在烧海那里看到这段郭德纲的相声节选。

流言跟新闻分不清；电影跟广告分不清；杀手跟大夫分不清；贼跟官员分不清；要饭的跟大老板分不清；妓女跟明星分不清；流氓跟导演分不清；流氓跟警察分不清。

－－好的，坏的分不清。这就是现在的中国。

不罗嗦了，看片吧。

Intel has launched its flagship product Core Duo 2 Processors for almost 2 months. But as Microsoft delayed delivery of the Windows Vista, many people don’t see the necessity to replace their old machine.

Therefore those want to try out the Intel’s latest high-flyer have to come up with some creative/extreme ways to destroy their old machine.

Here are some funny clips which teach people how to eliminate the old PC. I have shown them to many friends. The more interesting thing is that different clips appeal to different people with different backgrounds in different ways.

Make a clean cut（劈空掌－一刀两断）

Though the banner behind shows Karate, many of my Chinese friend take this as Taekwondo.

In China, Karate is pronounced Kong Shou Dao（空手道）. Most Japanese Kanji looks the same as traditional Chinese, but pronounced differently. This causes many problems for Chinese when they read Japanese names in English. For example, many of them have no idea who Koizumi is, though they know Xiao Quan（小泉） is the former Prime Minister of Japan.

Also, they consider the Taijitu banner something related to Korean. Probably they have watched too many Korean movies.

This clip is comprehensible to people from the West too. Maybe they have seen such supernatural phenomenon in those anti-gravity KongFu movies, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Just add water（女中豪杰－水漫金山）

Many Chinese girls find this clip the most interesting. This clip reminds them those Korean movie they have watched.

About 5 years back in China, Japanese TV drama dominated many Chinese regional TV stations, but now, Korean TV drama and movies are the fad. In those movies, just like in this clip, the female characters are fierce, determined and a bit violence sometimes.

This really puzzles me. In my knowledge, Korean are more endocentric than Chinese. A Korean friend told me that, in many Korean companies, if there is no cleaner in the office, female staff will undoubtedly take up such cleaning work. It is the unwritten rule in their offices.

Well, the girl must have had to clean everything up after destroying the machine.

The great escape（走为上－逃出生天）
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第一次是在播客宝典上看到介绍《疯狂的石头》的短片。

看到那“豆干”秘书指着汽车BMW的牌子扯起嗓子，盛气凌人地说，

”你没看到吗？－－别！摸！我！“

一阵由幽默卷着的对现实的深刻批判扑面而来：我一下子就喜欢上这部影片了。

却没有想到这部片是由刘德华投资的，更没想到这块石头是刘德华要振兴中国电影这个疯狂的梦的一部分。

看过不少刘德华演的戏，但总感到他演得有点造作，不如发哥，伟仔自然，当然也没有星爷那般搞笑。论起唱歌，他没有学友的唱功，比不上黎明青春，又不能学不了城城在台上像蚱蜢一般的蹦跳。他前几年的《笨小孩》、《木鱼》我倒听得挺有味道，但是在我脑中还是改不了他靠外型吃饭，只会赚钱的印象。

亚洲周刊对刘德华的访谈改变了我的看法－－原来他有这么一个疯狂的梦。他对这个梦不但有坚定、执着的追求，而且还有周详、可行的计划。

瘋狂石頭戲內戲外敲打中國瘋狂的心

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The Toes Are to Tickle is about a day of the life of an US family. It is written in the eyes of the kids. The colorful illustrations are bright side notes of the playful story. I chuckled as the lines such as ”Bird are to chase.” and “A purse is to empty.” reminded me what KangKang usually did everyday. And the breezy rhythm makes the story easy to read.

I read this story to KangKang last night, but he did not enjoy the book so much as his dad did. Probably that’s because Chinese is now his most frequent used language. Furthermore, some scenes of the book are in the US which our KangKang has never seen before.

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一个多月前在万维读者网络看到一篇文字《中日两国网民在BBS上的巨大反差》。文章的作者叫”小娄“。是一篇写中国人与日本人的。

文章能冷静，全面地分析中国人和日本人在BBS上的不同表现，很少有。

更有趣的是，当我把林语堂写的一篇关于中国人与日本人的散文翻出来一比：两篇不同时代的文章对日本人的描写有很多相似之处。

有些异曲同工之妙。

一个是二十世纪的国学大师，另一个是二十一世纪的网络游民。

林大师一文主要是从文化与思想的角度来写；小娄一文主要是由他在中日BBS上的不同经验来分析。

一篇深邃悠远；一篇具体细微。

…

在little bridge上相遇。:)

《中国人与日本人》 － 林语堂
《中日两国网民在BBS上的巨大反差》 － 小娄（不能确认是否原作者）

两篇文章有点长。期待着各位看完这两篇文章后的回应。

注：林语堂《中国人与日本人》原文似乎是英文，但在网上找不到。我也不清楚那篇文章具体的发表时间。
另：准备把小娄的文章译成英文给这边的日本人看看，应该会有一些有意思的回应。