Here are some neato China Links for this week:
Michael Mouris is f*cking brilliant
He makes these really cool videos all by his lonesome. Two of which have a kinda-sorta-almost China theme:
The Crew at Chinesepod dish out 500 Lessons
For those of you who may have missed it, here is the 500 lesson torrent, available for download.
Where are my f*cking mushrooms?
Ok, so it’s not China related, but this is damn cool. Real-life Super Mario in Brooklyn. I wish I could go on an invincable blinky star rampage…
China’s Stolen Media of the Day:
KungPao: Enter the Fist
For those of you who might be bored on a Sunday… This one looks like it might be funny. I just watched some of the opening, and the kungfu baby scene is amuzing at least.
via youku.
Here is the latest installment of Weekly China Links:
Beijing Cabbies Wanted: Patti & Selma out of Luck
Accoding to Weird Asia News, spitting is not the only no-no that Beijing is trying to clean up before the Olympics. Smoking, big hair, and big earrings are also banned according to their new rules.
Video: Something is Rotten in Dandong
Well, near Dandong anyway. Just upriver from there, there’s a little known island where tensions between rural Chinese and North Korean soldiers are increasing. The apparent murder of a Chinese man is documented by a Japanese camera crew, and is available here with english subtitles.
Boingboing: Google partaking in Cultural Genocide?
Quote: When content filtering targets a race of people for purely political reasons, and an American company provides the technology to enable that filtering, then it’s time to shame the enablers. To date, Google has been criticized solely for providing China with the means to censor the Internet. read the whole article here on Boingboing.com
Are you a slow Chinese Learner?
Many foreigners often find it hard to grasp the Chinese language. Well, this might just be the excuse you’re looking for: Chinese Dyslexia. via Chinesepod Blog
China’s Stolen Media of the Day:
The Fifth Element
Because Luc Besson is cool, and Milla Jovavich is hot. What more excuse do you need?
I had planned to put up a few China-related links, but I’m going defer to something that actually matters for the time being. One of the strange things about being in China is that very often news doesn’t get to you as soon as it should. And on days like today, I hope that everyone that needs to be aware of the news, is made aware as soon as possible.
So just in case some of you here in China have not heard yet, there is some pretty tragic news coming out of Virginia.
Here are the links, so you can read for yourself:
33 dead in ‘horrific’ campus shooting in Virginia via CBC
Virginia Tech Shooting Survivor Describes Incident
Virginia Tech Shooting Sounds- Cell Phone Video
Officials: Gunman dead after bloody campus rampage via CNN
Statement by Virginia Tech President Steger (mp3)
Virginia Tech Shooting Pool Flickr
“Always Remember Virgina Tech” Facebook Group
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Update: Well, these might be China links after all
One alleged witness told news commentators on the scene that the shooter was a young Asian man, but Virginia Tech University police, nor the FBI were releasing any information as to the identification of the shooter.
The students and faculty were barricading themselves in their classrooms after what one person described as an Asian student wearing a vest opened fire.
CCTV was–of course–all over this story (sickeningly giddy, really) during the morning newscast with plenty of images of the violence in the USA. I do wonder if CCTV will continue to be so excited if it turns out the shooter was actually from China…
No Chinese students found among victims in Va. Tech shootings
Update #2: A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea
Accoring to yahoo news, it was a South Korean student.
BLACKSBURG, Va. – A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university said Tuesday.
The Virginia Tech Police Department identified him as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior in the English department.
My Weekly China Links
Usually I post a bunch of links from various China related sites all over the net. But seeing as how Dezza (a good friend, and fellow Canadian) over at Mask of China is about to finish up a long and illustrious run as one of China’s best blogs, I thought I’d go down through some of his older posts, and pass some link-love his way. I had the pleasure of working with him when he was here in Dalian, and he’s a quality guy who just happens to also have a fucking quality website. While he likely wouldn’t admit it, there are few that can speak about China (or Hong Kong) with the same knowledge and authority that he can. Even before I knew what a blog was, Dezza was pumping out articles like these, hand over fist:
Dezza on Teaching
A Day in the Life of a Foreign Teacher
Face of a Foreign Teacher
How Foreign Teachers want to be Treated (according to some Chinese writer)
Dezza on Travel
Dezza goes to Taishan
Dezza goes to Xi’an
Dezza goes to Yangshou
Dezza on the Great Wall
Dezza Does Dandong
Dezza on Food
Improving Pizza Xinjiang Style
Hong Kong Style Barbecuing fun
Dezza on Politics
China’s Holocost
Tiger Leaping Gorge: Nearing the End?
