Cultural Revolution Propaganda Posters

Being a Chinese Linguist, I’m pretty much facinated with the events of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I even bought Mao’s Little Red Book during my visit to China in 1999.

Here is a great collection of vintage Cultural Revolution era posters. And don’t worry, they are accompanied by an English translation.

 

Speaking of Propaganda Posters…

Soviet era propaganda posters. There is even an option to send a “Soviet Ecard” to your buddies.

This site is not captioned in English.

 

Optical Illusion

It Looks Like it’s Moving, But it’s Not.

 

Hit List!

Are you on the RIAA hit list?

If you use Kazaa at all, you’d better check out this list of users who have been issued subpoenas for downloading music.

Although this seems pretty serious, and for those caught up in it I’m sure it is, it really looks like the last dying breath of an old dinosaur. I wonder where it will all end…

 

Heroic Family Fights City Hall…And Wins!

Judge rules controversial treehouse to stay aloft

The Welch family (clockwise, from below), mom Mary, Cooper, 1, dad Scot, Shelby, 8, Riley, 4, and Tucker, 6, enjoy the good news handed down by Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green on Wednesday allowing the treehouse to stand.

The city of Clinton contends a $5,000 treehouse built by Scot and Mary Welch for their children in the front yard of their Kitchings Street home violates city ordinances and should be removed.

“What began as a place for child play has turned into a war zone of wills,” Green said in her opinion. “The battle cry involved the issue of whether the city can blow the children’s playhouse down.”

 

Pollingreport.com

Pollingreport.com is “an independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.”

I like to just kind of browse this site once and awhile and occasionally gasp and wonder at what other people actually believe.

 

One of the Funniest Film Reviews I Have Ever Read.

I don’t know why, but this is one of the funniest movie reviews I have ever read. I’m no JLo fan, but I think I’m gonna watch this movie based solely on this review alone.

 

Urban Legend?

Couple plan divorce after bumping into each other at beach

A Romanian couple are planning a divorce after they bumped into each other at a seaside resort while both were pretending to be elsewhere.

The two were talking to each other on their mobile phones when they collided on the beach of Mamaia on the Black Sea, reports the Ziarul daily.

If this is true, it’s pretty damn funny. However, I expect this little story will be making its way to Snopes.com soon.