The story of prisoner F95488

An interesting story about a Ghanian soccer star at UCSB accused of rape. He’s recently been sentenced to six years in state prison.

@ ESPN

Planes, Trams & Automatic Doors

A continuation of my column on transportation in Hong Kong – planes, trams, taxis, & ferries.

@ Gadling

The MTR

A complete overview of the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong:

Article @ Gadling

Establishment Day

Yesterday was Hong Kong’s “independence day”…more well known as “establishment day” – marking 12 years since the handover from the UK to the People’s Rebublic of China. I wrote about it for Gadling, and threw in a few pictures this time too.

Check it out

New Coins in the UK

I’m going to start doing unrelated but (hopefully) interesting posts again, because I realized how much I missed sharing useless information on this blog. I hadn’t heard that the UK was issuing new coin designs, but I think the design is brilliant, and can’t wait to see these in person.

I found out about the design through this BBC article about a manufacturing error that left a new batch of coins undated. If you’re passing through the UK – keep an eye out for these coins! They’re worth it!

Top 10 Facts About Hong Kong

Here are a few things you might not know about the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong:

Top 10 Facts About Hong Kong, via Gadling.com

Tre in Ghana

I just got word that my friend Tre Shallowhorn, who was part of my documentary program at UCLA, had all of his equipment stolen – camera, laptop, iPod, cellphone, and cash while working on a project in Accra, Ghana.

I wrote to him to pass on some of the words that some of you encouraged me with when I went through the same thing…and again thanks to those people who were there at that time. If you’d like to give Tre some encouragement, he just started a blog here (which he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to continue). I’m sure he’d appreciate any similar comments that you left for me – even though he probably doesn’t know you. Or, in your own way say a prayer / send encouragement that he’s able to recover the equipment.

xlieux

Friends Joe Liao & Wendy Tai launched an art installation this past weekend that seeks to comment on the perception of space in art galleries, and on social interaction through technology – by presenting live video chats into a gallery space.

Users can log onto their website, xlieux.net, and use Skype to video chat with other users from around the world. Visitors to Experimenta, the gallery that is hosting the piece, can observe these conversations or break the rules of the gallery and choose to interact with the virtual users. Click more for the full write-up on the piece:

Dim Sum Dialogues

My series at Gadling started today, and you can check out the introduction here.

Gadling

So it’s been made official: I received my introduction on Gadling – and my series will begin this week, under the title Dim Sum Dialogues.

So again, I know there’s been a lack of updates on this space, but now that my posts are rolling, I will do a better job of linking the two sources.