nick’s (n)-line life

In the past, my prolific Youtube browsing has yielded some interesting results for China-related interest and language study. Today, however, I came across a video that comes in as my greatest youtube find to date. Looking at the 7 month old date stamp, I’m probably horribly behind, but I was still excited to find out [...]

Dr. Peter Witt has carried out a study to determine the effects of drugs and alcohol on spiders’ webs. The results are pretty interesting…

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This month’s top referrers in (rough) descending order:

Peking Duck
Wordpress
China Law Blog
My ApplyeMenu
My Prairie Gazette

Thanks for linking :)

We all enjoy finding new music to listen to, right? The downer is that radio, at least in the UK, is heavily geared towards giving airtime to only the hottest new and chic tracks. If you have taste that goes even a little bit outside the mainstream then you're not gonna get on well with [...]

Ok, I am totally in love with Google Earth!
Fun things I’ve been doing:

Looking round area 51
Hunting for terrorists in the Sahara desert
Whistle-stop tour of several North Korean Military bases
found my houses (and realised that it’s submerged in greenery :O )
Relived past travel itineraries
Tracked and measured my daily route to lectures (ok, that last one is [...]

Having a bad day?
Well then, take it out on someone who deserves it. (via Peking Duck).
If you don’t have flash installed you can have a taster below (but trust me it’s so much more satisfying when it’s interactive! :) )

Sorta, like a lava lamp: very relaxing and you just can’t help but watch it!

So depressing that bus loads of people are quite happy to sign up for a petition without any idea or what it’s about; even people who disagree with it are quite happy to sign up! (to cut / burn down all the trees in Yellowstone National Park as it happens).
Actually the video is part of [...]