Dezza on Business
Doing Business in China? Do it Somewhere else!
Are the Beijing Olympics Really that Important?
A dilettante’s foray into the Hong Kong stock exchange
So what’s Dezza gonna do now that the blog will be retired? Well, he’s developed some pretty kick-ass photography skills over the years, as you can see by checking out his flickr page. If you want to pay your respects to one of the best/original China Bloggers, drop Dezza a line here, or drop some comments on his flickr account.
China Stolen-Media-of-the-Day: Malcolm in the Middle
A friend of mine once compared this dysfuntional family to mine (I also have 3 brothers).
Here’s the first season of Malcolm in the Middle, for those of you who may not have seen it in a while. Pirated by youku/yoqoo.
My Weekly China Links
Here are some China-related links that stand out from this week:
Ur-ine Big Trouble Now!
From Hangzhou: Some Chinese reporters, in an effort to expose how some hospitals over-diagnose for profit, submitted tea instead of urine samples. Diagnosis? Six out of ten hospitals visited diagnosed the patients as having infected urinal tracts. Wow. (Source, yahoo via Dezza)
Mr. T Pities the Foo’ who leaves any Poo
Salvador’s Coffee in Kunming displays this poster: An angry-looking Mr. T with a speech ballon reading, “This is an old building with old plumbing, poop and paper won’t go down! There is a public toilet across the street. If we have to clean up after you there is a 50 RMB charge” (Source and photo: Weird Asia News)
New China Bounder Post
Like him or hate him, he does write some interesting stuff. (via The Hao Hao Report)
Note: If you can’t access the link (due to the Chinese internet filters), try here. Pkblogs.com is a good tool for accessing any blogspot sites from inside China.
For Chinese Study: Practice Tones
Here’s an interesting site I found which has a neat tool for practicing tones, and even has a test to see if you can recognize them properly. This one comes compliments of PinyinPractice.com. They even got a wacky Atari-like Space Invaders game, where you blast flying pinyin sounds. Nuts…
China Stolen-Media-of-the-Day: Spiderman
Continuing my intentions of posting media pirated by Chinese websites, here is the first Spiderman Movie, with Toby Macguire and Kirstin Dunst.
Looking forward to the third one when in comes along. Stay tuned for more tv and movies at the bottom of every post!
Here’s the latest installment of my Weekly China Links:
Cricket in China?
With the Cricket World Cup now going on (or so an Indian friend of mine informs me), it seems China has even caught the Cricket bug. They’ve announced they’ll have a credible team by the year 2020. I always thought this sport would die out if these guys ever discovered what a canoe was.
Flickr in Chinese
It looks as though yahoo will be rolling out a Chinese version in the not so distant future.
Exploding Cars Forbidden
Boingboing has been an unlikely source of strange China news lately.
Time > Money?
Marc has an interesting post about waiting in line for free coffee. More interesting though is his take on how in China, time just might not equal money.
China Stolen Media
This is a new feature that I’ve started adding to the bottom of every post. Free movies and TV shows on Chinese websites. Just look for the swash-buckling pirate picture. 
My featured Stolen Media for today is The Devil Wears Prada or as it’s known locally, ?PRADA???. The offender this time is 6rooms.
Weekly China Links: 20 Sites I wish I had known about when I came to China
A friend of mine from Newfoundland has just recently hopped over the Great Wall and into the Middle Kingdom. Being the generous and thoughtful person that I (sometimes) am, I assembled a list of my favorite China related sites to pass on to him. I thought I’d throw it out here, in case some of you may not be aware of some of these sites as well.
Community sites:
1. The Haohao Report
2. Chinalyst
3. The China Blog List
And other China Blogs, in no particular order
4. The Adventures of the Humanaught
5. Jottings from the Granite Studio
6. Sinocidal
7. Fuck
8. Danwei TV
9. Filination
10. Kaiser Kuo
11. Image Thief
12. Lost Laowai
13. Mask of China – HK edition
14. Mutant Palm
15. The Peking Duck
16. Eyes East
17. Sinosplice Life
18. Virtual China
19. Weird Asian News
20. East South West North
Did I miss anyone?
