Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ...
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Blogs I have no idea why I don't own any Haier products. We see it everywhere around us--on billboards, in shops, etcetera. It is one of the best-known Chinese brands in the ...
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Blogs Remember Milli Vanilli, a pop group who popularized songs like Blame it on the Rain, Girl you know its True, All or Nothing, and a lot more? These songs catapulted them ...
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Blogs As I wrote on my blog, me and my brother just went to Beijing for a couple of days, mostly so he could check out the Great Wall. My impressions of ...
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Blogs Cheers to ChinaSmack, a very cool new blog that I just stumbled on, for this World of Warcraft rendition of the Olympic tune Beijing Welcomes You. It's somewhat less awful if ...
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Crave The Speedo LZR Racer suit literally made a splash at the Beijing Olympics last year with 23 world records broken by athletes who had donned the full body swimsuit. While ...
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Blogs Google recently released their top searches for 2008 called Google Zeitgeist (the spirit of the times). Of course, the list consists of search patterns, trends, and surprises based on the searches ...
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Blogs Mark Twain said that, though I don't think he'd ever been to China. Although if he were around today, he'd probably have noticed familiar patterns of scandal-denial-apologize in the Chinese media. ...
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Crave There's an interesting article over at Slate titled "The problem with 3D." I'd encourage you to read the whole thing, but the subtitle pretty much sums it up: "It hurts your ...
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Blogs This just came in my inbox and I could hardly believe my eyes. Yes! Nintendo Wii will be featured in the Beijing Olympics 2008! But I can't read Japanese :( Couldn't ...
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Blogs NBC has released this wacky promo mashup of the Beijing Olympics with... get this... The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Given that the tagline for the movie is "A ...
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Crave Score gold for Nintendo who's found a spokesperson in Japanese Olympic swimmer Kosuke Kitajima. The gold medallist who truimphed in the men's 100m breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics apparently credits Mario ...
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Crave Radio-frequency identification technology or RFID will be facing it first major test during the Beijing Olympics, taking care of ticketing for the estimated 3 million athletes, journalists and spectators. Despite the ...
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Crave The upcoming 11th Olympics is setting a new milestone in being the first in its long history to receive a complete high-definition makeover. NBC Universal which is undertaking this HD initiative ...
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Crave While digital video recorders are regular entries from Panasonic's extensive home consumer lineup, its DMR-XW320 and XW120 are the company's latest DVD offerings with HD recording capability. Using the latest MPEG-4 ...
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