Hasta La Gadget!

China, the worst country in the world*, recently sentenced a 46-year-old woman one year in a labor camp for a sarcastic tweet. Or as they call it “disturbing social stability.”

Back in October, Cheng Jianping under the twitter wangyi09, RT’d a post from her fiance Hua Chunhu with a few words of editorializing. The post mocked Chinese protesters who smashed Japanese products during a recent demonstration.

Eleven days later, on the day the couple planned to marry, Ha Chunchi was taken away by police from his office. He was released five days later, only to find that Cheng was missing. Family members told him the police had taken her away the same day they came for him. She was sentenced to a year in the Henan Province labor camp.

In her twitter feed, Cheng has also supported imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

via CNN

* There are certainly more dangerous totalitarian regimes out there, but China is the only one who is a true emerging super power. One which has a near-unbreakable symbiotic economic relationship with the West. One which national American politicians refuse to publicly condemn due to the sheer amount of economic debt China holds. If China wants to be a true global player, they are  going to have to break away from their backwater mental shackles and grow up. This is some unnecessary third-world stuff.

Is Facebook plateauing? Hardly. The social networking giant
continued its quest for global domination, growing 55 percent in the past year,
according to comScore’s numbers. The site jumped from 97.37 million uniques in the
U.S. in October
2009 to 151.13 million.

The social network is the number two site in the U.S.,
just behind Google’s 173.3 million uniques. It boasts some 500 million members
globally, making it second place site in the world (again, behind Google). 

Julian Assange has landed himself in the crosshairs of plenty of governments and coporations, thanks to his site WikiLeaks.org, but it may be something else entirely that takes the Australian Internet activist down. Sweden has issued an international warrant for Assange’s arrest over allegations of rape, molestation, and “unlawful coercion.”

Assange has denied the allegations of two women after a visit to that country in August, calling the event consensual. His lawyer called the accusations “false and without basis.”

Swedish Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, is looking to arrest Assange via Interpol, after her original request was rejected by a Swedish District Court. Assange met the women at a Stockholm seminar on August 14. The women filed joint complaints six days later.

“Only after the women became aware of each other’s relationships with Mr Assange did they make their allegations against him,” Assange’s lawyer told AP.

The investigation was opened on August 20th, dropped a day later, and then picked up by Ny after a week. Assange’s lawyers believe that there’s not enough evidence to convict him.

Nine-year old Ming Li was on her way to school in her rural Chinese village when she was run over by a tractor. She survived, but the accident severed her left hand. Her doctors thought that the hand could be saved, but the arm was too damaged for reattachment. So, they (yeefk!) grafted the hand on to her calf in order to keep it alive.

And there it stayed for three months (!) as her arm underwent a few months of repair and healing.

Finally, doctors transferred the hand from the girl’s calf to her arm. According to the Zhoukou Evening Post the girl can move her wrist and the hand is a “healthy pink color,” meaning that the blood is circulating well.

Doctors believe that with some additional surgery and therapy the girl will regain full use of her hand.

So, it has a happy ending! So, we don’t have to feel too bad about being completely grossed out.

via neatorama