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In the first 10 months of the year, according to official figures, China’s population of phone users has reached approximately 1.1 billion by the end of October. This means that of the 1.34 billion people living in China, approximately 82% of them already own and use cell phones.
Via Hao Hao Report
General Motors is giving its Chevrolet Spark a jolt of electricity.
An all-electric version of the mini-car will debut this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It goes on sale this summer in California, Oregon, Canada and South Korea, where it’s made. Other markets will follow.
It will cost less than $25,000 in the U.S., be shorter in length than the Fiat 500 and get 76miles per charge.
Associated Press has the full details.
The fun is near! The most epically friendly sale ever just got even more epic. Watch George Takei go from Old Navy Mission Control Scientist to Cheermageddon Superstar in, "I Don’t Want to Miss a Deal."
Excludes gift cards. Valid 11/23/12 — 11/24/12. Cheermageddon.com
I love George Takei, so cheerful. And as one Youtuber commented – “George now owes us a Christmas album!”
While Hurricane Sandy caused significant destruction, sometimes there is interesting fallout, or a positive byproduct of the maelstrom. For example, a 90 year old schooner that shipwrecked on one of Long Island’s barrier islands has been exposed once again.
I’m sure historians will be going over this wreck carefully to learn more about the period and the vessel.
Get the full story from MSNBC.
Jacamo wants to help us all be a better Supervillian, head on over to his blog…
Pic links to the original blog…
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The growth in the number language students learning the Chinese language has been incredible in recent years. If you have been wondering about whether to study it or not then here are 5 great reasons to do so.
The Challenge
If you are an English native speaker then Chinese is going to be one of the hardest tongues for you to learn. It’s not like Spanish or Italian where you already know some of the words. With Chinese you won’t even know the alphabet. It is an incredibly subtle language and don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that it is going to be easy to learn. However, if you like a challenge then this is one to sink your teeth into.
The Travelling
More and more people are thinking of travelling to China these days and knowing the language is a huge help. English speakers aren’t are common in China as you might think and if you can speak the local tongue then you can travel a lot more comfortably and independently. Don’t forget that it is also spoken in many other countries too across Asia and in immigrant populations across the world.
The Career Prospects
A sound knowledge of the Chinese language is now one of the best ways of enhancing your career. So many firms now do business with Chinese suppliers or clients that many are actively looking for workers who speak the language fluently. Of course, you might decide to be really adventurous and look for work in China itself.
The Culture
The Chinese culture is one of the most ancient and fascinating on the planet. If you want to find out more about it then the key is in learning the language. It will take you a long time to unravel some of the secrets of the culture but it will be worth it.
The New Friends
One of the biggest advantages of learning any foreign language is that chance that is gives you to make new friends. This can now start as early as the learning process, as there are plenty of native Chinese speaking language teachers in North America now. For example, for your Chinese lessons Chicago offers a good variety of native teachers. The same applies across the US and Canada and the Chinese classes Vancouver residents can attend are regarded as being among the best around.
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The Talisman board game is coming to the PC and mobile gaming world and boy am I excited!
Talisman Prologue is the first in a series of games based on the seminal Talisman board game.
In Talisman Prologue, you take the role of 10 characters on a series of epic quests. Fight your way through hordes of monstrous creatures and cast powerful magic spells along the way. Using the rules of the board game, Talisman Prologue is a single-player strategy role-playing game.
Learn more at Nomad Games & talisman-game.com
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The BBC Science goes to North Carolina to get rare look inside one of the US Military projects to counter the threat of roadside bombs. North Carolina has a centuries old reputation for producing some of the best trained dogs and it’s here that the military is investing in “Jason Bourne” type pooches to help take up the cause of finding mines and roadside bombs.
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Here’s a cool infographic on the gifts that are appropriate and inappropriate for Chinese friends and colleagues.
Gifts in China: what to give, what to avoid (infographic)
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Who in their right mind would install a Homeland Security app on any device they own? I’m not very paranoid but I’m pretty sure any app from DHS is harvesting more data from your phone than they claim.
Here’s the Press Release about the app for you to more easily report suspicious activity.
