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

中文

Rollerskating @ Baimashan (2011-9-10th-11th-12th)

On September10th, 11th & 12th, leave the urban streets behind to rollerskate on the bamboo forest of Baimashan!
As last time, it will be a mix of freeride and downhill.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, September 7th, 8pm

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

Taobao Bans Sale of VPN, Proxy Services

Taobao, China’s biggest e-commerce platforms, is banning the sale of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and IP proxies on its popular C2C shopping site. Various VPNs and proxy servers are used by some Chinese netizens to ‘jump over the wall’ – ie: evade the massive Great Firewall (GFW) which blocks so many politically sensitive and social media sites.

In a rough translation, Taobao’s official notice on this crackdown reads:

Dear users,

This is a notice to those it might concern: VPN software, or any service that helps to access overseas sites, to jump over the wall, is prohibited from sale on Taobao. Now banned products include VPNs – domestic or foreign (including games) – IP proxies, and VPN software. All those are covered in the new restrictions, so please remove the relevant VPN products from your stores.

We encourage members to report all types of contraband/illegal goods. We will deal with your concerns promptly.

Thank you for your support and cooperation of/with Taobao. Taobao is more exciting because of you!

Well, Taobao is now more restrictive – rather than “exciting” – because of this new edict. In recent years, some homegrown VPN services have popped up, and have been spreading their word via Google ads. Some had been using Taobao as a convenient way to let users pay up, since Taobao’s online payment method, Alipay, is so ubiquitous. But now that has been ceased.

 
 
Sources / 来源:
Penn Olson
南方日报

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

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

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).

中国，肖像一个国家

我最近翻书页了这本书。里面有一些照片真的有意思。

这本书集合从1949年88个中国的摄影师拍的照片的一个巨大的选拔。

最有意思的照片的确地是1980年之前的照片。我猜大多数的在中国住的外国人都没有看过（或者我可能是唯一的一？）。我不知道中国人出生1970年以后有没有看过（我应该坦白我从未开一本官方的中国历史书为看现代的人民学习什么）。

你可以翻书页全部的书在这里（也有放大的功能为看读文章）。
我建议你直接去第24页，因为之前就是编者按（你可以输入页号码在照片下面，然后按Enter）。

 
 
Source / 来源:
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05714/facts.china_portrait_of_a_country.htm

English

两年前，中国谷歌开通了他们的音乐网站，让人民免费下载和串流MP3（如果用户有中国的IP地址）。我在这个时候试一下他们的服务，但是我觉得他们就复制了百度音乐的网站（一样的界面，一样的功能）。

然而，我几天前看过了一个有意思的图片在 Philipp Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped的博客：

看起来中国谷歌音乐改变了他们的界面。现在也可以搜索跟乐队的名字然后直接听（或者下载）他们的全部的唱片。而且，在播放目录右边有歌词。
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Google Music in China… the way it should be everywhere.

2 years ago, when Google launched their Music website in China, allowing free streaming and downloading (if you have a Chinese IP address), I tested their service, but didn’t find anything else than a copy of Baidu Music (same interface, same service).

Nevertheless, few days ago, I’ve seen an interesting sketch on Philipp Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped:

Seems that Google Music China has changed a lot its interface. Now you can perform search per group and you can play (or download) directly the entire albums. Moreover, the lyrics appear automatically on the right side of the playlist.
 
 
Sources / 来源:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-10-15-n45.html (English)
http://www.google.cn/music/ (中文)