It’s now official – Facebook is a terrorist hangout (perhaps)

Due to what some see as draconian approach to media control, news stories don’t always come quickly to the mainland. Sometimes, however, the opposite is true!

I read a story in the Telegraph this morning which reminded me of something I’d heard many times before…but I just couldn’t put my finger on exactly where, so I did about 5 minutes of research and put together this super-timeline…

It was a shock when terrorism hit China before the Olympics…

August 2008 – Beijing Olympics security fears as terror attack kills 16 Chinese policemen

“The seemingly well-coordinated assault [...] appears to be China’s most serious act of political terror in more than a decade.”

“Ten days ago, a Muslim group which said it was fighting for the liberation of the region posted a video to a security website threatening to make the “most critical points of the Olympics” a target.

Riots in Western China saw more than 100 killed…

July 2009 – China riots: 156 killed in Urumqi as riots spread to Kashgar, according to Xinhua

“Calm had settled over Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang province, after 20,000 police, troops and firefighters reclaimed the streets from rioters who burnt and smashed vehicles and shops, and clashed with security forces over Sunday night.”

The Telegraph’s coverage was, as usual, accurate and well-researched…

August 2009 – The battle to scale the Great Firewall of China

“[T]he Chinese government cLose Weight Exercise/”>Lose Weight Exercised [...] Facebook four weeks ago. This is because the government believes the rioters in Xinjiang province on July 5 used networking sites to communicate.”

As well as this golden nugget…

“When expats move to China, the issue of internet access is one of the first culture shocks. The first surprising thing is that internet cafés do not exist.”

Earlier this year released a whitepaper about its block of FB and similar sites…

June 2010 – China defends censoring web

“Anything considered subversive or threatening to “national unity”, China said, would however continue to be blocked.”

And now today’s breaking news…

December 2010 – Facebook emerges as ‘terrorist recruiting ground’

“The US government has warned that terrorist groups like al-Qaeda are targeting Facebook as a prime recruitment ground.”

It’s hard for progressive techophiles to argue the virtues of unblocking this type of website (or at least question the reasoning of the censorship) when Western governments underline the same fears…and more than a year later!

Norway owns Facebook – 挪威拥有Facebook

Name.com has a feature where you can search for domain names by keyword, and then see how many Google searches there are for that particular term. I was checking out Facebook related websites when I found out a shocking fact….

Name.com有一项功能，就是你可以按关键字搜索域名，然后看看有多少谷歌搜索结果是有这些关键字的。在我查看跟Facebook相关的网站的时候，找到了一个令人震惊的事实…

…Facebook is Norwegian! This ‘beta’ needs some more work…

…Facebook是挪威的！这个‘测试版’的需要再加工一下…

The best movie, album, drink, website, games and TV show of the decade! (Add yours!) (10年来最棒的电影，唱片，饮料，网站，游戏和电视剧！(加上你的！))

I don’t know how it happened, but reports suggest that the first decade of the second millennium is about to finish. Crazy! I spent a year in France, two years in China, two years in Warwick University and five years in London – it all seems a bit of a blur! Some things, however, have been constant: Movies, music, video games, my computer and watching TV series. And booze.

不知道搞什么鬼，报道说第二个千年的第一个十年地球就要毁灭了。大概疯了！过去我花了1年待在法国，2年在中国，2年在英国Warwick大学，还有5年在伦敦 – 到现在很多记忆都已经有些模糊了！不过有些事情还是一如既往的，比如：看电影，听音乐，打游戏，操电脑和看电视连续剧。以及喝酒。

With this in mind I want to present to you my awards for the ‘Best of the decade…’, in various categories. Some may be obvious, some controversial, some a bit stupid…but so be it.

