During the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, China will be presenting itself to the world in part through the architecture of the Olympic venues. Many of the buildings are now nearing completion, and I’ve put together a small collection of my favorite publicly available photos from Flickr.
1. Beijing “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium
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Some Chinese bloggers are questioning whether a lunar photo taken by a Chinese satellite is real. The doubters claim that the photo was copied from an old NASA shot. The Chinese government has been quick to rebut the claims, pointing out moon craters that appear only in the Chinese photo and arguing they […]

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I’m bored with Google’s U.S. year-end “zeitgeists” (no surprise that Paris Hilton is still a top search term in 2007) — but there are still some interesting tidbits in Google’s monthly Zeitgeist Around the World, which lists the top-gaining search queries in various countries around the world.
The results can be quirky and interesting. For […]

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