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This is a very cool fan film of the GI Joe franchise, how fans probably really want the story to proceed. And the production quality is surprisingly good for a fan film! I’m subscribed to the youtube feed to keep track of new episodes because I was left with a desire for the story to keep going…that’s a good sign. 
I’m going to donate to the effort to help encourage more.
You can find more information at their website http://www.gijoeinitiate.com/ and at their Facebook page.
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In-car infotainment systems are trending in vehicles in recent years and it’s not too many more years when most vehicles will come with these systems by default. It’s also seen as a class of device that is a growth opportunity for silicon vendors and operating system manufacturers.
On September 19 2012, many top car and device manufacturers announced a new workgroup had been formed to promote Linux to advance this OS in automotive device development.
Read more…
Techcrunch: Coming to a car near you…
Press Release: from Linux Foundation…
Wired: Linux drives the open source car
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I’m a firm believer in the use of meditation to help deal with the chaos of life around us, this includes the stress and ambiguity and pressure of work. The intent is to help you deal with the things that influence you in a way that prevent you from being more successful.
A handful of executive MBA programs around the country — from Harvard to Michigan’s Ross School of Business — are teaching students Buddhist meditation techniques. It’s not necessarily about teaching spirituality, but focus. There’s no way to quantify whether learning how to be centered during a stressful business meeting is balancing the bottom lines at companies. But students say slowing down does help them be more effective.
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Here’s a relatively new novel by John Shupeck: Red Town Lost. If you like Clive Barker, then this right up your alley.
It’s available in paperback and on the Kindle, check out Red Town Lost on Amazon.
Book Description:
WHEN FRANKIE RED COMES TO TOWN…PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!
It’s fall of 2012, and Dan Suppers is lost. Abandoning his broken down vehicle, he’s been walking through seemingly endless woods for hours looking for something — anything — that resembles civilization. What he finds is a smoking pit of Hell — a large building filled with what Dan soon realizes are the remnants of hundreds of human corpses.
And Dan thought he was having a bad day!
Red Town Lost chronicles the efforts of a terrified man to discover the secret of what happened the night the building burned, and in the process unraveling four harrowing tales revolving around four unforgettable individuals and their own unique trials and tribulations that are somehow connected to the burned out building. Unfortunately, the man will discover very quickly that the stories are not just connected with his morbid discovery, but in fact may hold horrifying implications for the man and his very soul!
WHO IS FRANKIE RED AND WHAT DOES HE HAVE IN STORE FOR DAN?
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Stumbled on this funny quote from the twitter account @GodlessAtheist , it brought back fond memories of making words with the old calculators.
Quote: When I was a teenager sexting was typing 58008 in a calculator and turning it upside down.
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This is a game funded through Kickstarter and it’s got me interested in exercising again!
Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Windows Phone. It delivers the story straight to your headphones through orders and voice recordings – and back home, you can build and grow your base with the items you’ve collected.
Zombies, Run! works anywhere and at any speed. You can jog in a park, run along a beach, or walk along a trail, even on treadmills. You automatically collect items like medicine, batteries, and ammo while running – but when you’re back home, who needs them more: the soldiers or the doctors? Which buildings need extra defenses? It’s up to you – and the bigger your base, the more missions you can play.
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Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around, and our own gastrointestinal tracts operate by a similar action, squeezing muscles along the esophagus to push food to the stomach.
Now researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm. The robot, made almost entirely of soft materials, is remarkably resilient: Even when stepped upon or bludgeoned with a hammer, the robot is able to inch away, unscathed.
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Now this is a very handy web app that I have started using and just had to share this with you. It’s called croak.it. It allows you to record 30 seconds of audio from your PC (or some mobile phones) then share that recording via a private url hosting that audio file.
I am learning Chinese and quite often I meet online through Skype or messenger apps like QQ or MSN Messenger to speak English and Chinese. It’s a nice, sharing, relationship with my language partners in China.
However, because of the time difference it’s sometimes challenging to get together during the week. This is where a web app like croak.it can come be very useful so you can record your question, or practice the language, then share the url with your partner. They can now listen and respond with corrections for you.
I learned about croak.it from the Chinese learning site Study More Chinese.
The only downside is the length of the recording is just 30 seconds. But I still give it a big thumbs-up.
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