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A funny video that shows why you shouldn't consume baijiu with mixed with Coke - it'll force you into speaking Chinese in Australian supermarkets.

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For the third (fourth?) time, Michael Phelps, the Greatest Olympian of All Time

NBC is offering complete streaming of the Olympics over the internet for the first time ever. It is great news for people working office jobs to be able to watch it from their desks. Unfortunately, it will only be available to Microsoft Vista users. To make it even worse, not only are Mac OS X and Linux users discriminated, as it will only be available to the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Vista!

In this episode, Sufei takes a trip back to 1930s Shanghai, when her psychoanalyst father shows up for a visit. Sufei's father and his family fled Nazi Germany when he was a baby, so he spent the first few years of his life in China. Together, Sufei and her father return to Shanghai in search of his childhood home.

A new study of Internet users aged 16 to 25 from both the US and China shows that China is far ahead of the US in Internet "addiction".

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet users are more likely to depend on their online experiences, and see the Web as a key to socializing and sharing opinions, than their U.S. counterparts, according to a study released on Friday.

LifesterBlog (http://cn.lifesterblog.com) is a blogging and social networking site all in one, targeting users in China and Hong Kong. It allows users to customize their blogs, share posts, photos, videos, music and books, and connect with friends.

China added another 14 million Internet users in 2006, retaining its status as the world's second-largest Internet market, with 137 million total users, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) announced Tuesday.

John Butcher learns how to toast government officials, and is nearly [wink] rewarded. From a podcast.

According to estimates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Beijing research firm BDA and the online market anlayst Nielsen/NetRatings, China has overtaken the US in the number of internet users at around 220 million. These numbers were estimated based on the online growth of 53.3% in 2007. The number on online users is expected to reach 280 million or more by the end of this year.