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Crumbling Vietnam infrastructure deters investors -
(not that us residents needed anyone to tell us this)
Where to eat: American chain restaurants (glad I live in Vietnam)
Happy Thanksgiving!
(Diagram is Tryptophan, an amino acid present in relatively high amounts turkey meat that may contribute to drowsiness)
Corruption Perceptions Index 2009: Vietnam places 120th out of 180 -
Not quite at the bottom, but close. Way more corrupt than China (79th), but less so than Russia (146th).
7-Up for Baby
Cigarette pack from Vietnam, date unknown (probably 1980s). The kitsch level approaches heights rarely seen outside Japan.
Your phone is where the Internet gets personal. -
Forget everything you know about the computer. In 2011 you’ll have an intensely personal device that will be more important to you than any computer that exists today.
“Carriers used to control everything, and now the tables have utterly turned, that’s what’ll make the future so interesting.”
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies | The Onion -
A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.
Gotta love Japan
What storm troopers Google
Planning a vacation? *Really* need to get away? The darker the region, the more remote.
2M Google Apps customers, 20M active users -
Google said Apps is used by 2 million businesses, up from 1.75 million in June. Those include both larger businesses that pay $50 a year per user for Apps, as well as firms with fewer than 50 employees that get the software for free.
coming to you mid-2010: device-router-device connections replaced by device-device connections, basically everything becomes a wifi router