Category: Web

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…

Here’s another clip of his performance where you can see that he’s unaccompanied on stage; it also reveals more about where he is performing and adds insipid French commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3nzAikczEQ

Hadaka Sushi, West Hollywoood
At least cut off your pinky finger, waps!
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(definition: nyotaimori)

Someone sent this to me a while ago, I don’t remember who (but thanks!).

NZ’s colossal squid to be microwaved
Run, don’t walk, fish nerds.

You mean, if I want to continue enjoying the account that I paid for, I have to sign in with my existing Yahoo! account, fuckyoustupidflickrshitheadsandstoptellingmewhattodo@yahoo.com?
Fucktards. This is not how you treat a charter member (or as you so eloquently put it, “Old Skool Member.” Fucktards.) Shit, if you’re gonna hold my already-paid-for account hostage, I don’t have much of a choice, do I?

Wired has original They Might Be Giant “Snacktones” (ringtones) available for free download. Check it out. The track “Friend or Foe” is stuck in my head.

not constantinople

I need to access a full article on Britannica and I heard you can do it by linking from a blog: folk society
Update: It works! An alternative is to bookmark the target article to del.icio.us. Of course, this bears the question as to why Britannica is still based on an archaic paid subscription system, but I’m not complaining. I really need to know about folk societies since I’m doing someone else’s homework (ahem!).
Here is the link to Britannica’s official policy regarding linkage.