Previous Catches

Catch of the Day (2/4/03): 一位喪子的母親，走出傷慟，讓愛傳出去的網路紀錄。現已結集成書：我儘量不想你。

Catch of the Day (1/4/03): 時報悅讀網有一些關於村上春樹新作「海邊的卡夫卡」的介紹和評論，另有讀者留言版。我自己剛在上週末看完了，有點累，有點失望，有點像參觀了一個七寶樓臺。

Catch of the Day (28/3/03): Grand Opening/新開張：My Blog 我的角落

Catch of the Day (25/3/03): 人氣極盛，紅遍中台港的網絡作家：蔡智恆，痞子蔡的創作園地。

Catch of the Day (19/3/03): The Book magazine, a bimonthly magazine on books.

Catch of the Day (14/3/03): 藉奇斯洛夫斯基逝世七週年紀念，修訂了兩年前寫的 在人間外吞雲吐霧的奇斯洛夫斯基。

Catch of the Day (13/3/03): 山東驚現兵馬俑 (千龍網, 11/3/03)，摘自《文明》2003年3月號，頁84-97。

Catch of the Day (6/3/03): 迦陵﹣葉嘉瑩學術網站：葉嘉瑩的論詞著作，例如《迦陵談詞》，《唐宋詞名家論集》，和《唐宋詞十七講》，對我在詞曲欣賞上啟發良多。

Catch of the Day (3/3/03): Roger Ebert re-reviews Kieslowski's final work: Red (Chicago Sun-Times, 2/3/03).

Catch of the Day (1/3/03): The Hong Kong Society of Illustrators.

Catch of the Day (22/2/03): Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta: The Economic Interaction by the 2022 Foundation.

Catch of the Day (19/2/03): Judith Shulevitz on Matisse and Picasso, the Titans of Modernism (Slate, 18/2/03). It includes an 18-page slide show, made up of nine pairs of paintings from the MoMA exhibition, demonstrating "how the two artists irked, prodded, taught, and stole from each other. In almost every case, Matisse leads; Picasso follows". Controversial. Revisited (23/2/03): Visit the online exhibition and judge for yourself.

Catch of the Day (13/2/03): A number of recent reports and articles on free trade agreements from Japan: Prospects for Free Trade Agreements in East Asia (JETRO, 1/03), Formation of Economic Partnership Agreements: The Last Chance for Japan to Become a Regional Leader in East Asia (Urata Shujiro, Journal of Japan Trade and Industry, 1-2/03) and A Short History of Japan's Movement to FTAs (part 1) and (part 2) (Noboru Hatakeyama, Journal of Japan Trade and Industry, 11-12/02 & 1-2/03)

Catch of the Day (6/2/03): 南風窗，以 "for the public good 為了公眾利益" 為本位的中國時事雙周刊。

Catch of the Day (3/2/03): Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class (The Washington Monthly, 5/02). See also his own website which bears the same name: The Rise of the Creative Class which, not surprisingly, is also the title of his bestseller.

Catch of the Day (28/1/03): 南方周末(23/1/03)專題：公廁革命 ／廁所裡的幸福 ／公廁革命之道 ／北京：城市形象，從廁所做起。

Catch of the Day (26/1/03): This is what the World Bank has to say after rethinking the East Asian "miracle": Innovative East Asia: The Future of Growth (free download of TOC/Foreward and Chapter 1-Economic Changes and Policy Implications in East Asia).

Catch of the Day (16/1/03): Polish Poster Gallery has all sorts of Polish art posters (film, music, theatre, ...) for sale. You can order them of course (they can be quite expensive), but it is a pleasurable experience just by browsing through the hundreds of poster jpegs.

Catch of the Day (14/1/03): YaleGlobal Online, a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

Catch of the Day (11/1/03): Measuring Globalization: Who's Up, Who's Down?, according to the A.T. Kearney/Foreing Policy Magazine Globalisation Index 2003, which measures a country's global links, from foreign direct investment to international travel, telephone traffic, and Internet servers.

Catch of the Day (5/1/03): Salon is host to a number of interesting and informative blogs. The Reverse Cowgirl's Blog (wherein a writer attempts to justify the enormity of her porn collection) is my personal favourite. The equivalent to Salon's community of blogs in the Chinese language world is probably PChome Online 個人新聞台.

Catch of the Day (2/1/03): The hard facts about soft money (Screendaily.com, 17/12/02) gives an overview on the increasing importance of soft money in European film financing. Three associated articles: Soft Money - The United Kingdom, Soft Money - Germany, and Soft Money - Ireland. Revisited (5/2/03): The list has now been extended to Germany, Canada, France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Nordic Region, Australia, and Italy, Belguim, Romania, China & the US .

