Ironman China website
I've been mulling over the idea of registering for the inaugural Ironman China event, which will be in April next year on Hainan island. Hainan, you'll remember, is the large island in the south of China where the American spy plane had to make an emergency landing in 2001, shortly after Bush took office. It's a big island.

If you draw a outline map of China, as any Chinese schoolchild knows, it looks a little bit like a rooster. Also, as any Chinese schoolchild knows, this rooster has two eggs (what a rooster is doing with eggs is another question entirely ...), Hainan and Taiwan.

Well, take a look at the Ironman China website. It seems that one of the eggs is conspicuously missing. It's exceedingly rare to see this particular omission on any Chinese website, so I was really surprised. If you check out the little link in the lower-left hand corner, though, you'll notice that the site (which is all in English) was designed by an American graphics design company, who must have taken a stock map-outline of China from some other source. It will be interesting to see how long it continues to exist in this state.