Back under the bridge

by feng37


Posted on December 26, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | Get a word in

feng37: “..nobody there spoke English, and the ones who weren’t completely confused were evasive and secretive about the whole thing.”

37friend: “Well, you were in the Birth Planning Office. The PSB probably told them to open a Foreigner Management Office and they just didn’t want to, simple as that. Anyway, wrong tree. What you’re talking about could only be done properly if you were to set up a company specifically to help helpless and hapless foreigners out. Anyone who can speak English is not going to have too much of a problem, and you’re not in a position to help any non-English speaking foreigners out. If it’s visa problems they have, there’s not really anything anyone least of all you can do about it. Besides, even if you did go ahead with this and saw any sort of success, the government would either shut you down or co-opt you. Speaking of which, how’s that ‘racial discrimination’ suit of yours going?”

feng37: “Guess I scared them off, last I heard they were trying to usher in a swipe-card system like Country Garden has, but none of the property owners were casting votes either way. The seniors keep protesting every Sunday morning down on the corner. They’ve got their hands full spying on all the underground illegal Christmas-goers that have infiltrated the Riverside as it is. Hey did I tell you my blog got blocked?”

37friend: “Congratulations.”

silent treatment

by feng37


Posted on December 17, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | Get a word in

Why do 43% of the people in Japan feel negative about the government?
Is that something which happens in the course of a week, a month, a year or more..
..that slips past unnoticed, the way so many things do these media-overloaded days?
The way a report proposing full-on regulation of online content that nobody talks about becomes a bill, passed and law?

And what kind of country regulates blogs, anyway?

From EastSouthWestNorth:

  Feel 
positive
towards 
government		 Feel 
negative
towards
government		 Feel
positive
towards
people		 Feel 
negative
towards 
people
Japan 17% 43% 46% 12%

走光得奖

by feng37


Posted on December 17, 2007

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上午收了Skype系统紧急信息，宣传一顶活动，说我可能赢得不是一部素尼手机电脑就是2.8万元，到官方网站的国内版填报填表等等就可以参加。
我很确定我下载了的Skype不是Tom.com的包含后门监控版，但下面的紧急信息还得让我去Skype的Tom.com网站登陆。是我当时没看清楚，下载了是Tom.com的国保Skype版？还是Tom.com现在试图向它的间谍软件监不到的用户来伸手补充Tom.com的数据库？

另外，想问被这次活动忽悠的朋友：那部素尼电脑里面也安装了后门监控软件的可能性大不大？

（没有连接）

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I got 99 names but not an effectual one

by feng37


Posted on December 10, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | Get a word in

The title of this post derives itself from a line in recording artist Jay-Z’s song 99 problems, which talks of the daily struggles a young black North American man faces and how life goes in it. The censored Black Entertainment Television version can be heard and watched here—embedding has been disabled by request—and the lyrics have been attached at the bottom of this post. Today being Dec. 10, I wish you a problem-free International Human Rights Day.

A few days ago, the anti-conventional website I currently work for as editor—unconventional in the bottom-up and possibly paper-free media of the future it seeks to be manifest in—received an invitation extended to six of its participants to take part in a Q&A session with Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Graça Machel, three members of The Elders, a new initiative in globaluniversal human rights awareness work which brings legendary figures from within the field of human rights work to the same table—recently retired Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing, who though different diplomatic missions has lived for nearly a decade in Africa, is one of them—and seeks, as a first step framed within this next year leading up to the 60th anniversary of the international declaration of human rights, to get a billion signatures of pledged support for the group’s online petition.

Read more about what I said to Desmond Tutu in Facebook.

