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Props to Wikipedia
There comes a time to take a stand and tell people to fuck off: Wikipedia defies China’s censors The fact of the matter is that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are either pussies or sellouts (or most likely, both!) with regard to China, and anyone trying to make it sound like they had no choice is obscuring the issue – there was a definite choice. It was between increased profits or morals, and those companies have made it clear which they place more value on. Well, fuck them – they have made their own beds. Bravo, Wikipedia!
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Onegai
Weather gods, please keep this aberration away from me. Unlucky typhoon number 13. Typhoon SHANSHAN – even your name is wack. No way you are ruining my sea kayak trip this weekend. That is all.
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ore ore sagification
Oh, Tamade. To think we gave up the thrill of your streets for this retirement commune on Awaji… Every Osaka lover owes it to him/herself to go visit the police stations around Nishinari/Sumiyoshi. I shit you not, the buildings are barricaded against attack from the outside. The area around the Sumiyoshi police station, especially, is what I imagine Japan looked like right after the war, complete with streets filled with mangy dogs, scary vagrants, and rusty piles of junk. OK, maybe the strays are a bit inauthentic (read: “four-legged protein source,” if they had even lasted that long, or even existed in the first place for that matter) for post-war…
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…get out of the kitchen
Does Luc Besson read my blog? A year ago: Luc Besson is a fucking sellout Today: Luc Besson says he’s finished with filmmaking Wow, that worked out pretty well! Luc will stop churning out turds for money, and I’ll stop calling him names! Next up: Lucas. George Lucas. You will pay for Jar Jar, Georgie! YOU WILL PAY!
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Streetracing, comrade!
Russkie Rice That’s the awesomest spoiler I’ve ever seen.
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Feed Me
It’s uncanny how humanlike their movements are… I swear I know a stoner dude that reacts just like that when he’s surprised.
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Comments fixed
I just fixed the “Remember personal info?” function of the comments so it actually works now. For the record, the problem I had was fixed with the solution on this page. It happened when I upgraded, and I couldn’t figure it out until I had a couple spare hours to research it. So, have at it since you’re spared filling out the fields every time now! The fix also fixed a script error that was appearing on individual entries when viewed with Internet Explorer. I hadn’t used IE for so long that the error simply went unnoticed!
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Just a quick note
I usually don’t post on this date, because it means enough to me to want to post on 9/11 related topics. The thing is, my voice is one of many who feel the same way – sadness, anger, regret, patriotism, etc. – and I feel many others express that a whole lot better than I could. However. Somebody is pissing me off, and today is the day to let it all go. To the wannabe domain squatter who is trying to sell me the cosmicbuddha.net domain: Spamming me ten times over the course of two weeks for any reason is lame enough, but asking if I want to buy the…
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The Russo-Japanese War
We have a photo book on this war inherited from my grandfather somewhere back home. I used to browse through it a lot when I was little without ever understanding what it was about. The main thing that sticks out in my mind is that there were a lot of photos of Japanese soldiers on bicycles – it seemed that was the major mode of transportation at the time. “The Russo-Japanese War stands as one of the key events that ushered in the twentieth century. At the time it was widely understood to be a racial conflict and an epochal confrontation between East and West. In terms of the weaponry…
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Rare Mono Shop
Here’s my nomination for Best New USB Peripheral, 2006: USB Atataka Surippa (warmed slippers) Other great products I found on that site: Vaccum tube Amplifier for iPod Spydisk SD/MMC Card Reader Morse Code Drive (which has nothing to do with morse code; it seems to be just a keypad enabled security system for USB drives) USB Ass-cooling cushion Foot pedal-type stealth switch (AKA “boss switch” used to quickly change from a game/pr0n/non work-related screen to a spreadsheet, etc. instantly)
