simonb.com: blog > articles from March, 2006

The website for Xiang Yang Market has been closed down by the powers that be. It seems it was a fake. A fake website for a market selling fakes… Oh, the irony.

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Dilbert on manufacturing overseas

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Prospect has an article by Mark Kitto, founder of “that’s shanghai”, telling how he was squished by the powers that be. 

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Xiang Yang market is the place to go in Shanghai to buy “watch, bags, shoes, clothes” It is right in the heart of Shanghai - prime real estate. So it is, of course, being closed and moved in favor of yet another tower block. We’ll miss it - it added color to the neighborhood. The traders have set up a website - haggling looses something in cyberspace though.

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Danwei (probably the most interesting China blog) has made an amusing video of the building site to the north. 

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According to this article there is a link between brain development and your surroundings. Dull surrounding == no brain growth. Interesting and changing surroundings == new neurons. This has long been held for baby development. But now it appears that the same is true for adults. So escape your cube, open a window, tear down the latest HR brochure and head for the hills.

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Monochrom asked Austrians to draw logos from memory. Meanwhilehttp://www.allthelogos.com/ is a database of over 90,000 logos

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List of keyboard shortcuts for the Mac:

• Apple’s List
• Dave’s Picks List
• MacRumors List
• Mac Rumors List for Screenshots

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Very cool video of multi-touch interaction from NYU.

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