Sizzling fresh links for you to chew on

A few small links before we start our weekend:

Journalist Ian Williams (AKA the Deadline Pundit) does a bang-up job examining the issues and precedents that affect Taiwan’s bid to join the UN.

One half of the pan-blue alliance’s Dynastic Duo, Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) gets pelted by an egg at the “anti Chen” rally by one of the thousands of whack jobs currently encamped on Ketagalan Ave. (Article in Chinese).

Like all fans of Monty Python, I bet there are eels in China’s new hovercraft.

The KMT re-launches the Central Daily News in electronic format for businessmen in China. What, like they already don't have enough bullshit media over there?

Officials at the Taekwondo World Cup in Bangkok had to separate Taiwanese and Chinese competitors for fear that they, uh, might actually start fighting.

Asia Times Online rightly rips Taiwan’s idiotic 2006 UN ad campaign a new one.