http://www.pandapassport.com Blogging from Behind the Great Wall Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:32:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bus 44 is an amazing short film (it's only 10 minutes long) that I hadn't seen before I stumbled onto it over at China Smack. It wsa actually made back in 2001, but seems to be getting a bit of recent attention after making the rounds on Chinese video sites. ... http://www.pandapassport.com/chinese-internet/bus-44/ Here's a quick summary of my posts for April over on Inventorspot.com: Solar Panels Banned in Chinese Neighborhood China Paints Itself White to Fight Global Warming China Fights Somali Pirates with Army of Dophins! Amazing Anime Makeover The Amazing Anime Makeover post was a pleasant surprise, as the video slideshow that I put together using ... http://www.pandapassport.com/sars-technica/on-sars-technica-in-april/ So I'm sending a message via facebook to a couple of friends of mine, and here is the captcha that pops up: I'm sure someone out there has seen one worse than that. Can anyone top my toad buttocks? http://www.pandapassport.com/random-thoughts/funny-captcha/ Symantec has whipped up a pretty enlightening video showing how the now infamous Ghostnet Chinese malware that made news last month actually works. (For more background on that story, check out Ryan's CNet post) This video is pretty amazing, and towards the end you can see some footage that they have ... http://www.pandapassport.com/chinese-internet/ghostnet/ 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 ... http://www.pandapassport.com/chinese-internet/youtube-blocked/ 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 ... http://www.pandapassport.com/technology/chinese-farmer-mods/ 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 ... http://www.pandapassport.com/funny-shit/bloody-psp-mod/ 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 ... http://www.pandapassport.com/technology/lamborghini-ferrari-mashup/ 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 ... http://www.pandapassport.com/chinese-study/cantonese/ With the 20th anniversary of Tian'anmen approaching, I anticipate we're going to see more and more stuff like this in the news: A group of mothers of those killed in the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square has urged China's leaders to fully investigate the deaths. Their call was issued as the ... http://www.pandapassport.com/culture/nothing-of-any-importance/