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Google China is hiring! Below is the video campaign posted on YouKu, which will also be shown in theaters across the country prior to the film "Inception."

See the Google China Job page for job openings.

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Check out the YouTube video below of the Google art wall contest submission from Google Taipei office! The entire art wall is a mosaic made of 1000 Rubik’s cubes! Wow! I wonder how long it took the geeks engineers in the office to twist and turn each Rubik’s cube to match the desired color/pixel! [...]

While I’ve been out of the office on my maternity leave, Google had a contest in which different offices can decorate a wall (or part of the office) for submission. I missed all the fun in the Shanghai office, but here’s a YouTube video of the Shanghai art wall in the making.

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From Engadget, China is going to be building these massive buses that run on tracks and allow cars to drive underneath, solving problems with urban gridlock and moving one step towards the future.

Check out the demo video below!
 

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Posting on this blog has been and will continue to be sporadic because . . .
 
Friday was my last day of work. Sent out my last email and logged off at 10pm. I started going into labor soon after that (what timing!) and delivered a healthy baby girl at 4am.

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USA Today compiled a list of over 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots in Shanghai. That’s quite a list! Check it out.

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Here’s a really cool optical illusion image from Digg. Is the girl in the middle twirling clockwise or counterclockwise? Look at the left or right to change directions!

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Last December, my husband and I went to She Shan for a weekend getaway. She Shan is about an hour from city center and a nice place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
We drove there, using the GPS on my iPhone to navigate to our destination — Le Meridien [...]

Here’s an entertaining read about the lack of an em dash key on the keyboard.
Excerpt:
Why care? The em-dash is a fundamental unit of punctuation. We often fake it with a couple of hyphens, but it’s dreadfully ugly. You can fake an en-dash with a hyphen, and vice versa, and nobody but a typesetter will blink. [...]

Below is an awesome time lapse video of a man who walked from Beijing to Urumqi over the course of a year, taking photos of him (and his growing beard) along the way. He also blogged about his journey every single day for an entire year! Check out his blog, The Longest Way.

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