A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
As Linghucong’s blog states, Netease news is becoming coming into its own with increasing amount of feature articles that possess a well-informed, sharp, satirical edge. For example, check out their latest feature: 2046中国包揽诺贝尔奖 (2046 China Nets All Nobel Prizes).
Here’s an excerpt:
Caption reads, “Remember her, China’s first female Nobel Prize…
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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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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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The headline from Linghuchang’s* Linghucong’s blog reads “PC2N: China’s WebOS.” This is followed by a screencap of it in action:
Look familiar? According to the PC2N website, it “has a Windows-like environment, click here to try.” The service also boasts 2GB of storage, and the GUI itself looks…
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China joins the hand helds market, with the Ez Mini:
Specs include:
Games include:
Via Engadget(Chinese) via PostShow.
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Presenting the latest social networking site: 出气筒, the Venting Bin!
Share your misery, frustration and pain, and make friends doing so! Also great is the set of Flash games they have down of side, two of which involve naming a puppet and beating the hell out of it:
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Cao Fei (blogged about here) explores the interplay between cosplay and the real world in a set of clever photographs. For example:
Which alludes to the manga/anime Saint Seiya:
The set of photographs can be found here. (Sidenote: they use Macs!?)
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Continue readingPlay on Cosplay