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I’ve found a few streaming Chinese radio stations online, but most are hip hop / rap type music. There is nothing wrong with that, but 我喜欢朋克音乐。
I found one this morning that has a few mildly heavyish songs on it. It’s style is close to Alice 97.3 - if you’re close to the San Francisco [...]
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If you haven’t heard, there was a huge earthquake in south west China. Something like 10,000 people are feared dead. It’s a horrible natural disaster. If you have friends or family in the region, my thoughts go out to you and your family.
I found a video taken by a student during the quake - scary [...]
This looks totally sick! Engadget is reporting that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will add Chinese handwriting recognition, and the screen shot they have looks very interesting.
I would absolutely love to have this - I can’t even tell you how fun this would be. It would make dict.cn and nciku.com usable when away from the computer. [...]
I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn’t expect this so soon. According to USA Today China now has more people on the internet than the USA.
According to the story, there are now 220 million Chinese internet users vs. 216 million USA users (USA had the world dominate usage).
The part that is really interesting [...]
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Another hair brained scheme…
I woke up Saturday with an idea (which is actually a joke at our house now, “Guess what honey, I have an idea!”). I wanted to have a podcast of news bits that I could listen to while I did my morning routine - the catch being I wanted it daily, and [...]