The Daily Bubble Tea

• Mark Wilbur introduces readers to improvements to Popup Chinese, an online language training website.
• Hanjie visits Kaohsiung’s fantastic Dome of Light.
• The Real Taiwan with bikini racing girls.
• Mark Forman checks out the changing of the guards at the CKS Memorial Hall.
• The Wanderings goes barbet watching and coffee tasting.
• Poagao is featured at the new Taiwan Photographers.
• Michael and Michael bike the Northern Cross Island Highway, makes my trip to Guguan look like child’s play.
• The Battle of the Fisherman’s Wharf on the Danshui Presbyterian Church.
• Stories from survivors of Typhoon Morakot.
• Echo Taiwan covers the Dalai Lama’s invitation to visit areas hit hard by the typhoon.
• Claudia Jean on water management measures that could have lessened the typhoon’s damage.
• Talk Taiwan finds the president reacting too slow, this time to a flu outbreak.

• Wandering Taiwan with illustrations of Tsou and Rukai Attire.
• Jenna visits the Lin Family Garden in Banchiao.
• Craig Ferguson continues his series on Kinmen.
• Are you a teacher running out of classroom ideas?  Carrie has five activities to try out.
• Pinyin Info on the switch to Hanyu Pinyin at train stations.
• Wild at Heart covers Yunlin County protests against discharge plans for science park expansion.
• Taiwan Democracy posts the open letter of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan to President Obama.
• LifeinTaiwan presents a Typhoon Morakot survivor’s story.
• Echo Taiwan covers President Ma’s actions in the crucial hours of Typhoon Morakot.
• Michael Turton on the political casualties in the typhoon’s aftermath.  He has your links on Mondays.

EVENTS: GigGuideTW has the scoop on fundraising concerts in Taipei.