A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Talk about a different perspective, a different time, a different world. The way history shows up in virtual Chinese conversations is something to watch.
Here you see Nixon sitting next to Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who
was later to be put in prison for life for her role in the Cultural
Revolution.…
Continue readingToday’s BBS photos: remembering Nixon in China
Imagine you and 500 members of your alliance have just spent 4 and a half hours organizing yourselves, going on the long journey to the Gate of Ahn’Qiraj in World of Warcraft (WoW), and undertaking a quest. Just before you kill the final boss and get the loot, you’re all disconnected from the server.
Frustrated? If you’re Chinese, you send…
Continue readingAlmost storming ‘The Gate of Ahn’Qiraj’
Sister Furong (芙蓉姐姐) tops the list of one Chinese internet user’s “Most Disgusting Chinese Women of 2005.” A list we might not pay much attention to if it weren’t for the way that Internet stardom has shaped it. In addition to Sister Furong–for whom a Baidu search reveals 3.8 million results–“Hooligan Swallow” is another Internet star, who comes…
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Everything under the sun is happening in China.
“Open up your perspective: the best of Chinese farmers’ wisdom” (my loose translation) shows us some of the DIY projects taken on by those deemed “farmers” (农民) in the current Chinese social system. The car drives on land and in water; the submarine is one of a…
Continue readingwhat’s on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers
If you’ve been following the anti-Japanese sentiments in China about how Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li should not have played at being Japanese geishas in Memoirs of a Geisha, then you have got to see one of the funniest pieces ever from the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, an…
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Ziboy has been one of my favorite photobloggers since he started in 2001. If you want to see what Beijing really looks like, he can take you there.
His “friends” roll is another kind of window, into the Chinese online animation and blogging community.
New Chinese dating website: LoveTown.cn.
Notice that they have two white people making out on the front page:
It’s interesting to compare the profile pics here with, say, ones in Friendster.
Source: PostShow
The geeks have invaded Redmond! CNET (US/CN) reports that Microsoft research has “developed a prototype e-mail program in which cubicle dwellers can wade through e-mail and delete messages using their feet.”
In case you haven’t seen it before, this is a DDR pad in action:
What’s interesting is that of…
Continue readingMicrosoft Research: DDR + Email
