Let’s make a deal (Let’s Dealing!): I will concede to the popular belief that the shadows on the moon look like a rabbit pounding mochi as long as you wait until I’m gone to implement this bullshit.
That is all.
Author: Justin
Shades of Cryptonomicon
“HavenCo Limited is exploiting a unique opportunity to set up the world’s first real data haven. The initial showcase datacenter is the Principality of Sealand, the world’s smallest sovereign territory. It was founded over thirty years ago and has obtained a unique legal status as the only sovereign man-made island. Its claim to sovereignty has been tested and supported in several legal challenges.”
I’d heard of Sealand before, but never really thought about what it looked like. As it turns out, it wouldn’t have looked out of place on the set of Waterworld:
Kewl.
More pics here: LINK
Mediterrasse
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A new love hotel shopping center (see comments) being put up in Kobe. I love my new camera.
Times change…
From August, 1981:
The story behind this ad can be found here.
And as for the present day: Nihau, Lenovo.
Fantasy E-mail Functions: Auto-Append
Description: This feature automatically appends the phrase “, you fucking idiot(s)” to every sentence you write. This feature is toggled ON by scowling or narrowing of eyes (as interpreted by facial recognition software), and OFF by slamming your fist through the computer screen.
Default Setting: ON
Losers, one and all
Now I got these losers posting spam for free iPods on my blog by hand. SarahAnderson@yahoo.com, you are a simple bitch.
UPDATE: My blacklist let out a foul belch when he ate your site. You gots bad juju or sumfin.
Fly on Flower
I hate flies, but this one was cooperative. Taken on a nature trail at the Awaji Highway Oasis last Sunday.
Rules is rules…
From the Bangkok Post:
An ancient Thai marriage rite in which wives prostrate before their husbands should be revived to bring back the disappearing happy family, Social Development and Human Security Minister Watana Muangsook said yesterday.
Wow. I wonder what Nam will throw at me when I try to hold this one over her head… But honey, when in Rome…
(via Farang Affairs, the Bangkok Post)
Random Japanese Graffiti
Found this in Kobe between a stairwell and a hidden shotengai a couple weeks ago. The artwork is reminiscent of gishigishikun (an ultraviolent schoolboy manga) for some reason… Maybe that bloody nose.
Snow Crash the Movie
It seems like the rumors about a movie version of Snow Crash from a few years back have basically disappeared. If so, good. I have zero faith in Hollywood being able to create anything even remotely as good as the book. Plus, there’s the whole half-black, half-asian protagonist thing to work out – more than likely, they’d devise some brilliant way around it involving Tom Cruise, eyelid glue, and a can of creosote.
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Zero faith. Heh. Reminds me of a planning company I used to pass every day on the way to work, near Nam’s old apartment in Tamade (Osaka): ZERO PLANNING.