Two calls to sign this petition have been floating around my inbox recently:

Being from Hong Kong, I quickly submitted my name to support this cause. Thoughts stirred in my head: What was the UN doing? Is this a signal for Taiwan? Does this mean Hong Kong will switch to simplified Chinese soon?

Upon further…

We reported over a year ago on the release of the first mini-PC based on a China-developed processor. But according to Fool’s Mountain, it seems like that it either didn’t really ship or perhaps it didn’t register on his radar. So, there is a supposed new release that is the “second” first-ever commercial product based on an indigenous Chinese…

My friend Nod has some new work up on the Behance network. It’s a pretty mix of the traditional and modern, of analog and digital.

See the rest of the series here.

Spotted on the web, a luxury concept hotel in Guilin: the Hotel of Modern Art (HOMA) Libre.

They are the only Chinese hotel that is part of the global Relais & Chateaux (luxury hotel and gourmet restaurants) alliance.

Book one of the 46 individually-designed rooms now…

Click for full-sized image with translations.

There’s more here. Via Longyin Review.

This plopped into my inbox like a piece of anonymous spam, but who could resist such a beautifully crafted piece of spam:

Title:
创业要简单！创业要面试！创业更要学习！
(Entrepreneurship made simple! Entrepreneurship needs interviews! Entrepreneurship needs to be studied!)

The website given is hosted on Baidu’s blog platform and is titled:
华人第一创业系统—-在家创业系统，让创业变得更简单！
(Chinese people’s first entrepreneurship…

The 6th Chinese Internet Research Conference is themed, “China and the Internet: Myths and Realities.”

It takes place on June 13-14 in Hong Kong. Topics are interesting, and registration only costs 300 HKD.

Go here for full details.

Mafia is a decently well-known game within role-playing communities. To put it succinctly (see wikipedia for a more elaborate explanation of the game), it’s a game played by a group of people in a living room, where people are secretly assigned mafia or innocent roles.

During each turn the innocents have to suss out which people…

From IfGoGo, by awflasher:

1. People used to greet with “Did you have the dinner?”, now they say “Did you feel it(the shaking) last night?” instead.
2. People used to care where their friends live, now they care on which floor do their friends live.
3. People now always check carefully on the walls…

About the show:

Slice is a collaborative project that seeks to uncover relationships between perception and movement, ephemeral experiences and the concrete materiality of everyday life.

In “Stop-Action” artist Rania Ho has handcrafted a scale reproduction of a familiar everyday object—a ping-pong table—out of low-cost commonly found materials. The inertness of this…