Check out Baidu Zhidao/Baidu Knows Knowledge’s 2006 top ten questions list.  They’ve divided it into four different kinds of questions and provided access to the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers.  If you care to browse in Chinese, all the answers are rated by readers and commented upon.  Here is a very rough translation of the top…

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Big news from the Chinese hardware developer community: the release of several hundred Loongson boxes, Fulong mini-PCs produced by the Chinese company Lemote Technology Corporation, which are powered by the Chinese-developed Loongson 2E processor.  The Loongson boxes are now in the hands of several hundred die-hard programmers in Guiyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, and other big cities, according to an article…

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Wikipedia introduces, “Huang Shan (黄山; literally Yellow Mountain) is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area is very famous for its scenic beauty…”

First up, on the outskirts of the 古村 （Old/Ancient Village)，宏村 (HongCun)：

Inside: computers and desks and kids. The usual.

Next…

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I’ve been trying to follow the development of China’s IPv6 network, dubbed China Next Generation Internet (CNGI).  Background can be found in this earlier post.  Basically, the CNGI is a bold 5 year plan by Chinese leaders (specifically, the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC)) to leapfrog Chinese researchers, businesses, and technologies ahead of current Internet standards and infrastructure by 2009. …

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I found this via an attribution on Fons’ China Herald, and it looks like it will be worth visiting every now and then, especially if more people start contributing (that’s always the issue with these web 2.0 things, isn’t it?): Chinamemes describes itself as “a web 2.0 social news site with a focus on Chinese Internet and Technology companies.” It…

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Tencent, QQ.com’s parent company, is being sued by an angry user for impersonating a friend and getting him to link through to a contest site.  Damages sought: 40,000 Q coins, and 445 5-digit QQ numbers (see previous post on the value of QQ numbers).  Is this the first time that a court of law has been asked to award…

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Named “Sonny”, from ZheJiang University. Winner of the red dot design award in Life Sciences.

Squishing toy injection mechanism + give the kid the toy after the shot.

Will the kids be more amenable to injections with the cute packaging? (Is this another example of glossy design without meaning?)

Via Core77 via coolest…

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Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan has caused a minor communication breakdown in Asia. BBC reports that Taiwan, South Korea, China and Japan are affected (and I would like to add Hong Kong).
Local websites are wholly accessible, as are certain big websites (BBC, Google) but not the majority of the web.

Reporting from the field, Jason Li, “This sucks. But the Facebook…

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We’ll be taking the next few days off to celebrate the holiday season.

In the meantime, here a few tidbits from Christmas in Virtual China:

• “The Christmas Flavor” Increasingly Intense; Should We Refuse Christmas?“. Chinaren.com article with comments, discussing the foreignness of Christmas and what it means that it’s all over the streets of…

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Via Drawn!