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Yoshi Ikuzo – Precursor to Japanese Hip-hop (yo yo)
He’s kind of the Grandmaster Flash of Japan, except he didn’t contribute anything to turntablism and he raps in the Tohoku (instead of Bronx) vernacular. Also, he includes kamishibai (link)…
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Torrent alternative
Download your torrents via http: furk I tried it. It was free and it worked as advertised. It probably isn’t an RIAA honeypot; they ain’t that smart.
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Still in broken PC limbo
The homebrew LCD hack didn’t work, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. My backyard repair dude rewired and replaced one old broken set of fluorescent tubes with old working…
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There were better days..
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Nikkeis from South America paid to leave Japan (and not come back to work ever again)
I’ve really been out of the loop, but this was a really interesting read: Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home Even though the dumbass running the program can’t keep…
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Vietnam destiny
Found this crazy story over at Monkeyfilter about a Vietnam vet who met up, through a series of highly impossible yet seemingly predetermined events, with the daughter of a man…
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Biggest Fall Yet
Yesterday, when we were walking back from seeing the only horse in the area (name: Happy), Max stepped on a piece of wood, lost his balance, and fell forward onto…
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Working Around Planned Obsolescence
All of the PCs I’m using at home are ones I brought over from Japan in 2006 so they are all either very well-used or broken now. My main laptop…
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PETARDED
PETA doesn’t like fishmongers tossing fish at the Pike Place Fish Market PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted a fly on live TV PETA needs to hurry up and merge with…
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Oh My Rice
I just happened to be looking at Thai used car sites for some missing pieces to the Crown, and I happened upon one of the riciest piece of riceriffic gohan…
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Learning to speak Thai
Andrew Biggs (I always think of him as the Dave Spector of Thailand although that’s far from being accurate) wrote a couple of great columns over at the Bangkok Times:…
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Adam in the The Herald Monterey County
His project at the Monterey Bay Aquarium hooks up disabled kids with a diving experience – how cool! Full article here: Disabled children explore underwater wonders at Monterey aquarium Damn,…
