Daily Hitlist: Beijing controls weather, Asian women control breast size

The Great Fire Wall doesn’t seem to be deterring many from going online. In China, 360 million people went online by the end of September.
A tropical storm hit Vietnam yesterday forcing 80,000 people to evacuate, while the Philippines suffered through its fourth major storm in the last month. More Asian women are going for boob jobs as procedures get cheaper throughout Asia. Uniqlo launched a new Web application called Uniqlo Tunes, which allows a song of your choice to loosely control promotional visuals on the screen. This is supposed to make you want to buy more Heat Tech.
Singapore-based tech giant Creative Technology has unveiled a new ebook reader called the Zii MediaBook, which will compete with the Barnes & Noble Nook and Amazon Kindle. While there's no word of launch date or price, Creative is in talks with international and local publishing companies to bring content to the reader.
more via EpiZenter Unseasonably heavy snow hit Beijing over the weekend, but don't blame Mother Nature. The Beijing Weather Modification Office said, "the snow had been enhanced by artificial means in order to ease drought conditions." Beijing Weather Modification Office? Can we get them started on climate change?