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I was just reading that youtube is blocked again in China. Someone on Shanghaiist pointed to a commenter on Danwei who pointed to recently posted videos of the US-China Navy confrontation on youtube. Here’s a playlist of those videos, for anyone who wants to check them out. If you’re in China, you can try this link.

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Yeah, you read that right. SARS Technica. For anyone not familiar with the well-known tech blog Ars Technica, the joke might very well be lost on you. But when I had to come up with a name for my new China Tech blog on inventorspot.com, SARS Technica seemed like a fun choice.

Plus I really liked the idea of making something original by adding a letter to an already famous brand. Where did I learn that, I wonder? Anyway, my latest post is “7 Amazing Chinese Farmers Inventions and Mods.” Do check it out, and let me know what you think. The RSS feed is for SARS Technica is here.

By the way, some of you may have noticed that I’ve closed the comments on this blog. I have too many blogs springing up these days, and I thought it would be wise if I had one less set of comments to moderate. But feel free to drop me a comment or two at my new online home 1rick.com/blog.

Speaking of Shanzhai (as I was yesterday), here’s a wacky Sony PSP mod that I came across on a Chinese website. Or maybe it’s just a skin… Well, to be honest, I don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure out what the hell this is.

Lets just call it the worst bloody PSP mod ever, and leave it at that.

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Thanks to peijinc on twitter (see his blog here) for pointing out this story. It seems that Shanzhai is spreading outside China’s borders these days. Some inventive car enthusiast has taken aspects of 4 different cars, and mashed them into 1 way awesomer super-car. Judging by the license plate in one of the photos, I can only guess that this was built in California. You but gotta admit that whoever built this has some Chinese/Shanzhai spirit in ‘em for sure.

Now lets have a look at where some of the inspiration came from. The smaller thumbnail photos are of the original car parts.

Hood: Ferrari Enzo

Headlights: Lamborghini Revention

Rear lights: Nissan Infiniti G35

Seats (Three of them!): McLaren F1

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Here’s an interesting video I just came across on youtube. It’s some dude in Hong Kong who has produced (with no insignificant effort) short videos of Cantonese language tips. He’s even got his own green screen and everything!

I feel like I should be making fun of him somehow… But it’s actually pretty good. Well done, PFM!