A hilarious clip from the Onion. The internet has crashed.
Don’t forget to read the ticker.
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via: lifehacker
July 23, 2007
In 2007 the Internet Crash Happens
July 20, 2007
Hosting Blog on Own Domain is Now Illegal
The Ya,I Yee blog has posted a hilarious though slightly sad conversation between a Chinese blogger and a staff member of the Shanghai Communication Administration.
The Chinese blogger has his blog on its own domain on a Shanghai server and the latest campaign is to close these down as apparently a blog is considered the same as a BBS/forum and chat website which have to comply with specific regulations and need approval before opening up.
A quote: (more…)
July 19, 2007
163 Million INternet Users and Counting
China has now 162 million internet users according to the CNNIC. A big jump form the previous 137 million at the end of 2007.
I wrote a short article including charts comparing the end of 2006 with the stats from June 2007.
July 12, 2007
Recipe for Cartonboard Baozi
Products from China are lately in the limelight. Toothpaste that kills, food for kittens that kills, fake water in the water coolers in Beijing and now steamed pork buns (baozi) made from cardboard have popped up.
A bakery in Beijing sold pork buns that were made of 60% cardboard and 40% pork. Customers don’t taste the difference the owner told an uncover journalist. He added though he didn’t eat themselves. Well, I can imagine that:)
Here’s their secret recipe:
Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda — a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap — then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.
Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on-screen.
Bon appetit
Food and water, both rather important to survive. But where to buy….
Source: Newsvine
July 4, 2007
I’ll change my name to VAN
Over the last weeks I got several calls from so called Western managed and quality services like my hospital and my dentist. The conversation invariably started with, “Am I speaking to mister “Van”. (Mister “From”, a common part of a Dutch surname)
Before the The Dell china customer rep was convinced I was called mr. Van as well.
As apparently these Western managed and mostly overpriced services don’t bother to train their staff how foreign names work, I have decided I’ll change my name to mister Van.
Let’s see how that works out in their administration.