Stories about Humor from July, 2008
Serbia: Bob Marley Monument; Serbian Reggae
Belgrade 2.0 writes about a monument to Bob Marley that's about to open in northeastern Serbia and posts YouTube video samples of Serbian reggae.
Serbia: Cult of Milosevic
Sarah Franco of Cafe Turco and Jelena Markovic of Invisible Sights co-author a satirical text on “the cult” of Slobodan Milosevic.
Blogger lampoons Senegalese singer's foray into politics
Blog Politique au Senegal thinks Senegalese singer Demba Dia's candidacy for public office is hardly serious. But neither is politics in Senegal!
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.
Soviet History: Cars
Edward Lucas reviews a book about Soviet cars.
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.
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 Olympic games:
Guyana: Summer Time?
Guyana-Gyal notices some strange weather patterns at work in her neck of the woods…
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".
Japan: Door of the Year
The englishman shows some photos on the nominations for the Japan's Door of the Year award.
Brunei: Pencilnose campaign
Brunei blogger and GV author Maurina invites everyone to join the pencilnosing campaign.
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 slave-labour project]?” “The left bank was built by those who told the jokes, and the right bank by those who...
Touring Libyan Blogs: Summer, Diplomacy, Data Protection and the Right to Privacy
The sprawling summer days in Libya have kicked in fast bringing with them the beach season, which for me carries wafts of childhood holiday memories and funnily enough watermelons. As expected there were a few summer related posts on the Libyan blogosphere. After all with approximately 2000 km of coastline...
Belarus: Change
Darkness at Noon writes about change in Belarus – “the kind that the cashier gives back at the store.”
China: Canteen=Translate Server Error
Buxi posts a funny photo of a translation error caused by the failure of online translation server.
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 social problems happened within 36 days. (Via Zhao Mu's Blog)
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.
