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As if having the world’s biggest population is not good enough, China continues with the obsession of producing “miracles” and applying for Guinness World Records. Until 2011, China has already held 454 Guinness world records, which made it the 7th most Guinness record holding country in the world. While there are some truly amazing records in the book, many others are simply vain attempts for attention. Still it is entertaining to know that somewhere sometime there are a certain group of people devote themselves to setting bizarre records. Nowadays setting a Guinness world record is often used as a way of creating buzz to promote business and local tourism.
In 2007 Chongqing City, Wei Sheng set the record for being able to put 1790 needles on his head.
In 2014 Shenzhen City, 1361 students were made to play “Sing for Our Country” together in order to break a instrument playing record set by Slovenia. However not everyone’s entertained with the idea.
In 2011 Chongqing City, 14,345 people came together to set the record of world’s most crowded hot spring.
In 2007 Inner Mongolia, world’s tallest person Bao Xishun (2.36m) shook hand with He Pingping (0.73m).
In 2005 Jilin Province, Zhang Xing dragged a 24 ton tram with his belly for as far as 50 meters.
In 2013 Sichuan, world’s most expensive tea Panda Tea is claimed to sell for 440,000 RMB per kilo. The panda tea get the name from using panda’s feces as fertilizer.
In 2009 Beijing, 340,000 people were doing Tai Chi in front of the Bird’s Nest Stadium, setting a new world record to celebrate the one year anniversary of Beijing Olympics.
In 2013 Sichuan Province, world’s biggest Mahjong competition in the world – 2380 people playing Mahjong at the same time to compete for the god of Mahjong title.
In 2012, Henan Province, a company put 23,171 pants together to make the world’s biggest pattern – 6381.61 square meters.
In 2014, Xiamen City, world’s most participated ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – 1000 people.
In 2010, Xi’an City, 1005 people enjoying foot massage together to break the relevant Guinness World Records.
In 2013 Jiangxi Province, 10,083 people soaked their feet together to set the record of most participated foot bath in the world.
In 2012 Jiangsu Province, a vinegar production company successfully claimed the record of world’s biggest vinegar jug.
In 2010 Liaoning Province, 2011 snowmen were lighted up by fireworks to create the biggest snowman pattern.
In 2005 Jiangxi Province Jingde Town which is famous for making china, a little girl was sitting inside a giant china shoe. The two china shoes are 1.22m long and 44cm and 52cm high respectively. The shoes broke the Guinness World Record of longest shoes at the time – 66.6cm.
In 2012 Shanghai, world’s biggest sofa – 6.8m high, 7.7m wide – was on displayed in a shopping mall.
In 2011 Urumqi, world’s biggest microphone was born with 2.8m length and 80cm diameter.
In 2011 Guangxi Province, 500 copper drums were played all together to set a Guinness World Record of its own.
In 2007 Yunnan Province, the local government organized 1000 performers to do a hair whipping dance in order to apply for Guinness World Record.
In 2010 Beijing, 120 babies were made to swim in a swimming pool for 5 minutes to set a Guinness World Record.
In 2013 Hunan, a team of chefs made the world’s biggest double-color fish head, a famous Hunan dish. The fish they used was 1.4m long and 51kg.
In 2013 Anhui Province, a building with a Fengyang drum design was open to the public. The building is 18m in height and 61m in diameter, which is applying for Guinness World Record of biggest drum shape building.
In 2013 Jiangsu Province, a brass puffer fish sculpture was erected by putting 7000 pieces of brass together. The sculpture fish weighs 2100 ton.
Spain has bullfighting, Americas has cockfighting, over here in China we have equally if not more heavily invested cricket fighting. The age old sport has been celebrated in China for over a thousand years, punctuated only by the Cultural Revolution(1966-1976). Today it is still widely played throughout the country. In fact, cricket fighting has become one of the pillar industries in Ningyang, Shandong Province, generating over 10 million RMB transaction revenue annually. From catching, selling to training and fighting, cricket fighting is a full bloomed gaming business filled with emotional and financial thrills.
Among Ningyang crickets, the ones from Sidian Town are renowned for high winning rate and thus favored even by the Emperor. According to China Cricket Association, Sidian Town boosts calcareous brown soil with the right PH value for growing grain crops, making it the biggest cricket market in North China. In Sidian Town, almost every household is involved in the cricket business ranging from cricket catching, selling to opening hotels for cricket buyers from all over the country.
