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Off to the Museum of Coastal Defence to learn about pirates.    
	
Interesting comparison by @Scobleizer   between iPhone 4 camera and Cannon 5-D MK II.     
	
@chilishrimpgirl  @coffeemeow That stuff happens all the time in Ikea Beijing.  Good write up of the Ikea loungers here:    
	
@ThomasCrampton   iPhone 4 e.t.a. of July 28 in Hong Kong so not that much longer.   
	
@raykwong  They're making a comedy movie about all the sex shops in China.    Trailer here: http://youtu.be/NFSzRjbE9HE    
	
Photos from the Shanghai Apple store opening  
	
Rumors of Hong Kong iPhone release on July 28 and iPad on July 19.  Now if we can just get some new Mac Pros this month…  
	
Chinese airport UFO pictures released:    
	
@ganglu  First 5,000 get a free t-shirt   
	
@hypercasey  Any idea if pre-orders will be accepted before July 28?   
	
My massive site wide maintenance script has checked 80,000 of my pages in 14 hours.  4.4 million pages to go.  Sigh.  Time to recode this.  
	
I liked a YouTube video — a bunch of low flying passes http://youtu.be/5R85TXNFphk?a   
	
Spy swap takes place on an airport runway.  Was so much more intense on a  foggy night on a Berlin bridge.   
	
Northern Ireland police send 20 armored cars to the England to help find cop-hunting shooter.  Snipers also deployed  
	
@kevinshe  Looks like he jumps out of a porta-potty at the beginning.   
	
3HK just told me it will take 48 hours for an online SIM card recharge to take effect. I know who I'm not buying an iPhone 4 from.  #fail   
	
More melamine found in Chinese milk products…again.  Wonder if Baidu will advertise fake doctors again  
	
@hypercasey  I was just across the street at white stag. Popped over but you had left.  Oh well   
	
$18800 for iPhone 4 in Wan Chai.  That's a bit silly.  
	
Here's a novel idea for my day–actually doing some work.  Deep into a perl script–no time for lunch or twitter.  
	
I liked a YouTube video — So I Married An Axe Murderer(colonel sanders scene) http://youtu.be/TPMS6tGOACo?a   
	
Feel like Udon in Causeway Bay or Wanchai.  Now if I can just find a decent place.  
	
@SelfishMom  Follow @FDNYnews , @theBravest , and @NotifyNYC  for all your NYFD needs…   
	
I liked a YouTube video — Anthony Rother meets Loveparade – The Art of Love http://youtu.be/ExZKoWlisLM?a   
	
I liked a YouTube video — Eric Prydz – Pjanoo http://youtu.be/llfNRGQ7Tlg?a   
	
One way to get the message out. Chinese authorities hang banners in mall announcing the execution of corrupt official   
	
@AndreaPlunkett  Consider your ignorance of LeBron James to be a gift.  If you knew what was going on, you'd probably be throwing up now.   
	
German sport fans demand public lynching of the World Cup winner picking octopus for choosing Spain over Germany  
	
@hypercasey  Those Shanghai Apple shirts look they have a Stargate on the back.  Be careful wearing one.  You might end up somewhere else.   
	
People evacuated Oakland in anticipation of the BART shooting verdict  
	
Samim — Heater.  Because you can never have enough techno accordion.  http://youtu.be/NZ806mlFoMY   
	
Preaching to the glue-sniffing, barrio street gangsters of Mexico City, a new 'Saint' tries an unorthodox approach.  http://nyti.ms/9myde6   
	
The iPhone rebuttal to the viral HTC "is all that" cartoon.  Classic and funny.  http://youtu.be/UAOtC9QfXac   
	
US Cyber Command hides code in their official logo.  Can you crack it?  9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a     
	
@johnstauffer  When you settle on a couple properties or areas, consider geoexpat.com, an HK messageboard for advice on neighborhoods.   
	
