Today in China

But I’m not sure I really like that!

Google Your Race is a website providing Racial Profiling with Google. The concept is quite easy, the website return the top 15 results for a search such as “White people are known for” on Google.

Here are the results for Whites People and Asian People:

“White people are known for…”

• crime
• their conservative Republican leanings
• either being rich or white trash
• their racism
• valor and graciousness
• that suicide shit
• that nasty shit
• starting wars and kiling eachother hehe
• being racist in the past to blacks
• not talking about race
• cutting off their nose to spite their face
• having “no rythem”
• stupid shit like that
• being serial killers
• kicking your arab ass time after time

“Asian people are known for…”

• being so lean
• their politeness
• their emphasis on long-term relationship
• being Lactose-Intolerant
• traditional “save face” mechanism
• likin only Asian people
• all being smart and stuff
• eating a lot of rice
• bein “yellow”
• small eyes
• being wealthy
• their technological investments
• their soft-spoken, concise manner
• their bargaining skills
• being great scientists

NOTICE: Google is not responsible for the content of this website. Nor are the original authors of Google your race… Nor am I…

It seems that 2006 will be the Year of the Blog in Beijing! Well… As most of you know already, I will be in Belgium from the 18th of April till the 9th of May and therefore… bouhouhouuuuuu… will miss the party. But I’m sure you’ll manage to get some fun even without me!
And by the way, if you want to start a new blog related to China, don’t forget that we have some free hosting for Personal Blogs on Today in China!

Happy blogging!

Nowadays, censoring the Internet is getting more and more dificult or even impossible. Let me explain this with the example of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free community encyclopedia covering almost any subject you may think about with hundreds of millions of pages… And guess what? It’s not available in China! Being too difficult to control, the Chinese Government decided to shut it off the Internet as seen by Chinese people! Or, is it really unavailable? Before, one could configure his browser to use a proxy (instructions for firefox). But today, the information on the Internet is duplicated in so many different places and services with added values are built on top of websites such as Wikipedia. I will now show you too ways to access Wikipedia in China.

Answers.com
Owned by Answers Corporation (listed on NASDAQ as ANSW), the free advertising-supported website provides answers to anything based on dozens of website and online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia. It clearly identifies the source of each part of the response which makes it easy for the visitor to find the Wikipedia fraction.

Gollum Browser
Gollum Browser is an advanced Ajax Wikipedia Browser. Nothing needs to be installed. Just go to their website, choose the language for the Gollum interface and Wikipedia content and then, start the browser. One of the nice features available of Golum based on the AJAX technology is the auto-complete input of the keaywords you are looking for. It also provides a bookmark management for you to remember interesting wikipedia entries.

So, what is missing then?
Well, I still didn’t find a way to edit the Wikipedia Articles from China… For example, Gollum has a nice edit button in its tool bar but this redirect the user to censored wikipedia.org.

So from now on, when referring to a Wikipedia page, I will also give you alternate ways to find the article…

Links
Wikipedia (Not available in China!)
Answers.com
Gollum Browser

Please, forget your usual browser based Bookmark Manager! I’ve been using del.icio.us for a few months now and I have to admit, it really changed the way I use Internet.
Del.icio.us is a Social Online Bookmark Manager. First, it’s Online, you may access your bookmarks from any computer. Then, it’s Social, you share your bookmarks with anyone in the system. A good way to get updated about the good websites on the Net.
Have a look on my page about del.icio.us to get more details and interesting resources related to del.icio.us.