August announces the high season for cricket transaction. Farmers in Sidian Town are ready to act – more than 80% of them participate in catching cricket. 51 years old Li Xiangui has been catching crickets for over 20 years. If he is diligent enough, he can pocket more than 10,000 RMB (about 1600 USD) just in August. The most skillful household can make up to 100,000 RMB.
The responsibility is well distributed – men catch cricket at night, women sell them during the day. In this cricket market of Sidian Town, mid-aged women dominate the seller stands.
Buyers can come from all corners of the country, but people from Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province seem to be more passionate with the bug. Take Hangzhou City as an example, when Ningyang cricket arrive at Hangzhou market, the price can be double or more.
Children here are also enthusiastic about cricket fighting. The boy is describing to his friend how sharp his cricket’s teeth are.
If you think cricket fighting is just for farmers and retires, think again. According to Hangzhou Cricket Association, 3 of its 270 members are presidents of listed companies, and more than 10 are millionaires. As you can see from the photo, luxury cars are not uncommon in the cricket market.
In the cricket market, buyers come here and rent a stand to receive farmers with crickets to sell. In the morning, it is usually seller market, buyers approach farmers as soon as he step in the market; but in the afternoon, the tide changes to buyer market.
Cricket buying is also a technical job where professional equipments apply. For instance, the electronic scale is to detail the weight of each purchase, since crickets can only fight opponents in the same weight range.
Depending on its size and quality, a cricket’s price can vary from a few yuan to couple of thousands. Rumor has it that Sidian Town once sold a cricket for 300,000 RMB (about 4800 USD). The one in the photo was sold for 360 RMB (about 58 USD)
32-year-old Di Shuge has been in the business for 15 years. Starting from catching to today’s collecting and selling, he is a beloved frequent of Sidian Cricket Market. Many farmers present him their best catch. Di Shuge runs a farming workshop in his hometown Dezhou City, during cricket season he would come to Sidian Town to buy cricket and sell them back to Dezhou. Each year he can expect to make 30,000-50,000 RMB broking crickets.
Back to his hotel, Di Shuge immediately open the box to check on his recent conquer. He says if he didn’t come to the town for crickets, he couldn’t have slept nor eaten with ease. “Feels like something’s missing” Says the cricket broker.
Every August and September, Shanghai will increase its long distance coaches to benefit the cricket tourists. Inside the coach are full of boxes of crickets. Sidian Town opens a new way of getting rich for its township as well as residents around. It seems that the media’s urge to protect the decreasing crickets are powerless in the face of market economy and people’s desire for wealth.
Man Guozhi is a truck driver and a senior cricket player with 40 years of experience. Man Guozhi’s home has plenty of china cricket jugs. The photo in his hand is his once favorite general “Red Teeth”, winning him the champion title of the 2004 cricket fighting competition.
In preparing his fighters for the competition, Man Guozhi pays good attention to the feeding and training process. Cricket feeds is a delicate mixture of bean powder, skim milk, liver powder, grains and fish powder etc. The cricket’s living environment is also important, he makes sure the temperature is kept at 25 degree, humid but no water accumulated, and 12 hours exposure to sunlight. Some people even hire professional cricket keeper to maintain their fighters before the game.
During the competition, referee shoulders the responsibility of dividing the crickets into different weight range and assign fighting teams. To get the fight started, players use a long stick to tease the cricket’s antenna to get them to fight.
In November 2005, Beijing City Police ended a cricket gambling group and confiscated all the tools and crickets. The thousand years old game has provided Chinese with immense pleasure, for those who invest in the play, some pride themselves with the winning titles, some harvest high return on their investment. It is truly a game of shrill.
From the author of HTML For Babies comes the sequel, Web Design For Babies. Your baby probably won’t understand this book, but on the off chance that he does, the sheer weight of the world’s mediocrity will crush his spirit before he’s old enough to walk. There is no joy in Web Design For Babies.
You may notice the website has a new coat of paint (thanks Sam!) and more importantly a random button, which I recommend you try out. It’s like Russian roulette, except all chambers have bullets, and the bullets are all comics, and you shoot the gun directly at your funny bone. Except sometimes you miss and everyone gets mad at you. At me.