Battling yet another Rackspace cloud attack on my database.  Who's to blame this time, WordPress or phpmyadmin.  I don't know…  
	
I hate WordPress script kiddies…  
	
@johnstauffer  This is actually a pretty good house hunting site too for Hong Kong. http://www.gohome.com.hk/en/    
	
@Tortue  Tiesto is not dead.  It's  2006 rumor dredged up.  Here is the original story from 4 years ago   
	
@Tortue  Tiesto's tour dates have him in Europe this week and the story I just read said he died in California, so..um? http://bit.ly/8pic1V    
	
Chilling video of a baseball fan falling from upper deck chasing foul ball.  You don't see the fall, thankfully. http://youtu.be/JtgTwkU4q2o   
	
Nordic cuisine profiled in the NY Times.  Eat like a Viking.  http://nyti.ms/9D5BKJ   
	
Survived the cabbie's round of Collapse or whatever.  Should have thought twice about entering a cab with 4 mobiles on the dash.  
	
Video game done.  Now he is reading the horse racing forum in the paper.  A more traditional distraction.  
	
My cabbie is playing a video game on his phone while we drive.  Is this my last tweet ever?  
	
@thekenyeung  Totally agree.  This is just ridiculous.  A 1-hour special?  The NBA is like professional wrestling now.   
	
@johnerik  Rent a Ferrari and take it out for a 180mph test spin in the desert.   
	
Understanding all the bits of HDBaseT.  You'll need to know this eventually.    
	
FFS…"LeBron James will announce the team with which he will sign during a one-hour special on ESPN Thursday night." http://is.gd/di6FA   
	
Tremendous advances made in Narco-Submarine technology.  100ft coke smuggling sub nabbed in Ecuador.  http://nyti.ms/aqOvHP   
	
The 'one' museum of imperial Chinese artifacts, in two locations (China & Taiwan), dodging battling armies on the way. http://nyti.ms/9pXTxW   
	
Newly released documents show extent of Nixon/Kissinger psyops campaign against N.Vietnam (and it's failure)  
	
@SelfishMom  Are you in a Prius?   
	
Yet another dancing soldiers has gone viral.  http://youtu.be/Vg9g6b191HM   
	
How hip is Hong Kong?   http://bit.ly/9r5jM8   
	
@johnerik  how many words do you need to know?  Abandon ship is probably the only really important one.   
	
RT @mostlylisa : There are no gear limitations to great photography. See: iPhone Fashion Shoot (via @fstoppers ) http://is.gd/dgOld   
	
Shanghai standup comedian pushing the envelope of censors, albeit in a dialect most Chinese don't understand.  http://bit.ly/9HX0b3   
	
@christinelu  The Hau Tree lanai is a famous place for kamaaina and tourist. Robert Louis Stevenson used to write there. http://bit.ly/aqrnKa    
	
Another Tuesday.  Will Apple drop a new Mac Pro or iMac on us today?  Please?  We need new toys here.  
	
Worst downturn in stocks for 300 years?  New York Times profiles the Elliot Wave and the epic downturn yet to come.  http://nyti.ms/cpHQ6f   
	
@hypercasey  I had similar w/ a Mac Pro.  Card worked, fan didn't.  So passed tests fine, but then overheated and shutdown.  2 weeks to sort.   
	
125 years of cricket, in New York City.  Grudge match finally held after nearly a century wait.  http://nyti.ms/djeWb0   
	
iPhone / iPad app development infrastructure and support growing  
	
Why $10 is the new "magic number" for digital media content.  http://bit.ly/ammnd0   
	
@jonbuford  What day is the meetup?   
	
Some humans + fireworks = stupidity.  http://youtu.be/V1aAVGBxYP4   
	
American geologist gets 8 years in a Chinese jail for selling 'secret' that wasn't secret until after it sold   http://bit.ly/at7Ke2   
	
First day of kindergarten for my 4-year-old.  Two kids had Harvard t-shirts on.  Very sad.  Let children be children….  
	
@Tortue  Probably to keep mainlanders from stashing their money in Taiwan via real estate (as they are doing in HK).   
	
Hot dog Chaos in NY. "Let him eat! Let him eat!" the crowd chanted as police arrested the ex-hot dog champ Kobayashi  
	
One more month until "Norwegian Ninja" opens at the box office, in Norway.   No idea when it will hit HK.  http://youtu.be/4wNVjI9bJIk   
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