English

在9月10日11日12日日周六周日周一，把城市抛在你身后去白马山的竹林做轮滑！
我们会放刷街，自由轮滑和速降都混合在一起。
 

报名截止日期：星期三晚上8点，9月7日

(more…)

English

淘宝今日发布公告将禁止虚拟专用网络（VPN）和上流行的IP代理的销售。淘宝网已经在搜索中全面删除了VPN这个关键词的商品，在淘宝网使用VPN为关键字进行搜索，提示的信息是“很抱歉，没有找到与‘VPN’相关的宝贝”。

许多网民使用各种VPN和代理服务器回避了长城防火墙（GFW）的监管，访问较敏感和社会媒体网站（如Twitter, Facebook），在去年淘宝曾经做过类似举动，但后来又不了了之，VPN的销售开始泛滥。而且一些国内VPN服务商会通过Google Adsense来传播它们（我博客的adsense广告曾经就出现过），关闭淘宝上的代理和VPN服务是一种更快捷的方式。

淘宝公告原文如下：

接 有关部门通知，VPN软件涉及境外网站非法访问，与翻墙、破网类软件同属禁售品，淘宝网不允许出售相关商品。目前VPN禁售品包括VPN国内与国外的代理 （包括游戏），IP代理、VPN软件等，都在管控范围之内，请广大卖家停止销售并且下架、删除相关VPN商品。 同时我们欢迎广大会员积极对各类违禁商品进行举报，我们将在第一时间予以处理。 感谢您对淘宝网的支持与配合，淘宝网因您而更加精彩！ 淘宝网

 
  (more…)

English

2011年8月17日《南方日报》报道：中国首部华侨华人研究蓝皮书《华侨华人研究报告(2011)》显示，自1978年改革开放至2009年底，中国各类出国人员(即国家公派，单位公派，自费留学)的总数为162万人，回国人员为49.7万人；目前仍在国外的留学人员为112.3万人，主要集中在发达国家，即仅仅约30.7%的留学人员回国。舆论为之震动、哗然。(因为留学生肯定是中国成绩最好，最优先的一批学子，可谓精英中之精英。)他们不回，甚为可惜。显然，这里是种种原因造成的，不能怪同学。
 
 
 
 
 

Only 30% of Chinese back after study abroad

Only about 30 percent of Chinese students have come back to their motherland after studying abroad, from 1978 to 2009, the Nanfang Daily reported Wednesday, quoting the Overseas Chinese Study 2011 edited by Huaqiao (Overseas Chinese) University.

According to the report, the first one focusing on overseas Chinese, about 1.62 million Chinese students went abroad to study between 1978 and 2009, among whom only 497,400 have come back. The rest mainly stayed in the developed countries.

The phenomenon is accompanied by another trend of more and more wealthy people from the Chinese mainland moving abroad, forming a huge outflow of capital.
 
 
Sources / 来源:
China Daily
南方日报

Already 8 months without posting anything…
Let’s start by a short movie, back in June 19th, made by 馋馋 and his friends in Beijing (香山八大处) the day before the MTB downhill race that they’ve organized.
On our side, at the same time, we’ve been to Fatboy Slim concert on the Great Wall, so we couldn’t attend the race.
That’s why 馋馋 brought us there the day after.
Only 45minutes away from Beijing downtown, this is a heaven for downhill single tracks…
 

 
 
Source:
http://xkcd.com/834/

One more epic video from Danny Mac Askill (thanks Keke for sharing!).
Many spots on the blockhaus or in the nature remind me some similar places where we were used to ride (but with inline skates!) on the West part of France…
I love this concept, and I’m still promoting and looking for such kind of inline skating freerides (as we do around Shanghai and in Zhejiang country side, not with the same skills for sure lol).

Here was the previous awesome video of Danny Mac Askill in April 2009.

Rear-view mirror is clearly useless, so let’s replace it by a tiny TV screen!
后视镜肯定是无用的。所以可以换到一个小电视屏幕吧！

Shot this afternoon nearby Jiujiang Lu.
今天下午在九江路附近拍的。

taken on: November 14th, 2010, 6am
at: 上海, nearby 苏州河 (Suzhou river)
by: atomicskate, thanks to Marmotte
with: Motorola Milestone
comment: Lost Lilongs
original file: download link

好长的标题我知道了。。。
前天晚上拍的。

中文

I’ve recently leafed through this paper book, and some pictures are really worth seeing.

This book brings together a vast selection of images by 88 Chinese photographers since 1949, giving readers a visual journey across the great People’s Republic.

The most interesting shots are undoubtedly the ones before the 80s. I guess that most of the foreigners living in China didn’t see these pictures (or was I the only one?). I dunno if Chinese people -born after the 70s- have already seen it (I’ve to confess that I’ve never opened an official Chinese History book in order to read and see what is shown to the nowadays citizens).

You can leaf through the entire book here (you can even zoom in order to read the articles/stories).
I advise you to go directly to page 24, because the previous pages are editor notes (you can enter the page number in the box below the picture, then press Enter).

(more…)