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September 2006

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 30, 2006 No Comment

I came across an article saying that 40% of China’s population can’t speak Mandarin. That’s a staggering statistic. According to the article, it’s mostly people in the rural areas, “the illiterate”, who can’t speak it. The article states that there are about 80 languages spoken in China, which is good news for [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 26, 2006 No Comment

The next time you go to a Chinatown looking for a cheap knock-off version of a Louis Vuitton or a Gucci bag, you may not have a great selection. Police in Milan, Italy, just confiscated over 650,000 fake versions of those companies’ bags in a huge raid. Sorry, incredibly-vain-and-insecure-people-who-feel-like-they-have-to-have-the-most-expensive-looking-stuff-to-have-self-esteem, you may have to [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 25, 2006 No Comment

Since most of my readers (all 2 of you) know nothing about how the internet works, I’ll leave a lot of the technical details behind the article in this post.  Trust me, they would bore you (and me) stiff. 

Basically, the internet has been running out of IP addresses (every website has an address) because of the [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 23, 2006 No Comment

Okay, this has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen.  Some guy in Hawaii (probably a major Anime freak with a serious Asian fetish) is selling “Busty Mousepads”.  Sure, it’s kind of a funny idea in a “let’s have this major dork of a character in this movie that owns one of [...]

Written By: 孙智谦 on September 20, 2006 No Comment

News Corp (owners of MySpace.com) want to move into the Chinese market, but they may have a long road ahead of them. The Chinese government is pretty strict about digital media and foreign influence. So News Corp’s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has decided to send his wife, Wendy Deng, a native Chinese [...]

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