The giant panda “Si Jia” rests in Yunnan Safari Park in Kunming, capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan province, on Aug 12, 2012, on its 6th birthday. [Photo/Xinhua] (Via China Daily/Sina) Apologies for the server problems that took the site down this afternoon. But we’re back… with links.
Via China Whisper: “July 11, Wuhan maximum temperature was over 35 degrees, Giant Panda ‘Weiwei’ was laying on the ice blocks to get rid of heat.” Smart panda. Update, 1:40 pm:
I’ll tell you straight up that pandas on slides are nothing new. But look, it’s International Panda Awareness Week, and pandas are wrecking havoc in London, and pandas are, after all, pandas, so I’m sure you can spare a couple minutes to watch Sina’s newest videos of pandas. Four pandas. Babies. On a slide. One... Read more »
For something called Panda Awareness Week (PAW), which starts today, 108 people in panda costumes milled about Trafalgar Square, representing the 108 pandas living at Chengdu Panda Base. No kids, as far as we know, bawled their eyes out in sheer terror. China Daily tells us that the pandas did tai chi, some other stuff.... Read more »
I’m embarrassed to have gone so long without posting this, but last month, Chengdu tourism officials created a commercial promoting black-and-white “panda cabs” in London using Kate Middleton, Prince William, and the Queen impersonators, and the Daily Mail tells us, in its article yesterday, that Britons aren’t too happy about it. Is it because the... Read more »
Paul Lung from Hong Kong is a self-described business design consultant, but judging by these pictures he drew — yes, drew, as in with a .5mm pencil — his talents are being misemployed. I don’t know, maybe he’s a freakin’ spectacular business design consultant. I do know, however, that he’s an absurdly awesome pencil artist, judging by... Read more »
You know what could have made this video by Nice Peter better? No human babies. MORE PANDAS. The only thing better than more pandas... more baby pandas. The stretching cat was a fine touch, he can stay. But PANDAS is definitely the takeaway message here.
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