Dave’s Wagon

Hat tip Riding Sun/Fark/Reuters on this one:
Chinese students spend summer holidays trading faces

Like a growing number of students in China, Pan Ou will spend her university vacation going under the knife in a plastic surgery procedure she hopes will boost her chances of getting a good job after graduation.
“I want to be more beautiful, to […]

In case you haven’t already seen it, here’s the viral video of moment. It’s a broadcast on CNN of one of Bush’s speeches in which anchor Kyra Phillips leaves her wireless microphone turned on as she chats with a coworker in the bathroom. Among other things, she calls her sister-in-law a “control freak” as she […]

Via the HaoHao Report, I found one Mark Wang’s China Map site. He’s whipped up a little web-based system which allows you to check off the provinces in China you’ve visited and then generate a map with them highlighted in red as well as the HTML script to display it on your own site. He […]

Even in a nation devoid of toilet paper-less squat toilets, I find exactly what I need for my upcoming trip.

It’s been said that a nation can’t truly be labeled as having a burgeoning middle class without the faked UFO videos that are the hallmark of tech savvy citizens with entirely too much time on their hands.

China is now officially such a nation.

The above video is claimed to have been shot in Nanjing and was […]