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You never forget these kinds of itinerant street performers once you’ve seen them live. They present a mix of acrobatics, feats of endurance and strength, and qigong body control that allows them to do things like swallow a sword, or force a live snake through the mouth and out the nose. Such performances, related to martial arts, have been going…
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Reading the recent review of the April 8 Rolling Stones concert in Shanghai by New York Times writer Howard French, I decided to see if I could find some online photos or reviews of the concert. First stop: Flickr. Perhaps there aren’t any Chinese Flickr users who could afford the tickets to the show in Shanghai, but…
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Via ChinaVisual.
Date: 3/29/06
Place: Law School of Renmin University
Event: The official ceremony for the establishment of Creative Commons in China.
Guest of Honor: Lawrence Lessig
Question: Will someone tell me why there is an iPod ad on the screen?
To celebrate this event, iMagine, a record label in Hong Kong, has…
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Motorized roller blades with a 25.6cc, 2-stroke
combustion engine, running on plain unleaded gasoline. Acceleration, via handheld throttle: 0-20 mph (top speed): 17 seconds. From the Taizhou Rongda Agricultural Machine Co.
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Alibaba.com’s English language Chinese manufacturer directory gives access to all things wild and wonderful made in China, from flashing…
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K68.cn assigns “missions.” Each mission comes with its objectives, a time limit, and also its (monetary) reward. The missions are all digital work (数字化工作), and so far there are missions for logo design, copy writing in other languages, and programming.
Yet, every mission is open to the public. Anyone can compete, and the best one wins.…
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What does “orz” mean?
Hint:
Selective translation from 十八摸狗日报 (above image also from there):
“orz” (also written as Oro, Or2, On_, Otz, OTL, sto, Jto, ○|￣|_) is net lingo (or an emoticon) that was created in Japan in 2004 and has since become adapted by the Chinese and Taiwanese. It represents for a person…
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Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer. The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website. They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…
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