Green Dam Youth Escort! June 1!

• China has banned evidence obtained by torture. Zhao Zuohai had spent 11 years in prison for a murder extracted by beatings, until the alleged victim of said murder showed up to pick up a welfare check.
• China has unblocked pornography?
• Dawning Nebulae strikes! China makes a the second fastest supercomputer, clocking in at1.27 petaflops. [BBC]
• New blogs I'm reading include Sinopop, RedBox Review and ArtHub China. Much more in the gallery/art scene
• Exhausted Diligence in the ECONOMIST YO! The room. Not this blog. ["Sleeping Beauty:Reviving a Chinese imperial treasure means reversing 80 years of neglect." More than a name we have in common I see.]
• Above - David Lynch X Marion Cotillard X Dior X Shanghai X Novalis. Dior's patent leather purse is a blue flower, AKA the "central symbol of German Romanticism." And such magic is contained in the Pearl Tower.
• East vs. West. vs. Kant's 3rd Antimony. That's right.