Laurent Lin /

CULTURAL INFIDEL

• Unofficial Taiwan's Home Page. Good guess, Taiwan is my home country. Here is the satellite weather map.
  

• World's Greatest 123 Orchestras, There is an authoritative source from Japanese publication which ranks top 100 world-class orchestras, in top 10, 20, 30 and 40 hierarchies.
  
• It seems the maneuver is over. Here is the archive of Chinese missile tests around Taiwan: reactions from U.S. Congress.
• Learning the pronunciation of Japanese kanji for Mandarin speakers: I collect this pinyin kanji table, that about 2000 most commonly used Japanese kanji sorted by pinyin, and best of all, you can use it even without Japanese operating system, also lynx-friendly. (Japanese system is necessary)
  
• And more.......... peripatetic japanese tour | japanese diary | reserach home page | best web search engines | random surprise (cease to exist by now)

New Journalism

To some extent, I can be categorized as "political news junkie". I am addicted to the National Public Radio's BBC World Service, Chicago's WorldView program hosted by Jerome McDonnell and C-Span's Washington Journal. Nightly news preference: News Hour with Jim Lehrer.The first thing on Sunday morning is to read the New York Times while watching the C-Span's newspaper roundtable. One of my favorite magazine is The Economist which covers the international affairs in an elegant style of journalism. Ever wonder the best thing happens to the International affairs newsheads, have a taste of the finest sources not only in business, the Financial Times. Enjoy the lucidity of The New Yorker which is arguably so far the best magazine ever published. To trace the local art and music activities, I also keep the Chicago Tribune handy. Slate's "In Other Magazine" section and "Today's Papaers" summerize these zeitgeists in journalism.

I am also reading these magazines on-line. Gush, I should consider to subscribe them and read them in the traditional way, that is on papers, as you know it. Weekly: The New Republic. Bi-weekly: The New York Review of Books. Monthly: The Atlantic Monthly. And Bimonthly: Foreign Affairs.

Salon is crowned for the "Best Web Site of 1996" from Time magazine, but whether it will keep the title for the second year still worths observing. Competing Webzines: Word, Urban Desires, Feed, Suck..

Keep informed with the current International events, I recommend the most reliable sources from The Times of London, International Herald Tribune and NYT.

CNet brings you one of the most up-to-date Information industries news on the web.

• Asahi Shimbun -- whose liberal view reputed as Japan's New York Times.
• Yomiuri Shimbun -- as claimed the largest newspaper in Japan. Quoted from The Economist, "A conservative daily which usually has mushy view".
• Kyodo News. (Official News Agent)
• liveFromSinica So-netting
• Daily Northwestern (Northwestern University's oldest daily newspaper and Evanston's only daily)

Art/Entertainment

• Travel
  My favorite city in the States is other's third world country. Peter Jennings confessed New York City it is such an amazing (something like that) city but sometimes, for example, traffic, you feel like you are in Kathmandu. To name three most attractive places, Guggenheim Museum, sculpture garden of MoMA in the Thursday evening and food vendors along crowded street in Chinatown. My next goal: watch off Broadway show. Hey, not all art museums are suffocating, enjoy the tranquillity of the Frick Collection (NYC) or Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.) or Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston).

• Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang? Who? Find out in the 35th Chicago International Film Festival (Oct 6--21, 1999. Check Chicago Real-Time Traffic first.
  
• Classic Music
• Orchestra Hall, home of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is the classic music lovers' Mecca in Chicago, check for current schedule.
• Browse and search the last 6 months music review in the revered Gramophone magazine. For a paid subscription, all reviews since 1983 are available on line.
• Humor
  • Fartology
  • Relax, here is 5000 jokes to laugh aloud.

• Sugoi Japan -- viewing Japanese WWW is not a novelty, there is a tremendous converter which automatically translates everything to graphs.
  • A Map of Japan illustrates my itinerary around most of this country.

  • I listen to Japanese Pop music, my everlasting favorite: Zard and Nakamori Akina (I know, I know, I am not young, she is sorta out of fad). Korean popular band, JuJu Club (in Korean), I love their two albums, 16/20 (in Korean) and ranisanisafa (in Korean).

  • Have some samples of Japanese Music.

  • This Week Top 100 Songs.

  • Lyrics, enjoy these Japanese songs lyrics (to beat the boredom).

  • Top Ten Sites for Japanese Language Processing

  • My grammar-impaired Diary in the Japanese language class at Northwestern University.

Useful Resources

• Research Interest
  • A Visualization Tool for Geometric Objects.
  • Our group (photo) in Computational Geometry and Algorithm Visualization Laboratory, ECE Department, Northwestern University.

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  Much Ado About Nothing: Volleyball
  • Where is the bikini spiker?
  • Picture of an Invincible team, X-MEN
  • Volleyball WorldWide Page
  • Volleyball Magazine
  • Volleyball History

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  Who am I and how to reach me. (Lin Hanchou, Lin Han-chou, Han-chou Lin ,Lin Hanzhou or 作者/ 交大資工78 林漢洲)

  作者/ 資1989 林漢洲

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