a shameful waste of madhouse time

@msittig In Taiwanese mandarin you hear the “shui” pronunciation more often #
@terencelau no i think its slow sometimes…i am on it right now, for instance #
@terencelau ok its really really really slow #
Gumm.org the proxy site that i was using is no longer accessible #
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Business of Olympic tickets booming for touts via kwout

Apparently, foreigners are getting into the scalping biz too…what is interesting is that the article says a bunch of Chinese ones were arrested in front of their western counterparts.
That I wish I had been able to see!

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Bored out of my mind on a day of perfect weather and Olympic sport in Beijing, I decided to find a good Kermit the Frog toy on Taobao.com. Using an English search there were but two results and one of them was indeed a Kermit toy but from a store/seller that had this design for [...]

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Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in some kind of leadership position. He spent four months as in the Party School, attending [...]

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