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Grandpa scans YouTube for something to watch. Amazing.
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You can click this link to test access to a particular web site from within China. If you get an error message on a valid site name, then it is pretty safe to assume the site is being blocked (presumably by the Chinese government).
Here is the result for twitter.com: couldn't connect to host
Here is the result for markschulz.com: OK
Evidently, Hu Jintao has deemed the Stream Pool safe for the Chinese people (for now).
* Thanks to Dave Winer for the link
They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt.
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
What about adults? Especially, all y'all Blackberry pokers.
