國產零零戚 / Made in China

I’ve been a member of planetromeo.com / gayromeo.com for about 8 years now and they are my preferred gay community site. Unlike other sites like gaydar.com, they are not solely focused on making money using a traditional sex sells approach. On Gayromeo, the community aspect is important, too!

Every year on easter, they have a easter egg hunt. Spread totally randomly across their site, any easter egg you find will give you some kind of benefit. And every year, I spend at least 2h of my life hunting them all down!

I thought this year I could give other people like me a helping hand by listing them all below:

1. Yellow U egg: Settings – user interface
2. Yellow U egg: Top users with footprints – Really Sweet
3. Pink S egg: Webcam escorts worldwide; at the bottom of the page
4. Brown P egg: Main pic who you have wished happy easter
5. Pink P egg: Manage your photos – create new folder
6. Pink P egg: Show all benefits – download porn movies
7. Blue C egg: Planetromeo foundation main page

Jackie Chan has been greasing up a lot recently, preparing his big slide into some communist arses. Already famous for remarks saying that HK and Taiwan are too free and thus chaotic and that Chinese people need to be controlled and ruled （太自由了就变成香港今天這個樣子，很亂。而且變成台灣這個樣子，也很亂。。。我們中國人需要管的）, he is now taking it to a new level. Especially hilarious is the claim that Chinese citizenship is the hardest to obtain in the world （中國籍是全世界最難進的籍）.

In a failed attempt to circumvent Hulu’s IP geocode detection I setup Squid on my Slicehost server. While I totally underestimated Hulu’s intelligence (it’s much easier to deceive the BBC’s iPlayer), I’ve now got a working proxy server running on Ubuntu 8.10. Here’s a quick manual:

1. In the command line, type in: sudo apt-get install squid
2. Then type sudo nano /etc/squid/squid.conf to edit the file
3. Add the following lines to the top of the file:
   acl computer src 127.0.0.1
http_access allow computer
visible_hostname computer

4. Save the file by pressing: control o, then close nano with control x
5. Last, restart squid: sudo service squid restart

German Designer Stefan Ulrich came up the idea of a with a white shape-changing blob to alleviate the impact of loneliness using artificial muscle technology. With today’s ageing society and an increasing trend of singledom in urbanised areas I can easily see people turning to robots to satisfy their need for emotional companionship in 20 years time. Still: it’s creepy!

I posted this really funny video on my facebook and some of my friends strangely enough didn’t get that this was satire. Isn’t it actually obvious?

While I was on holiday in Paris, Google suddenly decided to send out Google Wave invitations … While I was unfortunate not to get one, I’m still hopeful (anybody out there got one?)

With the invitations first reviews have also started to flatter in. They range from completely negative feedback (eg. too complex, too noisy) to best invention ever.

In case you don’t know, Google Wave is an attempt to re-invent email and place it in the contemporary social context people on the net are used to. Here’s a quick 2 min intro video

Olympus released a really cool stop motion ad for it’s Pen series. Beautifully done!

Some guy out there turned his toaster into a SNES (or Super Nintoaster). How cool (or geeky) is that?!?! Check it out: