· August, 2007

Stories about Humor from August, 2007

China: Google and Baidu Spoof War

William Long posted some spoofing videos produced by Google and Baidu, in which, Google called Baidu “hundred poisons” and Baidu mocked google as a foreign / alien company (zh). Spoof...

8 August 2007

Africa: African music meets China

African music meets China, via Museke: “A couple of years ago, a friend showed me a video of a Chinese man singing Makossa songs. Zhen Ping Liu, popularly known as...

4 August 2007

Central Asia: Carrying money

Joshua Kucera describes that with the highest denominations being worth less than a dollar, men have to wear fancy leather purses for carrying their money throughout Central Asia.

3 August 2007

Thailand: No to Coups

Siam Sentinel comments on the news that Thailand's new draft charter is making coups unconstitutional. The blogger finds the news amusing as the current government came into power after a...

1 August 2007

Malaysia: RM100k a month for Blogging

Suanie is asking bloggers who earn RM 100K a month to stand up and teach her their blogging tricks. This is after a Malaysian ruling party's information chief accused some...

1 August 2007

Peru: Celebrating Independence Day

Peruvian bloggers celebrated their country's independence day with tributes to their homeland. On their blogs, they wrote posts highlighting what they love about Peru and reflections about what makes their country unique.

1 August 2007