A few days ago NASA’s press conference got a lot of people intrigued — guessing 2012 along with NASA, and the next day it turned out they’d only announced a 30-year-old black hole. I was hoping for something new and exotic — no such luck, huh. Just as I was about to put the NASA suspense thing behind me, today I came across this video — the Gulf of Aden stargate opening. Holy crap, has modern technology really come this far? Can all those sci-fi speculations actually come true in this century? Is it a relic of ancient wisdom or the product of modern technology? Psychic warriors and a whole pile of other mysteries have netizens speculating.

A: Let me tell you, there’s a website called Fans! B: What Fans? A: Just Fans! Ah! B: Which team’s? A: It’s the fans of all fans! Ah! B: -.-! What’s the URL? A: http://www.qiumi.cc B: .cc is a URL too? A: Yeah, high-tech…

U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum on the 16th. In answering a question about Internet openness, Obama said that the freer the flow of information, the stronger society becomes, because that way citizens around the world can hold their governments accountable. [Obama] Well, I’d now like to call on my ambassador, Huntsman. A netizen has submitted a question through our embassy website. [Jon Huntsman] First, in a country with so many Internet users, with 60 million bloggers, do you know about the firewall? Second, should we be free to use TWITTER?

My Norton is about to expire, and MS just released MSE the day before yesterday, so I quickly gave it a try. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) can protect computers running Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 against viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans. The Microsoft Security Essentials software itself cannot fend off all web threats, but when used with the IE8 browser and a fully updated Windows operating system, it will provide users with a complete security solution.

Domain email is a personalized mail service from Tencent. If you own a domain, a few simple settings are all it takes to create mailboxes that use your domain as the email suffix. It comes with the following features: a custom account name and email logo of your choosing, up to 10 mailboxes under the same domain, and group functionality.

On September 4, 2009, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (http://blog.sina.com.cn/kaifulee) left Google. The Creative Factory site surfaced. This should have been a great thing, but it kicked off an argument on a few IT blogs. http://initiative.yo2.cn/archives/642502 That post blew up. Just in case it gets “harmonized,” here’s a copy: http://www.innovation-works.com/New.asp 1. ASP — is that innovation? 2. In English, “news” and “new” are two completely different words, right? New.asp shows just what a knockoff job the outsourcing firm that built the site did. 3. I won’t even mention the td-based page layout; the real kicker is content=”text/html; charset=gb2312” — that alone deserves a good rant. 4. Under Media Contact, there’s actually a .doc file. Honestly, I can’t be bothered to install Word these days, and if it were installed I couldn’t be bothered to open it — I just drag everything into G Docs. Good thing it isn’t .docx. 5. Fine, the English version is UTF-8, but http://en.innovation-works.com/new.asp?page=1‘ throws an error.

Getting a close-up look at the world’s great paintings and witnessing the masterpieces of the old masters will set you back a fair amount of money — but now you can get up close and personal with 14 world-famous paintings for free in a virtual gallery on Google Earth.

Funny things keep happening. Not long ago, Qianxiang Group successfully bought Kaixin.com from 9158.com, and then quietly launched the group’s first vertical SNS community aimed specifically at white-collar workers, “Kaixin.com” (note: it’s http://www.kaixin.com/, not http://www.kaixin001.com/). In the post An SNS Bloodbath Triggered by a Single Domain Name: Qianxiang’s Version of Kaixin.com Officially Goes Live!, it says:

Modern Express: Hadron Collider Starts at 15:30 Today, Unraveling the Mystery of the Universe’s Birth:

Badass people do badass things. Last year Qihoo went to war with CNNIC, and this year it’s picking a fight with Rising… I actually feel kind of sorry for Qihoo… The situation right now is that I’m...