1 month ago
Linkorama : The Great Crash of China - A combination of capital misallocation, non-performing loans, an over-rapid forced transition to high value-added manufacturing, a post Olympics malaise, a collapse in the domestic stock market, and a recession in its main export markets mean that China i
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3 month 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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4 month 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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4 month 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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4 month 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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4 month ago
Linkorama : Voices of the Olympic Games - Athletes allowed to blog. I'm waiting for something political to happen
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4 month 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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5 month ago
Richard Rutter : 32 Grid and Column Designs - Some good stuff in here; not just the usual suspects.
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5 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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7 month ago
nelson : Wedding earthquake - Photographer at a Sichuan wedding gets amazing photos during earthquake
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7 month ago
bmilleare : PHP Firewall Script - Interesting but I think I'll stick with mod_security
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9 month ago
nelson : Golden shield project - How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially
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11 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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12 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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13 month ago
Linkorama : The Enterprise Outlook is Cloudy - Ultimately, information and capabilities will exist in the cloud, and most likely there will be more in the cloud than behind the firewall.
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13 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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14 month ago
nelson : China subverts DNS - Rumours that all search engine DNS requests now end at Baidu
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14 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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