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From Evolving Web : A guy walks into a restaurant in Beijing and what does he find? The writer draws some pretty funny conclusions as to what might have happened to create the new ingredient. He’s also got some photos of the food itself which looks delicious. ... more

Fili’s World has a nice post with several links and photos about Zhang Zilin, who was recently named Miss World 2007. The same site had this post up before the competition highlighting all the competitors from all over Asia. ... more

  Is Fukudome Kosuke now undervalued? Over the last two months the free agency of Fukudome has taken a backseat to that of Hiroki Kuroda , which, as exciting a player Kuroda potentially is, would have been hard to conceive in September. One reason for this could be that on the surface Kuroda would seem likely to at least maintain the production he had in Japan, mostly because he played for a bad team in a small stadium. Fukudome, on the other hand, stands to lose some of hi... more

Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Munenori Kawasaki, Takahiro Arai and Shinnosuke Abe knocked in runs during a six-run seventh inning rally that led Japan to a 10-2 victory over Chinese Taipei, giving the Japanese a clean sweep and an Olympic Birth at the conclusion of the Asian Championships. Japan took the lead in the first inning via an RBI single by Arai. But after that the Taiwanese starter Yang Chien-fu settled down to hold Japan scoreless over the next five innings, keeping the score 1-0. (mo... more