Glob-a-log

Each year, in Holland, we have the Edison Music Awards for all kinds of categories of music.

I was reminded of these when I read the following story:

An unlikely coalition of pop idols, communist censors, Hong Kong police and a Catholic bishop are fighting to stifle the biggest celebrity sex scandal in the history of the Chinese internet.

They are struggling to halt the spread of thousands of lurid digital photographs apparently showing one of Hong Kong’s most famous actors, Edison Chen, in bed with eight of the territory’s top actresses, singers and businesswomen.

The images were illegally copied from a customised pink Macbook belonging to the star, best known for the Infernal Affairs police films. They have prompted a media frenzy here that has, in terms of scale and interest, utterly eclipsed the fixation about Britney Spears on the English-language web.

As well as crashing internet servers in celebrity-obsessed Hong Kong, the gossip has spread to the mainland, where one online discussion about the subject generated more than 25m page views and 140,000 comments.

Police investigating the cause of the scandal have focused on Chen’s pink laptop, which he nicknamed Cotton Candy Mac. According to local newspapers, the photographs were illegally copied from the computer while it was being serviced by technicians.

Since the first images appeared more than two weeks ago, an unknown culprit has uploaded dozens of fresh pictures every day, each time putting more celebrities into more compromising positions.

Poor Edison Chen and all his celebribedfellows… but wouldn’t it be a nice idea to have a kind of weekly Edison Award for the presidential candidate who proves to be the biggest hit with the voters in that period?

Ah, and wouldn’t John ‘the Mac is back’ Mc Cain wish that he could become a hit like that Cotton Candy Mac of Edison Chen…?

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