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Imagethief has a theory that at any given time, any given American cable TV system will be broadcasting an episode of ''Seinfeld.'' Admittedly, I tend to cruise the channels late, but that's what I see. Recent travels have given me an opportunity to surf not only the channels on offer at my mom's house in Palo Alto, but also those at my ...

Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered Internet use. After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked ...

Update: Due to the obnoxious autoplay of the two videos, I have removed the embedded versions so as not to drive  people who visit the site rather than using RSS totally insane. You can follow the links in the paragraph below to view parts one and two. -Will A couple of weeks ago I and Saina Silverman, late of Edelman and now independent, ...

A few days ago ESWN published a translation of an opinion piece from the China Youth Daily in which the author asserted that the entire movie is an advertisement for the United States Military. Originally I was going to mock the opinion piece out of hand, but then I thought that, in all fairness, I ought to at least see the movie before I did so. ...

This article is a couple of weeks old now, but I still suggest taking a moment to read Gady Epstein's recent Forbes piece on the challenges facing China's successful video sharing sites. More than any other article I've read recently, this article lays out the unique political minefield that these companies are tiptoeing through. In particular, ...

In 2007, Imagethief actually forked over 160 RMB so he and Mrs. Imagethief could see Mike Bay's first Transformers movie on the big screen at Oriental Plaza. This was before Imagethief Jr. came along and little things like an evening out or even eating a airlie meal in peace became remote luxuries only whispered about in furtive tones. I don't ...

Amidst all the gloomy, mainstream reporting on the first anniversary of the earthquake take a few minutes and check out this interesting video from Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang. It's for a project called Afterquake, devoted to producing music remixed from voices and sounds collected by the artists in the earthquake zone: The video was shot ...

After posting my thoughts about Jackie's controversial pronouncements at Bo'ao a couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Nick Mackie, the journalist who actually asked the question that kicked off the whole episode. As Nick points out, the question posed was in fact about show biz, but Jackie got into a bit of a stream of consciousness ...

Imagethief sends his deepest sympathies to the organizers of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia, who's main contribution to the public discourse this year is a fierce debate on the meaning of what Jackie Chan said during a panel discussion he participated in. Personally, Imagethief feels that nothing that pop-culture celebrities say should be taken ...

        MCNAMARA    I believe the President made it clear    that there would be no firing on ships    without his express permission.        ADMIRAL ANDERSON    With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, we    were not ...