We thought we might want to start your day in tiao pi, or silly, mode. And here it is — a classic Line 13 shot of — two arrows for one direction — that's Dongzhimen.

Given, the Beijing Subway does seem to throw some of the craziest signage around. But most likely ... Read more »

Microphone mania today — the top bidder of Wang Minglu crosstalk works got the media in a frenzy — and ended up on the front cover of the Wanbao. On the front page in big headlines, though, is bad news: 7 cases of H1N1 was found in one primary school. That's ... Read more »

Someone on the Great Big Internet Out There spilt the beans — on the as-yet "State Secret"-ish Subway Line 4 announcements. We've had a listen — and we bloody like it.

Bloody — because that's a sorta-strictly British English term. And that's precisely what it is — Received Pronunciation glory ... Read more »

Shanghai's world-class Metro (yep, despite the recent Line 8 delays) is set to expand to 400 km — giving London a little run for the money. And just to show that Shanghai's in Beijing Mode (Pre-Games), the city's also getting its hands warmed up for — that's right ... Read more »

It's not all that — shall we say — "un-often" that we lump the words "crappy service" with "post office" together in one word — but we don't bother putting a negative in the whole thing because, well, service at times can be — something to whine about at length. But your ... Read more »

Skies are sure — well, you know — blue as heaven, if your Beijingologist's making any sense at all. The big pic in today's Wanbao: we've the best air quality in 10 years. You might not believe that if you've just been stunk up by the random passing ... Read more »

Our Beijingologist's reason for existance — aka the Beijing Subway — turns 40 this year, and lately they've been handing out (against a pretty steep fee of CNY 280 a pop) collections of tickets from years gone by.

We thought we'd might let you take a look at this ... Read more »

It'll be a while before you catch your Beijingologist in subterranean mode again. Here's what happened:

At 09:30 yesterday (a Sunday, of all days), the Beijing Subway decided to go into Explosion Mode when what appears to be scrap metal touched the high-voltage (750V!) third rail, which ... Read more »

Get ready for a very brutal Wanbao. Jeepers. Our hands are trembling as we're typing this... first off, that's the wreckage of two trains slamming right into Chenzhou Railway Station. 3 died and 80 were injured. This sure seems to be a sucky start to the new week ... Read more »

Bad, bad news right at the bottom of the Wanbao today: MJ (Michael Jackson) has died at "just" the age of 50. Best known for his signature songs, including Bad, Beat It and Black or White, the King of Pop's death stretched Twitter to the limit and was in ... Read more »

We're not a med mag, by the way, but here's "common sense" when the thermo hits 35°C and above...

• Turn on the aircons. Do watch it, though. Turning a zillion on in the same room may have the Grid Gods begging on their knees as you overload ... Read more »

42.3°C!!! (Tianjin's slated for 46°C and Handan, Hebei has 51°C in the forecasts — if that makes you "feel any cooler"...) The recent heatwave has busted previous records for late June since those "weather frogs" (as the Swiss call 'em) started doing those records. The headliner ... Read more »

God, aren't you pleased that you're no longer -- you know, someone in school? Unless you're a student yourself -- whereupon we'd like to sympathize with you. See, even your Beijingologist can't spell "sympathize" -- and that's not the only news of the day. Big Wanbao headliner ... Read more »

The first question most of you (if not all of you) will have is probably along the lines of: "Where the hell is this Yimuyuan thingy?". Let's get that out of the way first -- Yimuyuan (一亩园) is right next to Yuanmingyuan -- and that's also where Line 4 calls ... Read more »

Data is missing for 4 more Line 4 stops the way your Beijingologist has it in his secret Subway Database, but from what we've seen in the stats, Line 4 seems to be yet another one of those boring lines where nearly all stops feature island platforms -- and when ... Read more »

Someone has to be the smartest teen in town eligible for the best university scores can get you -- and in this case, Liu Haiting and Ning Shaoyang quality as the city's smartest, gaining 688 and 703 points, respectively, in the recently-concluded National College Entrance Exams. Their faces and words ... Read more »

So what if the Beijingology.com main page is declared malware by Google -- since when has the Subway become synonymous with Things More Malignant? Sure, we may have had a few cases with H1N1 -- as in passengers mixing with H1N1 folks underground -- but that didn't cause a SARS 2 ... Read more »

Ever heard of "inner heat"? Nope, that's not your tummy on fire, but there we go -- TCM, or traditional Chinese medicine. And we think you'll like it, because that's the Big Pic Article as we're back with the Wanbao feature. Page 2 has a look as ... Read more »

Sorry for making your eyes pop up and down. They say that rolling your eyeballs actually makes you wiser.

Whatever...

Le'ts just say that I had to pop down to Tianjin with a fellow Subway / Metro enthusiast for the day. I have the Beijing-Tianjin HSR (high speed rail) express ... Read more »

Beijing has to hate Shanghai for its planned July 22, 2009 eclipse. So seeing that Shanzhai's the latest fad to hit the capital --

-- just like that --

-- boom.

It went pitch black.

11:30 AM looked every bit as indifferent as 11:30 PM. 72 happy hours ago, your Beijingologist ... Read more »

A few things:

None of these guys are open yet.

They're all under construction or under planning.

These guys are all pretty long.

They all run through central Beijing.

Your Beijingologist has yet to mass tweet from them.

6. They do 8-car trains. Not 6-car trains.

That's like ... Read more »

Consider this -- Subway Line 2 hell. A real experience today on the thing.

(Why did this thing fail? The third rail on the inner (clockwise) loop broke down somewhere -- and stranded all trains! Thank God they weren't like stuck in a tunnel or anything.)

Just before 10 AM. Your ... Read more »

It looks like the website you've trusted for the Beijing Subway, A to Z, has been -- declared malware territory by the netcops at Google. (With the toughening of Net content controls as of late, we're sorry to make your day even more depressing.) That's right: we're ... Read more »