Catch of the Day (27/12/02): The Tablet PC could be the most powerful and convenient medium for managing knowledge in the digital age. May be not now, but I definitely would keep an eye on its evolution. Tablet PC Talk collects a whole lot of news and analyses on the Tablet PC. Read also How China Is Making the Pen as Mighty as the PC (Washington Post, 4/12/02).

Catch of the Day (25/12/02): Copyright law and roasted pig (Lawrence Lessig, Red Herring, 22/10/02): What would it take to put the 9,853 books published in 1930 but are now out-of-print onto the Internet? It is not just a matter of technology, argued the professor of law from Stanford.

Catch of the Day (23/12/02): Japan's Gross National Cool (Foreign Policy, 5-6/02): A good article on Japan's cultural, or soft, power.

Catch of the Day (16/12/02): Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference: Has eBooks' Time Finally Come? (BookWeb.org, 9/12/02).

Catch of the Day (8/12/02): Why do books cost so much? from Salon (3/12).

Catch of the Day (1/12/02): E-Commerce and Development Report 2002 from UNCTAD.

Catch of the Day (23/11/02): The Spy Who Loved Globalization (Foreign Policy, Sep/Oct 02) - James Bond was wrestling with forces of integration and fragmentation decades before political scientists invented the ideas.

Catch of the Day (15/11/02): 村上春樹的最新長篇小說海邊的卡夫卡已經出版。

Catch of the Day (5/11/02): Just back from a trip to Japan's Tohoku region. Enjoy my travel photos and learn more about the Tohoku region.

Catch of the Day (19/4/02, revisited 20/10/02): 三聯生活周刊的正式網址。

Catch of the Day (7/10/02): 日本紅葉情報：Yomiuri On-line，Weathernews Inc.，日本觀光振興會

Catch of the Day (3/10/02): Zoo Keeper, a fun game to play.

Catch of the Day (3/8/02; revisited: 11/9/02; revisited: 27/9/02): What are "creative industries" (創意工業)? And how important are they? Creative Industries Fact File, UK / Creative Industries Cluster Study, Stage One Report, Australia / Creative Industries in New Zealand: Economic Contributions / Creative Industries in Hong Kong / Creative Industries Development Strategy, Singapore.

Catch of the Day (26/9/02): Apparently, an Indian director produced an almost "remake" of Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Love" and caused controversies, trials and violence in the country. Read these two reviews: Where is your dignity, Manisha? and Review of Ek Chhoti Si.... For more, use Google News to search for "Ek Chhoti Si" or "Ek Chhotisi".

Catch of the Day (23/9/02): 香港電台電視部9月21日播放了知產新寶藏：夢的誕生，內容是關於保護知識產權對香港電影業的重要性。節目裡有一段短短的我的受訪片段。

Catch of the Day (22/9/02): Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder: A 3-CD set putting together his 1955 and 1981 recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations plus a bonus disc of outtakes and an interview by Tim Page. Tempting?

Catch of the Day (13/9/02): The Vincent van Gogh Gallery: An impressive web encyclopedia on van Gogh. What is more amazing is that this site is the fruit of the effort of a single person - David Brooks.

Catch of the Day (4/9/02): Just as I thought I had given up on Netscape, it comes up with an excellent upgrade, Netscape 7.0. In addition to being fast, the "tabbed browsing" feature is really first class. It allows you to surf various sites (tabs) within a browser window. The messiness of multiple windows is gone. While it is still too early to decide, I can imagine Netscape 7.0 becoming my default browser. Download it from the Netscape homepage.

Catch of the Day (1/9/02): Hey, joetsang.net has finally got a permanent home!

Catch of the Day (25/8/02): Test your knowledge and answer the infrequently asked questions compiled by The Economist. Hong Kong readers should have no problem with this question: "In the Hong Kong film "My Life as McDull", which played at the Udine Far East Festival in April 2002, who is McDull? (a) A legendary womaniser (this is the 37th film in the series); (b) An unhappy member of the Legislative Council; (c) A pig with a talent for bun-snatching; (d) The director isn't saying for fear of being arrested".

Catch of the Day (19/8/02): National Geographic: Photo of the Day, including this famous Afghan Girl 1984 & 2002.

Catch of the Day (12/8/02): Every 10 years since 1952, the "Sight & Sound" magazine would conduct a top 10 films poll among the critics. The 2002 results have just been released. What is most notable about the results is how old the top films are. Two were made in the 20s, one in the 30s, one in the 40s, three in the 50s, two in the 60s, and the most recent one is Godfather and Godfather II (won as a single entity). And this pair are almost 30 years old and did not made it in the 1992 and 1982 polls. Are modern films really that bad? I don't think so. We have Kieslowski!

