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Max loves keys and locks
Linky, linky: The Ultimate Lock Picker Exposes Weak Military Installations, Corporate Systems Wired arranged a picking test for the best locks Medeco had to offer, and filmed the results.
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Crazy exer-ball trick
Popular Science breaks down the science of it here, but after the first couple paragraphs it just started to look like blah blah blah blah blahblahblahblah…
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DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
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aikoku
http://kimigayowachiyoniyachiyonisazare-ishinoiwaotonaritekokenomusuma.de
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Internet Anagram Server
For future reference: An impressive anagram generator The first two that come up for “Max Yoshida” are: Shady Axiom Dismay Hoax
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Fail Whale
As far as I can tell, Twitter is filled with rich people who made their money online and inexplicably want to share their secrets to success with EVERYBODY! //////////////////////////////////////// As…
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Best Easter Egg Ever – Konami Code in Google Reader
1. Do you use Google Reader? 2. Do you know the Konami Code*? Try inputting 2 when in 1. //////////////////////// It’s all about the NES, yo. * /////////////////////////// UPDATE: I…
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Cake Wreck
This is perhaps my favorite entry on the whole Cake Wrecks blog:
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Asymmetrical warfare
An interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell over at the New Yorker that sort of reads like an inspirational speech: How David Beats Goliath
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Jared Diamond sued by alleged pig thief
Natives Telling Stories I heard about this last week but I thought it was an anthropologist’s joke.
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The Road Warrior would be really happy in post-apocalyptic Japan (because he wouldn’t have to worry about tolls/gas/speeding tickets)
There’s an excellent article up at the Japan Times that explains some of the reasons why even though the government used to subsidize half of the toll for the bridge…
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Some Mother Frakking Group – OMFG with an “S”
OK it’s time to go on a Japan kick for a couple posts. Is it just me, or is SMFG the worst named financial institution, ever? As in, “SMFG agrees…
