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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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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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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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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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Sarcasm Tag
Look, I found a non-marketing twit written in the last two months!
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Sky Cries Murder
“The rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager, who stood to collect millions of dollars on the star’s life insurance policy, a former roadie has claimed in a…
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The Story of Sriracha
Sriracha sauce that is: A Chili Sauce to Crow About My parents had a bottle of Sriracha on the table ever since I was about ten, so I literally grew…
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Wolfram|Alpha is racist (wherein I channel Angry Asian Man)
Check out Gizmodo’s post: Wolfram Alpha: A Bit Racist? Searching for the word “dumb” brings up “results for Racist synonym trees that associated the word dumb with black.” W|A explained…
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Star Wars ABC Illustrations
A is for Ackbar, B is for Bantha… LINK
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Wolfram|Alpha is retarded*
No, I’m sorry, it just is. And all the people who called it a “Google killer” are also retarded (in an ” isn’t sure what to do with your input”…
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Firefox bold text problem (that wasn’t actually a Firefox problem)
As the title indicates, I noticed a sudden problem today in Firefox (on Windows XP) when checking Gmail – all of the text was bold. So I fired up Chrome…
