Hey, kids! Have you ever thought to yourself: “Man, 8Asians is a great blog, but sometimes I’m just too lazy to type in a web address in with my fingers?” Those social websites like Facebook and/or Twitter scare the sweet bejesus out of you? Have you ever longed for the good old days of 1996, where “the internet” was getting everything by e-mail?

Well, we can’t give you any of those good days back, but starting this week we can deliver 8Asians.com posts to your e-mail inbox every day. Introducing 8Asians Daily, our daily newsletter! It’s the day’s stories from 8Asians.com, delivered to your e-mail inbox every evening at 6:00pm PST when there has been posts from the previous day.

Join our daily newsletter today! Now you can be angry at commenters just by checking your e-mail every evening! Uhm, yay.

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Holy crap, has it been five years already? It sure has. Five years ago Christmas weekend, 8Asians.com was launched. I KNOW, RIGHT? That means that over the next couple of days, we’re going to focus on some well-deserved navel gazing and reflect on some 8Asians posts we’ve written over the past half a decade or so that you may have missed.

Here are eight posts that 8Asians readers have found “controversial” – things that have made you guys angry, caused large groups of commenters to scream at each other (or in the case of one commenter, quit commenting permanently) or just generally take that warm fuzzy feeling that you get after a hug and kick it in the nuts. Read our curated list after the jump!

1. Mister Wong, the Offensive Social Bookmarking Portal (2007)

“I mean, being an engineer in the web industry, I’m sure it has some of the standard features that make a social bookmarking portal interesting and relevant, but seriously, who were the branding and advertising geniuses that came up with this one? I mean sure, it’s based in Germany, which is practically a whole world away. Maybe people aren’t as sensitive to political correctness as they are here in North America. But seriously, one of their web badges has the slogan “ping pong, king kong, Mister Wong.” Which I, of course, interpret as “ching chong, Mister Wong” and get INCREDIBLY FUCKING ANGRY. It’s like Jeeves, the ask.com butler and Uncle Ben had a stereotypical illegitimate Asian son.”

2. Racist Superbowl Ads Written By an Asian (2008)

“According to an article published in late December 2007, “Salesgenie.com Ready to Reclaim Crown as Super Bowl’s ‘Worst Ad’ Champion” the copywriter and creator of the concepts for these ads were none other than Vinod (Vin) Gupta, the founder of SalesGenie. For the record, Mr. Gupta is of Indian descent, hailing from Uttar Pradesh. So for everyone who is up in arms and asking “Who could be this insensitive and racist?” The answer is: one of our own is responsible for this.”

3. Is a Tall Geeky White Man My Ideal Mate? (2009)

“Needless to say, those nice and geeky characters I enjoyed on screen have turned this gal, who always thought she’d marry Asian, into a gal who desires a tall, geeky, white man to replace the tall, burly Asian man of her daydreams. But it makes me wonder… does this make me a traitor?”

4. Who’s Afraid of Being “So Asian?” (2011)

“I’m at this function with the one other Asian female. At a point in the conversation, my fellow Asian sister said something that I thought sounded very typical Asian, in a good way, too, mind you, so I gleefully exclaimed, “That’s so Asian!” Rather than laugh in acknowledgment, she looked horrified. [...] She narrowed her eyes and glared at me with a “How could you!?” expression, like I had just aired her dirty laundry in public. Honey, I wanted to say to her, They already see that you’re Asian.”

5. An Open Letter to Alexandra Wallace, Ranting UCLA Girl (2011)

“I want to let you know that I am not going to call you a bitch, whore, or slut as many of my colleagues are doing. Because that’s degrading as hell. Nor do I think you need to expelled from UCLA. Nor do I think your rant is hate speech. And do I believe that it is just for people to post your contact information up for all the world to see? Hell no. But I DO have a few words to say.”

6. A Nativist View on Immigration Reform (2011)

“For some reason to be involved in Asian American jurisprudence is to dabble in immigration law. And as much as I wish they would not, these immigration cases put dents in my nativist views.”

7. Open Letter to Shiuan Butler, Author of the Petition Against 8Asians & Sexism (2011)

“I shouldn’t have to say this, but Koji’s response is to use humor to acknowledge that — like most heterosexual males — he likes breasts. Although the majority of 8Asians’ readers read Koji’s article and found it funny– almost 60% of our readers clicked “laughing” on Moodthingy for that post– it is evident that Ms. Butler did not find this amusing.”

8. An Affirmative Action Plan for the Interracial Dating Disparity (2011)

“So what do we do about this, this [Interacial Relationship] disparity? Well folks, what has America always done to counter the effects of discrimination, benefit an underrepresented group, and fix a disparate impact? Affirmative action, baby!”

Holy crap, has it been five years already? It sure has. Five years ago Christmas weekend, 8Asians.com was launched. I KNOW, RIGHT? That means that over the next couple of days, we’re going to focus on some well-deserved navel gazing and reflect on some 8Asians posts we’ve written over the past half a decade or so that you may have missed.

Here are eight posts that 8Asians readers like you have found amusing, after the jump!

1. How to “Asianize” Your Products

“Before, this was just a boring, old TV remote. Now, it’s an Oriental conversation piece, imported directly from the jungles of China (they have jungles there, right?) and built by the descendants of Confucius.”

