• Italian Coffee Culture: A Guide
  
  
  
  ...like I'm ever likely to drink espresso in Italy. [sigh]
  

• He remembered! :)
  
  
  

• Food For Thought: Where Did 'We' Go?"
  

• On Grandiose Verbosity, Monday, I wrote about The Internet and a New World Order. I wrote how this tool has the potential to enlighten and guide free thinkers around the world, to bring change to oppressive societies, to give The Dream a voice.
  
  Today, I stumbled across an instance where that is already happening in China. One blogger, Han Han, has become "the outspoken voice of a younger generation." In a country which prides itself in its extraordinary national unity, Han Han is finding happiness by being different.
  
  Han Han
  
  The article goes on to explain how the Internet is changing China's future. I hope you'll take time to read it. I thought its closing comments were particularly relevant:
  

  
  "A reporter once characterised his [Han Han's] anti-establishment and individualistic nature as “westernised” and asked: 'How did you become like this?'
  
  'I don’t think things can be called easternised or westernised,' he answered. 'There is only one standard -- whether it’s suitable for human beings.'"