Quite an interesting story I found today. Researchers have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.

It’s about 2,700 years old and was “clearly cultivated for psychoactive purposes”.

The marijuana was found buried next to a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, thought to be a shaman.

Quite an interesting story. I suspect that it would be a pretty harsh smoke if one was to try and smoke it!

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544684

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I got incredibly sick of the old theme with it’s lack of layout options. So I’ve replaced it with Mandigo which is an amazing theme for Wordpress and, most importantly, it allows me to have 3 columns.

Hope you all like it.

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“Mozilla Online in Beijing created Firefox China Edition (beta), a web browser designed with the needs of the Chinese web surfers in mind.”

The browser contains several features which make it useful for Chinese users, including:

* New mouse-based controls for common functions that are often invoked by shortcut keys in North America and Europe, which isn’t as common a habit of Chinese users

* Some Maxthon-parity features such as the ability to close a tab using double-click

* A drop-down button on the toolbar for launching common system utilities like a calculator, a notepad, a screenshot grabber and an image editor (editing images and pasting screenshots is a very common activity in China). Maxthon is usually included on the CD with the pirated copy of Windows XP that many Chinese have installed.

* A new sidebar called “Live Margins” which allows the user to drag any highlighted text to open a new drill-down search which will show you semantically relevant content as well as allow you to store pictures, videos and music you encounter so you can return to it or play it from the sidebar without interrupting your usual browsing tasks. (This sidebar is also available as the Juice addon – for more info, see our review).

Get it at http://www.g-fox.cn/

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Guns N’ Roses have released the long overdue album and now find themselves in the middle of a political crisis. We all knew this would happen. When you name your album “Chinese Democracy” then you are just asking for trouble. And trouble is exactly what it’s caused.

So far the album has been completely banned in China and the website has been blocked. Discussion of the album is also banned.

A government spokesman states that the album is a “venomous attack” on China.. and I agree with him. ‘Songs’ on the album are written about the banned ’spiritual’ group, F.G (abbreviated) and contain lyrics such as “If your great wall rocks, blame yourself.”

Guns N’ Roses are not the band they used to be. They lost important members and Axl Rose went his own way, taking the band name with him. The Guns N’ Roses today is not the Guns N’ Roses of the past. Axl knows this. This is why they are no way near as popular as they used to be. So how can they sell the album? Simple. Deliberately write the album to be anti-China (very popular these days) and generate a load of negative publicity. All publicity = good. People buy the album wondering what the fuss is all about.

Guns N’ Roses have no right getting involved in politics and they have no right to insult the Chinese people with their mindless drivel.

I won’t be bothering this album in respect of my Chinese friends and the rest of the Chinese people. Also because Guns N’ Roses suck.

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