connecting*the*dots

…”The drive to the wall must have taken us over 2 hours due to the morning traffic so I was ready for a bathroom break. The map on the wall said there was a bathroom nearby but I couldn’t find it. So, down some stairs and around a corner to the base of the wall… you know the rest. Another item I can cross off my list.”…

Ethan announces the great news that Hao Wu — Chinese blogger and political prisoner for the past five months — has finally been released.

Walk the Talk discusses pedestrians and the ills of capitalism while trying to navigate the packed streets and skies of Hong Kong, directly in front of the New World Tower. I’ve had similar feelings before…

From the Committee to Protect Journalists: The top ten censored countries (and China is nowhere to be found).

supernaut: “…Private and commercial freedom is almost unlimited, but anything public and political is subject to controls. Galleries in Dashanzi openly display nudity and sexually explicit pictures. But even a flat image of political leaders seems to make the censors queasy. One of the pieces that had to be removed is a gray painting of the current leadership all in the same dark suits and ties with the same hairstyle…”