7 days ago
nelson : Olympic ages caches - Someone goes delving in Baidu's cache of Chinese government websites, confirms the gymnasts are 14
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14 days ago
deusx : Olympic girl seen but not heard - CNN.com - "Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all. ... Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-y
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15 days ago
nelson : Olympic song fake - 7 year old girl chosen to be pretty, lip syncs other 7 year old girl's singing
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nelson : Empty Olympics seats - It does seem odd how few people are actually watching the sport
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16 days ago
philgyford : Summary of China Rights Developments | Human Rights Watch - Just in case you're enjoying the Olympics so much you've forgotten all this stuff.
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20 days ago
Linkorama : Voices of the Olympic Games - Athletes allowed to blog. I'm waiting for something political to happen
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24 days ago
Linkorama : An Interactive Map of Beijing - fascinating political architecture in the creation of new monuments
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gleuschk : Barack Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US - Times Online - slightly sensationalist headline, but another example of UK news covering stories I haven't heard of at all in the US
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2 month ago
gleuschk : in action: a skyscraper's amazing 728-ton stabilising ball | deputydog - zowie
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nelson : Chinese popcorn - Explosive; sounds like it all pops at once
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3 month ago
nelson : Wedding earthquake - Photographer at a Sichuan wedding gets amazing photos during earthquake
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6 month ago
nelson : Golden shield project - How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially
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7 month ago
deusx : Old School BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon - One man's "old school BBS" is another man's new-school fancy web thing. Mine made screaming noises on the telephone.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Extraordinary pixel-art map of Hong Kong that you can browse and explore just like Google/Yahoo Maps... - It's really beautiful. I've spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
nelson : Hong Kong, pixelart - Amazing map
Andy Baio : Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong - insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level [via]
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced - The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced: heh... that's just funny
nelson : China sub showoff - They snuck a submarine up to a massive aircraft carrier and then showed themselves
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10 month ago
nelson : China subverts DNS - Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu
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11 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How Beijing Olympic Got Its Logo - How Beijing Olympic Got Its Logo: heh
nelson : Beijing Olympics logo - I can't decide if this is funny, or offensive, or both
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14 month ago
43folders : Geekologie - Greatest USB Drive Ever - Oh, China.
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15 month ago
nelson : Gold farms - Dibbell's stuff published on Chinese game grinding as a long NYT article.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Run for China - Please consider sponsoring me for Grandma's Marathon and my Run for Chinese Education. Not only will I be putting the proverbial feet to the pavement ... for 26.2 miles, but I am also contributing $600 of my own money.
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Liberating Wikipedia in China (almost) - "Marxism-Leninism fails to compete in a knowledge economy, where markets are conversations," he says. "When the world's greatest source of free knowledge cannot be accessed, the long-term impact must be considerable."
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22 month ago
cameron : Chinese Ministry of Information is planning blog-related research - In the mix is a system to track authors
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