99 days to go!

By James Fallows
May Day, 2008, 10am, view out our window in downtown Beijing. Opening Ceremony for the Olympics now 99 days away. Getting excited! http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r96/jfallows/IMG_5599.jpg Update: Reader Paul Camp makes the reasonable suggestion that, in any future photos, I should include the front page from that day's newspaper somewhere in the frame, in the fashion of a kidnap-ransom photo. This is to eliminate the suspicion that I am using the same bleak picture again and again.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/04/99-days-to-go/8009/