It's true that entertainment websites have stopped providing entertainment. Two largest video sharing websites, 6.cn and tudou.com, now only broadcast videos that are related to the earthquake, you can no longer view videos that are unrelated to the tragedy (could you imagine youtube only serves only one kind of videos but no others?). If you dare to try using the search box to look for other videos, you will either be brought back to the front page or to a page asking you to lend a helping hand, like donation.

Meanwhile, many portal sites have toned down the color of their layout to gray, very depressing indeed. Examples include baidu.com, www.sina.com.cn, the two video sharing websites mentioned above, g.cn (Google in China), www.tom.com. Many sections of the news portals have also been shut down and completely replaced with tragic news.

We should all mourn the death of the lives lost in the earthquake but the act of this information blockade is too much. The websites should be able to decide by themselves what to do instead of following a government order.

It will be great for the Office converts like me.

To show collagues that, "hey! i can also do these complex analysis/charting stuffs without Excel."

and some users being converted into Linux+OO desktops also need it, too.