Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick: via Slashdot. This is extremely cool science. Van der Waals forces, who woulda thunk! Jung Typology Test: "Your type is ISFP." After reading about it on a random blog from weblogs.com, I went to the Naz 8 Cinema in Artesia and saw the movie Devdas, in Hindi with English subtitles. The story is long and tortuous, and the movie is 3 hours with a 10 minute intermission midway through. Neat singing and dancing, I like Indian music for the phat beats. I'll definitely be returning to the Naz 8 in the future, and I'm much more motivated to run down to DVD City in Buena Park to rent some Bollywood releases. A stereo that is shaped like a giant blue Lego brick.

A stereo that is shaped like a giant blue Lego brick.

I drool over the Lego Stereo (thanks han q duong)

American Gives Beijing Good News: Rebels on Terror List: "The Bush administration has listed an obscure Muslim group fighting Chinese rule in the western province of Xinjiang as a terrorist organization". This move is largely symbolic because the US won't be sending troops to China anytime soon, but I still largely disagree with it. The rebels in western China should be able to argue their cause at the bargaining table, which the Chinese government it not willing to provide. The United States should be tightening screws on China to create channels for groups outside of the CCP to voice their grievances and influence policy-makers. This reminds me of an article I read in Foreign Affairs many moons ago about this very topic, which unfortunately I cannot find in the archives. I'm still waiting for somebody to sponsor a subscription for me to FA. In the meantime, I will continue to buy 2 year-old issues at Fullerton Library book sales. Speaking of Foreign Affairs magazine, there are two good articles on China this month. I have not read them yet, maybe you can beat me to the punch and review them on your blog before I do! China's Governance Crisis by Minxin Pei comments on the imminent change/unchange in Chinese government leadership, while an update to a Jul/Aug 2001 story Crisis in the Taiwan Strait? by Kurt M. Campbell and Derek J. Mitchell tells us that the Chinese military build-up continues and Taiwanese public opinion increasingly turns against reunification.