This American Life on Foxconn
february 2012 by funkaoshi
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
Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown iPad for First Time in Her Life
february 2012 by funkaoshi
Sad and ironic. #China #Apple MT @MomoAdalois Woman Who Assembles iPads Shown #iPad for First Time in Her Life
Apple
China
iPad
from twitter_favs
february 2012 by funkaoshi
A new approach to China.
january 2010 by funkaoshi
Nice change from Google here.
google
china
humanrights
january 2010 by funkaoshi
Oriental Angel
november 2009 by funkaoshi
"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.
october 2009 by funkaoshi
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
The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse on Vimeo.
august 2009 by funkaoshi
What a strange video. This is a great project.
china
video
timelapse
august 2009 by funkaoshi
I'm really thinking maybe I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much.
july 2009 by funkaoshi
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.
november 2007 by funkaoshi
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
25 Photos from a Toy Factory in China.
october 2007 by funkaoshi
These photographs are very cool.
photography
china
factory
toys
october 2007 by funkaoshi
GoogleBlog: Google in China.
january 2006 by funkaoshi
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.
january 2006 by funkaoshi
A side by side comparison of search results.
Google
Censorship
China
january 2006 by funkaoshi
A Home Boom Busts.
january 2006 by funkaoshi
The housing market in Shanghai is crashing -- hard.
Shanghai
China
Markets
january 2006 by funkaoshi
Ask.Mefi: Trouble with customs and trademark holder.
december 2005 by funkaoshi
This question definitely should have been posted anonymously.
China
Piracy
december 2005 by funkaoshi
MetaFilter: Organs from executed Chinese prisoners are being sold abroad.
december 2005 by funkaoshi
I feel dirty just reading about this.
Transplants
China
HumanRights
december 2005 by funkaoshi
MetaFilter: End of cheap money.
july 2005 by funkaoshi
China plans to stop pegging the Yuan against the US dollar.
Economics
China
july 2005 by funkaoshi
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