a shameful waste of madhouse time

Chinaelections.org has an interesting essay on the rules pertaining to public assembly and protest in the PRC. This was written before the Games, and in light of all that (didn’t happen) during the Games, the information here might be worth reviewing to get a better legal and historical context for why commies love repression.
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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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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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上海世博会门票9月28日首发 价格拟160元_社会频道_新华网 via kwout

What is more interesting to me is this weird picture from the Xinhua article where I got this information. Maybe this design image has appeared somewhere else on the internet before, but this is the first time that I’ve seen anything like it, though, like with the Olympics, the Expo is one [...]

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BBC 中文网 | 中国报道 | 奥运外围：当“和谐”被重复千遍 via kwout

BBC Chinese journalist Meng Ke tells it like it is in the above article. He roasts some of the sacred cows of Olympics propaganda, like the “100 years dream of the Chinese people” (he says: did Chinese people really care about having the Olympics way back in 1908?）as [...]

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