Catch of the Day (3/8/02; revisited: 11/9/02): What are "creative industries" (創意工業)? And how important are they? Creative Industries Fact File, UK / Creative Industries Cluster Study, Stage One Report, Australia / Creative Industries in New Zealand: Economic Contributions / Creative Industries in Hong Kong.

Catch of the Day (28/7/02): 磊周刊自我定位為中文網絡世界的 Slate，優質而獨立。但我看，它跟 Slate 很不一樣，比較像一本個人雜誌，而且關注面也基本定在出版刊物界。不過，優質而獨立，倒是貼切的形容。

Catch of the Day (16/7/02): 傳媒觀察.

Catch of the Day (11/7/02): Those who like Christopher Nolan's (of "Memento" fame) new film "Insomnia" should try the original version by Erik Skjoldbjaerg. Some films are good, but some are great, and original too!

Catch of the Day (6/7/02): 一篇好讀文章：李歐梵的人間"殘酷"四月天﹣重讀【愛眉小扎】.

Catch of the Day (28/6/02): Visit Salon.com, before it suddenly disappears one day, possibly in the not-too-distant future.

Catch of the Day (27/5/02): BBC's coverage of the 2002 World Cup.

Catch of the Day (20/5/02): Foreign visitors to Hong Kong, as well as local residents, should visit the Chi Lin Nunnery 志蓮淨苑, to admire its visual beauty (photography by Frankie Leung) and architectural excellence (information from Hip Hing Construction).

Catch of the Day (14/5/02): The Supply Chain Library of SupplyChainBrain.com. Hundreds of case studies and articles on supply chain management.

Catch of the Day (10/5/02): Wallpapers of Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, White, Red by the talented Ms Loretta Yau.

Catch of the Day (4/5/02): Classical CDs Are Dead, Long Live Classical CDs. But what would happen After the Fall?

Catch of the Day (28/4/02): 由於將到國內旅遊，最近常在網上找尋關於這方面的資訊，覺得攜程旅行網非常有用。

Catch of the Day (22/4/02): Amedeo Modigliani on the Internet: Tigertail Vitual Museum and WebMuseum.

Catch of the Day (19/4/02): 三聯生活周刊.

Catch of the Day (15/4/02): McKinsey advises the Chinese government on turning Shanghai's Nanjing Road into an upscale international shopping area. Here are their recommendations.

Catch of the Day (10/4/02): In an essay - Kind of 'Blue' - Sight and Sound ponders whether Kieslowski's 'Blue' might plausibly be included in the magazine's ten-yearly world critics' poll of the ten best films of all time, to be conducted later this year.

Catch of the Day (3/4/02): Martha Argerich, the untamable, by Olivier Bellamy, for Le Monde de la musique, May 2001. Translated by Willem Boone. Thanks again Andrys.

Catch of the Day (30/3/02): The Economist's new global house-price index - Going through the roof - argues that "if there is one single factor that has saved the world economy from a deep recession it is the housing market". But it asks "when will the music stop?" on its opinion page: The houses that saved the world.

Catch of the Day (24/3/02): 何志然遊記：周莊寫生，二進周莊

Catch of the Day (17/3/02): 香港藝術館專題展覽：無涯惟智－吳冠中藝術里程 (15/3-12/5)，萬勿錯過！但這網頁無甚足觀，倒不如溜覽網上吳冠中繪畫藝術展，更可以讀到吳冠中對其極具爭議的《筆墨等於零》論的闡釋（光明日報也有一篇《我為甚麼說筆墨等於零》的訪問）。的的確確，脫離了具體畫面的孤立的筆墨，其價值等於零！

Catch of the Day (9/3/02): 明日報: 個人新聞台: 好好睇！

Catch of the Day (7/3/02): What book would you force on your neighbors? (Kate Taylor, Slate, 6/3/02)

Catch of the Day (4/3/02): Teamtalk Football: Arsenal: Your Say: Arsenal fans (I am one of them) write about their club.

Catch of the Day (25/2/02): MOOK 自遊自在: 中文旅遊資訊網的表表者。

Catch of the Day (18/2/02): The Costs and Benefits of a Free Trade Agreement with Singapore (Access Economics for DFAT, 9/01).

Catch of the Day (12/2/02): Hong Kong International Film Festival will run from 27 March to 7 April this year. Opening films will be Tom Tykwer's "Heaven" and Fruit Chan's "Hollywood Hong Kong" (陳果：香港有個荷里活). Closing film will be Tsai Ming- liang's "What Time Is It There?" (蔡明亮：你那邊幾點﹖). I can't wait to find out whether Tykwer did justice to the late Kieslowski's script.

Catch of the Day (6/2/02): 南方日報旗下的經濟周報：21世紀經濟報道.

