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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-21

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

the english breakfast at the bookwork is pretty tasty #
sorry i mean the english breakfast at the bookworm in beijing #
@cmar55 you are more of a bobo than a hippie #
choosing my confessions…like a hurt lost and blinded fool #
finished reading Athol Fugard’s “Valley Song” #
@terencelau http://tinyurl.com/62otpx a post from my blog #
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Relax, there’s an army of cuties making your iPhone 3G as we speak…

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Saw this random post from netease:

揭秘3G iPhone生产线 现场美女照曝光_网易手机社区 via kwout

This is supposedly a picture of a girl working in one of the China factories that produces the iPhone 3G. She seems healthy and disciplined—perhaps she is an alum of the Foxconn ipod city and is grateful to have gotten the hell out of there and [...]

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Liu Xiang’s 100 million RMB insurance policy

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

According to an article on netease, Chinese insurance company Ping An of China offered Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang a 100 million RMB insurance policy on accidental injury to his body; now Chinese netizens are talking and voting on whether or not Liu Xiang ought to get his 100 million RMB check or not. The company [...]

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What is going to be said about the life and death of Hua Guofeng?

August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hua died on August 20, and as you can expect w/ someone of his particular stature and role in history, obituaries are going to be terse at best:
On Baidu news, the Olympics coverage dominated most of the top of the web page, and you had to scroll down slightly to get to a few sparse [...]

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