BBC Chinese still accessible Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 25, 2008 10:10 AM Unblocked after a media fuss at the beginning of the Olympics, the BBC's Chinese language website is still accessible the day after the closing ceremony, as are the websites of Amnesty International and Reporters San Frontieres which were unblocked at the same time as the BBC's Chinese pages. To the Net Nanny: note that the sky has not yet fallen. facebook bookmark HaoHao digg read
2008 Summer Olympic: Closing CeremonyLondon has big shoes to follow in 2012. China again provided an amazing spectacle at the closing ceremony of the 16-day world sport extravaganza and it will definitely be hard to top. read
Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing CeremonyBeijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony August 25th, 2008 emigre Posted in News | No Comments » It’s over. Yesterday’s Beijing 2008 Olympics closing ceremony and handover to Britain showed a glimpse of what Britain has to offer in the London 2012 Olympics. And boy, does it suck lemons compared to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Beginning right with the London 2012 Olympics Logo which looks like something from the portfolio of a first year design student. It’s strange because the UK is known f read
Our Canadian Athletes, The Best Part of UsThey choke when it really counts. We should send only winning athletes that we know will medal. Why are we wasting our tax dollars on all those athletes who don't get anywhere? We don't do summer sports; we're a winter country. Winter Olympics are the only ones that count. We don't win at real sports (variation: the horse did all the work). Fourth again. Just some of the usual things Canadians come out with at the Olympics. And then there is the media. CBC went one way this year, without Bri read
Clausura Beijing 2008No negaré el talento de los chinos mostrado en los últimos Juegos Olímpicos, la inauguración fue fastuosa y la clausura muy bella. De paso fue bueno oir los acordes de Jimmy Page (el de Led Zeppelin) con la guapa Leona Lewis. Personalmente no conocía la voz de Song Zuying (la que cantó con Plácido Domingo). También me gustó el abrazo cariñoso entre una rubia guapa que ahorita no recuerdo el nombre con el enorme jugador de basketball de la NBA. De la gala de gimnasia con la rusa Evgeniya Kanaeva read