My personal take on the issue is that regardless of ages, the Chinese team performed better in team gymnastics and probably would have won even if their athletes were all at least 16.  The U.S. women had some pretty bad mistakes, though I was rooting for them.  The Chinese women deserved the gold, as did 楊威 in the men's all-around gymnastics last night, and I applaud all of them.  I agree with Dan Wetzel that the Karolyis' whining doesn't do much for sportsmanship and probably just betrays their own desire to use younger girls on their own teams ("Karolyis’ sour grapes makes bad whine").

What strikes me as comical though is the fact that the Chinese government (issuing their passports), Olympic committee, and gymnastics team could perpetrate a lie with such persistent boldness.  It irks me a little that they count on the language barrier for protection and to provide relative insularity from the Western press.  Here are a couple items turned up by a Yahoo! search:

Here's an article from 3 November 2007 listing 何可欣's age as 13 in a competition:
城運會 明日之星亮晶晶

The same article direct from the 新華 news agency has been taken down from their site, but the cached version can be found here:
第六屆城運會十大新星（配圖）

Here's one from 2 December 2007 that presents 何可欣 as the 13-year-old secret weapon of the women's team that will enable them to beat the U.S. team.  If this article is hosted on servers in China, my guess is the government will delete it if it gets too much attention.
李小鵬打造新利器狀態良好 13歲小丫成女隊秘密武器
李小鵬打造新利器狀態良好 13歲小丫成女隊秘密武器

Here's a discussion of a Chinese translation of one of the articles disputing the gymnasts' ages. One comment in particular sums up most of them, "It doesn't matter if she's too young, just as long as they get the gold medal."
中国奥运体操运动员年龄是太小了吗？

EDIT:
Some more discussions:
http://comment.2008.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/default.html?channel=ty&newsid=461-5-203483
http://comment.2008.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/default.html?channel=ty&newsid=461-5-202662
More people in China are saying that this is bringing shame to the country. Some even calling for the Chinese gymnastics coach to be fired.

EDIT:
图文-第六届城运会十大新星 何可欣打动国家队教头

// Function expression

var myFunction = function(...) {
    ...
};

// Function statement

function myFunction(...) {
    ...
}

The relevant portion of the ActionScript:

// Add an ExternalInterface callback for communication from JavaScript

function flashCallback(data:String):void {
    textBox.text = "JavaScript: You clicked " + data + ".";
}
ExternalInterface.addCallback("flashCallback", flashCallback);

// Add listeners to communicate to JavaScript via ExternalInterface

circle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(event:MouseEvent):void {
    ExternalInterface.call("jsObject.callback", "Green Circle");
});
square.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(event:MouseEvent):void {
    ExternalInterface.call("jsObject.callback", "Red Square");
});

The relevant portion of the JavaScript:

// Create a JavaScript object containing the callback for communication from Flash and triggers to communicate to Flash

var jsObject = (function() {
    var triggers = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    var init = (function() {
        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(triggers, 'click', function(e) {
            YAHOO.util.Event.stopEvent(e);
            YAHOO.util.Dom.get('mySWF').flashCallback(this.innerHTML);
        });
    })();
    return {
        callback: function(data) {
            YAHOO.util.Dom.get('flash_response').innerHTML = 'Flash: You clicked the ' + data + '.';
        }
    }
})();

View source on the example for more details.

Example

Download the FLA

• Adobe Reader - PDF document viewer
• Audacity - Audio recording
• AVG Free Edition - Antivirus software (think free Norton/Symantec/McAfee)
• CDBurnerXP - CD/DVD burning (think free Nero)
• Daemon Tools - CD/DVD emulation for mounting ISO images
• DVD Fab HD Decrypter - Rip any DVD directly to an ISO image
• Microsoft Virtual PC - Virtualization for Windows virtual machines
• Microsoft Visual Studio Express - Microsoft SQL Server Express and other tools
• Microsoft Windows Defender - Antispyware software
• Mozilla Firefox - Web browser
• MySQL - Database server
• OpenOffice.org - Office suite (think free Microsoft Office)
• PHP - Server-side scripting support
• PrimoPDF - PDF document generator (think free Adobe Acrobat)
• PSPad Editor - Lightweight IDE (what I work in at Yahoo!)
• QuickTime and iTunes - Movie trailers, music, etc.
• Shareaza - File sharing
• SmartCVS - CVS client
• Ubuntu - Easy-to-use and good-looking version of the Linux operating system (think Mac OS X for PC…sort of)
• VMWare Server - Virtualization for Linux virtual machines
• WinRAR - Handler for RAR, ISO, etc. packages
• WinSCP - FTP/SCP client

