Snail E-mail
If you’re wondering why Gmail is running slowly and why Gchat keeps dropping, you’re not alone: Google is wondering the same thing.
Relations between the Internet giant and the Chinese government have never been great. What with Google’s withdraw from the mainland after refusing to self-censor search results and reporting that high-level cyber attacks aimed at e-mail accounts of political activists originated from China. But earlier this week Google outright accused the Chinese government of tampering with its e-mail system.
False Rumor Causes Run On Pencils
Disclaimer: The following attempt at humor should not, under any circumstances, be taken seriously.
BEIJING, China – Amid growing concerns about radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi plant spreading to China, pencil sales in the nation have skyrocketed following false rumors that pencil lead could be used to protect against radiation.
In Beijing, residents rushed into stationery stores, snatching pencils and refillable lead off the shelves after receiving forwarded text messages that read, in part:
BUY PENCILS! They are your only salvation from a slow, torturous, radioactive death.
- Best wishes from the Lianbi Pencil Company Co. Ltd.
45: The American (2010)
“I’m no good with machines.” That’s the line Jack (George Clooney) deploys early in the film before we see through the flimsy charade and know that, in fact, he is incredible with machines. Even his behavior is machine-like, processing the tools and materials in front of him into a finished product; he treats people the [...]
44: Sheer Madness (1983)
Sheer Madness, written and directed by German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, forms a kind of triptych with The Lady from Shanghai (#40) and A Question of Silence (#42): cocktails of guilt and insanity where the criminal justice system, the superego of society and the most visible enforcer of state authority, tries but fails to assert [...]
UCLA’s Asian Racist
Alexandra Wallace, the so-called “Asian Racist,” is a political science student at UCLA who uploaded a YouTube video complaining about Asians talking on their cell phones in the library. The video has become the flashpoint for a national discussion about racial insensitivity and the limits of free speech. Wallace has since dropped out of UCLA after having her class schedule posted on the Internet and receiving multiple death threats. But what does the video, and the response it has evoked, actually say about American society?
“Old Boys” Ending Theme Translation —《老男孩》尾曲歌词翻译
I can’t recommend this film Old Boys enough. The more I think about it the more I like it. Below is the translation of the ending theme. You should probably watch the film before watching the music video. The music is taken from Ohashi Takuya’s “Arigatou,” with lyrics by Chopstick Brothers, the duo responsible for the film itself. It’s a beautiful elegy to youth, a lament for all the things we’ve lost along the way.
43: Monsters (2010)
Monsters is a low-budget science fiction film with monsters in it, but writer-director Gareth Edwards saves the film from becoming a low-budget SyFy monster movie by layering it with nuanced characterization and taking time to dwell on the details. Six years ago, a space-based disaster led to northern Mexico being declared a quarantined Infected Zone [...]
Ching Chong Ling Long Ting Tong
Last Friday, an American girl who attends UCLA posted an angry anti-Asian rant on YouTube. In the video, political science student Alexandra Wallace lists off a number of complaints against Asian UCLA students, beginning with their use of cell phones in the library. Currently many students at the prestigious Los Angeles university are busy studying [...]
42: A Question of Silence (1982)
A Question of Silence (written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris) is a difficult, actively alienating film that doesn’t warn you about its intentions. At first blush it’s a procedural in which psychologist Janine van den Bos (Cox Habbema) must evaluate three women indicted for the murder of a male boutique owner. Because of [...]
Forensic Evidence Suggests Chinese People Were Once Able to Form a Line
HENAN – Archaeologists excavating at a site near Yinxu, the capital of the Shang Dynasty (1766-1050 BC) made a startling discovery this week when they uncovered what seemed to be fossilized remains of Chinese citizens in the form of a line.
Wang Guwei, a senior paleontologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences says that the discovery represents “a paradigm shift in the understanding of Chinese people.” He continued, “The scientific community has long believed that Chinese people were genetically unable to stand in a line to wait for something.”
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