In March, a young, male driver crashed a Ferrari in snowy conditions, killing himself and wounding the two female passengers.
The Beijing Evening News posted a short story, complete with a picture of the wrecked car, but deleted it a short time later. A new story was put up a short time later, apparently without the picture of the wrecked car, but
terms related to the crash were blocked from the micro-blogging site Sina Weibo (
blocking on Weibo, previously). The news of the crash, and the subsequent (partial) cover-up were
further marks against the Rich2G, the second generation of China’s moneyed class. More recently, Ferrari held an event to celebrate twenty years of the luxury car maker in China,
spending $12,670 to rent a section (and drive a special edition "Marco Polo Red" 458 Italia) on top of
the City Wall of Nanjing. The driver was
caught on film driving tight circles on the ancient wall, leaving tire marks and
further souring the public against Ferrari in specific, and the wealthy at large.
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posted by filthy light thief
on May 10, 2012 -
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Andrew Shane Huang is a 35 year old hardware hacker, known to some as
bunnie, and others as that guy who
hacked the Xbox and went on to
write a book about it.
Finding the hidden key to the Xbox was
an enjoyable distraction while he worked on getting his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT as
part of
Project Aries. Since then, he has
written for (and
been written about) in
Make Magazine, has
giving talks on the strategy of hardware openness and
manufacturing practices in China, as experienced with the development of the opensource
ambient "
internet-based TV" called
Chumby. When he's not busy on such excursions, bunnie writes about
hacking (and more specifically,
Chumby hacking),
technology in China, and even
biology in exquisite detail on
the bunnie studios blog (
previously).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 17, 2010 -
36 comments
