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Author: manur

Je ne suis pas du genre à me vanter d’avoir eu raison (hum), mais la personne dont il fut question il y a quelques semaines vient de « s’affirmer vocalement » anti-Ajax, ce qui est un parfait point de rencontre du « anti-Google » et du « anti-web 2.0 » anticipés.
Apparemment, HTML, ECMAScript et CSS, c’est trop de technologies à la fois, ce à quoi j’ai répondu qu’évidemment, lorsque l’on a des difficultés à maîtriser le SQL… Je ne me suis pas fait que des amis.

[Two links offered by Beth]

Wanna has written an essay on the southeast asian sugar palm tree (Borassus flabellifer), the omnipresent and beautiful tree you’ll find everywhere in Cambodia. This is a national tree, by fact and not by decree.

Next, Phnomenon is a khmer food & drinks blog, and I can only be in love with that idea. Angkor Beer gets an inferior grade (I’m not a beer guy, so I won’t discuss), but there’s a recipe for Amok Trei (I’d suggest flan de poisson), one of the most wonderful dish on Earth, when properly done.

Je ne crois pas avoir lu ces dernières années un article sur la Chine qui ne soit pas vertigineux. The Great Leap: Scenes from China’s industrial revolution ne fait pas exception, tout en relativisant quelques idées reçues.

The problem with actually reporting about a place, however, is that you start collecting stories, and they never quite fit. It’s not that any of these angles are wrong – there are countless well documented stories of nightmarish factory conditions, human-rights violations, local corruption, and environmental folly – but even taken together they don’t come close to adding up to China. And they allow us to ignore what might be most crucial about the emerging nation: the ways it is starting to resemble our own.

[merci jm]