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BRK-A

Making HTML/CSS/JavaScript content appear above the Flash portion is tricky in some Mac/Linux browsers. Today I fired up Firefox in my Ubuntu Linux virtual machine and went to Adobe's homepage. It seems that even the people who make Flash don't know how to fix all the browser layering issues because the dropdown menus there fall behind the Flash in the Linux/Firefox combination rendering them unusable:

http://adobe.com/

http://playelive.com/

Not much up there yet, but it gives people in the LA area an idea what PLAYe is about anyways.

http://www.teslamotors.com/

(1) Chinese language input
(2) Sharing network resources with other PCs running Microsoft Windows
(3) Apache web server with PHP and MySQL

Ubuntu is built on Debian, and Debian makes it easy to add packages. Here is a list of packages I installed (along with their dependencies):

• scim
• samba
• winbind
• apache2
• mysql-server
• mysql-query-browser
• mysql-admin
• php5
• php5-mysql
• phpmyadmin

The following resources also came in handy:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

(1) SCIM is the multiple language input tool for Ubuntu. I was able to install the package, add the necessary Chinese input methods, and then follow some steps in the documentation above to make SCIM the default input method for all applications.

(2) Installed Samba to allow for resource sharing between Ubuntu and peers running Microsoft Windows. This required some use of the console to add Samba users. Also installed Winbind so that I can ping Windows machines by hostname from Ubuntu and vice versa.

(3) Installed the regular packages for Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5 along with the PHP-MySQL connector and the MySQL Administrator and Query Browser GUI tools and phpMyAdmin for managing MySQL. The only real change I had to make after installation was to set the root password for MySQL according to the steps in the documentation.

• Blue Diamond Aviation at Brackett Field Airport
• FAST Aviation at El Monte Airport

- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
- VMware Server

with the following free Linux distributions:

- Debian
- Fedora
- Ubuntu

The Microsoft virtualization packages technically support only Microsoft operating systems, but supposedly they can run Linux too. I didn't have any success with booting a Linux installation on either product though and didn't feel like messing with it if it wasn't straightforward. VMware Server is free, straightforward, and ran all the Linux distributions I tried with no problems. It's a great product.

Once VMware Server was running, I tried installing Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu to compare a couple Linux distributions. Debian alone isn't easy enough to use for my taste. Fedora is pretty bulky and the setup disc alone was a 2.8GB download. Ubuntu was my favorite by far. It's built on Debian and defaults to the Gnome GUI. It looks great and was easy to install and configure. Ubuntu Linux is a great free alternative to anyone wanting to avoid the cost of Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X.

Yahoo!
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Yahoo! Taiwan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. BIG5 (legacy traditional Chinese encoding).

Yahoo! Japan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. EUC-JP (legacy Japanese encoding).

Yahoo! China
- Doctype? Yes. XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- Encoding specified? Yes. GB2312 (legacy simplified Chinese encoding).

Google
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google Taiwan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google Japan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

Google China
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.

• When saving a file in Notepad, if you save with "Encoding" set to "UTF-8″ then you are including the BOM at the beginning of the file even though you cannot see it. Similarly, in Visual Web Developer, if you save the file with encoding and choose "Unicode (UTF-8 with signature) - Codepage 65001″ then you are also including the BOM at the beginning of the file.
• Properly using multilingual text on the web requires using files saved with Unicode encoding. There are usually a number of options. Generally, best practice is to not include the UTF-8 BOM, and I recommend choosing a Unicode encoding that both excludes the BOM and maintains a small file size. For example, in Visual Web Developer, I save files with the "Unicode (UTF-8 without signature) - Codepage 65001″ encoding.
• Having said that, I ran into the same case twice on my former blogging platform where I was forced to include the BOM at the beginning of an ASP file in order for it to properly recognize the script as Unicode and correctly process Unicode text. If all else seems to be failing, give it a shot and see if it fixes it. Still, my recommendation is to exclude the BOM unless it proves absolutely necessary.

