Shirts for Sale!

June 29, 2006 by Jason Li

We’ve blogged about this set of designs before, but who knew they were going to make them into shirts?

For purchase details (168RMB), see Choc_Orange’s webpage.

Draft law to further push breaking news onto the net

June 27, 2006 by Jason Li

ESWN tells of a draft law that “will make it a punishable offense (50,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan in fines) for the media to publish independent reports on suddenly breaking incidents.”

Lyn has blogged about the special role of the internet, specifically the BBSs, for breaking news. If passed, will this new law further push breaking news onto…

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Featured Art: explosives create art!

June 25, 2006 by Jason Li

From the 佐佐佑 Donews blog, art created by explosives:

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The comment underneath (by Fwolf) states, “Rich, really rich.”

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520 Netbar, Beijing

June 24, 2006 by Jason Li

Reporting from an up-scale netbar (520数码天地) in Chaoyang, Beijing.

Here, seats are grouped into single-computer cocoons & round-table group-play canopies on top of the usual cluster-rows. The Saturday-afternoon clientele includes expatriate youth.

Below are the top 10 shows watched, all free once you pay the hourly computer usage fee:

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They are, in order:

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Photo Report of NetBars in ZhengZhou

June 22, 2006 by Jason Li

Reporting from Zheng Zhou (a fast-growing second-tier city and the capital of the Henan province).

The entrance of one (seemingly disguised as semi-studious?):

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The inside of another, filled with the usual crop of teenagers using IM, watching soaps, playing online games, and surfing the web:

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And inside the same NetBar, posters of some…

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Featured Artist: Li Wei

June 16, 2006 by Jason Li

A blend of performance art and clever photography: Li Wei Art.

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Tag Friends!

June 15, 2006 by Jason Li

Tag Friends is a free service that provides Flash applets for websites that allow visitors to own avatars. These avatars interact with other visitors’ avatars within in the wider Tag Friends world (or window).

Here’s ours:

Site/service given in Japanese (original), English and Simplified Chinese.

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Jackie Chan blogs!

June 15, 2006 by Jason Li

Jackie Chan. Blogs. At Sina.

Is he really blogging? Or does he have a ghostwriter?

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Mission Impossible helps sell “documents”

June 14, 2006 by Jason Li

ESWN reports: A screen capture of the new Mission Impossible 3 movie has been floating around on the BBS’s recently. On it is what some call “history’s most awesome small advertisement” – a telephone number for getting “documents.” Author of ESWN, Roland Soong, decides to call up the number and ask for fake ID documents in order to…

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