Stripper-Blogger Bids Farewell
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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.
Top 10 Junk Foods of the 70s and 80s
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Includes food items such as 老鼠屎 (rat poop, not literally) and 棉花糖 (cotton candy). Site here.
Link courtesy of PostShow. (Thank you Mr. Pescovitz for spotting the missing link!)
Virtual World Steps into Real World
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QQ is starting to offer their own brand of instant noodles at net cafes. (The American equivalent would be AOL Instant Messenger branded instant pizza.)
Baidu Government Search
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Baidu opens a section of its website that searches within only Chinese government websites (e.g. websites suffixed with .gov.cn, the CCTV site).
Source: PostShow
Featured Designer: Studio Pasu
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TVMAO.COM
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Before any of you get excited, the reference to “mao” is a transcription of the word for cat:
TVMAO is a website that has plot summaries for more than 50,000 shows on more than 300 channels in China. Some sociologist could probably mine it for some funny data, but what I’m concerned about is: why Garfield!?…
A Cultural Mistranslation
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PostShow links to a blog entry over at fjliang’s blog entitled “Employee bloggers beware: blog monitoring services are here.”
After a bit of text, they sarcastically hail the blog monitoring service:
Sam Flemming’s blog itself speaks of the Shanghai Daily’s (and others) emphasis on his…
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Google’s Sinofication
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Chinese holidays presented with the appropriate Chinese calender dates and astrological signs.
Source: PostShow
Strange etymology
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Cao Fei exhibition in NYC
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Cao Fei, a Guangzhou-based artists, has exhibition in NYC running from now till April 8.
Link via Alternative Archive.