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The massive college entrance exam that every teenager in China took yesterday isn't as Confucian as you might think. Sam from the Useless Tree explains.

A good post from The Useless Tree that details the liberalization of China's legal system by exampling a Web site set up specifically to help mistresses with their rights under the law.

Traditional one-dimensional barcodes have been with us for over thirty years, and can now be found on the packaging of almost any product. But while they make checkout lines move faster and have been a great boon to logistics, they’re relatively useless for marketing purposes. The true power of barcode marketing lies in two-dimensional barcodes.

The Earthquake in Chengdu was bad, however useless measures don't help anyone.

Some Chinese dude with nothing better to do than spout numbers did so in front of several dozens of witnesses for 24 hours straight...plus 4 minutes.

The student recited pi to 67,890 digits. That is 50 numbers per line, 40 lines per page = 34 pages of random numbers he memorized.

And for good reason, too...

So a guy walks into a bank, right. He's got seven bags worth of cash. But get this: it's all full of those useless little jiao notes that we all throw away (or at best save for bus rides).

The clerks don't want anything to do with this, obviously, but rules state they have to accept it. This guy is my hero!

The keepers of the official Confucius (孔子) family tree have announced that in addition to now including women in the lineage, they will also be including those Confucians that have stumbled into being laowai. Check out the review of the news at the insightful Useless Tree blog.

78 women were found victimized as prostitutes in brothels in Vancouver, Canada... and useless Chinese Canadian leaders are off playing with their wankers elsewhere or looking for new photo ops

Cha Han-phil, a reporter with the major South Korean daily Hankyoreh, runs a weblog titled "So, You Still Dare to Go to China?" The provocative title is to draw people's attention, said Cha, adding, "It's like bait and switch." It has certainly worked.

When his latest post, "Shameless Chinese people", hit the front page of the Hankyoreh website, it immediately became a clicking craze, and as many as 120 people replied in a short span of time; some replies took almost a full page.