Finally, American government is playing catch up

... on totalitarian policies.

If you've listened to any communist propaganda, you probably are familiar with their claim of a superior society. Eventually all other countries will follow their practice. Well, it looks like they're not all wrong:
U.S. House of representatives has approved constitutional amendment to outlaw American flag burning.

This immediately reminds me of two pro-democracy activists, Ng Kwok-hung and Lau San-ching, being fined for burning the Chinese national flag 2 years ago in China-ruled Hong Kong.

Maybe someday our first amendment will be amended to a point that criticism of the government like this will be deemed unpatriotic and thus criminal. So I'd better say it before it's too late.

MLB.TV Full Screen on Mac

...... previously not possible but I've found this solution (Credit to poster ess@Macforumz)

"You can trick Safari into playing the game in full screen using Windows Media Player.

To to this, you need to remove the Windows Media Player Plug-In from the internet plugins folder (it's located in HD-Library-Internet PlugIns-Windows Media Plugin).

After you do this, Safari will ask you if you want to us the WMP application (rather than the web based plugin for WMP) when watching a MLB.TV stream."

Then you could tell Windows Media Player to play it full screen. Problem solved!

OK. I should remove one strike against Mac.

Fight Censorship

Here is a follow-up to the article below: Adopt a Chinese Blog is a program to help Chinese bloggers by hosting their blog oversea to avoid being banned.

Well, those bloggers may still run into trouble back home as all traffic is being monitored over there.

I hope someday such program will become unnecessary.

Madeline's first swimming lesson

 

Video here

You should give credit to M$

... for criticizing themselves! See Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users on MSN Money. The company claimed that law required them to do so but the article pointed out no such law exists!

Well, in a country where journalist long time loyal to the ruling party could be detained for "spying", it doesn't matter what law exists.

Why should this be on the news anyway? It's capitalism at work, my friend! Apparently companies couldn't be wrong when they do things in the interest of their shareholders, no matter how immoral those are.

To Chinese bloggers: let's learn something smart from spammers: d3mocracy would do the trick.

Go SBUX Go!

What could be a better place to have the presense of this great company than the great palace?


Yes, it's the (not-so) Forbidden city in Beijing.

#1 Clueless Web hosting company

1&1 internet Inc call themselves "World's No.1 Web Host." I dunno what that means, but judging by the fact that they ban their customer's traffic for serving BitTorrent of their customer's own work, I think it probably means they're No.1 in the computer illiterate department.