Author: Jason Li

Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
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Lecher Catcher Alliance

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抓色狼联盟 (The Lecher Catcher Alliance) is essentially a collection of BBS’s for people to report on and bitch about the perverts that they’ve randomly run into / regularly see. BBS sections include a perverts photo gallery (none yet!) and plans for action.

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Censorship veil lifted up some more

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Danwei reports that Blogspot and Blog City have been unblocked in Beijing. (Reader Andy Yates reports that they are also accessible from Xiamen.)

This follows the unblocking of Google.com that occured about two months back.

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She lives!

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To ensure that FuRong doesn’t disappear from the public consciousness, we have her latest offering (and yes, we kind of caught it late):

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Bid, on eBay, for dinner with FuRong. She prefers a guy 8 years her junior, more than 180cm tall, with pale skin and a nice butt. (I did not make any of that up.)

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HK’s Civilian Youtube Journalists

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ESWN tells of a forum post about an alleged assault at the HK ComicCon involving the Cosplay winner’s friend and the runner-up’s boyfriend. At least two people began shooting videos just after the event conspired, and posted the results onto Youtube.

While Roland suggests this “is a demonstration of how YouTube works”, I would like to add that this event is similar to…

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城市吧 CityBar

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城市吧 CityBar looks like a cool Web2.0 map hack that uses photographs to show what the street would look like if you stood there, facing that direction. Unfortunately, I haven’t got the site to load properly and so I couldn’t test it out myself.

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Microsoft in Asia: we’re watching and learning

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My friends and superiors here at Microsoft Beijing have blogged about some of their work:

In a post entitled “Pirated XBox 360 Games in China – we’re watching and learning”:

“Pirated content is readily available and we track both prices and duplication quality of certain titles. When new modchips come out we ask the modders how they get around copy protection…

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