I've been a loyal reader of Yahoo! headlines. Not that I favor its news over others like CNN, BBC, just simply I need to check my email among other things.
But, what's up with Yahoo! news these days? I mean during Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Check this one:
Olympics' big injustice
Nastia Liukin should feel cheated after scoring the same as gold medalist He Kexin. » Blogger is mad

Not the first time I heard this song on the radio. But it seems all I can remember is "Oh it's what you do to me". Finally I decide to google it. It turns out it's "Hey There Delilah" by the rock band Plain White T's. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_There_Delilah)
Here are the lyrics
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/plainwhitets/heytheredelilah.html
The word I couldn't figure out before i read the lyrics is "delilah". Is this a common English name? (very nice name, btw:)

Yesterday while I was fighting the traffic on my way home, an NPR interview with author Jenifer Lee caught my attention. In her new book (http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com) due March 2008, she answers many interesting questions about Chinese food. One of them is "Fortune cookie is not Chinese", which surprises the author herself (as an American born Chinese, ABC for short) before she started to write the book.

With internet, language translation tools, and text-to-speech (TTS), you can teach yourself some simple foreign languages in easy steps.
First go to google language tools page and select your target translation language. For example, today is Chinese new year's day, and  you want to translate  "Happy Chinese  New Year " into  Chinese.  So you  type the phrase in the text area, select  "English to Chinese (Simplified)", and hit "Translate" button. Google will automatically translate it to "

I remember on one of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jackie Chan said he learned English through listening to English rock songs. Not sure if he was kind of joking, but I absolutely agree that it's a good way to learn English. Actually it's probably true for learning any foreign langauges. Nowadays it becomes so much easier to listen to music or better yet watch music video clips, thanks to the fast advancement of internet technology.