· July, 2008

Stories about Humor from July, 2008

China: Olympic Condom

Consumer products in China try very hard to capture the Olympic concept in their product. This Olympic condom ads has become rather popular in the internet.

17 July 2008

Palestine: Obama in the News

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is making headlines this week in the Palestinian blogosphere: partly for his impending visit to the West Bank and partly for his turn on the cover of this week's New Yorker. Jillian York reviews Palestinian blogs.

16 July 2008

China: Noise games

Always a cynic and hardly a hater, humor blogger Wang Xiaofeng posted this today (and only this) with the title ‘noise games’, a play on the Chinese word for the...

16 July 2008

Brazil: “Forget adsense, I want a banner from the Senate!”

A blogger uncovered the story: the Brazilian Senate pays a monthly fee of US$ 30,084.61 for a 120×60 banner on an unknown website. Bloggers are now humorously trying to get a similar deal with the Senators, with many publishing the banner: "Dear Senators: Advertise on my site".

14 July 2008

Soviet History: Politcal Jokes

One more review, by Edward Lucas, of the book on Soviet-time jokes – and one more joke from the book: “Who built the White Sea canal [Stalin’s single most murderous...

10 July 2008

China: Interviewing Mr. Strong Pig

A netizen wrote a funny dialogue between a reporter and Mr. Strong Pig (a pig survived in the Sichuan earthquake for 36 days) for reflecting media operation and spoofing various...

7 July 2008

Puerto Rico: Number Two

Gil the Jenius takes a light-hearted look at the news that Puerto Rico has fallen to second place in a world happiness survey.

3 July 2008