OMG was our first reaction when we saw this recreation of the Olympic Village in Beijing — yes, the Bird's Nest, Water Cube, the media tower and all — which took world record cardstacker Bryan Berg several days to build (in a Hong Kong shopping mall), 140,000 cards and NO super glue! We've seen the real Olympic Village, but this is awesome shit. Apparently some of Berg's works can even support up to 108 kg......

We agree with WSJ's Sky Canave's observation about the sad lack of food options on the Olympic Green. McDonald's, being an official Olympic sponsor, was the only restaurant on the Green (sad, isn't it?) and if you didn't want to bring yourself so low as to step into a fast food restaurant like we did, the only other options really were instant noodles (mmMMmm yummy!) and this exploding lunch box that you see here, available......

Photo of the Day from The Telegraph The price of a Borat lycra mankini: RMB119 Enough beer to get yourself drunk enough to wear it: RMB299 The curious stares of onlookers at the public pool: PRICELESS (PS.: The Telegraph failed to cover both sides of the story but fortunately this blogger did. Also, if you know this guy, get City Weekend in touch with him and win yourself a bottle of Smirnoff!) More photos......

Although it sounds like a particularly weird chapter of "Journey To The West", we are assured that this Pig with the face of a Monkey is a real animal. Born to freaked out farmers in the small town of Fengzhang, the freaky swine has shot to the top of the tourist attractions in Shanxi Province.......

... then please, at least make sure it works! (h/t to Blogging for China)......

Last week we reported that those sexed-up Olympians could continue taking Viagra despite evidence of performance-boosting qualities on the field as well as in the sack. But the situation may be different if animal genitalia is involved: turns out the traditional Chinese injury remedy of deer's penis (usually taken soaked in alcohol) may contain banned substances. There's a lesson in there somewhere, we're sure of it.......

A pig who survived for 36 days after the Sichuan earthquake on May 12 has been heralded as a hero and symbol of the will to stay alive. The pig, who has since been named "Zhu Jianqiang" or "Strongwill Pig," managed to live on a diet of charcoal and water while buried under rubble. It was discovered last week in Pengzhou city, having lost two-thirds of its weight and now "thin as a goat," a......

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Fancy_your_own_personal_flying_machine_for_2_800'; Some innovative guy put together a few pieces of scrap metal and an engine and this is what he came up with. Apparently it can fly up to a height of over one hundred metres and cost only RMB20,000 to put together. Hell, that's even cheaper than a car! Maybe one day, just one day, all of us will be flying in one of these to get to work? Follow the......

On the list of things that seriously really piss us off children’s movies, Americanized kung fu and animated pandas don’t exactly play a starring role. In fact, it’s probably fair to say they don’t even make a cameo. Unfortunately for artist Zhao Bandi (赵半狄), all these things seem to be at the top of his list, and all these things are clearly evident in DreamWorks’ new film Kung Fu Panda. To display his righteous outrage,......

Unrequited love has led a young Chinese woman to create a website, and publish all the photos of her ex-boyfriend Li Pengfei (李鹏飞) in the most compromising positions (wanking in bed, performing cunnilingus on her, etc.) in a last ditch attempt to get back at him. The sexy pictures were published along with all the sordid details of how the little casanova was supposed to have tricked her out of her money and love......

Olympics China Rises: Restricting the foreign press Reuters: China urged to curb executions ahead of Olympics China Herald: Another Olympic mishap: problems in getting tickets Channel NewsAsia: Hong Kong toughens rhetoric to avoid Olympic Games protests ABC News: Athletes banned from Beijing opening ceremony China and the U.S. Blogging For China: America opens its doors, slightly, to Chinese tourists People’s Daily: First Chinese leisure travelers to U.S. greeted by music, hospitality Washington Post: In......

In February we marveled when doctors in Urumqi removed a parasitic twin from the belly of this baby girl. The rare abnormality has occurred again, this time with an infant in Henan province. The fetus in fetu was discovered after the boy was born with an extra penis on his back, which was removed in a three-hour procedure on June 6. While the case was the first of its type at the Tianjin Childrens’ Hospital,......

... the Two Chinese Characters are here to help. Seriously, we've seen this cartoon sent around the Internet a million times, but we had no idea the logo of the Beijing Olympics was meant to be a stylised form of the character for "jing" (京).......

Beijing News reports a weird measure taken in a company in southern China. According to aujourdhuilachine.com, a company that makes loudspeakers has demanded that its employees keep quiet during work hours — otherwise they'll be asked to wear a protection mask for 3 days! The company explained the decision (taken in May) that they want to preserve the production's quality standards:"If our employees talk, they are bound to splutter and it will do harm to......