This is not a good analogy. I hope your day is going well
Sept 1 is the official school opening day in mainland China. Many pupils will happily grab their school bags and flock to the joyful headquarter of buddies and games. However, that is not the case for 6 years old girl Liu Xinyi, whose first day of school was greeted by no playmate other than the one and only teacher in the school.
In a rural village of Enshi City, Hubei Province, more and more peasants have no other ways of making a living but to migrate to the city for work, bringing away with them their children. The local school has been suffering from student shortage since 2008, with average attendant of less than 10.
53-year-old Xie Shikui has been teaching in this school for 36 years, and since long time ago he has been the sole caretaker of and teacher of the school.
At lunch break, the teacher will make lunch for him and his student.
After school, Mr Xie will accompany his only student home.
All weekend I’ve been thinking about relevance. When Twitter first took off, it delivered. So much of my Twitter feed was filled with timely, interesting material that it became addictive.
But over time Twitter became more of a platform for self-promotion, corporate advertisement, and random, passive-aggressive posts from college roommates. It went from “check out this amazing article I read” to “look at me because I said so.” That’s just not relevant to me.
Facebook never really delivered on relevance, but it was at least new and fresh for a while. Now it feels like an obligation. Happy Birthday. Yes, I like your new hat. Congratulations on your anniversary. Oooh, she’s so cute. And, of course, buy this stuff from Nordstrom.
But blogs and RSS, like email and websites, remain. They are solely focused on delivering relevant information. Could they be better? Heck yes. Check out my queue after I spent several hours reading yesterday:
Yikes, that’s a lot of reading left to do. But that’s 2,619 posts with the highest signal to noise ratio I’m going to see all day. We’re hard at work with ideas to make that even better. And we believe that social is going to be the key in improving that ratio.
We’ll have more on that in the future. But for now, let’s all get back to blogging and reading. May your screen be filled with relevance.
No, these aren’t light vomiting fish, though you would be forgiven for thinking so because that’s exactly what it looks like. What you’re seeing is the defense mechanism of a tiny crustacean called an ostracod, a shrimp-like organism about 1mm in size that some fish accidentally eat while hunting for plankton. When eaten by a translucent cardinalfish, the ostracod immediately releases a bioluminescent chemical in an attempt to illuminate the fish from the inside, making it immediately identifiable to predators. WHAT. Not wanting to be eaten, the cardinalfish immediately spits out the ostracod, resulting in little underwater fish fireworks. What an incredible game of evolutionary cat and mouse. The clip above is from a new show on BBC Two called Super Senses. If you’re in the UK you can watch it online in HD for a few more days. (via For Science Sake)
I asked the world to make art with EA's new Madden GIF generator. The world did not disappoint. Here is my contribution, followed by the best GIFs I received on Twitter. The header image comes to us courtesy @devinconnors.
If you want to create your own, go to this page. To grab the GIF file, drag your creation to the URL bar in your browser and it will load the standalone GIF. Then share it in our comments!
It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870
I CAN ANSWER THIS!!
In the Cornish dialect of English, Pokemon meant ‘clumsy’ (pure coincidence).
In the mid 1800s there was a surge of writing about the Cornish language and dialect in an attempt to preserve them with glossaries and dictionaries being written. I wrote about it HERE.
I just love that this post happened to find the ONE HUMAN ON THE INTERNET who had the answer to this question
Okay i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again bc nobody else seems to have thought of this, how was there temporary internet in 1870
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LA Times, 1989 - William J. Bennett, federal drug policy coordinator, said Thursday night he had no moral qualms about beheading convicted drug dealers.
"Morally, I don't have any problem with that at all," Bennett said when asked on the CNN program "Larry King Live" call-in television show, whether he would support Saudi Arabian-style beheadings to deter drug dealers.
... Bennett, who heads the Bush Administration's fight against illegal drugs, said the idea of beheading was "morally plausible" but legally difficult.
"I mean ask most Americans: if they saw somebody out on the street selling drugs to their kid, what they would feel morally justified in doing--tear them limb from limb.
"There's no moral problem there. I used to teach ethics--trust me," he told the talk show host.
