Asia Blog: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam

Online Fortune Cookies

Posted in China, Cute by Elliott Back on May 22nd, 2007.

Unfortunate is online fortune cookies. Social cookies!! It’s really cute, especially since you get to vote on the best and worst fortunate in their hall of fame, which currently are:

The best fortunates

  • Help! I’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory!
  • If you can do the robot, you can sneak into robot dance clubs.

The most unfortunate fortunes

  • Your food was poisoned.
  • George Bush is still president.

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The Chinese is always a bit wrong, but they assure me they’re working on it. They get data from CEDict, which is potentially flawed as it is user-editable. One funny Chinese bug right now is that the pinyin “chuzu qiche” comes up way more frequently than it should, sometimes in hilarious contexts.

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