Featured Artist: 彭斌
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Category: Virtual China
CSDN Live: programmer TV
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PostShow points us over to CSDN Live’s video section: a programmer’s online television channel. (I assume CSDN stands for Computer Science Developer’s Network and is probably a wordplay on MSDN, the Microsoft Developer Network.)
TinyFool gives it a thumbs up. The current first episode is entitled “Programmers Who Blog” and the next episode is…
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BBS today: irresistible Chinese army recruiting posters
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A NetEase BBS forum thread called “super-pretty PLA recruiting ads” opens up the discussion with the question:
“If you were a hotblooded young man, how could you not support this?”
Selected comments (most are along the lines of “great photos!”):
I’d like to join but I’m too old.
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The Most Famous Pervert In China
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EastSouthWestNorth points us to their translation of a BBS post that created the most famous pervert (translated from 变态) on the Internet (according to Tianya Post). The post speaks of:
- A man taking care of his recently unemployed wife.
- The unemployed wife playing WoW in her newly found…
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China*’s Answer to the Hundred Dollar Laptop?
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Municator by YellowSheepRiver:
- 149USD
- 400/800MHz Godson 2C processor**
- ATI Radeon 7000
- 40GB harddrive
- 256 RAM
- USB & LAN support
- Linux
* The product is from Macau.
** China’s own microprocessor
Via PostShow.
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start here: Chinese Internet market 101
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Electric Power Engineers Unite
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ElectricPower.cn (电力世界网) is a community website about electric power – in the sense that it features commercial products from different vendors (product specifications, prices, websites), a wiki about electric power, and reviews about components.
In short, a goldmine for electric power engineers who are not networked to a greater company / pool of resources yet. (To my knowledge,…
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Baidu’s alternative Wikipedia
Posted on by Lyn Jeffery
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia (百度百科), according to China Web2.0 Review . As of 7:30 today it had 2768 articles written; at 7:51 it had 2909…you can see the articles piling up before your eyes. The intro says:
Baidu is…
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PBS on China; and, see your English language website in Chinese
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A bit of fun
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