Bennett went on to say that he would like to see more use of the death penalty.
Diffs now come in two flavors, unified and split. Switch between them on pull request, commit, and compare pages using the toggle in the top right of the page. The mode you last used will become your preferred default.
conway's architecture renders got really realistic even back in school, gogo blender3d and friends, they all have "camera" filters that do all the proper blurring and higher order lens flaws. Raytracing is as realistic as it gets :D
An amazing 75% of the images in an Ikea catalog are not photographs but CGI.
…the real turning point for us was when, in 2009, they called us and said, “You have to stop using CG. I’ve got 200 product images and they’re just terrible. You guys need to practise more.” So we looked at all the images they said weren’t good enough and the two or three they said were great, and the ones they didn’t like were photography and the good ones were all CG! Now, we only talk about a good or a bad image – not what technique created it.”
"We used to have R.V.s and precooked meals," said a man who attends Burning Man with a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs... "Now, we have the craziest chefs in the world and people who build yurts for us that have beds and air-conditioning." He added with a sense of amazement, "Yes, air-conditioning in the middle of the desert!"
His camp includes about 100 people from the Valley and Hollywood start-ups, as well as several venture capital firms. And while dues for most non-tech camps run about $300 a person, he said his camp's fees this year were $25,000 a person. A few people, mostly female models flown in from New York, get to go free, but when all is told, the weekend accommodations will collectively cost the partygoers over $2 million.
Such camps, reports Bilton, also included "Sherpas" that serve as servants.
For a photographer living in a major city filled with iconic architecture, museums, and myriad tourist destinations, the struggle to capture an authentic image is great. This was the exact situation photographer Michael Wolf found himself in after moving to Paris from Hong Kong in 2008. Surrounded in a city filled with sights that could easily be interpreted as cliché, Wolf pointed his camera away from the recognizable landmarks and instead focused on the dense rooftops surrounding the city. Packed with stout chimneys, tv antennas, graffiti, and numerous geometric forms, these shots present a strange abstracted view of a usually recognizable place.
Wolf’s “Paris Abstract” series is currently on view at Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco through September 6, 2014. (via Juxtapoz)
if you don't have time for the whole thing, jump to 9:30ish
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On August 20, a possible gunman was reported on the campus of California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), and orders to "Shelter-In-Place" (S-I-P) were put out until a SWAT team finally surrounded their suspect, "a staff member carrying a large umbrella and carry bag."
NBC 7 said, "The first report came in as a man with a long gun" walking on campus.
After about 30 minutes of S-I-P, staff member Bill Craig realized he fit the description of the possible gunman and surrendered himself to police. A SWAT team surrounded Craig and determined he had no gun in his possession.
Earlier this morning there was a report to University Police of a possible gunman at CSUSM. The campus was immediately placed on lock down. Police performed a security sweep and determined that the suspect was not armed, but was a staff member carrying a large umbrella and carry bag. We are grateful for the quick response by our police officers to the perceived threat and to our campus community for their cooperation during the brief state of emergency.
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I do not officially have a bucket list1 but if I did have one, watching a total solar eclipse would be on it. Was just talking about it the other day in fact. Well. I am pretty damn excited for the Great American Eclipse of 2017!
In August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States will see nature's most wondrous spectacle -- a total eclipse of the Sun. It is a scene of unimaginable beauty; the Moon completely blocks the Sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight, and the Sun's corona shimmers in the darkened sky. This is your guide to understand, prepare for, and view this rare celestial event.
It goes right through the middle of the country too...almost everyone in the lower 48 is within a day's drive of seeing it. Cities in the path of the totality include Salem, OR, Jackson, WY, Lincoln, NE, St. Louis, MO (nearly), Nashville, TN, and Charleston, SC.
Weather will definitely play a factor in actually seeing the eclipse, so I will be keeping an eye on Eclipser ("Climatology and Maps for the Eclipse Chaser") as the event draws near. Early analysis indicates Oregon as the best chance for clear skies. Matt, I am hereby laying claim to your guest room in three years time. So excited!!
[1] Also on this hypothetical bucket list: dunking a basketball, going to outer space, learning to surf, and two chicks at the same time. ↩
Why Burning Man is not an example of a loosely regulated tech utopia
