funkaoshi + china   17

This American Life on Foxconn
An incredibly bleak look at how our junk gets made. The social costs of tech gadgets are immense.
iPhone  apple  china  foxconn  from iphone
february 2012 by funkaoshi
Oriental Angel
"Lou Jing was your average 20 year old woman from Shanghai, until being on Go! Oriental Angel, an American Idol like singing competition show, had to point out the obvious. Lou Jing is half Chinese, half African- America, something China apparently wasn't ready for."
racism  china 
november 2009 by funkaoshi
‘Happy Farms’ Game Destroys Chinese Jobs, Relationships.
This is pretty insane. They had to limit sign ups to 2 million people per day, for starters.
china  mmo  videogame 
october 2009 by funkaoshi
I'm really thinking maybe I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much.
Fake Steve Jobs on the death at Foxconn, and how Americans get to live their American dream.
apple  china 
july 2009 by funkaoshi
FRONTLINE: The Tank Man.
Need to watch this later. Apparently there is a scene where they show 4 university kids this photo and none of them have a clue what it it is.
China  Documentary  via:Ask.Mefi 
november 2007 by funkaoshi
GoogleBlog: Google in China.
The official word from Google on what is going on with Google China.
Google  Censorship  China 
january 2006 by funkaoshi
Sites Google Agreed to Censor in China.
A side by side comparison of search results.
Google  Censorship  China 
january 2006 by funkaoshi
A Home Boom Busts.
The housing market in Shanghai is crashing -- hard.
Shanghai  China  Markets 
january 2006 by funkaoshi
Ask.Mefi: Trouble with customs and trademark holder.
This question definitely should have been posted anonymously.
China  Piracy 
december 2005 by funkaoshi
MetaFilter: End of cheap money.
China plans to stop pegging the Yuan against the US dollar.
Economics  China 
july 2005 by funkaoshi

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