Internet | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity

When I stumbled upon Coral Content Distribution Network I thought it might help to view blocked pages in China. It does. Not always, but the German Wikipedia - not the English one - can be found as well as this blog.

You just need to append .nyud.net at the end of the URL to load it via Coral. For this site it’s http://thisandmine.com.nyud.net.

German news site Spiegel Online seems not to be available without VPN. Probably due to their coverage of the situation in Tibet.

Check this article on The Atlantic for details about Chinese internet censorship. (Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for the link.)

Webware found phrasr, another tool that translates words into pictures.

Skype updated its version 2.0 beta for Linux but I still don’t see any profile pictures on my 64-bit system. :-(

Hooray, lifehacker shows us how to open a letter with a pen. Who would have thought this was possible? Watch out for the next episodes about how to do it using a key or, highly audacious, a finger.

Good to know.

If you’d create a product, let’s say a website, wouldn’t you at least check the meaning of your name in the top ten languages? Well, doof didn’t.

According to HumanForSale.com I’m worth $2,457,100. CadaverForSale.com puts my remains at $3,710. So I’ll lose $2,453,390 by dropping dead.

Skype finally released version 2.0 beta for Linux including video support. Two years after it was first introduced in the Windows version and one year after Mac OS got it…

Techcrunch reports that the Chinese Government has blocked all RSS feeds. Luckily, they still seem to be accessible through Google Reader.

I’ve been trying to simpsonize myself for over a week now but the stupid site won’t let me:

Whoa! As the world is going Simpsons it is getting a little crowded in here. Come back a little later and try again.

Arg. It worked for a friend:

Zlango claims to be “the universal icon language”. I’m sceptical. It reminds me of all those tiny little pictures in the Chinese books trying to point out how the sign for “horse” developed from the drawing of the animal.

A real problem is the fact that they have very few icons and I have to admit that I wouldn’t understand most of them. Another analogy to Chinese…

I just told a Chinese friend that I started blogging but she couldn’t open the page. Google found out why. Wordpress.com, where this blog is hosted, is blocked in China what might become a problem when studying there…