Shanghai Diaries: The Blotter: May 2005 Archives

China bans meals served on naked women

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/22/content_444640.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:04 PM | Comments (1)

Shanghai to workers: You’re fat

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050524/ap_on_fe_st/flabby_shanghai_1

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:56 PM

Chinese Man Gets Prison For Eating Dead Body

http://www.wnbc.com/irresistible/4520756/detail.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:53 PM

Japanese ‘hugging pillow’

http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/index.php?p=546

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:47 PM

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:27 PM

China: Death by a Thousand Blogs

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/opinion/24kristoff.html?th&emc=th

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:25 PM

OK. I admit it. I really like Gwen Stefani’s video for “Hollaback Girl.”

http://music.channel.aol.com/artist/main.adp?artistid=268784#m_songsvids

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:28 PM | Comments (2)

101 things not to say in China

http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/read/1287795.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:57 AM

Ready or not, China gets blogged

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67564,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:56 AM | Comments (1)

China blocks GayChinese.net

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/05/051805china.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:51 AM

Shenzhen soccer players are “gangsters”

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/19/eng20050519_185755.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:49 AM

A Clampdown on China

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/opinion/17kristoff.html?hphttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/opinion/17kristoff.html?hp

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:19 PM

The blog is mightier than the sword

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GE17Ak05.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:16 PM

Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.

http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:12 PM

Ma Jian on ‘China’s Internet dictatorship’

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/18/200505180012.asp

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:05 PM

Shanghai police arrest 1,300 for gambling

http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/id/04b1a6a8101f4873/cid/9366300fc9319e9b/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:11 AM

Shanghai Dreams

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050517/review_nm/film_shanghai_dc_1

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:57 PM

So sad. So disgusting.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1529&e=9&u=/afp/20050517/wl_asia_afp/chinachildrenabuse_050517071944

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:15 PM

“She rose to the pinnacle of her profession. She was one of the most powerful and successful alien smugglers of our times.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/nyregion/17golden.html?

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:13 AM

The blog of The Far Eastern Economic Review

http://www.feer.com/tales/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:07 AM

‘Four of every five sports stars adored by Chinese children come from NBA’

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/16/eng20050516_185295.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:00 AM

From Britney to Brit pop to Beijing

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=638475

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:56 AM

Bai Ling to Pitt and Jolie: ‘We should have a threesome!’

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001586.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:41 AM | Comments (1)

Foreign media uses ‘so-called facts’ in attempt to prove China is ‘not good’

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/16/eng20050516_185288.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:30 AM

The top 10 myths and truths about design in China

http://www.core77.com/reactor/08.04_china.asp

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:20 AM

Dave Chappelle is not crazy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tv_chappelle_suspended;_ylt=Ahtj_W4_RaBZpDO1J9h1cRMDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:22 PM

OK, now this is not cool

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050513/od_afp/afpentertainmentchina_050513172212

Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:49 PM

Mp3s from Sufjan’s new album Illinois

http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/archives/000405.shtml

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:39 AM

Sun Ming Ming is very, very tall

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001575.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:36 AM

Things the Chinese Really Wanted to Protest Before They Settled on Japan

http://www.sinosplice.com/~sinobling/2005/04/things-chinese-really-wanted-to_20.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:30 AM

Look, nobody cares that you’re a DJ

http://blaggblogg.blogspot.com/2005/04/look-nobody-cares-that-youre-dj.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:25 AM

Shawn Bradley is ‘the guy who wants to play half-court’

http://slate.msn.com/id/2118429/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:20 AM

Shanghai to build world’s tallest ferris wheel!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Shanghai-Star-to-top-Londons-Eye/2005/05/13/1115843368055.html?oneclick=true

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:09 AM

Trying to make Shanghai’s toilets less shitty

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-war-on-chamber-pots,0,4954798.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:05 AM

What color eyes will your children have?

http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:02 AM

Neil Young at work on a new album

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-05/11.shtml#young

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:47 AM

“Apocalyptic Summer” in store for China

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK154877.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:46 AM

Transvestite contest

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/09/content_2934193.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:42 AM

Yao Ming will summer in Houston, not China

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/sports/11614932.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:37 AM

“My husband slipped right after he stood up on the bed to get ready for the games.”

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8458962

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:32 AM

The U.S. flag as an infographic

http://www.newsdesigner.com/archives/000541.php

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:56 PM

Chinese watermelon art

http://www.americade.info/melons1.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:52 PM

FDA wants sperm banks to bar donors who’ve had gay sex

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/05/05/gay.donor.ap/index.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:25 PM

‘The Faces of Shanghai’

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/03/20/travel/20050320_SHANGHAI_SLIDESHOW_1.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:22 PM

North Carolina minister ex-communicates members for not backing Bush

http://newsobserver.com/news/ncwire_news/story/2378881p-8756854c.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:12 PM | Comments (1)

The Onion A.V. Club interviews Ben Folds

http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4118

Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:10 PM

Star Wars fans in China can be overwhelmingly disappointed just as soon as those in the rest of the world

http://en.ce.cn/Life/entertainment/news/200505/05/t20050505_3762057.shtml

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:23 PM | Comments (1)

Not sure what is freakier — extraterrestrials or the people who believe in them

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinaufos;_ylt=Am8JqSJmxaG9wphOp0FOx7is0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2bm5xNHVjBHNlYwNtcA—

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:08 PM

Just Say No! (to the internet)

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=90030

Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:03 PM

Paris Hilton doesn’t know what a blog is

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050504/ap_en_mo/film_paris_hilton

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:19 PM

Who you callin’ laowai?

http://sanpaworn.vissaventure.com/?id=123

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:01 PM

Egads!

http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2005/05/03/business/IHT-03mchina.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:51 PM

Newsweek calls this ‘China’s Century’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693580/site/newsweek/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:41 PM

Reasons we can’t have a baby, honey

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/29GeoffSmith.html

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:45 PM

The sad case of Shi Tao

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050501_1.htm

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:39 PM

Please, please, please don’t cancel Arrested Development

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050502/en_usatoday/cancelarresteditwouldbeacrime;_ylt=Ag3NMnUxKcGJHweewgJrW9Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2OXY1b2VrBHNlYwNlbg—

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:33 PM | Comments (1)

How we would fight China

http://www.tuur.be/duck/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:22 PM

Want to get in on Shanghai’s real estate boom?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050502/RPROPERTY02/TPInternational/Asia

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:20 PM

A short history of the Chinese restaurant

http://slate.msn.com/id/2117567/fr/rss/

Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:16 PM

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