2. Asians Behaving Badly: Jason Li, Vancouver Hockey Fan Rioter

“…But if you’re going to pose for Associated Press photographers who have worldwide distribution to news centers all over the world, you may want to give a quick heads-up Skype call to your aunt in Hong Kong to tell her that you’re not a homicidal maniac; there’s just simply this thing in Canada called hockey, and that you were “just posing.””

3. VIRAL LIKE SARS: Jenny Zhang’s Kinda Cheesy Action Sequence

“There’s a lesson to be learned here kids, and that lesson is DO NOT STEAL CANNED CORN FROM AN ASIAN GIRL BECAUSE SHE WILL GODDAMN SHOOT YOU IN THE THIGH.”

4. The Science and History of the Asian Squat

“The Asian squat. I’ve always been able to do it naturally. [...] I’ve always done it but the first time I really noticed others doing it was when I went to Bali. Every street I walked down, there were lines and lines of men and women doing the Asian squat asking me if I wanted to buy women, drugs, and/or tourist crap.”

5. Top 8 Last Minute Halloween Costumes for Asian Americans

“… You can’t have a 2011 holiday without mentioning Amy Chua. Thanks to this lady, Asian American women will never be seen as normal, motherly human beings again. And thanks to this lady, you’ve got the easiest Halloween costume around. If none of your friends get the joke, just berate them for not studying hard enough and then cancel the party so everyone can go home and practice the piano.”

6. Mothers Day with 8Asians: My Mother, Lost in Translation

“I’M ON BART TRAIN. CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR THE BART NOISES? I’M ON A BART GOING TO EL CERRITO TO SEE MY FRIEND PEGGY WHO…” “Mom, why are you yelling?” “BECAUSE THE BART TRAIN IS LOUD AND MY CELLPHONE IS SO SMALL. SO SMALL.”

7. Selca: Taking Photos of Yourself (So You Don’t Look Like a Fool Taking Someone Elses)

“…Maybe another reason while selcas are so popular is to avoid looking like the folks who have been captures in awkward positions in an attempt to capture the flattering image of people and such.”

8. The Best Asian Related Questions on Yahoo! Answers

“Dear Internet, I love you and I want to have your baby. Just when I think I’ve seen everything you have to offer, you show me more. I am eternally grateful and completely in awe of your awesomeness. The other day, I was surfing Yahoo! Answers (what can I say, I was bored) and I started to notice some strange questions being asked about Asians.”

Okay, you totally caught us — there were more than 8 Days during our 8Days of Giveaways!

Our generous friends had so much to give our 8Asians readers, that we extended it a bit! So keep your eyes peeled as we head down the final stretch of the celebration and wrap it all up. And if you’ve entered into any of our 8Days giveaways, check your email boxes to see if you’re a lucky winner!

(Special thanks to Susan of GASP! for her help in putting this together with me!)

Happy Holidays, everyone! It’s December, so even though many of us aren’t Christian or don’t celebrate Christmas, it is the season of giving. And everyone likes presents and free stuff, right?

So get ready for 8Asians’ twist on the 12 Days of Christmas– our “8Days of Giveaways” Celebration– featuring giveaways from our many generous friends from around the web! You’ll have to keep checking back to our site to see what you can win, but here’s one hint: many of the things we’ll be giving away have been featured on our shopping blog, GASP!

We’ll be featuring daily giveaways starting today through December 21 (that’s 8 days, not counting weekends, thankyouverymuch), so keep checking back to 8Asians (or follow us on Twitter and Facebook) to see the latest goodies!

If you have something to giveaway that you think our 8Asians readers will enjoy, drop me a brief note.

Thanks to our 2011 celebration participants:

• Asian Crew Clothing courtesy of Asian Crew Inc.
• Custom @ Symbol Twitter Necklace from Blend Creations courtesy of Blend Creations
• 5-Pack of Assorted Greeting Cards from OfftheBoatGreetings.com courtesy of Off the Boat Greetings
• Pequitobun Jewelry courtesy of Pequitobun
• ‘How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe’ by Charles Yu courtesy of Charles Yu
• Autographed copy of Mree “Grow” CD courtesy of Mree
• Akufuncture Gear courtesy of Akufuncture
• Pair of Snakebyte Controllers courtesy of Snakebyte USA
• Good Asian Driver T-shirt by Blacklava courtesy of Blacklava.net
• Aziatix “Nocturnal” CD courtesy of ECHOforward
• TC Charton Asian Fit Eyewear Sunglasses courtesy of TC Charton Asian Fit Eyewear
• 8Asians’ NINJA WINS T-shirt by Blacklava courtesy of 8Asians.com

(Sorry, but we will not be giving away 8 Maids-a-Milking.)

This is probably the most embarrassing post I’ve ever had to write (not counting the one about my butt). Welcome to the very first 8Asians vlog. You see, while we’re all about writing, sometimes we wish we had a little more “video” fun–just like our friends Jen and Diana from Disgrasian. Also, it was raining outside so Ernie and I couldn’t go anywhere. This is what happened.

If this video wasn’t awful enough, you’re in luck because we’ve got a couple more to show you! Sorry.