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At last all the social media BS can be revealed with a site called What The F… Is My Social Media Strategy which will generate your strategy for you. See example gem below. So you no longer need to hire over-paid pseudo long haired time wasting consultants to define your strategy for you. Joy.

Video of Australian band Axis of Awesome demonstrating why all pop songs sound the same: four chords.

Every so often Shanghai goes through various schemes to improve how it looks. For example, we’ve had the ban on the hanging out of washing and a general disapproving eye turned on the wearing of pajamas in the street. These schemes usually take hold when they’re first introduced for a few weeks then gradually everything goes back to the way it was. Take spitting for example, during SARS there were lots of public service posters about spitting, it declined a lot. The problem is a Shanghai male cannot pass an ashtray or a urinal with out feeling the…

According to the China Daily an average of 2.1 billion SMS messages are sent per day in China. Imagine the infrastructure required to support such volume. The monitoring systems must be huge! Gotta go and delete some junk Chinese SMSs from my phone…

Nice cup of tea and a biscuit? There’s a standard for that. British Standard 6008 available from the BSI for a mere GBP 32 or for free on Scribd and from this Hacker News thread. But wait, British standards are not enough. It is also an International Standard - ISO 3103. It turns out ISO have a whole range of tea related standards. Good to see our taxes being put to good use.