Around Shanghai: The Factory at 1933, cellphone eavesdropping tools and the dictorship of the proletariat!

One of the more intriguing art/food destinations has just opened up: The Factory (at 1933), which is billing itself as a lab of sorts for Shanghai's young artists and will have a weekly-changing reasonably affordable menu. [Urbanatomy]
Uh oh, apparently cellphone eavesdropping tools are being sold around town that could let you listen in on someone's every call, as well as send and receive their text messages. Talk about frightening! [Sinosplice]
Ford's Asia Pacific VP, John Parker, tells BBC why he's "cautiously optimistic" about the car market in China at the Shanghai Auto Show. [BBC]
56minusone finds a remnant of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai: above the front entrance of an old district is the lettering 无产阶级专政万岁, meaning “Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” [56minusone]
Members at the Yangtze Forum are discussing how to combat the salt tides at the mouth of the Yangtze River, crucial for us having more fresh water during Spring and Summer. [Shanghai Daily]

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