Catch of the Day (28/1/02): 幾米, 繪盡都市的淡淡哀愁。詩意的畫面背後總有焦慮和不安.

Catch of the Day (25/1/02): Paddyfield.com, a Hong Kong-based online bookshop.

Catch of the Day (18/1/02): Dubious Achievement Awards, in celebration of the 1,000th National Post. Nothing dubious about this achievement, though: FPMastering: Information Management, a 12-part series on the management of information and the technology that captures, stores, distributes and processes data.

Catch of the Day (14/1/02): One fine Korean film: One Fine Spring Day (春逝) by Hur Jin-ho (許秦豪).

Catch of the Day (9/1/02): 遠流博識網.

Catch of the Day (4/1/02): International Herald Tribune, a first-class online international newspaper.

Catch of the Day (29/12/01): Korean Cinema Edition, another excellent site on Korean films.

Catch of the Day (26/12/01): The Korean Film Page by Darcy Paquet. I watched 14 Korean films over the past 2 years, including "Christmas in August" (1998), an outstanding film by a debut director, Hur Jin-ho.

Catch of the Day (20/12/01): Official site of a new film, A Beautiful Mind, about John Nash, a winner of the Nobel prize in economics.

Catch of the Day (16/12/01): Lisa Ekdahl fan page (in English, Japanese and French), maintained by Kondo and Ryoko.

Catch of the Day (9/12/01): Australia's 100 Best-loved Classical Music ﹣Clarinet players should be grateful to Mozart for having written a concerto and a quintet for them. The concerto topped all in the vote, while the quintet occupied the 84th place.

Catch of the Day (6/12/01): 湯禎兆的文字慾 ﹣湯禎兆是香港少數有料到的文化評論人，也是日本通。.

Catch of the Day (29/11/01): Please check out this classical music site: Andante.

Catch of the Day (13/11/01): Try this search engine: vivisimo. Highly recommended.

Catch of the Day (6/11/01): After 9 long years, Leonard Cohen has finally given us 10 new songs. The title of his new CD is simply "Ten New Songs". Definitely worth the wait. Visit his resourceful official site and listen to his thoughts on some of his new songs and read his 40-page notebook on how the song "Alexandra Leaving" was shaped.

Catch of the Day (31/10/01): Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site. Superb!

Catch of the Day (17/10/01): Kieslowski's "Three Colours" DVD set will be released by mk2 in nearly November. This is the official site.

Catch of the Day (10/10/01): IceRed.com hongkongers and singaporeans may find some of the chat topics interesting.

Catch of the Day (31/9/01): Net and Books, 一個關於網絡與書的中文網站

Catch of the Day (24/9/01): The Godfather series on 4 DVDs with full-length audio commentary by Coppola plus bonus disc, out on 9 October 2001!

Catch of the Day (10/9/01): Foreign Policy in Focus

Catch of the Day (29/8/01): BBC Sport | Football

Catch of the Day (22/8/01): The Economist: Cities Guide. Revisited (6/7/02): While there are a number of "countries guide" on the Net, "cities guide" is rarer. This is a good attempt by The Economist, although I must say the content is a bit thin.

Catch of the Day (14/8/01): E-Commerce Times. Revisited (28/6/02): Its longevity is surprising, but welcomed.

Catch of the Day (9/8/01): ZDNET: Mac Software Library (I just bought an iBook). Revisited (18/6/02): This is still the site I visit most to download Mac applications for OS 9 and OS X (I switch between the two operating systems, just for fun).

Catch of the Day (5/8/01): The Onion. Revisited (27/5/02): The cover story of the 22 May story is "Pope Forgives Molested Children" - Calling forgiveness "one of the highest virtues taught to us by Jesus," Pope John Paul II issued a papal decree Monday absolving priest-molested children of all sin.

Catch of the Day (2/8/01): Eva Cassidy Links Page by Laura Bligh. Revisited (20/5/02): Has moved to Eva Cassidy Web Site since 15/2/02.

Catch of the Day (30/7/01): FPMastering. Revisited (14/5/02): So you have an interest in mastering the management of information. You can't go wrong by first reading this 12-part series.

Catch of the Day (28/7/01): McKinsey Quarterly. Revisited (10/5/02): Quality research articles by McKinsey consultants.

Catch of the Day (27/7/01): 阿貴動畫網站. Revisited (4/5/02): 不再有趣的收費網站。

Catch of the Day (25/7/01): The Internet Movie Database IMDb. Revisited (28/4/02): This site, now owned by Amazon.com, remains my most-visited site for information on films. It has recently launched a pay service: IMDb Pro.

Catch of the Day (23/7/01): Magacities Lecture by Saskia Sassen: Urban Economies and Fading Distances. Revisited (22/4/02): Do check out the new edition of her book The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.