Check out these links for more information:

• http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

Example 1

var myObject = function(myArgument) {
    this.myProperty = myArgument;
    this.myTrigger = document.getElementById('myLink');
    this.init();
};
myObject.prototype.init = function() {
    this.myProperty = 'New Value';
    YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(this.myTrigger, 'click', this.myMethod, this);
};
myObject.prototype.myMethod = function(e, obj) {
    var myFunction = function() {
        alert(obj.myProperty);
    };
    YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault(e);
    setTimeout(myFunction, 2000);
};
new myObject('Initial Value');

Example 2

var myObject = function(myArgument) {
    this.myProperty = myArgument;
    this.myTrigger = document.getElementById('myLink');
    this.init();
};
myObject.prototype.init = function() {
    this.myProperty = 'New Value';
    YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(this.myTrigger, 'click', this.myMethod1, this);
};
myObject.prototype.myMethod1 = function(e, obj) {
    YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault(e);
    setTimeout(function() { obj.myMethod2(); }, 2000);
};
myObject.prototype.myMethod2 = function() {
    alert(this.myProperty);
};
new myObject('Initial Value');

身分證字號產生器

JSON for the Masses

Edit: Here are two sites that offer utilities to create constructor classes from an object in literal notation:

• Classier JSON
• A Base Class for JavaScript Inheritance

AJAX: Selecting the Framework that Fits

Reviews five JavaScript libraries (Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, Direct Web Remoting, Google Web Toolkit, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library) and evaluates them on a couple categories. Article picks the YUI library. Glad I use and am a part of that one. It's one of Yahoo's strongest points in my opinion. Check it out if you are looking for a JavaScript library:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

What is the difference? To clarify this distinction with the example at hand, allegorical writing would examine the New Testament account of the salvation of our world and ask, "How can the historical facts of this story be retold in the land of Narnia?" or "What can we use to represent the characters of Christ, Satan, Judas, and Mary?" Myth, on the otherhand, perceives a reality and truth that transcends space and time and asks, "How would this truth that has entered into the history of our world in a particular way make itself manifest in the world of Narnia?" Allegory supposes Narnia to be a direct representation or copy of our own world. Incarnated myth supposes Narnia as a parallel world subject to the same higher order. In The Chronicles, it is made clear that Narnia's story is not meant to be a mere retelling of the story of our world. Both worlds exist side-by-side in the books and have independent histories that interact at times. Ultimately, this is most apparent at the close of The Last Battle where the two worlds are brought together into a common deeper reality.

In a letter to a fifth grade class in the United States, C.S. Lewis once wrote, "You are mistaken when you think that everything in the books 'represents' something in this world. Things do that in The Pilgrim's Progress but I'm not writing in that way. I did not say to myself 'Let us represent Jesus as He really is in our world by a Lion in Narnia': I said 'Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as He became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen.' If you think about it, you will see that it is quite a different thing."

Why is the distinction important? As incarnated myth, The Chronicles allow Lewis more freedom and imagination with the story, instead of demanding that everything directly correlate with some part of the New Testament chronology. Besides allowing the author more freedom though, the use of incarnated myth as opposed to allegory is also one of the things that makes The Chronicles uniquely powerful. Instead of being a symbol that is only relevant within the borders of the story, Aslan is a character that is not intended to represent Christ but is supposed to actually be the person of the Son of God in Narnia. Aslan's sacrifice in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may remind readers of the crucifixion and resurrection, his roles as creator and king in the other books may further reinforce the correlation, but ultimately it is at the end of The Last Battle that it becomes clear he is more than a symbol. "And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion." As the form of the lion fades, the focus is directed towards his person, and we discover that he has always been present and active in the histories of both Narnia and our world.

By suggesting that C.S. Lewis means for Aslan to be the second person of the Trinity made incarnate in the Narnian world and not an allegorical representation of the man Jesus Christ, I am not trying to advocate a dualism that tears transcendent spiritual reality from the gospel of history or favors one over the other. Elsewhere he writes, "As myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth." The power of The Chronicles is amplified by the realization that the eternal Son of God we cannot help recognizing in the person of Aslan did become a man at a specific time in history. He was born into our world. He died bearing our sins and then rose again. He reigns forever as our King. The power of The Chronicles and the story of Christmas lie together there. The Myth become fact. The Word made flesh.