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A Good Day Day?
Can’t believe I missed this update 11 years ago: The Return To Finding Out Ice Cube’s Good Day The original post blew up the internet a couple years before that. I found my link to it searching for an old post. A big problem with blogging for so long is that most links and video embeds end up broken… Which was a selling point for social media back in the day (your memories are safe with us!), but of course, even Facebook has started deleting live videos this year after realizing storing that shit costs money.
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and/or
Andor made Star Wars relevant to me again, after ignoring everything that came out the past years. It was really good, especially because I followed it up with Rogue One (and almost A New Hope as well, but I prefer to keep that one in my mind’s Pee-Chee folders/bubble memory). Anil Dash has a great run down of all the extras.
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When Yahoo was King
I was recently asked about beta testing I did for Google’s cHTML site for NTT DoCoMo i-mode 20+ years ago on a clamshell keitai. Most of it was done between shots of Cuervo at Tramps (pout one out for Tramps, y’all!) in Kyobashi with my pal and Movable Type mentor, Bill. I actually corrected the color on the Google logo for i-mode (for which I received payment in the form of two black XL tees with the old school Baskerville Google logo that elicited many a “what is Google” at the company hanami on the banks of the O River in Sakuranomiya). I haven’t really felt that kind of freedom…
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I switched back to Firefox again.
I’ve switched between using FF and Chromium-based browsers (mainly Opera and Brave) several times over the years. They both had times when they were so good! Now it seems like we’re forced to use the one that sucks the least… Chrome’s most recent transgression was making uBlock Origin unusable, but I was leaning this way for a long time. I just kept putting it off by building PCs with more and more RAM.
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Soi Negro, Bangkok
This is one of my favorite posts in r/Thailand this year: Soi Negro: From Nobles to Hair Cream (and actually good coffee)
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21 Years of Steam
If that’s not a cringey Steam profile, I don’t know what is. I’d like to say I registered for Steam on dial-up, but looking back on posts from 2003 just before I signed up*, it was either my first FTTH line (NTT 100Mbps service on a Japanese island 20 years ago!), or Dual ISDN (128 kbit/s and more expensive than the FTTH, if I remember correctly). I was one of the only Dual ISDN subscribers on Awaji Island according to the techs who installed it. After I upgraded to FTTH and they came by for maintenance, they said I had the fastest hikari (fiber) connection they had seen, as well.…
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Many centenarians actually do not live to 100?
An Ig Nobel prize winner this year says: The epitome of this is blue zones, which are regions where people supposedly reach age 100 at a remarkable rate. For almost 20 years, they have been marketed to the public. They’re the subject of tons of scientific work, a popular Netflix documentary, tons of cookbooks about things like the Mediterranean diet, and so on. Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death. The Japanese government has run one…
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Viola the Bird
This is most entertaining for at least 15 seconds: Viola the Bird (Google Labs Experiment)
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Old Tom and the Law of the Tongue
Yesterday, I was still recovering from a cold I came down with at the end of the year, so I had a good excuse to put off work and feverishly surf old RSS feeds. I ended up stumbling across the best Wikipedia article I’d seen for ages: Killer whales of Eden, New South Wales I want to start in reverse chronological order. New South Wales, Australia, is home to the Eden Whale Festival, which celebrates the southern migration of the humpback and other whales. This area is historically important for being the home of a whaling industry after the arrival of Europeans, and much further back, subsistence whaling by native…
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Rad
https://my90stv.com/
