After the riot happened in Xinjiang, Northwestern China, where 140 people have been killed due to the clash between the demostrators and the police, the government of China controlled the country’s media by blocking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Two weeks ago, almost all Google services have also been blocked.
Design student Bang-yao Liu created a stop-motion video titled “Deadline” using Post-It notes as his senior project for Savannah College of Art and Design.
The family of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman who was shown dead on the streets during an Iranian protest rally on an amateur video, was reportedly forcibly kicked out of their home by Iranian authorities.
Most everyone knows by now that NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal had just been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, another second-round draft pick and approximately $500,000, despite Shaq having one year left on his Phoenix Suns contract. That’s noteworthy in itself, but what may be a bit more of a headturner is that Shaq didn’t seem to know about it.
Lindsay Lohan and Ryan Seacrest met up last Thursday to discuss a reality TV show about people that made bad choices and want to have a second chance.
Johan Van den Brande developed a Twitter client for Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer developed in 1982, which can be connected to a TV.
There have been some reports that the so-called “Twitpocalypse” bug, an engineering problem associated with Twitter passing the 2,147,483,647 tweet mark, has broken the Twitterrific application for the Mac, among other Twitter applications.
A Twitter user effectively spams his Twitter account to the point of being useless when, ironically, the online petition he started gets countless signatures.
