TV is dead.

Tuesday really sucks when it comes to TV. There's nothing to watch. I remember when I was a teenager, that was between 1990-1995, TV was number one. Nobody had laptops and internet, there was no chats, no Twitter, no Facebook, no blogging, no online news or You-Tube. Sure, these things are nice, but they make us estranged and isolated. Where are those saturday evenings when the whole family gathered infront of the TV and watched a show together? A show that would be discussed on Monday with your school mates? Or those Saturday night movies like Rambo or Die Hard or some Arnie flick. I remember how the discussion about the movie was more exciting than the movie itself. Have you seen how he punched him? Have you seen how he tricked them all? Those where the times when you knew that action heroes are real heroes with high values and morals. It was predictable and sometimes silly, but I loved happy ends. I loved those last scenes where the hero kissed a woman or where the kid said: Dad, I love you and he replied: I love you, too, champ.
And what we have now? A Batman full of vengeance, a blond James Bond full of anger? Most of the movies nowadays are sometimes so complicated, that you really don't get the begining and the end. Some just don't make sense and a happy end is rather exceptional than the norm. Movies nowadays are about special effects rather than plots. That's why you get something for the eye, but nothing for the brain and heart. There's exceptions, of course. But I'm talking about Bolly I mean Hollywood, the mainstream suppliers of movies. (Where's the difference anyway?) So, sometimes, when I off my laptop and sit infront of the TV, I just keep switching those channels and there's nothing to watch. Always, when I'm online on my laptop reading or writing a blog, I have CNN on. 10 years ago I would have MTV on... But what can I do? MTV is dead, too! I'm sick of those moronic 'reality shows' like Rock of Love or Paris Hilton looks for BFF. These shows are all fake and trashy. MTV should change its name, it's not a music television anymore. It's a freaking Freak show TV (what a sentence, if you use this one, please quote me). Anyway. TV is dead. It's shallow, fake and boring. One day I will tell my kids how it used to be. They will hardly believe me.
So, TV is dead. Internet is now about 15 years old, it's a teenager. Soon it'll be full age, then grown up... and it'll die around 2050 (my prediction). I'm sure something else will be born instead. But who knows... Ok, I'm switching off now. (Garfield)

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MSN Messenger spam

How they do that? To spam you when you're chatting on MSN. Today I chatted with my girlfriend. I guess she lost connection and suddenly switching from a private conversation I get this:

mate you wont believe, ever thought you could make money from Google guys? i just made 13$ so far loll in a damn few hours doing searches and filling out forms i love now hehe

http://my-google-money.com/

How can they do this and how to prevent it? It's really annoying, because I get this crap from some friend's MSN accounts while they're being offline. Did I catch a virus or is it MSN's problem?

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Play him off, keyboard cat.

Apparently after the 'Rickroll' phenomenon on You-Tube, there's a brand new thing of a simillar kind: 'The keyboard cat'. This video is hillarious! Both parts blend it together perfectly. I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw it. It's also another proof of the so (in)famous Christian 'tolerance.'

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Chinabounder left a comment on my blog

I was a little surprised when I saw that the formerly 'infamous' ChinaBounder left a comment on my blog. It was on my post about Jackie Chan's remarks that 'Chinese maybe had to be controlled and that Taiwan was chaotic'. In that article I also quoted his post that tackles the same topic as well: His thoughts on Taiwan and it's democracy. I really liked his post. Here's his comment on my blog:

ChinaBounder said...

"It’s a disgraceful comment. Chan, like so many governments around the world, is obviously prepared to betray democracy and the ideals of freedom to keep Beijing happy. When there’s money to be made, few people stand up for truth.

Taiwan is a fine example to China, and should be honored by the world for its achievements; but it gets almost no respect."

So after I saw this, I checked the link of his comment and it lead me to the real ChinaBounder's blog (Sex in Shanghai / 欲望上海). It was indeed him. I just wondered how he found me. I remember leaving few comments on his blog some while ago, but he has so many comments on each post that I wasn't sure if he really reads them. Since his last post was from October 2008, I thought he wasn't active. I guess I was wrong.
In the past, I already thought of writing something about this 'ChinaBounder scandal'. And his comment initiated me to do so today.
So many people asked who was Chinabounder. Well, that was never my question. I always asked myself what is wrong with the Chinese netizens to react the way they did. First of all, I will always defend freedom of speech! You just can't attack freedom of speech. Period. Second, you can agree with Chinabounder or not, you can believe everything he writes or not. But what some of the 'offended' people were doing, was really crazy. I remember the Chinese professor who in his nationalistic tirade basically called for a witch hunt and public lynching of the author behind ChinaBounder. That was scary. Various blogs showed up with the purpouse of finding ChinaBounder. They analized all his words, all the information found in his posts, just to find him. One of them is this one. I imagine how a bunch of angry Chinese teenagers and twenty-somethings wander around Shanghai and try to find him. They were probably angry at every Westerner they saw. That's scary. But they made a huge mistake. ChinaBounder wrote a lot about the Chinese male and female, about the system and about the Chinese society in general. I didn't agree on everything that he wrote on his blog, but there was a lot of truth in his posts. And that's the point. The reaction of Chinese totally confirmed what he was saying. I was thinking what if a supposed Chinese expat would write about his sexcapades in Europe, let's say in Britain. Nobody would care! Nobody would translate the whole blog in English, there wouldn't be online forums and groups trying to find this guy, to unmask and expell (and possibly lynch) him. Even if he wrote how bad is our society here in Europe, if he wrote about the European male being this and that... Nobody would care. And I'm sure same would go for America. That's the difference between a dictatorship and democracy, between people who can develop their own independent critical minds and people who are used to follow orders from above, people who get their thoughts and behavior imposed by the government. So it really doesn't matter wheather ChinaBounder is David Marriot, a former British graduate or if it's a group of more authors or if it's someone else.
This online outrage taught me a lot. It made me realize that one should not take freedom of speech online (and offline) for granted. Freedom, democracy, free press, being able to protest the government should never be taken for granted. We have to be aware of that. The powerful need to know their power's boundaries. They can't be above the law, they can't step on our constitution.
And finally, my thoughts on ChinaBounder's sex stories. I found them amusing. When I read them, I read them as novels. I didn't imagine it was all true and exact as it was said. The sex was displayed pretty graphic, but it wasn't the main point. I liked how he described these women and their mindset. I liked the issues that come with a love triangle, with cheating and having a lover. That's classical and it's not unique to any culture. If you have a husband, who doesn't show interest in you and you find a lover, it's not something new. It happens in the West all the time. The difference in ChinaBounder's stories is that he combined this fact with the whole Chinese society and with the government and it's restrictions on freedom, that has it's effects on the whole society. It made me think about how their government measures sucess: in growth of economy. How about the growth of ideals, values and freedoms?
And my final thought: I'm positive that there were (and still are) many young Chinese who disagreed with the professor's call for ChinaBounder's exile and couldn't identify themselves with the whole reaction to ChinaBounder's blog. People who may have been abroad and seen the difference. People who don't fall for cheap nationalism and don't get upset by few posts on a blog. I just hope there's enough of them to change China's political system one day.

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If you google 'find Chuck Norris'

I came across this thing online. Here's how it goes. Write in Google 'find Chuck Norris' and then hit 'I'm feeling lucky'. Then you'll get this (see picture on the left or try it yourself). I don't know how someone made this, but it's really funny. Made my evening.

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Faith Fighter: People complain, God doesn't

This morning I followed a link on my friend's tweet and it brought me to this article. It's about the game 'Faith Fighter', where you can chose between God, Jesus, Buddha, Ganesha, Budai and Muhammad to fight against each other. Of coursereligious people started complaining, this time all of them were united and demanding the game has to be banned, it's disrespectful and similar bla bla we keep hearing everytime someone tells a Jesus joke or a Muhammad cartoon...
So I went to check out the game myself and it's fun. They even give you the choice to chose Muhammad censored (see picture below). That's a good joke, it made me think which Muslim would chose the censored one? Would he chose the uncesnored one? Or would he chose none? It's funny to imagine. Same goes for Christians. Big question: Should I chose God or Jesus? For me it's a fun game, you should try it out and just not take it seriously. And I hope it won't get banned, because if you're so offended by a game like this, then first of all - question your own faith. Are you really that petty? Can't you rise above these kind of earthly nonsense?
I think the core issue of things like these is that a joke has a lot of truth in it. The more you can laugh about religion, the more you realize it is a big hoax. I tolerate religious people who keep their religion or beliefs personal. But I hate those phonies who don't practise what they preach. They're usually the loudest when it comes to complaints, that's why I'm happy if this game is another thing that will make them upset. (and if you liked that game, here's another funny blog for you: The Jesus Gang, enjoy).

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Teabaggers, eat this!

(Source)

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Create your own Southpark character

I came across a website named Devbook.com where you can
create your own Southpark character. I tried to create
myself and my girl friend. Go and try it yourself! It's fun.

I had to use Naruto's hair. I may not be as blond and
I have shorter hair, but it does resemble me a bit. ;)

The only thing that makes her look Chinese are
the chopsticks. And yes, she loves ice cream. :)

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»You deserve to be bigger!«

Who takes these 'enlargement' spam mails seriosuly? Seriously. It's just stupid. (Look at those email titles!) I keep getting these emails only on my Yahoo account, on MSN I have a strong filter, so I get almost no spam. I hate spam. But luckily it declined. Few years ago you could get 100 spam mails a day. I'm glad they increased the filters, but they still haven't fully managed to get rid of those annoying emails. I hope the future will be spam-free.

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Rolex Sea-Dweller Deepsea

Rolex usually doesn't stun me with the design of their watches, but
when they do, they really do it in a big way. I found online these
photos of the Deepsea 2008. Just enjoy! (source)

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Tribute to Laura Ling and Euna Lee

Two American reporters, Laura Ling (on the left) and Euna Lee (on the right) were detained by North Korea. Allegedly they were illegally intruding in the great state of North Korea, crossing the border from China. I don't know what they were doing in those areas, but I hope they won't get harmed or abused in the great state of the beloved leader Kim Jong-gravely-ill. If you google Laura Ling, you'll see she's quite famous, while Euna is less so. Nevertheless, let's hope both of them will return safe and sound out of the great state of North Korea and won't be used for North Korean propaganda against the USA.

[Photos: Yahoo]

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I tweet!

Finally I created an account on Twitter... But so far people here don't use it so much, so I don't have any friends to follow... Hopefully that'll change soon. Let's see if Twitter is fun.

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