Category: Web

This gallery of Chinese fake brands is hilarious: LINK
(thx Di)

This story reminds me of the story our drummer told me about his cousin’s first day of work at Domino’s, being sent on a mission to find “dough patch” for the pizzas.
(thx Mol)

If you have about 45 free minutes and any interest in kidnapping gangs operating in Thailand at all, you must see this post over at thaivisa.com: American Rescued After Being Kidnapped, Kidnappers included Thai Police
Go through the entire thread and download the supplemental documents linked there by a previous victim – it’s unbelievable.
Major props to Thai Visa forums, I get a lot of info there and they deserve credit for providing such a valuable resource.

Christian kids want to know… Do pets go to heaven?
(via osaka bill)

Thanks to the Internet, I now know that the pee shivers are (possibly) officially known as post-micturition convulsion syndrome.
How many incorrect stereotypes can you spot in this photo? Better yet, which ones are intentional, and which ones show just how ignorant the creators are?
A sea lion eating a shark
Christ almighty, that’s a huge rockfish! (and a century old…)
Hey, look: A published magazine illegally using and actually watermarking my brother’s photographs! Sue those bitches, Adam! (and yes, people think that the thieves are the creators. Hell, they even think so in Thailand!) This is obviously a bigger sin than, say, incorrect attribution.
Have a nice day.

Office efficiency skyrockets and school delinquency rates plummet as the Thai government bans popular video sharing site YouTube.

Luckily, my site isn’t hosted in Thailand (and why would it be?). It’s amazing how few people in power “get” the Internet.
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UPDATE: TIME has a more comprehensible summary of events

If the grand tour of Japan proposed on this Nissan page doesn’t include a couple of timed laps around the Osaka sotokanjo, it just ain’t worth doing. I remember one of the early Japanese car magazines that featured a reader’s photo corner where you could send in copies of your speeding tickets – the reader with the highest recorded speed won some sort of prize. Ah, those were the days (before 50+ kmph over speeding tickets cost you your license plus a night in jail).

Old news, but:

“Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV. “

Clooney, you say? As in, George Clooney? Um, yep.
And to think I was going to call my future daughter Nell…