Saturday, August 25, 2007

SMS Saves!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/20/content_6569904.htm

According to this article from an English-language Chinese newspaper the government of Hunan Province sent 2.5 million text messages to warn residents regarding the storm remnants of Category-5 Typhoon Sepat. Fascinating.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Hollywood Goes Bollywood

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=61235

According to the typical celebrity hype news Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is likely to be the next Bond girl. Why? Because she can sell out Asian theater markets. This is representative of a gradual shift in the center of cultural gravity globally. Even pop-culture, a bastion of American dominance, is shifting towards Asia. Though these types of shifts seem trivial, it is precisely this type of shift that will make Asian economic hegemony palatable to Americans.