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Let today be known as the day the Chinese government impaled the internet with its mighty spear of technology and added Flickr, Twitter, Hotmail, bing.com, live.com to its repertoire of blocked sites. Other sites blocked in China include: Blogspot, Tumblr, YouTube, WordPress, China Digital Times, and Huffington Post.

56minus1 speculates this may have to do with Ai Weiwei joining Twitter. Lostlaowai says it has to do with that special 20th anniversary on Thursday.

Whatever the reason, this isn’t making my “I hate China” week any better.

Edit: an exhaustive list of all the websites “down for maintenance” has been compiled. Check it out here.

College Boy 1: Why don’t you want to come?!
College Boy 2: It’s cold and rainy.
College Boy 1: Okay, it’s Earth.

I overheard a man speaking to someone on the phone at Barnes & Noble:

I am so tired of women. The first thing they want to know is status, money, what you can do for them. But what they never understand is what can they do for me? I have had enough of women. They all come and take a piece of me each time. I don’t trust them whatsoever. As soon as you trust them, it means you’re dead.