Japanese and Chinese Resource Links - 8/17

Found some great resources today.
Japanese
I found a blog awhile back called MutantFrog Travelogue which offers up interesting viewpoints on Japan related news/politics. In a recent post about which reports on Japan he respects he trivially tossed a link in his post to http://www.gregoryclark.net/ who is a used to be famous/is still famous australian who has [...]

Mandarin Tone Practice Links

If you’re like me and have been looking for an all encompassing pinyin tone chart to drill yourself crazy to, well this one is pretty good. link
Also, Yale.edu had some good tone combination listening resources posted from last semester that I think would also be useful. link

Color symbolism and Japanese

This guy put up a good summary of how Japanese uses colors in other words, whereby you can start to get a feel for the symbolism they imply. link