a shameful waste of madhouse time

Man, I’d hate to see what I would get fined if they … Poor Ren Chaoqi, you really have to feel for this guy — he got his fifteen minutes of fame for being fined 1900 RMB for having some dirty videos on his computer. The story goes that the police were checking up on [...]

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During the Olympics I got to visit the new and only Apple Store in China, a true temple of Apple dedicated to the pantheon of Cupertino immortals. The only thing that sucked about it is that I already have a fancy Macbook and can’t afford to get anything else. On the second floor there is [...]

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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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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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OK, so internet addiction is old hat but I am continually amazed by the stuff that people will do just to get their fix. There are other, perhaps extenuating circumstances: broken homes, parental neglect, problems at school—but some young people in China are really falling through the cracks. Read an article about how an [...]

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Just something I saw in China CSR.com…this thing was on the way from Oakland to China. I guess there are some loopholes in Hong Kong law that allow e-waste to get through, even though it’s technically illegal. Technorati Tags: china, greenpeace, hong kong, oakland, US, e-waste, waste, environment, computers, electronics

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A new, very heads-on MacBook Air rebuttal type ad from Lenovo. The ThinkPad X300 seems like a decent computer, solid state drive and all � but it just costs a lot more, even though we know that if the Macbook were to be fitted with a similar solid state drive the price would end up [...]

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