想到这里，我想让你看看我给这些不同类别颁发的’十年度最佳…’奖项。有些可能是显而易见的，有些会有争议，有些有点愚蠢…但本来就是这样。

I also invite you to put your own nominations in the comments in each category! Just copy and paste this in to the box before you type:

在这里我也希望你在回复里为每个类别写下你自己的提名！只要把这个复制黏贴到方框里：

Best movie of the decade 十年度最佳电影:
Best album of the decade 十年度最佳唱片:
Best drink of the decade 十年度最佳饮品:
Best website of the decade十年度最佳网站:
Best PC game of the decade 十年度最佳电脑游戏:
Best Console game of the decade 十年度最佳家庭电视游戏机:
Best TV series of the decade 十年度最佳电视剧:

Best movie of the decade – Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)

十年度最佳电影-猪头，我的车咧？（2000）

Ok this might be a controversial choice, but hear me out. People often like films because of the atmosphere in which they first enjoyed them, and I think I’ve watched this movie more times than any other, with more cLose Weight Exercise/”>Lose Weight Exercise friends, in more places…and each time I never got bored or stopped half-way through. It’s the ultimate brainless dude comedy – and I love it.

这个答案确是会有争议，可是请听我说完先。人们喜欢电影的原因是因为很享受第一次看的时候的那种气氛。这个电影我看的次数比什么都多，和好朋友看，在很多不一样的地方看…每次看我都不觉得无聊或者看到一半不看了。我想这是最不用大脑的喜剧了 – 我喜欢它。

Best album of the decade – Jay-Z – The Blueprint (2001)

十年度最佳唱片-Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)

The best rapper alive, the best beats, the best lyrics, the best mixture of radio / club / fight music ever put together. No need for guests (except Eminem, who compliments the mood perfectly), just hot hot hot music!

尚在人间的最棒的说唱歌手，最棒的节奏，最好的歌词，最佳的广播/舞厅/打斗音乐的混合。无需观众（除了赞美到位的阿姆），只是很棒的音乐！

Best drink of the decade – Captain Morgan and Coke

十年度最佳饮品-摩根船长加可乐

Also known as ‘WoW juice’ or ‘PVP fuel’, the sickly sweet and alchoholically potent brew is what hazed my mind for approximately three years and helped me develop (at age 25) an almost-immunity to alchohol. Good times. Three – glorious – years. (A cLose Weight Exercise/”>Lose Weight Exercise second is the Raspberry Mojito).

也称’WoW果汁’或’PVP fuel’，怪怪的甜味和烈性酒精调配而成，让我的大脑晕眩了将近3年并且帮我发展成（在25岁）几乎能免疫酒精。好时光啊。三个 – 辉煌 – 年。 （紧随其后的是Raspberry Mojito）。

Best website of the decade – Facebook (2004 – Present)

十年度最佳网站-Facebook (2004-至今)

After I left University in 2003, I became addicted to using Friendster and then Myspace. They were so refreshing – a new way to chat with and meet people from ANYWHERE in the world, almost instantly. They were fun for a long time, but both sites suffered from their own popularity and eventually became too full of flash widgets and glitter graphics. Facebook changed social networking by taking it back to its essence – communication. Now five (real) years on, it’s still #1 FOR A REASON!

2003年我离开大学，我开始沉迷于Friendster和Myspace。他们是那么新鲜——一种全新的快速的方式与世界各地的人交流和会面。我沉迷其中很长一段时间，但它们最终都由于过高的网站知名度，接受了过多的Flash和图片而遭殃。Facebook利用本质改变了网络社交 – 沟通。现在已经5（真的）年了，它仍然是最棒的！

Best PC game of the decade – World of Warcraft (2004 – Present)

十年度最佳电脑游戏-魔兽世界（2004-至今）

What can I say? It’s so good that you think about it all of them time. I mean…all of the time. Like when you’re at work. When you’re in bed. When you’re working in bed. When you’re in bed at work. All the time. If you play WoW and can control yourself, congratulations! If you’re in remission like me, just remember the good times…

我能说什么？它好得让你无时无刻不想着它。我是说，无时无刻。比如你在工作的时候，你在床上的时候，你工作在床上的时候，你在床上工作的时候。所有的时间。如果你打魔兽并且能控制好自己，那恭喜你了！如果你像我一样没缓过来，却只是记得那些美丽时光…

Best Console game of the decade – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (Playstation) (2000)

十年度最佳家庭电视游戏机-托尼霍克专业滑板 2（游戏站）（2000）

When I lived in Leamington Spa, I played THPS2. The first game I ever queued up for (and got a free mini-skateboard for it!), it was (and still is) infinitely replayable. So, so good – it made me fall in love with a sport that I have still never tried (and probably never will).

