5 November 2007

Stories from 5 November 2007

China: No More Printed Book?

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a blogpost from a horror writer, Zhou Dedong, which explained why he decided to leave the printed world and go online.

5 November 2007

Barbados: Cost of Eating Out

Living in Barbados has decided to boycott several local restaurants on the grounds that “there are still many good places to eat and without taking out a new loan.”

5 November 2007

Barbados: We Jammin’

“People without manners are everywhere these days…don’t you wish you had a button you could push to cut off their conversation?”: Bloggers at Barbados Free Press would love to get...

5 November 2007

Mexico: Daft Punk in the Capital

Jorge Varela of Vivir México [ES] reviews the recent Daft Punk concert in Mexico City, and even though he is not a fan of electronic music, he was impressed by...

5 November 2007

Japan: itojun passes away

Gen Kanai reports that Jun-Ichiro “itojun” Hagino, one of the celebrated computer programmers of Japan and a key developer of IPv6 for BSD Unix, passed away on Oct. 29 at...

5 November 2007

Georgia: Opposition Protests

Registan reports that even though thousands have taken to the streets of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, the situation is not the same as it was during the November 2003 Rose...

5 November 2007