According to anonymous MLB officials, the American professional baseball league is making plans to send a few teams to Beijing to play exhibition games during their pre-season spring training. The games would be held in March, five months before the start of the 2008 Olympics, and take place at Beijing's Wukesong Field, a small stadium with a capacity of 15,000 that will host the Olympiad's baseball events. more ›

Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing) is keeping things cool this summer, nudity and blood optional. Less cool are the comments in this post about a hipster auctioning off crap so she can buy a house. And no summer would be complete without the twin guilty pleasures of crap dining and crap TV: get them both with Torontoist's interview with "Rockstar: Supernova" star Lucas Rossi and a look at the safety ratings of some of Toronto's favorite greasy spoons. more ›

The Chinese have always enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude at US President George W. Bush's expense, and the China Daily is no exception. Take a look at the picture above, the first of a series of movie posters that have been spoofed to illustrate the big news stories of 2005 (this one from the Jay Chou movie, Initial D (头文字D). Other news stories covered were the July 7 London bombings using the US television show 24 and the China's diplomatic efforts during the six-party talks with Stephen Chou's Kung-Fu Hustle. (Typical of China to use the only non-satirical spoof poster to toot its own horn). Shanghaiist also likes the second poster, which has Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Cuban President Fidel Castro, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Noam Chomsky. (Circle the one that doesn't belong in a group with the others.) Anyway, we don't get why they're bustin' W's balls. After all, he did get elected President of Iraq in the country's first free elections. more ›