PandaPassport.com – China Blog

For anyone living in China, Skype can be a pretty sweet deal.

I use skype-out to call home, and it’s pretty cheap. I used to use IP cards for long distance cards, but this is far better. Ideally, if you can convince your family to use a skype account on the other end – then of course your calls are free.

You can support my site by signing up through the following links, if you’re interested:

• Buy Skype-Out Credit
• Get Skype-to-Skype on your Mobile
• Buy Skype Hardware

I received the following promo in my inbox from them just now, and I thought I’d post it as it may be of some interest to some people:

In addition to the more controversial Olympic cartoons I posted before, here’s a new one that all you Nintendo lovers will get a kick out of:

From Penny Arcade

Cheers to Justin for sending me this one.

This is re-tah-ded. Dancing communists, set to RUN-DMC.

At 2:28 pm a nation-wide 3 mins of silence was observed, for those who died in the recent Sichuan Earthquake.

If the rest of the country was anything like Dalian, this is what it sounded like:

MP3 File

Noisy. But very touching when you hear a country express its emotion in unison.

Interesting development in Olympic news these days. Word on the street is that Chinese diving star, Guo Jingjing is pregnant:

***Update: Turns out it’s just a rumor****

China Sports Today: During recent routine physical examinations of China’s national swimming and diving team, Guo Jingjing was discovered to be pregnant. After consecutive nights of emergency meetings by relevant officials it was decided that the individual is most important and the athlete’s personal choice would be respected; it was agreed that Guo Jingjing would leave the team.

It will be interesting to see if there’s any backlash from this, as there are no shortage of Guo Jingjing haters out there already. Looks like someone has already found the time to whip up an oil painting of her with a bun in the proverbial oven:

source : Caption reads: ??????!???? or “Guo Jingjing is pregnant! Who dunnit?

She’s not going to be leaving no small splash diving in like that! (kidding… Congrats Diver lady.)

Personally, I’ve always been a huge fan of her eyebrows.
Seriously. Nice eyebrows…

I’ve been toying with Seesmic for a few months now. Very surprised to see Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, and more of the Indiana Jones 4 Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull cast making an appearance on there today (from Cannes, I believe).

I thought I’d yank some of the videos from the public timeline, and stick ‘em here in case anyone wants to see (Kieswetter, that means you…)

Enjoy!

(Note: Lucas’ video not up yet, but I’ll post it if I can catch it.)

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I think this was a good while back, but amusing nonetheless.
Dude is as exciting as cardboard.