a shameful waste of madhouse time

I was watching the Australia-China women’s basketball last night and listening to the commentary, I finally snapped: I’ve just become to sick of hearing them say the same things over and over. Most of the time it’s stuff along the lines of:
我们在跟世界一流的队的对抗中可以发现自己的不足。
我们跟世界一流的篮球对还是有一定的差距。
亚洲人不能光靠速度取胜，外国队也很灵活的。
经过跟世界一流的队的对抗我们可以不断提升我们各方面的素质、水平。
yadda yadda yadda. It’s like they barely talk about the game. They don’t try [...]

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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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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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Lenovo’s Olympic ads - BusinessWeek
I think they use completely different ads here in China. The sumo wrestler/Xpad 300 ad is this one:

Here’s even more bleeding edge avant-garde one for the Z60:

And here’s a Chinese one featuring Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi from way back when:

This Xpad 300 one is rather tepid by comparison:
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奥运首席医疗官:刘翔伤愈需1年 复发率几乎100%_网易奥运 via kwout

Chen Shiyi, Head of Huashan hospital division of sports medicine, says that Liu Xiang’s injury has been on-going and is quite serious. The interview with the coaches right after Liu Xiang dropped out hinted at what was wrong with him, how his bone structure etc. led to these particularly thorny achilles tendon [...]

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Netease has a bunch of spoof movie posters featuring Chinese Olympic athletes. You can vote for the ones that you like. Here are some of the ones that I liked or thought were nominally interesting, featuring Yao Ming, Liu Xiang and the usual suspects:

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伊拉克女队员穿二手跑鞋参加奥运(图)_网易奥运 via kwout

Pictures of the old shoes and T-shirts that the Iraqi team are using have been circulating around the internet. Here are some supposed pictures of the pair of shoes that Dana Hussein is going to use. Chinese netizens were also moved by the Iraqi rowers that are using second-hand shirts and equipment from [...]

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网友制作奥运大片讽刺国奥：臭脚总动员(图)_网易奥运 via kwout

Not surprising, really. The e’gao crowd has made a bunch of take the piss mock movie posters featuring various players from team China.

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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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