Mutant Palm

Read the background in this post here. Here’s the blog of the guy who did it. Photo courtesy of this blogger, thanks to Chinese blog equivalent of the Superfriends, Memedia.

Goddammit, why do I always run into this stuff just when I’m leaving town for a couple of days???

Word has it that Tencent, makers of the Chinese chat and currency juggernaut QQ, has a new search engine that might be a strong rival for Baidu and Google. The search engine, called SoSo 搜搜, may be well placed since the hundreds of millions of QQ users in China would be drawn to it, but on the other hand it uses licensed Google technology, so we’ll see. But more importantly, SoSo is, well, so-so on censorship. Maybe you need a noticeable market share before the net cops show up?

Arianna enjoys wuxia cosplay in her free time

Shorter Arianna Huffington:

• I can’t read Chinese, and don’t know anything about Tiananmen, but no one will know if I don’t give a link or translations of ZYJ’s blog. Also, cliched rhetoric is bad if you’re George Bush, but it’s perfectly fine for summarizing China. And maybe Tank Man was someone else, but that would screw up my conclusion that I arrived at without knowing what I’m talking about in the first place.

Shorter Time 100 Editorial Board:

• All bloggers are the same, so let’s just get some known US blogger to review these crazy chicken scratchings. Michelle Malkin’s Asian, isn’t she? Oh, she’s busy? Um, Greece Los Angeles is like China, isn’t it? I think Arianna’s been to Koreatown…

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard, and used regularly by SadlyNo!.