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I can very much recommend James Gleick's Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Since it's a biography, it's very readable and doesn't just deal with physics, but there's plenty of that in there as well, particularly quantum physics. If you're interested in cosmology/astrophysics, I...

Cheers for the replies, got the visa and flights sorted and I'll be in Yangshuo in a couple weeks. I have a Chinese teacher looked up there who's from Beijing so hopefully the dialect won't be a huge issue, but I can always head elsewhere too.

Do you guys have experiences with renewing a tourist Visa within the country? I could only get a 30 day 2-entry one here, apparently it can be extended for a month at a time without too much hassle though?

Becoming a tranny was a great idea for you, because you sure are a cunt.

Afaik the big thing with OLEDs should be that there's no backlight, so black will actually be black. Since every pixel is its own light source, brightness can be controlled very precisely for every pixel which should at least in theory look pretty damn good. Plasmas and LED TVs are pretty...

Foreigners are like foreigners everywhere, I guess? It depends a lot where you go. There's way less family tourists than for example Thailand; a lot of backpackers and couples, and strikingly many sex tourists and older white men with filipina wives. There's less tourists in general than in...

Heh yea, you don't really need to be good looking either. It's a poor country with an exploding population thanks to the Catholic church and abstinence only, so there's a lot of young women with not such awesome prospects for the future who want to get out of there. A single white guy is seen as...

I spent a month in the Philippines last winter. What are you interested in doing? The country is pretty varied and there's a shitload you can do and where you want to go depends entirely on what you want to be doing. El Nido is extremely beautiful, although a bit out of the way - that's also...

Upload a pixel virus on Jesus' PC. Rapture averted, everyone can go home.

I liked this. It's short so everything comes off a bit hasty, but was an enjoyable watch nevertheless.

Aye, I have January 2013 to August 2014 for myself, so time is not a major issue. I'm likely not going to spend the entire time in China though, but I don't have a schedule I need to follow. I tend to dislike places that are overrun with tourists because of the whole Disney World thing. I've...

Was a fun pic to take, even if quality is what it is.

Anyone have survival advice for China? I'm in the fortunate situation of being able to do whatever I want for the next 1,5 years, and I figured I might go to China because hey, why not. I've been looking for places where I could train Tai Chi and hire a private tutor to learn enough of the...

I just wonder why he thought it was a good idea for him to run the new site. You'd think that he would've realized that, by drawing that much attention to himself, this was bound to happen. Ah well, it's a worthy start for this board for sure.