On Aug 10, 10:03 pm, "Charles philip Chan"
wrote:
>> So, i was reading about it in Wikipedia. Although i don't have a TV,
>> and haven't had since 2000, but i still enjoyed the festive spirits
>> anyhow. After all, i'm Chinese by blood. So, in my wandering, i ran
>> into this welcome song on youtube:
>
>
> What is your point? Your email is in plain text and I can click on the
> link just fine- it is not exactly rocket science to implement parsing of
> URL's to workable links in an Email program (a lot of programs does
> that, including Gnus). Images can be included inline if you want. Also
> mail markups such as *this*, **this** and _this_ have been around since
> the Usenet days and displayed appropriately by a number of mailers. Like
> others have said, most html messages that I have seen either contains
> useless information, or are plain spam and can introduce a host of
> security problems in some mailers.
Dear fool,
I have it in html actually. See
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/sanga_pemci/Beijing_welcomes_you.html
There you will see, links, tables, coloring of background, use of
different sized fonts, embedded youtube video. Impossible with plain
text.
* * *
Btw, that chick who i thought was Eurasian, is actually Chinese.
in this vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLTy2kpxOjM
she's at 1:51 . Her name is 韦唯 (Wei Wei). See
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/韦唯
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Wei_(singer)
Now, the new question of interest to me is, at 2:42 of the above
youtube link, there's a lady who sings in some kinda high-pitched
voice. I gather it's a special Chinese technique of singing. Is there
a name to this technique? (e.g. the term “soprano” isn't specific
enough. I was thinking it's some Shanghai singing technique... e.g. 周璇
(Zhou Xuan) in “花样的年华” (Age of Blossom)
(see
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/sanga_pemci/hua3yang4nian2hua2.html
)
)
Btw, i spend hours researching this music video. There are about some
100 stars in it. Most of them are actually Asian super stars.
Xah
∑
http://xahlee.org/
☄
