Of all the headlines from the Chinese takeover of faux-news website The Onion we mentioned earlier, this one’s my favorite…
Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon…
China has vowed to cease administering shock therapy to citizens who have a problem staying off the internet, claiming there was ‘no evidence’ that the practice was effective. Might have been helpful to determine this beforehand, eh?
The ministry said …
I don’t own an iPhone, although after misplacing my car last weekend (don’t ask) I’m tempted to pick one up, or at least a phone with GPS. Then again, why bother with Apple’s shiny 23rd century tech when I can …
The ping-pong match between Chinese authorities and free-speech n’er-do-wells continues as China now claims that censorship web-filtering apps will not be forcibly activated, but will be shipped gratis with all new computers sold on the mainland. That way, users can …
Boing Boing pointed to a screamingly funny, hyperbolic article over at Fox news about internet meme factory 4Chan – which if you buy Fox’s take is the internet equivalent of Cobra, from G.I. Joe…only run by unruly teenagers.
I’m always …
I just hopped over to Variety Asia to see if there was anything worth blogging and to my surprise I was re-directed to the main Variety homepage. At first I thought that I had entered the wrong URL, but now …
Fans of the somewhat dormant Sex and Zen series will be pleased to hear that the new installment will utilize 3D technology…which will no doubt lead to some pretty interesting horse-penis hijinks.
Producer Stephen Shiu Jnr, chair of One Dollar …
I read this piece over at MSNBC on Friday, but didn’t have time to properly blog it until today – apparently China has been using pornography (or, what they consider to be potentially salacious material, at any rate) as an …
A South Korean woman previously deported from Japan was found to have passed through a biometric fingerprint identification system sometime last year, according to Japanese authorities – her method of fooling the system was decidedly low-tech. Reportedly she used fake …
Le Trung of Toronto, inspired by anime, has built an android to assist the elderly. Dubbed Aiko, the bot is currently more of an anthropomorphic reminder-device, telling its’ users when to take meds for instance, but Trung hopes that Aiko …
Film pirate Kazushi Hirata recieved a two-year prison sentence for uploading a bootlegged (and self-fansubbed) copy of Wanted to a P2P network.
Really? Wanted?
Damn, son – if you’re going to give up two years of your life, at …
I used to say that I’d hate to be the guy in Heaven who got there because he stepped on a rake. I think I found a new low – the guy who was strangled by his foot-massager.
Saitama-based Matoba …
