Check out the very cool VisionUnion.com site, which on its English page describes itself this way:

With rapid updated information, the content of VisionUnion covers the
complete designing industry. We have 12 columns — News and
Information, Plane Designing, Industrial Designing, Multimedia
Designing, CG animation, Architecture and Environment, School Union,
Members’ Works, Union Arena,…

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Chinese Engadget has a tutorial on how to make a PC-in-a-mooncake-box.

Link to post on Engadget. Via PostShow.

If you think watching advertisements on purpose is fun, you’ll want to check out the selections at iAdChoice where they rate and recommend Chinese video clip ads, interactive websites, animated ads, rich media ads, and more.  You can also search by industry rather than format, as in transportation or…

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Belinker is like Dodgeball, but for China: via SMS, it alerts your nearby (within 1500m) friends as to your whereabouts, and you be will alerted to crushes (or in Chinese, 梦中情人) nearby.

You have to sign up on the internet first and there’s a fee if you send more than 50 “belinkers” a month.

Its currently…

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跑跑卡丁车 (“Kart Rider”, or “Crazy Racing”) is one of the most popular online games in China. It’s basically a variant on the Mario Kart formula, and comes from South Korea.

Here’s a Flash version of the game, which is sadly stripped down, but still fun as a casual game:

At Icebin’s blog, via PostShow…

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TTBUG涕涕虫网站 (“Booger Bug Site”) is an online hub for the Booger Bug character.

First, it features a bunch of high-quality Flash shorts, funny and with a great Looney Tunes-style soundtrack.  All shorts do not feature dialog, and I think it’s because they want to reach out to an international audience. I mean, they have an English website.

I…

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Molive/Moobol brings us a series of photos of this street artist, from an unknown Chinese city, who sticks metal wires into various parts of his body with not a drop of blood.  Link.

The Wall Street Journal wrote last February (note: subscription only) about tuangou 团购 (literally, team buying) websites, where as in MeetUp.com, strangers arrange to organize themselves around a common interest.  But for tuangou, it’s all about shopping, aggregating enough people to be able to get a discount or better terms on everything from cars to home remodelling materials to…

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Thanks to Rania Ho at DancingToasters for scanning in these gorgeous maps of Beijing’s over-, under-, and around-passes.  As she writes on her blog, “it’s as if the civil engineer had “heard” there were such things as
cloverleaf interchanges in the world and then reversed engineered it in
the form of a chinese knot.” If you like maps,…

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Citizen journalist site Molive/Moobol 直播客 has a special section called “Chinese City Management in the Eyes of Netizens,” which collects both positive and negative on-the-scene photos of policemen such as “Beijing City Official Steals Money from Beggar” and the follow-up story from the New Capital Daily in which both the policeman and the old…

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