From Ape Rifle:
I guess that is one of the biggest downfalls of the transnational life: you meet amazing people, only to let them go as we all drift back to our respective countries or chosen corners of the world. This will be my fourth consecutive year of goodbyes, and I think that emotionally I’m getting rather tired of it. Could it be time to settle down somewhere for real? Do I need to stop being such a goddamned
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It was bound to happen. Baidu wants to be a major player and catch the world’s eye. It had its initial public offering (IPO) just last month. But when you play with the big kids, you have to play by their rules. And the big kids care about intellectual property rights. So now the world’s biggest music companies are suing Baidu.
Could this be the beginning of the end for Baidu MP3 Search?
Update: this is part one …
Exciting news! The Public Control Department of Shanghai Public Security Bureau has teamed up with the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of Shanghai Public Security Bureau to produce yet another free, attractive, and informative propaganda pamphlet entitled SAFE AND SOUND IS THE WORLD’S BEST WISHES!
Please don’t think this is an entry devoted to making fun of Chinglish. That joke is a little tired by now, and I think it’s sort of mean-spirited sometimes. Rather, I would like to share with …
OK, maybe this is really weird, but I really like the design of this medicine box. It just so happens to be antidiarrheal capsules of the traditional Chinese medicine variety.
If you guys are really good, I’ll even give you an update and let you know how well they work!
Update: They work great!
Related: More diarrhea on Sinosplice!…
I recently stumbled across African Hip Hop Radio. I’m certainly no authority on hip hop, but while I find the African hip hop interesting, I wouldn’t call it good. (Yet.)
It makes me wonder, though… how much of the interest generated in the African hip hop scene (both in Africa and around the world) is based on the racist assumption that if blacks in America (or elsewhere) can do it, so can blacks in Africa? Such an …
Alaric点了我，叫我回答以下几个问题：
【常常听或是有特別回忆的五首歌曲】(太多了！我随便说几首我很喜欢的歌…)
【五部最近看过的电影】（DVD也算吧？我很少去电影院。）
不记得了！最近太忙了，没怎么看电影。
【五件最近令自己愉快的事情】
【五件最近令自己郁闷的事】
【书籍篇】
Yesterday as I rode in a taxi through Xujiahui I was glad that I was not one of the many people trying in vain to hail a cab. It can be extremely hard to find a taxi when it rains. Sometimes it’s completely impossible.
A thought struck me, so I asked the driver:
Me: Master*, do you like rainy days better or non-rainy days better? On rainy days you get more business, right?
Driver: With traffic like this, the rain
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（这是Kastner让我做的！一般我不喜欢这样的游戏，但为了练练中文这次可以接受。）
游戏题目：《怪癖》
发一篇日志写下自己的5个怪癖（奇怪的嗜好、异于常人的习惯）。
游戏规则：
我的5个怪癖：
开始点名：Todd，Alaric，stickyrice（快把blog修好啊！），riverrich，witheredleaf。…
Check out my new refrigerator magnets!
Here are some pictures of actual Chinese food that the magnets resemble:
I got the magnets from a vendor set up right outside the Pizza Hut next to Zhongshan Park. He told me they were 2 RMB each. I knew full well they weren’t worth that, but sometimes you really don’t feel like haggling over a couple RMB. I offered him 5 RMB for all three, which he accepted immediately.…
John has lived in China for
11.8
years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and tech.
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Comment Submit Issues
I’ve been getting reports of difficulty submitting comments. I’ve been having them too, and in the WordPress interface as well. The commenting difficulties go something like this:
I’m not sure what’s causing this. It’s not a China issue, because it’s happening to …