After Charlie Brooker’s damning review of the new Walkers crisps I’ve decided to taste the devil meself. However, I haven’t actually managed to find the new flavours anywhere yet. Stand by for actual reviews!
Lu Yang
12 Feb 2009 22:59
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Writing about web page http://twitter.com/crdarwin
The late Charles Darwin yesterday started following me on Twitter. Overcome by curiosity I visited his Twitter page. The Bio section described the user as “Ask me any question about my theory, and I will endeavour to answer it”. The homepage for Mr Darwin was in fact the Natual History Museum’s home page, and there are actually people asking quesitons about his theory. In a slightly eery fashion, whoever disguises as Charles Darwin gives answers that do sound like they are coming from a 70+ year old grandpa: “I see you do not understand what a fossil is, boy”, said the pretend-Darwin to one of its followers.
Some users have embraced this as an opportunity to get help with their overdue essays while others poked fun at it and asked irrelevant questions. But whichever way you look at it, it’s a very creative way to get people interested in the Theory of Evolution and possibly attend the exhibition.
Lu Yang
10 Feb 2009 09:33
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Writing about web page http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5661019.ece
On the subject of “Gold-diggers” and the “fair exchange of assets” :
Money’s promise is that it will do everything, make everything better and best. And apparently all it does is give her noisier orgasms.
Lu Yang
08 Feb 2009 03:09
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Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7694921.stm
the point
Ofcom might be getting outraged over the wrong issue here: yes, the prank call has been aired in full with no cut-outs or any attempt at ‘bringing the material to the broadcasting standard of the BBC’ (which is incidentally impossible). But if it weren’t, then the public could forever remain ignorant as to how wholly inappropriate Brand and Ross are, and how ridiculously abusive and plainly stupid they can be.
the plot
If anything, I’m more inclined to believe that whoever made the decision to put this on air was simply fed up with the pair and just did it out of spite.
the Fine
And yes, the BBC should be fined, but that fine should be taken out of the pockets of Brand and Ross. I hope criminal charges will be brought against them.
conclusion
It’s not funny, it’s not educational, and it’s definitely not worth £2,200,000 of taxpayers’ money.
Lu Yang
28 Oct 2008 16:56
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Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm
Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large
Stephen Green of Christian Voice
Priceless.
Lu Yang
21 Oct 2008 16:19
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Last Wednesday Lord Andrew McIntosh at the House of Lords invited a group of journalists from Belarus to give a talk about the deteriorating conditions of media freedom in Belarus. Half way through the conference, an old granny of about 80 walked into the chamber, wrapped up all in black with a Miss Marple – styled hat fashioned on top of her head and her face barely visible from behind her thick glasses. People exchanged glances and made an effort to ignore this odd appearance.
However, when the time came for questions, the granny was the first one to shoot her hand up in the air. She stood up propping herself on the desk, cleared her throat and gave an elaborate speech ending with a question ”...perhaps Belarus will cease to exist altogether?” She spoke of human rights abuses, of censorship, of tyranny and Lukashenko’s pride at being “the last remaining dictatorship in Europe”.
I felt like the whole chamber has just leapt a giant step into the future, where 80 year old people don’t sit at home knitting, but attend public talks and gatherings and fight for their causes; where agism is non-existent and the whole nation is so old that the young people no longer have the time to campaign and protest. But it was a good feeling, an out-of-this-world experience and a very curious sneak-peek into the future.
Lu Yang
14 Oct 2008 09:44
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Dalai Lama is visiting this week and I have every intention of approaching him and bathing in the glory of his holy presence. But this year being China’s year, there’s no avoiding talks of Tibet and other controversial things China’s up to.
China Media Centre of University of Westminster held a media talk titled Reporting Tibet. The panel featured some distinguished journalists including Isabel Hilton, Jonathan Fenby (former editor of The Observer and The South China Post and author of the Penguin History of Modern China), BBC World news editor Jon Williams, Ma Guihua, London correspondent for the Xinhua News Agency and Wang Rujun, chief correspondent at the People’s Daily UK Bureau.
When the panel opened discussion to the audience, a man identifying himself as an Uyghur addressed Jon Williams with the question: why is there no coverage of the oppression of the Uyghur people in China. A lady sitting next to him got hold of the microphone and said with a particular urgency in her voice: I’ve been living here for 7 years and I have only once heard the media report the oppression in the Uyghur autonomous region. And today we came here specifically to say thank you to the one journalist who spoke up, and we even brought flowers.” Sadly, the named journalist from Channel 4 was sent to China to cover the earthquake.
I was so touched by this genuine gesture that I approached the couple immediately after the debate to ask for their contact details, hoping to interview them afterwards. The gentleman looked at me for a second and asked: where are you from? Stupidly, but quite naturally, I said ‘China’. “You’ve already done enough” was his answer.
For a second there I stood completely puzzled and bewildered. Quite frankly, this is the most racial discrimination I’ve ever been subjected to.
I’m not a communist; I like to think I’m not brainwashed; I’m not nearly old enough to have done anything to the Uyghur people, but for some reason their unquestionable sincerity in bringing the flowers, in dressing up in their traditional clothing, in speaking up in praise of that one journalist – all that has made me feel like I personally owe them something. As a journalist, I owe them a stage for them to speak up and voice their concerns. I’m too ignorant to judge if ‘my people’ have really wronged them and how. But I can’t even begin to image what kind of injustice a people would have suffered to be uttering phrases like “You’ve already done enough”.
He wasn’t saying it to be mean. But I knew that no matter what I said I couldn’t convince them to look at things differently. And even though I haven’t done anything to them and I had every desire to learn about their struggle and hear their story, they’ve lost that trust in Chinese people and in journalists who steal their words and their image to sell yet another agenda.
Lu Yang
22 May 2008 01:07
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Writing about web page https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/uk/
According to the Harvard Implicit Association Test:
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for White People compared to Black People.
I was wondering why I felt so close to Prince Philip… Oh, and I’m Chinese. I don’t care.
Lu Yang
10 May 2008 02:33
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Writing about web page http://clearblueeasy.com/OneStepearlypregnancyTest.cfm
According to ClearBlue,
One in four women misread a traditional pregnancy test.
Conclusion:
One in four women should not have children.
P.S. Digital pregnancy test? Really?
Lu Yang
27 Jan 2008 21:34
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