies to admit it. However, both are still nagging around and […]

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念中国青年报的新闻评论“ 封锁消息——人质劫持事件中CNN的理性”，感觉好像看一伙在小巴上玩易拉罐中奖的骗子做戏–这伙人花样有限，但玩的还特投入。北京市民的智商对付这种骗子绝对一流，诸位请上眼–
小巴上碰见玩易拉罐中奖的，北京市民多半两手揣兜里不言语，以冷漠来表示他们对骗子动机和智商的双重蔑视。当然，他们有时候也会觉得不是滋味：社会主义都这么多年了，怎么还能让这些骗子出来跳呢（这句“出来跳”是广东话里来的），保不准还真有善良群众看了上当。不少热心肠的，实在看不过眼，就会站出来跟大伙言语两句。这回是帽子胡同的刘大爷。
中青报说：老少爷们，别净说姆恩家歪曲事实封锁消息，恁家常夸奖的CNN，这不也封锁消息吗？(北京土话放这儿还真合适)
刘大爷： 呸！你们弄这点小玩意，可见上小学时候没念好思想品德：人民雪亮的眼睛是那么容易逃脱的吗？像姜昆当年相声里一卖烟老大妈说的，（你小子）只要放个屁就能知道抽的香烟什么牌子的。你们要当婊子，就别成天想着立贞节牌坊！
刘大爷就看准了一点， 你中青报说人家封锁消息也罢，自比CNN也好，不能改变自冰点事件之后自甘堕落，从此昧着良心文过饰非、粉饰太平加上为虎作伥。人说打蛇对七寸打，嘿嘿，对阵再精明的流氓，任凭你巧舌如簧，也知道你就是个流氓，绝不和你纠缠于具体细节。让看热闹的老少爷们知道流氓的老底，我就已经立于不败之地。
您看，北京市民的智商是不是一流？古人云大隐隐于市，果不其然。

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A lawyer from Zhejiang Province, China, sued Chinese search engine giant Baidu.com, claiming that Baidu.com searched his email box and made his emails public online without his permission. The Beijing Haidian District Court will hear this case very soon.
http://msn.ynet.com/view.jsp?oid=25947917

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Two law professors, Adrian Vermeule of Harvard and Cass R. Sunstein of Chicago, have raised a new argument for capital punishment. Based on the economic analysis that the execution carried out is correlated with fewer murders the following year, they stated that “capital punishment may be morally required, not for retributive reasons, but rather to […]

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The Religious Bureau of China recently issued a Regulation on the Reincarnation of Buddha. Here is a digest of it.

Article 4. A Buddha can not reincarnate when any of the following conditions is met: …
(2) the local city government does not permit such reincarnation.

and

Article 10.  Before a candidate assumes Buddha’s position, an official […]

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July 5, 2007
Professor
Kenneth Mack ‘91
The following op-ed, Which side is Brown v. Board on?, written by Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack ‘91 , was published in the Los Angeles Times on July 4, 2007.
As the Supreme Court wrestled with race-conscious school assignments in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., last week, the […]

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透视：一则没引起特别关注的新闻

透视中国
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