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Click on the photo to see a set of black and white photos taken while walking around Nagoya this weekend. Buildings that are bombed-out, squeezed, poking the sky and flying humanity to a space-based utopia. Who says there is nothing to…
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Tokyo Subway Map from Tokyo Art Beat A stunning version of the famous rail line. $20 from TAB. A grid overlay allows it to function as a wall calendar. This is amazing. (They’re in Japan, but I’ve bought stuff from them…
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Tokyo Subway Map from Tokyo Art Beat A stunning version of the famous rail line. $20 from TAB. A grid overlay allows it to function as a wall calendar. This is amazing. (They’re in Japan, but I’ve bought stuff from them…
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Why are there so many Christian signs in regional Japan?
Adamu posts an informing answer at Mutant Frog Travelogue. Being in “provincial Japan” I see my fair share of Christian missionary nutters. It gave me a chuckle when I read that the head of the organization responsible for the posters, soundtracks…
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Earlier this week Google announced its upcoming communications platform Wave. I watched the entire 80 minute developer preview video today and was intrigued and impressed. I signed up for beta access right away. It is definitely worth your time if you…
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Japanese Twitter user numbers by Nielsen
Netratings, a web ad market analysis firm owned by Nielsen, has compiled country data from a Nielsen report last month revealing the number of Twitter users in Japan compared to the US and UK. There are about half a million Japanese…
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Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
“A” is for Ackbar… Illustrated Star Wars Alphabet
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Now there’s a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Now there’s a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Andrew Sullivan misunderstands the “long tail”
A new British study finds that the most pirated pop songs on the internet are those that already top the charts. Instead of giving rise to a “long tail” where small indie acts broaden their appeal online, the study found that…
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