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ipod nano clone

taobao has successfully competed with eachnet, or ebay china, or tom eachnet. it is the no.1 c2c site in china now. the key factors of success? response to competition very quick, free, and IP infringement/fake/clone goodies are fine be listed. this is one fake ipod nano 4G sold on taobao, except the shuttle wheel, everything works fine. the price is CNY200. the real one sold in apple retailer store is about CNY1200.

google app engine

another soa cool piece starts with hello world. it is neat for school coursework. however, to a build full-blown web server is not that simple. the good news is with any google products, you are backed with generous free storage http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/gettingstarted/

Torch relay overshadowed

I always believe this - to make it success, keep it low profile. It is the spirit of Tao. Why bother to make the longest relay in the world? Just bring the torch back to china, and relay in all the cities in homeland is good enough for Chinese. Who cares about those foreign countries. Even the fire should be collected from Mount Everest. Olympic game is just another platform to show how good each every country is in sports.

vexille

The CG movie is made with 3G characters on 2G scenes. Wonderful. This is the screenshot on Realplayer . This movie takes the future of Japan to the extreme. The whole nation is dominated by machine virus and eventually become robots, except for one evil man. The hope is still there even within those effected people. The result is the island is vanished without one single Japanese left. Hmm ... Pixar and Dreamworks will never make such kind of animation movie. The culture just doesn't match.

Spring is here in Centry Park

what is moonshot

Something intended to be genuinely awesome, but is only so in its ironic appreciation. i.e., something that's "so bad, it's good". Must be sincere and lacking irony in its intent. Parody, therefore, is not moonshot. It derives from the notion that it's something that's "shooting for the moon". But because it's so awful, it actually becomes awesome. Things that are moonshot usually have a cult following.