当我住在Leamington Spa的时候我就玩THPS2了。我第一次排队打的游戏（还免费获得了一个迷你滑板！）是可以（现在仍然是）无限次重复打的。非常非常棒 – 它让我爱上了这个运动，我从没玩过的（而且可能永远也不会）。

Best TV show of the decade – The Wire (2002 – 2008)

十年度最佳电视剧-线人（2002-2008）

If you haven’t seen The Wire, then you won’t be able to understand why it’s not just the best show of the decade, but the best show ever. If you have seen it, you also know that every TV show you watch now is measured against it – and none of them measure up.

如果你还没看线人，那么你无法理解为什么这个片子不仅是十年度最佳电视剧，而且永远都是最棒的。如果你看过，你也应该知道你现在所看的电视剧都没法跟这个比-没一个达标的。

Now, it’s your turn! Write your nominations for the best of the decade in the comments!

现在轮到你了！在回复中给出你的十年最佳提名吧！

The funny Facebook status, or how I miss updating my blue friend

If you’re not interested in the concept of a funny Facebook status, then please turn away now! I have been without the blue monster for so long that I’m craving some humour and some chat…help me!

Some of you may know, and some of you may not know, but this site runs on the blood of Facebook. I got my first ‘hit’ internet article (that sounds so strange) writing about Facebook emoticons, and I feel like I owe a lot to the company in that it gave me the opportunity to talk to loads of people about different technology subjects (usually which I know nothing about).

Well today, that’s different – I’m going to write a bit about a new phenomenon which is sweeping the internet – the funny Facebook status. Let me preface this with a comment, I’m not claiming to be reinventing the wheel here, but I’m going to give you a list of some of the most amusing, cool, funny (and some downright hilarious) funny Facebook statuses out there right now. Some involve irony, some involve special characters and symbols, and some just include a straight up joke. Let’s check some out…

Funny Facebook status

Dalan is colour blind and thinks trying to solve a Rubik’s cube is pretty difficult…

Ok, let’s just admit it right off the bat, making fun of blind people (wait…colour blind isn’t really blind!) is not cool or clever (but it might make a couple of people laugh just a little bit).

Fiona ¡ǝɯıʇ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ ʇɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ǝsn puɐ puɐʇspuɐɥ ɐ op ʎןןɐuıɟ uɐɔ

Ok I don’t think I have ever seen something as cool as this! All of the words are actually upside down! I think I saw a post about how to write characters upside down on someone else’s blog a few weeks ago, but right now all I can say is HAHAHA!

Jyrki is uploading a virus ████████████ 83%

I remember on MSN a few years ago there was one of those ‘sets of three’ emoticons which had an ‘uploading virus to you now’ thing on it. Made people crap themselves thinking that they would be infested with viruses soon! Now you can do it in your Facebook status – and you KNOW that there are fifty girls on your list who will message you asking if it’s for real…

Daisy is cle’a[ni.ng he'~r ke]yb36oa;rd

We’ve all done it, so why not share it! I actually haven’t cleaned my keyboard in months and it’s full of dirt and little hairs (no, not THAT type of hairs!).

Why don’t aliens eat clowns? Because they taste funny.

I have a colleague at work who is obsessed with puns, and this is the one I have heard him repeat most. Simple, funny and guaranteed to have people clicking ‘like’ on your status!

Anyway, these are my favourite funny Facebook statuses – let me know if you have any better!

Facebook penguin emoticon

Ladies and Gentleman, you’ve been waiting for a long time, so here it is – how to insert the brand new Facebook chat penguin emoticon into your Facebook chats! Ever since the Facebook shark emoticon was made available to the public, users have been going crazy guessing which animal or face that FB would provide for its loyal fans – well the wait is over! The designers have clearly been locked away in a special room for months, and they finally decided on…a penguin!

