Stories about Humor from August, 2006
Russia: Portraits of Putin
Samson Sholademi – LJ user sholademi, journalist of a Russian tabloid Express Gazeta – displays a unique drawing collection on his blog: portraits of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, made by...
East Timor: DIY Swimming Pool
The blogger at Tumbleweed at Timor Lorosae discovers a swimming pool right in the middle of a road in East Timor.
Indonesia: Toilet with a View
Maya, an Indonesian blogger in France finds an open air toilet on an ancient wall by the Mediterranean sea and wonders if anyone ever uses it.
China: CCTV -1 condom
A man in Fujian is trying to register a brand of condoms he calls “Central 1 condom” (zhong yang yi tao), which refers to CCTV-1. Ah Q weekly looks into...
Singapore: Life in the 80s
Smoot blogs about a article going around Singapore's online space about the life in the 1980s Singapore.
Voices from Kazakhstan
Welcome to our latest round-up of blog posts and online discussions that took place in the Kazakhstani blogosphere in the last two weeks. We start off with Russian-language neweurasia Kazakhstan...
Hungary: Naming a Bridge
Pestiside.hu writes about bridge-naming efforts in the Hungarian capital.
Slovakia: Two Pravdas
Deleted By Tomorrow writes about Pravda.sk: “‘Slovakia's most widely read broadsheet,’ which means I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-feet pole, the daily newspaper Pravda was sold recently to the...
Japan: no smoking
Lee in Tokyo Times blogs about smoking restriction signs in Japan.
China: Yao Ming resturant?
Dan Washburn in Shanghaiist investigates whether Yao Ming had really openned up a resturant in Shanghai: what the People's Daily is calling the Yao Restaurant is really Yeeha.
Panama: The Butterfest
Eric Levy has built the reputation of a very popular and smart Geek in Panama. The Jewish, Panamanian comic-book creator has developed a new event that started almost 5 years...
Sri Lanka: Wedding
Boycy coins the A-Z terminology of a typical Sri Lankan wedding.
Cable TV is a right
The Sri Lankan blogosphere is concerned by the Sri Lankan government's decision of shutting down LBN & CBNSat cable TV services in the country and more to follow. Hundreds of thousands of subscribers are affected by this. Lanka Libertarian ironically puts that the Sri Lankan government should make cable tv a basic human right shielded by the constitution.
Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere
Gushers of cool at the local Mall in Warsaw – by Embe, WarsawDaily Poland is a hotspot in a few ways this week. While the heatwave is starting to take...
