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Sacred Society of Osakan Webmasters FAQ

Q: What can you tell me about the Sacred Society of Osakan Webmasters?
A: It’s a secretive and prestigious society that’s very difficult to join.

Q: Can I join?
A: If you are a current or former resident of Osaka and a webmaster, and you can afford the membership fees, yes.

Q: What are the benefits of being a SSOW member?
A: You won’t know all the little joys of being a member until you join, but among other things, you can list it on your resume and website.

Q: Is it true that osakan.com has had the same front page up for nearly a decade?
A: Yes, plans for the site were dreamed up during a legendary tequila session. In fact, the domain was registered via I-mode on an ancient DoCoMo clamshell that very night. The drinking establishment in question is no more, but the dream lives on..

YouTube Sanction Appealed

Got this in my inbox this morning:

The YouTube Community has flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed by the YouTube Team against our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following video(s) contain content in violation of these guidelines, and have been disabled:
Cockroach Reanimation with Electro-stimulation – (cbuddha)
Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the permanent termination of your account.
For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the Help Centre.
Received: 15 Aug 2012 | Acknowledged: 15 Aug 2012 | Appealed

The video, which was up to around 260,000 views, showed me zapping a dead cockroach with a racquet-style bug zapper in order to elicit nerve response. I guess there are some die hard cockroach activists out there.

I have appealed the sanction and am awaiting a response.

White Pointers vs. Great Whites

Pretty much everybody interested in sharks has seen this photo by now:

Here’s a video with interesting aerial photos of the sharks in this area (Cape Cod).

If you live in Cali, you probably know that just the day before, a Great White attacked a kayak in Santa Cruz.

What you might not know is that the following week, one of the most intense videos ever recorded of a shark was taken by a couple guys who, luckily, happened to have spear guns and a camera rolling in the open ocean:

And soon after, some poor surfer in Perth was bitten in half and eaten by a 16-foot monster.

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Have they always craved human flesh so?

Or does outlawing killing them make us seem weak?

(because we all know that predators go after the weak….)

Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio aren’t available in Asia…

…so hey, fuck you and your stupid attempts to listen to music legally. On the other hand, BitTorrent works quite well, so hey, fuck you, too. The music industry (as we know it), the movie industry, and copyright in general will be dragged into a completely new system, no doubt kicking and screaming, but hopefully within our lifetimes. Anything less would be a massive failure on our part, tantamount to the way we were handed down reefer madness and the war on drugs.

84 likes, 130 dislikes

In October of 2010, I uploaded a video about bringing a cockroach back to life with a bug zapper to YouTube. It only had a few thousand hits for the first year, but then suddenly took off probably due to the pop culture zombie phenomenon, plus a hundred 12 year olds on YouTube calling me stupid and explaining that what was shown in the video wasn’t really reanimation (thanks for clearing that up you little shits).

Anyway, this is my first YouTube vid to go over 100,000 hits, so I thought I’d brag about it. Check it out to see what our front yard used to look like.

Cockroach Reanimation with Electro-stimulation