This is a tough question, as generally Facebook is not noted for the high frequency of penguins (or other animals to be honest), however this one could make good sense. The weather has begun to turn cold for the winter, and the Facebook penguin smiley could be just what you need to send your friends some emotion over the holiday season!

Anyway, I know that you are ready and prepared for it now, so here it is…

Facebook penguin emoticon

You can, of course, find this emoticon on our Facebook emoticons page here on DJOD.co.uk, as well as every other smiley that is available online. The question is, can you wait to use it?! Enjoy the new Facebook penguin emoticon!

Happy Farm on Facebook guide, strategy, tactics, tips and cheats

A lot of my friends have started playing Happy Farm on Facebook and want to know some tips, strategy, cheats or tactics for the game. Here is a guide for Happy Farm on Facebook which will teach you some tips on improving your crops, getting more experience and beating your friends and becoming a Happy Farmer!

Tip 1) Grow, grow, grow
You need plants growing 24/7 in order to beat your friends at Happy Farm on Facebook. Always buy the most expensive vegetables and plant them as soon as possible!

Tip 2) Get a free dog on Happy Farmer
To beat your friends you definitely need a dog to guard your plants and vegetables on Happy Farm on Facebook. The good news – they’re free! Just invite 5 friends who install the game. This is pretty easy because you can just ask your friends to accept the invite and click through the intro, and then they can forget about it.

Tip 3) Get free fertiliser on Happy Farmer
Plants on Happy Farmer grow faster when you give them fertilizer – you can get it free by inviting your friends to play with you on Facebook. A good cheat is to get your friends to sign up but then they don’t need to play – you get the free fertilizer. You can do this up to 5 bags per day!

Tip 4) Help your friends on Happy Farmer
This may sound stupid, but actually helping your friends on Happy Farmer is a tactic that can help you. If you browse your friends’ gardens and kill their worms and also their weeds, YOU get experience – this means you level up faster! Spray, spray, spray!

Tip 5) SECRET CHEAT
I can’t write the cheat here on my site, but there is one more Happy Farm cheat <---- Click here to read it!

I will add more to this post when time allows, but right now there are just a few of the best tactics, cheats, tips and guides for Happy Farmer on Facebook. Enjoy your Happy Farm guide!

Facebook’s new design brings amazing hidden feature (新的facebook设计带来了神奇的隐藏功能)

Lots of people have been impressed by Facebook’s new design, but surely nobody could have foreseen this fantastic hidden feature – Future messaging!

许多人欣赏新的facebook设计，但肯定没有人会料到“未来的信息”的神妙功能！

See the new Facebook design now!

Facebook has been redesigned, and here’s how to see the new look: go to http://www.new.facebook.com and log in with your email and password!

The immediate thing I noticed was how wide the page is now, and how much white space there is! Gone are the hundreds of applications and widgets on the front page, with the now extended wall taking pride of place.

Tabs along the top of each profile now group your different types of information – and thankfully there is one for ‘boxes’…which means that your 2,000,000 ‘buy your friend a chicken’ apps will be hidden from view! It’s like a super-Facebook-vacuum has just obliterated all the filth from everyone’s profiles…

Photo galleries have been designed to be more intuitive (no more having to click three or four times to view someone’s gallery list).

Finally, check out how nice the wall is now! Different colours for comments and ‘actions’ (like joining groups and attending events). We’ll see how fast the people at Facebook roll out this redesign to the ‘live’ audience, but for now…have a look yourself! Remember, go to:

http://www.new.facebook.com

and log in with your email and password!

Comments in Facebook minifeed

Logging in to Facebook this morning, I noticed that you can now comment on individual Mini-Feed items. The comments stay on the mini-feed (minimized until you click on the ’1 comment’ (or whatever number) link) and then cascade out.

This is obviously one of the reasons for which Facebook now requires the Mini-Feed not be minimized…but will people start using this ‘mini wall’ to comment on friends’ items instead of the wall? And why would they choose to do this?

It also seems straange that a comment on a note in the mini-feed is not added to the note itself, which could lead to confusion down the line.

Comment away!