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The Origins of Kaiten-zushi (Conveyor Belt Sushi)
Envisioned in 1933: Mechanical grocery store walks around the customer Substitute raw fish and vinegared rice for the “groceries,” lose the wrapping option (mawarizushi is one of the few things…
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Hot coffee, comrade!
Holy crap, does this real life GTA show in Russia sound like fun or what? I would totally kick ass at this. (via)
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Pumpkin Top Security
I love companies that don’t take themselves too seriously; especially ones that should. Then again, maybe the Pumpkins are old money aristocrat types convinced that their family crest strikes fear…
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Walt Whitman Freed the Slaves
Adam sent me this a while back. Click to open the full size page in a pop-up window.
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23 weeks
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Japanese Bug Fights
Um, just what it sounds like. Somehow, I think the purity of the fights are ruined by the narration. I like the insect equivalent of MMA, though. (thx BRYDE)
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Homely
We put in curtains (cream) and grass (green) today. It’s amazing how much more this house feels like home now. As a side note, there’s a dirt track to the…
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Goodbye PHS
It seems that DoCoMo killed off the Personal Handyphone System service last week (Slashdot JP link). The PHS phones were attractive when we were students (specifically around 1995) because of…
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Sweet Child o’ Mine – Indian Version
Hell, I might like this version even better than the Sheryl Crow one.
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15 Months no BT
Bittorrent, I’m back. I know you missed me. But Demonoid’s gone! NOOOOOO! I was one of the few users to upload half a terabyte; I was going to use that…
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The Toyota Collection
Speaking of the Crown, Ive been meaning to post an original sales brochure for it that I found on this page (They’re restoring a Kujira Crown they found on e-Bay).…
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hooked up
Got my DSL hookup at the new house – currently 256/128k or some such sadness, but it’s a lot better than nothing, and I’ll be upgrading to 1Mb/512k on Monday.…