A new hotpot restaurant in Chongqing that named itself after the Wenchuan earthquake on May 12 has been shut down by authorities after a huge public outcry. The Chinese characters used in the name of the restaurant "512震宗锅" (or "512 Quake Pot") was a homophonous pun for "authentic hotpot". Netizens have called it the "most shameless hotpot restaurant in Chongqing" and the owner of the restaurant has apparently been sent in for "criticism and re-education".......

Amelia of ChinaTravel.net draws our attention to this Beijing Olympic keychain souvenir with a live fish in it:I found this picture up at the Beijing Olympics Fan blog and was shocked out of my wits!!! Who would ever buy this??? In 4 hours the fish would be dead, how do you explain that to your 6 year old daughter? I saw some guys selling these on the subway recently, they were claiming that the water......

We agree with PandaPassport that this has gotta be the worst case of child abuse. Ever. In case any of you were thinking of showing your support for the Olympics with a nice funky hairdo, take your pick of a crazy Olympic hairstyle here.......

Since the time we told you about Shirley Phelps-Roper's email to China Daily columnist Raymond Zhou, everybody's favourite church, the Westboro Baptist Church has completely revamped its official website GodHatesFags.com (check it out — it actually is looking kinda swanky now). Looking through the site, we found this press release sent out in late January, when China was suffering its worst winter storm in 50 years, praising the Lord for "punishing" China — "that evil......

Everyone's favourite superhero probably read on this blog that Shanghai's buses aren't too safe lately, so he decided to take the subway instead. More pics after the jump [h/t to ChinaTravel.net]......

From the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey Really strange results just in from the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey this year: 78% of the Chinese have sex weekly, but only 24% were able to achieve an orgasm everytime they had sex. Any sexperts out there wanna tell us what insightful analysis one can make based on the above two statistics?......

From Ananova: A Chinese man is hoping to get in the record books after creating what he claims is the world's largest working mobile phone. Mr Tan, of Songyuan city, says his 3ft high phone, which weighs 48lbs, is an exact copy of his own phone - but 620 times bigger. A local journalist tested the phone by making calls and sending text messages and pronounced it completely functional, reports City News. Tan says it......

We were hoping that they were going to do one of those double episode things and release episodes 11 and 12 of Prison Break at the same time. We had just finished watching episode 11 on a video site and were looking for episode 12, and found this site, which said it had it . But it was a hoax (it was a video from that Terminator TV series) and a lot of people were......

From You.Presscue.com More scandalous sex pictures from Hong Kong ... this time courtesy of their Family Planning Association!......

Doctors at the Xinjiang Children's Hospital in Urumqi have removed a parasitic twin growing within the belly of a four-month old baby, making her look as though she were pregnant. The fetus in fetu was about the size of a bowling ball that weighed 1.25kg, had the shape of a head and an underdeveloped musculoskeletal structure. Such an abnormality occurs in about 1 in a million. The parents of the baby only discovered 40 days......

This video entitled “这个女人太要了” ("This girl wants it too much") uploaded to Youtube just five days ago has received over 317,000 views and raised a storm on the Chinese internet. It shows a young Chinese couple hugging and kissing at a subway exit point before finally saying goodbye. Well, it turns out that the clip was taken via the surveillance cameras that you see all around subway stations and the (really annoying) voices in the......

This ad by French car-maker Citroen reads: Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's. It's true, we are leaders, but at Citroen the revolution never stops. We are once more going to put in motion all the machinery of our technological ability, in order to repeat in 2008 the successes obtained in previous years.Needless to say, the ad invoked the fury of the Chinese community in Spain and Citroen was forced to issue an......

Poor, poor Sania Mirza. The 22 year old Indian tennis starlet (and world number 31 on the current charts) was caught exposing her cleavage — the one below her waist, that is — on Shanghai Daily, of all places. The unflattering picture appeared on page A14 of the sports section in yesterday's paper. Hat tip to Chris St. Cavish of SH Mag, who we presume was flipping through the papers in search of the latest......

Strange, strange, just strange. And he looked like he was going to either piss/wank at the man before getting stopped by the woman (his wife?).......

The sun is out, it's a beautiful day, and there is a man who decides his shank needs some good crankin'. So he positions himself somewhat discreetly — in front of a public education banner encouraging "civilised behaviour" to welcome the Olympics — and proceeds to polish his bishop without a single care in the world. We love how NONE of the passersby seem to notice or be bothered. Surely, this must be the hallmark......