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《猪都笑了》, “Even Pigs Laugh”, is a Flash MTV that at first pokes light fun at the peoples of various Chinese provinces. For example:
“Beijing people say they have a lot of sand & dust, the Mongol people laugh at them.”
“Hong Kong people say they have many wives, the Taiwan people laugh at them.”
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EastSouthWestNorth reports on the publication of How Can I Not Slaughter You (叫我如何不宰你), a book about Shenzhen tour guides “slaughtering” tourists:
“This is an example of a business model in the Internet age. First, one develops a concept for a book. Under normal circumstances, it would be hard to find a publisher for a controversial proposal…
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Teenager drops out of high school. He pursues writing. He enters Sina’s online writing competition. He wins. He receives high praise from the judges. He is to be published by Zhaohua Publishing House.
Is this a one off phenomenon, or is the internet providing alternate gateways for expression (for those who don’t follow the traditional path of school)?
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网易社区, Netease’s online social space, located at club.163.com has been hacked! See:
The question (floating around the Chinese web) is, what did they do to provoke this, and who did they do it to?
Via PostShow.
Samsung Motorola has recently put forth a patent for the Feng Shui Phone, which, according to Unwired View, does the following (and I quote):
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The original internet spoof of the grandiose Chinese movie, the Promise (blogged previously), called 《一个馒头引发的血案》 (The Murder Caused by a Bun) has inspired multiple sequels in the past few months.
The first is called 《一个馒头引发的麻烦》 (The Troubles Caused by a Bun) and uses film clips from movies with the Hong Kong star Stephen Chow:
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Continue readingThe Bun Murders Sequel (馒头 Strikes Back!)
We’ve recently been receiving a few blog comments that are spam messages from WoW gold farms. Such as this and this. (Funnily enough, neither of these are attached to a post related to WoW.) They are in English and one’s URL even has “US” in its title. But they are actually Chinese; the…
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