当有中国高官在引导世界普遍人权方案的那天你将怎么样？

by feng37


Posted on December 9, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

今天是世界人权日

什么叫人权日？不是倒霉而骂人

在网上获得相关资料也不容。。这还行。。这不行。。这不对吧。。而这个看来是个电脑程序编出来的。

那，结论是不是每一个人有自己对人权的定义有自己的说法？

大概是，起码纳尔逊·曼德拉今天开始就打算这么说。热烈欢迎人权2.0时代的到来～！由于宇宙的动向不是天天都能保证正常运作，而今天还让我在全球之声一个同事刚好有事，我刚跟曼德拉的老朋友德斯蒙德·图图打了个电话，听图图跟他另外几个还不退休的一样伟大的几个朋友——包括曾在非洲呆了快十年，前外交部部长李肇星——为了人权想做的一件大事：让十亿人为了表示对人权的献身而签个名。

祝贺你人权日和好平安
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On bloggers and Js

by feng37


Posted on November 27, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

One last post on the Yilishen meltdown Shenyang lockdown for now, as I find myself having to file away the reasons I’d assumed this story, which itself I still think falls under “Olympics,” would have gotten a lot of coverage.

Those reasons aside, I was doubly disappointed and some this afternoon when I received an e-mail from a Chinese journalist working for an unnamed foreign media. Here’s what I got:
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New photos from Shenyang

by feng37


Posted on November 27, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Four thoughts on Yilishen: (update below)

Now a week after the fact, very few English-language media have reported on this massive incident;
A man was executed earlier this year for doing roughly the very same thing only on a much smaller scale;
Having had a GVO post be singled out and blocked at the url level for the first time because of this puts things in a new perspective;
The below—sent unsolicited to me just now by the single most comprehensive source thus far on what is happening in Shenyang right now—suggests that this could go so far up as to involve big-time badasses like Bo Xilai and Li Changchun.
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More on my dramatic life as a prospective PRD entrepreneur

by feng37


Posted on November 23, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | Get a word in

The landlady finally paid this year’s management fees and cosmic balance has returned to my apartment, but apparently there’s still the question of ‘rent-out tax’…one of the last visits had the security guards affix a large pink notice to my door to that effect, with instructions to pass it onto the 中介.

The doorknob is still hooped, but I’m going to leave it as is, I only use the deadbolt as it is. I actually paid for the current doorknob, when I locked myself out just days after I moved in and the locksmith went all jaws of life on the old one. Besides, if the guards do eventually rip it off I can use the hole to speak to anyone who comes knocking, and people can use it to poke notices in, etc. Regardless, that whole drama seems over for the moment.
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GVO蚂蚁页被和谐了，就拷过来了

by feng37


Posted on November 23, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | 30 Comments

蚁力神 沈阳 出事 养户 游行 yilishen Shenyang ant farmers protest
来源：Global Voices Online
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Nov. 26 update: don’t know how I missed this, but someone at Black and White Cat left a comment on the 23rd which claims that ‘people seen taking pictures or holding recording equipment are being arrested.’ And here I thought I wasn’t making the rounds of Chinese video sharing websites frequently enough. Let’s hope Beijing learns from this one that half the reason this got as much play as it did was because they stepped on our turf. Hey Beijing! There’s too many of us bloggers, you’ll never pwn!
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刚收到这个，真希望是假的：

阳市政府现在抓了几千人，全被抓到沈阳奥体中心，大冬天用高压水枪冲老百姓，唉，要是毛主席，周恩来活着不会出现这种情况，一定会替人民做主。如果不相信是事实，可以到沈阳来了解情况，现在沈阳市已全面封锁消息，电台，报纸，网站，全面封杀，包括各种搜索引擎，希望有正义感的人把这件事发布出去，不信可以到辽宁省沈阳市来看一看，只不过影响太恶劣，这是建国以来最大的一次诈骗案，辽宁省有近百万人受骗这家公司就叫是天玺蚁力神集团，去年六月份还得到国家的直销许可证, 中国政府还让百姓活不了？

这也被封了，但可以用高级Bloglines或者抓虾来订阅：http://yilishen8.spaces.live.com/feed.rss
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a new record

by feng37


Posted on November 23, 2007

Filed Under Uncategorized | Get a word in

It was able to remain peaceful, nobody shot so far from what I’ve heard
Mostly dispersed now, I guess they’ll just be one of the groups who show up in Beijing for The Game
Although discussions have been mostly moved into QQ groups and keep moving
Another protest is scheduled for tomorrow morning
Reuters has given GVO all that money over the last two years
And still not bothered to profit from it

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