The Editors suggest checking out the following links:

• Picture of open-source software protestor and Bill Gates in Beijing - A bemused (or nonplussed?) Bill, on stage, looks at an open-source software advocate’s ardent lifting of a slightly ratty-looking banner.
• PC World’s Techlog - Microsoft’s $3 Software Bundle - Microsoft’s bottom line takes a hit in its war against Linux
• Wired 15.03: Blade Runner - South African double amputee tries to make the Olympics team for Beijing with “hyper-engineered” prosthetics
• Chinese media reacts to Virginia Tech shootings
• The nature of China’s relations with the world - Singapore’s Foreign Minister: “But many of these methods [the Chinese] use arise out of fear, not out of a desire to dominate. If you analyze the old tributary system, those who sent tributes got more than they gave in return.”
• China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom - A foreign journalist’s over-dramatic account of state control while visiting Tibet
• Global Voices Online » China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life’s Precious, Ching Ming Festival - A bridge blog/translation of Isaac Mao’s Memedia project
• China Brief from the Jamestown Foundation - A look at the role of bloggers as “citizen journalists” in the Chinese media
• Asia Sentinel - Nailing China’s Nail House - A strong take on the “nail house” story, exploring the complexities of the case and its ramifications
• Beijing Tries To Be A Wireless City Before 2008 Olympics - Beijing adds citywide WiFi to its list of impossible 2008 deadlines