Author: Pearl L

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how culturally diverse China is. Lovely set of portraits here.

Shortbread cookie from one of our vendors. It’s a still from the CG video a Taiwanese news station created illustrate their version of the night Tiger crashed his car. (see video in earlier post.)

Hey kids! Be sure to read this article from the EFF if you’re considering keeping an iota of privacy when you use Facebook.

back in jr high, i had a small obsession with pen spinning. there was a guy in my SAT summer school class who sat in front of me who had rather distractingly awesome pen spinning skillz, and i ended up spending about a week at home trying to do what he did. i eventually figured out the spin-pen-over-thumb trick, but I never developed the dexterity to do it in reverse the way he did.

needless to say, I can’t even begin to do the things described in this video, but a girl can dream, right?

I loved “Up.” The LA Times music blog has a neat piece on Michael Giacchino, the composer of the score.

U2 did a song for Brothers, the Jim Sheridan movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire. I’m actually kind of intrigued by this movie. Anyone want to go?

Ok, this place is definitely going on the list of “places to check out”. Deep fried skewers! The above is deep fried shrimp, head-on.