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...Could the minister of information walk the lion around the garden, asked the TV crew. "Why not?" The minister led the lion up the driveway whereupon it dove into our four-wheel drive and started spinning around on the back seat. The minister grabbed a black sun hat and used it to encourage the lion out. It jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing...
...There is such a thing as white-hat hacking, where large corporations hire the most clever and mischievous of virtual raiders to probe their defenses for weaknesses. At its broadest definition, all hacking is white-hat hacking. Without it, the Internet would be like the Martians at the end of H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds: destroyed the moment we left our sterile, germ-free environment...
Hong Kong is old hat, Shanghai is oversold and even Lhasa is getting pass?. But Beijing? This formerly stodgy, sprawling, communist capital is the new thing. There is a rave on the Great Wall every summer, and Starbucks opened in the Forbidden City last October. But how do you separate the merely new from the truly hip? Here's our guide...
...insists most of them are here "because Laos is a full-on, rad place that's totally blowing up. Everybody's coming to Laos and not just for the dope but because of the people and stuff." Bucktoothed, broad-smiling, with curly hair spilling from under a Beaver Lumber hat, Clarky is full of exuberance about his bar, his new business, his new country...
...endless manipulation of the Material Mom grows tiresome. The black T-shirt that says MOTHER on one said and F*CKER on the other; the pumped up arms; the riding the bull in the cowboy hat; the kimonos. It all seems like the endless repackaging of a product I don't particularly want to buy anyway...