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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...

This tool converts pinyin and tone numbers into pinyin with tone marks above the correct vowels. It's fully written in Javascript, so it's very fast and doesn't require page loads.

Steven over at Suzhou-Atlas has a good post about some re-designs BMW has done to their 5-series (with Chinese characteristics) to better suit the "I wanna be an emperor" market that is so prevalent among China's upper-crust.

A creatively edited post over at the 88s makes a good point about the quick-to-rage Chinese netizens. Though the post uses a prank of a site to draw its conclusions, it's still a good read.

Beijing subway's line 2 was closed to passengers on the morning of July 21. The closure coincided with the introduction of a new system whereby cars are only allowed to drive on alternate days depending on their license plate numbers.

Floorplanner.com, a very handy online tool to create and share interactive floor plans for your house or office space has just released a Chinese version. It's FREE for personal use :-) Check it out at www.floorplanner.cn

Chinese netizens talk about pictures showing post-90s generation Chinese students during military training, comparing their behavior to previous generations.

Here’s one of the areas where Baidu is actually behind in its own market comparative to Google (unlike my previous post on how Google is so far behind in understanding China and in localizing the Chinese market).

Chinese courts and academics are currently debating over whether QQ numbers should be regarded as property. According to the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau, they receive about ten reports per day of stolen virtual assets.