China's virtual vigilantes: Civic action or cyber mobs?
By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the November 28, 2008 edition

Beijing - Some call it a weapon in the hands of a righteous army, forged so that wrongdoers might be smitten. Others say it simply allows a mob of vigilantes to publicly vilify and humiliate anyone they choose to pick on through grotesque invasions of privacy.
Either way, the peculiarly Chinese Internet phenomenon known as the "human flesh search engine," a citizen-driven, blog-based hunt for alleged undesirables, claimed a fresh victim this month when a mid-ranking government official lost his job.
Accused of accosting a young girl, Lin Jiaxiang found his name, address, phone number, and workplace pl

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/mumbai.twitter/index.html

(CNN) -- It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/24/internet.suicide/index.html

Megan Meier, 13, hanged

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.

有不少好玩的点子:

http://valuesatplay.org/

摘自:

http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/visual_intro.html

Visual Language

Students should explore various forms of verbal and visual communication and analyse the interaction between words and images, thinking critically about the meanings and effects produced.

English in the New Zealand Curriculum, page 39

In the past, education concentrated on reading and writing: until quite recently, even book illustrations were often seen only as embellishments or helpful accompaniments. In English in the New Zealand Curriculum, the study of visual language is included as an integral part of the study of the English language.

摘自: http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/putting_words.html

Rhythm

Thee rhythm can be heard when we count aloud:
     five / ten / fifteen / twenty.

The stressed syllables are lengthened in five and ten, and shortened in fifteen and twenty, so that the words with two syllables are about the same length as those with only one.

The rhythm of English speech is produced through the combination of the stressed and unstressed syllables. This is like a beat and is especially easy to distinguish in rap.

Nursery rhymes sound especially rhythmical.
This

继阉割了军徽上的雄狮之后，瑞典姑娘又在游泳池胜利裸胸。北欧人民就是敢于开风气之先，不服不行。

新闻连接：

http://news.163.com/08/0114/11/425RFQT60001121M.html

Forwarded from http://thiscruellestmonth.blogspot.com/2007/07/alphaville.html

The best scene from Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville: Une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHikpdf8ktM

Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips... Our silences, our words... Light that goes, light that returns. A single smile between us. In quest of knowledge, I watched night create day while we seemed unchanged. O beloved all, beloved of one alone, your mouth silently promised to be happy. Away, away says hate; Closer, closer says love. A caress leads us from our infancy. Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers' dialogue. The heart has but one m

前段时间，翻出公司做的几个网站案例，给一个在芬兰做网站的朋友看了看。那人一看就说：呵呵，很中国的网站，首页上那么多字。我只好说：是哦，不过设计得迎合客户需要，客户要那个样子，我们也没有办法。

由此思考网站首页设计的问题。

国内的首页设计似乎一直有个套路，这个套路从何而来？ 我认为sina,163,sohu这些门户网站的设计套路一直在影响其他小型垂直性的网站。而这些门户网站的设计套路似乎是来源于报纸杂志这些平面媒体的设计，也许是因为中国的网页设计师大多从平面设计转行而来。

现有门户网站的套路设计，其特色就是在首页堆砌庞杂的内容，似乎要以此彰显网站内容的丰富。这种设计对门户网站是利是弊，不是我在这里要探讨的，我所要说的是，门户网站的这种设计套路对企业、学校等小单位的网站或者某个行业的垂直性网站是不合适的。

就网站首页的功能来说，我认为有两大功能，一是导航功能，二是橱窗功能。而能够凸显这两大功能的设计，才是好设计。

所谓导航功能，就是网站所有的次级栏目能通过首页链接得到，换言之，浏览者能在首页上获知这个网站的所有栏目设置，并且能够由此到达所有栏目。（这一点，第5版的5D网站的版头做得非常棒。）

导航有多重要？一个很好的例子就是那个很简单但是很成功的hao123。网络经济时代，很多人靠投机取巧而成功。关键是怎么取巧。hao123的巧思在于，它本身相当于一个网站首页，而那些跟它毫无关系的网站被它当作了次级页面。对于浏览者来说，一个导航功能出色的首页是访问次级页面的必经之地。因此hao123这个仅有导航功能的网站可以赢得巨大的访问量。而这个“首页”访问量根本是建立于“次级页面”的存在，几乎是不劳而获得来。当然，hao123对“次级页面”链

个人观点：加生鸡蛋的作用是用蛋黄液和糖化开mascarpone并使它有甜味，用蛋白液混合mascarpone，使奶油涂层比较丰厚。从口味上来说，加不加生鸡蛋，差别不是很大。由于吃生鸡蛋实比较冒风险，网上流传两种消毒方法，一是用化开的120度糖水浇到蛋液里，然后搅拌，二是在烧开水的锅上再架一个传热较好的并且比锅大的盆，在盆内搅拌蛋黄液。我认为如果鸡蛋里有沙门氏菌或者禽流感，那两种方法都没有多大用处，只是心理安慰罢了。要想彻底安全，最好是不加生鸡蛋。试验了两种不加生鸡蛋的办法，做法和效果如下。

1. 将一点咖啡、一点牛奶和些许糖拌匀。把混合好的溶液加入mascarpone中，搅拌至较稠密的半流质状态，以此作为提拉米苏的奶油层。

效果：由于奶油层不是很稠，最好直接放在最后要上桌的一人份的容器里，一个个单做。这样不会因为上桌后被分食而被挖得稀里哗啦，影响美观。在冰箱冷藏2小时后就食用，以免饼层被浸润过度。

2.用做法1的办法把mascarpone变成半流质之后，加入搅拌好的heavy whipping cream，使奶油层丰厚。heavy whipping cream不要加太多，以免影响mascarpone的原味。

效果：由于奶油层较厚实，即使在冰箱冷藏一夜，饼层仍然疏松。这个做法适合做一大盒多人份的，上桌后大家分食。

贴一张做法2的效果图，吃了一半时拍的照片，可以看到里面的饼层仍然疏松，这是在冰箱冷藏了一夜之后的样子：