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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 got this off of this page, which you also need to input the Konami Code into in order to view at all.
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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 to the mainland I used every weekend when living on Awajishima, I still had to pay 2600 yen (one way!): Japan’s many roads to ruin “The results have been a disaster. Certainly, Japan has a lot of roads: four to five times the number of any other Group of Seven country when measured by kilometers of road to usable land. The trouble is, a lot of these roads are in places where they are not needed. The country has an…
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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 deal with Citi to buy Nikko Cordial.” They might as well call themselves the Stealing Fuckers or Nipponese Moneylending Urchins of Doom (NMUD).
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vhc tabehodai
Max loves the very hungry caterpillar. We read it to him almost everyday. I found this pic over at B3ta.
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Intergalactic Power Punch
NES otaku headline: There was an unreleased sequel developed for Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! It was never officially released due to licensing and quality problems. It contained super-strong aliens and Don King… AND THE ROM HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE TO DOWNLOAD!!! /////////////////////////////////// In other news, all hail Bald Bull:
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The Twitter Defense
“Banal is good.” That’s like, deep, dude. For fucks sake.
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Successful Ambush
Turning Tables, U.S. Troops Ambush Taliban With Swift and Lethal Results “Sergeant Reese gave his rifle to another sniper to cover him while he tried to cut away a Taliban fighter’s ammunition pouches with a four-inch blade. The fighter had only been pretending to be dead, the soldiers said. He lunged for Sergeant Reese, who stabbed him in the left eye.” Sometimes it’s easy to forget we’re still fighting a war with a defined enemy and objectives.
