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Archive for May, 2005

Boycott Shimba’s Boba Tea

I urge those of you who live in Corvallis to boycott Shimba’s Boba Tea, and here is the story:
Bento, one of my favorite restaurants in Corvallis, known for their cheap price, abundant food, and awesome explosion of flavors, was forced to stop selling their bubble tea because of their rival neighbor food shop.
Shimba, the shop [...]

Why Taiwan Matters?

A very interesting article from Business Week
It talks about how important Taiwan is in the global market, and why the peace between China and Taiwan is so important.

Star Wars History

After completing my two months long project at work, I had some free time to browse my new favorite website. And somehow I started looking up Star Wars history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dates_in_Star_Wars

Nerd Entertainment Sites

Wikipedia
How Stuff Works
Google Sight Seeing
Treehugger
Hot or Not – Eric

Every 3 seconds a child dies because they happen to be born poor

If we changed 3 things – trade, aid and debt – that scandal would stop. And on 8th July, if the 8 men sitting round the table at the G8 summit think enough people want them to – they can actually do it. Stop the deaths.
www.makepovertyhistory.org

Why Germans are awesome and we are not

In Germany, they have autobahn, which is equivalent to the interstate of the US, but was built with a very different mentality for the drivers. Following reasons are why they are awesome and we are not:

Autobahn was built for high speed, certain (and most) of it does not have speed limit.
It is illegal to [...]