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Shanghai, 2009.10.24

Now I've ridden in maglev trains on two continents. The thing was surprisingly smooth until 300kph, at which point it was no quite so smooth. But fun!

Made it to the hotel in only two goes for the taxi driver, which is not bad given that we had a common vocabulary of zero words. We're on a mission to find an address and/or map of the neighbourhood with Chinese text.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009