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Forbidden NK Photos
Check out this translated gallery of subversive photos taken by a Russian visitor in North Korea: LINK hint: It’s not just that first page, it goes on and on.
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Environmental Monarch
Thai fishermen have declared they will no longer intentionally catch the Mekong Giant Catfish, in honor of their king: LINK Granted, this only covers part of the problem as the…
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Free 80’s Music
A digg user has posted 100 free 80’s mp3s over on his blog. Go download some and relive the glory years of commie-fearing, plastic neon superconductivity. By the way, I…
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Access Interrupt
If we’re Skyping and I suddenly go offline, you’ll all know why: Fiber Haters, a.k.a. Cicadas UPDATE: Oh, great. The crows are out to get me, too. (via Magnoy)
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Benikamikiri
T solved my weekend bug mystery. The answer is Purpuricenus (Sternoplistes) temminckii, a name even your best friends couldn’t remember. Let’s just call him beni-kun.
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Future Spirits
Taro’s aunts called from Horyuji to say they were harvesting this year’s plums from the ancient trees in their front yard and to ask if I wanted to come pick…
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Bottled Water
In general, bottled water from France is expensive and disgusting. Funny, it doesn’t taste nearly as bad drinking it when you’re in France. Maybe they save the good stuff for…
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Red Mystery Beetle
Anybody know offhand what this bad boy is? (click on image to enlarge) I found him crawling on my car last month. When I tried to touch him, he flew…
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Akashi Kaikyo Bridge Photos
Some photos Nam took with her new Coolpix S6 when we passed under the longest suspension bridge in the world (4km) last month on the Taco Ferry (this “taco” means…
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Parking Inspector Assault #2
This time it happened in Okayama, the home of Momotaro (the chldren’s story character, not the kaitenzushi chain): Man busted for biting parking inspector Now I’m just waiting for the…
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Lead Belly
I was doing some research on Lead Belly for a blues project I’ve been kicking around in my head, when it occurred to me that he lived until 1949 and…
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Kentaro redux
Somebody upped a better version of the DJ Kentaro/Shinichi Kinoshita clip from NHK’s LiveJam last year. This is basically his best stuff so far, besides the Solid Steel compilation, so…
