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Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you'd have to hav
by eob 17y ago
Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you'd have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose.
This could be a very nice way for the web to passively protest China's censorship: put a strip at the top of your blog that displays whether or not your blog is readable in China at the moment. Even if the Chinese couldn't see it, plenty of people outside of China would, raising awareness of the problem and putting pressure on China.
- seymour 17y agoCould someone please explain to me the frequency of the sentence, "Seriously."? An in joke? I don't get it...
- paulbaumgart 17y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Seriously&defid=368196 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Seriously&...
- eob 17y agoI never stopped to think this was a regional colloquialism, but I suppose it is.. I used it above to mean "I agree"
- mclin 17y agoWhen you see that, mentally swap it with 'Fo shizzle', then you should be ok.
- queensnake 17y ago(Strong agreement, like, 'Indeed!', 'Right on!', 'Quite!', 'You said it!', 'Yeah no kidding!', 'For sure!', (or more recently, 'this!' :) ))
- lotharbot 17y agoThere may be some connection to HomeStar Runner, which has been a part of "nerd culture" (or some subset) for at least a decade.
- jrockway 17y agoI think it's just another idiom. It has been around, in this form, for a long time.
- vorg 17y agoWould be nice to see one dedicated to tech sites in general, e.g., http://www.python.org/download/ http://www.python.org/download/ which has been blocked by the Firewall within China for the last 6 months.
- bnomis 17y agohttp://www.python.org/download/ http://www.python.org/download/ is not blocked from Shanghai
- vorg 17y agoIt's been blocked from my apartment in Wuhan with the instant "Connection Reset" message for the last 6 months, whereas the rest of the Python.org site has been available. Perhaps the national Firewall can target geographic areas inside China, and someone in the Firewall Bureau wanted to restrict Python's available somewhat, but hide the fact by limiting it download page outside the main cities. Though I can't imagine why! Or perhaps it's being blocked at a more local (ISP) level, but I think that's unlikely. I'll check it next time I'm at Starbucks with my laptop.
- lurkerperpetual 17y agoWould be nice to have a similar dashboard for each country in the world.