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What does “orz” mean?
Hint:
Selective translation from 十八摸狗日报 (above image also from there):
“orz” (also written as Oro, Or2, On_, Otz, OTL, sto, Jto, ○|￣|_) is net lingo (or an emoticon) that was created in Japan in 2004 and has since become adapted by the Chinese and Taiwanese. It represents for a person…
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Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer. The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website. They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…
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You may have seen the article in the Wall Street Journal on 2/28/06, describing the Chinese collective buying website 51tuangou.com. 51tuangou.com is one of a new kind of Chinese online experience–finding people in your local area who want to buy the same (usually big ticket) item that you do, and approaching the merchants as a group in order to…
Continue readingcollective buying websites: a window onto domesticity
The headline from Linghuchang’s* Linghucong’s blog reads “PC2N: China’s WebOS.” This is followed by a screencap of it in action:
Look familiar? According to the PC2N website, it “has a Windows-like environment, click here to try.” The service also boasts 2GB of storage, and the GUI itself looks…
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China joins the hand helds market, with the Ez Mini:
Specs include:
Games include:
Via Engadget(Chinese) via PostShow.
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Presenting the latest social networking site: 出气筒, the Venting Bin!
Share your misery, frustration and pain, and make friends doing so! Also great is the set of Flash games they have down of side, two of which involve naming a puppet and beating the hell out of it:
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I’ve seen other photos on Chinese BBS of little kids smoking, but this one appears to be substantiated.
Jian Bing smoked his first cigarette at the age of 3 when a friend of
his father’s gave him one to try. The boy often spends time with his
father and his colleagues, who give him cigarettes for fun.…
Continue readingmaking the rounds of Chinese internet: smoker, aged 4