Dave’s Wagon

In response to my last post, reader Xiaoniu commented with this set of images (one, two, three) of some rather strikingly blue skies during his trip to Beijing. While they’re not quite as photogenic as the postcards I showed, they do come very close. I would much appreciate it if any readers with Beijing experience […]

Here’s a little something I whipped up: a comparison between the postcards I bought in Beijing and the actual photos I took at each landmark.
True, I was only in Beijing for three days, but I saw enough to know that the sky is never as blue that low on the horizon as the postcard images […]

Via the HaoHao Report, I found one Mark Wang’s China Map site. He’s whipped up a little web-based system which allows you to check off the provinces in China you’ve visited and then generate a map with them highlighted in red as well as the HTML script to display it on your own site. He […]

It’s been said that a nation can’t truly be labeled as having a burgeoning middle class without the faked UFO videos that are the hallmark of tech savvy citizens with entirely too much time on their hands.

China is now officially such a nation.

The above video is claimed to have been shot in Nanjing and was […]

Via this post on Slashdot:

“Chinese engineers have unveiled a series of robots lately — without releasing lots of technical details about them. In the past two months, I’ve gathered pictures of robots which can act as waiters in restaurants in Hong Kong or pull rickshaws near Beijing. I’ve also found a four-finger robotic hand […]