Hey, you're always asking me where I find stuff...
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Saturday is Sticker Day
On Saturdays in HK, wherever we go we bump into schoolkids selling stickers for charity. They all have a cool little money bag that you drop your coin into (doesn't matter how much you put in) and then they put a sticker for the charity on your shirt so you don't get asked by other kids from the same charity. It seems nice - not as intrusive as a tin-rattler at an intersection back home. Maybe I could start collecting them.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Another crazy scheme
Hold on to your hats - after thinking about this for a while, and doing absolutely no research, I have decided to launch The FoodNobles - Great Moments in Food History. I can tell you right now that I have at least 12 posts lined up and ready to go. It's going to be ... um ... HUGE.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Little Link List 9
Clyde Stubblefield gets wicked - James Brown's drummer in concert;
And here - an incomplete list of tracks that sampled Clyde's famous "Funky Drummer" break;
Here, have some more war (note links to terrorism toward the end of the article) - the Pentagon (and the US govt) gets (us) ready for Iran;
History of 20th Century Music as a Map of the London Underground.
And here - an incomplete list of tracks that sampled Clyde's famous "Funky Drummer" break;
Here, have some more war (note links to terrorism toward the end of the article) - the Pentagon (and the US govt) gets (us) ready for Iran;
History of 20th Century Music as a Map of the London Underground.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Birds!
Well, it had to happen. Yesterday HK health officials found the birdflu virus in a chicken smuggled in from mainland China. Three people are in hospital after eating a chicken that was also smuggled in with the infected chicken.
Two points first - none of the three people in hospital have been diagnosed with birdflu. (Yet.) In addition, there have been other instances of infected birds in HK in the past few weeks, but they have all been migratory birds, and no humans have been infected.
Now the really interesting point in this story is - during a televised press conference last night the HK health officials said they'd rung up their counterparts in Guangdong on the mainland and asked if there had been any cases of birdflu in Guangdong. Their Guangdong colleagues assured them that there hadn't been. So what I want to know is - if there isn't any birdflu in Guangdong then where did the smuggled chicken come from?
I think if we're going to rely on Guangdong health officials to tell us the truth about birdflu in Guangdong, the HK health authority better start more rigorous checking at the borders, and get all the chickens out of HK village backyards and slaughterhouses. Because I'm not exactly confident that those Guangdong health officials are going to tell us what we need to know (see Famous Saying #5), when we need to know it.
Two points first - none of the three people in hospital have been diagnosed with birdflu. (Yet.) In addition, there have been other instances of infected birds in HK in the past few weeks, but they have all been migratory birds, and no humans have been infected.
Now the really interesting point in this story is - during a televised press conference last night the HK health officials said they'd rung up their counterparts in Guangdong on the mainland and asked if there had been any cases of birdflu in Guangdong. Their Guangdong colleagues assured them that there hadn't been. So what I want to know is - if there isn't any birdflu in Guangdong then where did the smuggled chicken come from?
I think if we're going to rely on Guangdong health officials to tell us the truth about birdflu in Guangdong, the HK health authority better start more rigorous checking at the borders, and get all the chickens out of HK village backyards and slaughterhouses. Because I'm not exactly confident that those Guangdong health officials are going to tell us what we need to know (see Famous Saying #5), when we need to know it.
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