木头轿车
这辆名为Tryane II 的小轿车木头壳子是采用造船技术制作，花了Friend 两千个小时手工打造。
Google创始人不懂HTML
这也许就是Google首页如此简单的原因。
男性比女性更多地注意人的胯部
这是Jakob Nielsen和Tara Pernice Coyne的一份用户体验研究报告得出的结果。
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打游戏可以练眼力
一份调查报告显示，打”Gears of War,” “Lost Planet,” “Halo” 等等动作游戏可以提高人在复杂环境下的分辨能力。当然，象”Tetris” 这样的静态游戏没有这种效果。
另外这种游戏还可以辅助治疗弱视和眼老化。
但是报告没说打游戏会不会降低视力。
世界上最好的11个地铁系统排名
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Joost，五万个DVD画质的在线电视频道！
一早就收到Isaac发给我的Joost的测试邀请。原来Joost的来头不小，它是Janus Friis和Niklas Zennstrom这对黄金搭档的又一惊人之作。
Janus Friis和Niklas Zennstrom是Kazaa和Skype的创始人。他们把Skype卖给了eBay，拿了26亿美刀后没有跑去沙滩晒太阳，休长假。去年他们就秘密开始了一个叫威尼斯的计划，目标是要把电视搬到网上。
这个威尼斯计划就是现在的Joost（念Juiced）。最近和YouTube闹别扭的Viacom却与Joost签了约，为Joost提供电视节目。世界最大的电视节目代理JumpTV据说也快要跟Joost签约了。
和YouTube不同，Joost播的全是电视节目，没有用户上传的功能，走一个不同的路线。
现在Joost上的节目不多，但预计10年内它就能吸引到5万个电视频道转播。
初步试了一下，用户界面不算复杂。也许国内网络的原因，画面有停顿，不过可以暂停播放，等下载完再看。画质确实很不错。
我想对Joost最担心的应该不是YouTube。Joost如果成功了，有多少人还需要买卫星电视节目，还需要装付费有线电视？
在客厅了装一台大屏幕的电脑就行了。
在中国被贩卖的朝鲜妇女
在RFA Unplugged上有一篇关于朝鲜妇女被贩卖的情况的详细报告，North Korean Women Trafficked in China。想翻译成中文，但心有余而力不足。在这里转两篇我在中国论坛上找到的文章，让大家也了解一下这些朝鲜妇女在中国的遭遇。
中国政府在这些问题上处于很尴尬的位置。这里面交织着的巨大政治，外交利益不是我这个平头百姓能论得了的，只是希望能让更多的中国人知道这些事情。如果谁有一天刚好碰到这些朝鲜人需要帮忙，就帮一下。如果会韩语的话，还可以跟Dreamburo一起做一个教朝鲜人学汉语的播客。
其实这些帮忙不只是对朝鲜人而言，对我们自己中国人，对每一个活着的人也是一样吧。
Give me 500k, I will carry a baby for you
To get enough money for studying abroad, a Chinese girl uploaded a video to the net, looking for people who want surrogate mother. The message in the self-intro video is very clear,
“I want to be a surrogate mother and get 500k (USD$65k).”
Here are some points I translate from her intro.
I graduated 4,5 years ago, and work in a company in Shanghai. Everything is fine with me.
But some of my university classmates are doing very well. Some of them marry to very good husbands. Some of them have studied abroad. …
I have a dream. I want to study abroad, especially in the USA. I have had this dream for a
long time. …
I make 4k to 5k RMB a month. But the saving I have is still not enough. …
The cost for studying abroad needs more than 1 million RMB. …
I hope to get the money in a shorter time. …
My family background and my education do not allow me to do bad thing…
I don’t have the capital to start a business. I am not good at it either. …
My friend suggests me to do this. S/he learnt from the foreign web site….
This thing won’t hurt anybody…
Bearing child is difficult for sterility people. …
I am a healthy girl …
I think I am helping other family.
After I persuaded myself, I decide to do this….
I am 25 this year. My height is 1.66m. My weight is 50 kg. …
I take medical checkup every year. …
I have thought of many ways, such as newspaper ads or post on BBSs, to let public know this.
But I think QingYuLe is very popular, and it has video. I feel we can talk face to face in this way, and you can see how I look like. …
Now I let you see my whole health situation.
[Stand up and adjust the camera]
This is the whole me.
[Adjust the camera]
I have saved half million these years. I lack of another half million, so my price is half million. …
I never give birth to a child. …
If you decide, please drop me comment here. Hope you can be satisfied.
That’s all.
She is not from a poor family and does not need to support any ill family member. She has an undergrad degree and works in Shanghai, getting decent paid.
She just wants to get enough money for study abroad.
The video has a big QingYuLe logo shown on the bottom-right corner. QingYuLe is a YouTube like web site in China. With so many video sharing sites on the market, it is not a surprise that some of them may come up with really innovative ideas to attract eyeballs. But who knows, maybe this girl really considers surrogacy is a fun job to play.
According to the comments left under this video on 6rooms.com, the market price for one surrogacy in China is only RMB50k to 100k(USD$6.5k to 13k). So maybe this girl needs to go a bit further, publishing a self-intro video on the net, to get better paid to achieve her dream.