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China: Games over

Well we couldn't watch it on YouTube, but there was Twitter so we know the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony involved [note: links to profanity] some sort of [profanity] hot-pot tower of babel that spiderman climbed up…and we heard something... ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Mon, Aug 25 2008

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