Tiger Zhou finally comes clean

Even idiots could see Tiger Zhou (周老虎)‘s photos didn’t look right. But experts and witnesses bet their heads that the photos showed a  real South China tiger.

The fuss started on October 12, 2007  when Shaanxi’s forestry bureau published digital and film photos of what it believed was a South China tiger taken by hunter Zhou Zhenglong ("Tiger Zhou"). The cyberworld, South China tiger experts and China Academy of Sciences (CAS) experts were quick to identify something wrong with the photos.

Zhou now says everything was false. But you can be sure some heads will get rolling because they were bet.

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Lost Amazon tribe? – Just a hoax!

Photo source: Reuters

Things like big-footed modern-day barbarians and this time "lost Amazon tribe" are around in media reports. I don’t believe they are true or completely true even though they might appear in "mainstream" media outlets or are re-run in other equally "authoritative" ones.

We have to develop a sense of humor and have our own judgment when being inundated by  information. I had no proof they were just cooked up. But, the picture didn’t look to me more real than Hollywood movies. Also, I don’t believe there are any areas where non-barbarian humans cannot reach on Earth, especially where there are trees in the Amazon and where there are more than 90-percent-naked tribesmen.

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*这个世界很疯狂,炒股票因为股价狂跌会去交易所抗议炒房子的因为房子降价要开发商补偿。奇怪的不是炒家要补偿,奇怪的是开发商真的补偿了。这其中的道理就好像我买了台电脑,后来促销降价了,我去商家要其中的价差补偿,而且商家也补给我了——道理是这个道理,可是我真的是不太明白。炒家、炒家,赚不到钱,却让别人补,而且别人也乐意补。其中的奥妙,不是一句两句能说得清的。

*购物塑料袋收费了,对于环保是好事。不过这账怎么算?现在的商品价格里面已经包括了从塑料袋分配而来的成本,你不买塑料袋,但你已经付钱了;如果你买塑料袋,等于这个袋子付了两次的钱。当然,塑料袋质量提高的,会有另外一种算法。我建议还可以培养一下公民的纳税意识,一本书标价20块,结账时小票显示你还得付X.XX的税。

*我不喜欢自己被称为“人民”、“百姓”、“人民群众”,我是公民。

*如果不能与自己喜欢的人结婚,就找一个“实惠”的人结——老子两个好处都占了。

*要给自己定一个“读书日”。今天翻到圣经的一句话:“A capable wife….is far more precious than jewels” (Proverbs 31:10)。看来有空我真得读读圣经了。

*在震后重建以及八月奥运会的气氛中,很少人会注意一条消息——神舟七号将于十月发射,届时“航天员要进行出舱活动”(“太空行走”),“同时完成伴随卫星的释放与伴飞试验”。中国的汽车工业算是毁了航空奋起,航天继续加油!

*下水道轻微拥堵的治疗方法。一大壶滚开水冲下去,等10分钟内见效。注:狂堵无效。(20080624)

*老婆一提为什么不早买房子我就生气,昨晚瞪着结婚照两点睡的觉。(20080624)

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