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A dog control unit in Wuxi China strutted their stuff today in their new dog-fighting duds. Check ‘em out. Pretty spiffy huh?
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Considering the equipment that we’ve seen dog control units use in the past, I’d say that this is a considerable upgrade:

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This is pretty clever, don’t you think?

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These guys may want to fire their graphic designer.

P.S. I can imagine how much porn traffic “brazilian” and “anal” will generate after this… Read the rest of this entry »

Having come across “7 Super-Sized (And Somewhat Insane) Soviet Projects” on Digg the other day, I started to wondering about all the Chinese Architectural monstrosities there are out there these days. Great Wall excluded of course…

Are these, like the Soviet projects, a public flexing o’ the muscles aimed at showing off to the West? Who knows…
But damned if they ain’t wacky, thas fo’ sure!

1. Shanghai World Financial Center

a.k.a. “The Bottle Opener.” This one was definitely poorly conceived:

The architects, Kohn Pedersen fox, intended to reflect the Chinese cosmic model of ’square fearth and round heaven,’ with the tower’s square column intersected by two sweeping arcs, resulting in a slender crown punctuated by a large circle….The Shanghainesee, knowing that japanese money was behind the project, decided to see this figurative motif as two Japanese army swords holding a Japanese flag over Shanghai – a regrettable metaphor in light of 20th century history – and the construction was halted. The architect’s response to this public rage was, once again, figurative; the circle is now intersected by a bridge, and is transformed into a Chinese ‘moon gate.’” Source

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Boy oh boy oh boy…

There’s a video on youtube right now, and it’s pretty nuts.

Lets just say there’s a guy milkin’ the cow in the middle of the street, and right in front of an Olympic Banner no less.

And what makes it doubly unusual: Notice the “Wenming” characters on the far right, which means “civilized.” It’s encouraging an overall improvement in civilized behavior in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I think this guy must have missed them, as he’s standing right in front of the “Olympics” characters, giving a truly Olympic effort.

Click here to go see the video for yourself. Given this website’s high moral standards, this is one video I refuse to put on my site.
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Would it be cruel to dye my dog’s hair?

Because I think Pepe would look totally super awesome with a do like this.

He’d make an excellent PandaPassport mascot, methinks.

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File under WTF.

Here are a few interesting pics showing how the Google brand name is picking up steam in China. I’m not sure if this is what google had hoped for… But hey, better than no publicity right?

Google Fast Food Restaurant:

Google Clothing Store:

And just to show that this type of brand-borrowing is not just taking advantage of big corporations outside of China, here’s a little shop borrowing from domestic China search giant Baidu.com: Read the rest of this entry »