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Hardcore
Did someone forgot to take their meds? In the essay titled “Killing Kittens” in the newspaper’s Aug. 18 evening edition, Bando, 48, wrote that she owns three pet cats and throws their kittens off the cliff near her house on the South Pacific island of Tahiti whenever they give birth to any. “I am fully aware what severe criticism I may face if I write this,” she says at the outset of the essay. “I will probably be condemned as a savage by animal lovers around the world, and people may say I am violating the animal protection law. Knowing this, I confess I am killing kittens.” Bando writes that…
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Ryukyu Underground
I came across this fascinating article over at the website of the Japan Policy Research Institute: A Wild Start: Okinawa in the 1970s Excerpts: “Gate Two Street and BC Street in Koza City was where the best wide-open bar district action was, except for the majority of Afro-American servicemen. Some of those guys did party with us Euro-American and Latino-American servicemen and go bar hopping with us, but most GI Soul Brothers stuck to “The Bush.” The Bush was an all black environment. The Soul Brothers had nearly completely segregated themselves out of all the other bar districts on The Rock a long time before I got there. Oh, that…
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retardeder
Who has less of a clue, the author, or the subject of this article: Sony buys video-sharing site by Gary Gentile “Media companies, including Sony, have begun to offer content side by side with videos shot by amateurs on sites such as MySpace, Guba and BitTorrent.” Say whaaaaat? “…allows people to place those videos on social networking sites such as MySpace and Friendster using its peer-to-peer network.” And if that doesn’t work out, they can always try getting bundled on an AOL software CD… This is my favorite bit, though: “Sony could also discover new talent on the site, Lynton said.” Maybe they can find a whole new board of…
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Root Canal
My tooth is dead. The dentist was very nice and kept trying out his rusty English skillz on me during the entire procedure… “Infected with bacteria…” “Very very difficult…sorry! It hurt?” “Your tooth… dead” So RIP, tooth. My ode to you: (ultracool mp3 player via)
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Damn Interesting
If you haven’t seen Damn Interesting blog yet, you should go check it out – it’s one of my favorite reads at the moment. Recent updating has been slow, but there are a few real gems in the archives. Today’s post on Operation Acoustic Kitty was sad, and awesome, and hilarious: “They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that. Finally, they’re ready. They took it out to a…
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Moral Dilemnot
Only 26 days of work left for me now; 8 optional days off remain. I’ve been in Japan so long, I actually started feeling guilty even just thinking about using them. So I asked the top office lady, the one who really makes things happen around here (you know the type, every Japanese office has one), whether I should use them or not. She said, straight up, “I can’t say – that’s totally up to you.” Magic words, music to my ears. …………. Actually, as I watched her lips move, all I could hear was, “you never have to work another Monday in Japan, ever again, if you so desire.”…
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Calling All Star Wars Geeks
Get in on the steaming hot Dianoga action already!
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Performancing
I’m testing the Performancing blog editor for Firefox. Looks pretty cool so far. Image settings test:Driveby shot of an average Awaji resident.
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Top Flickr Cameras
This is interesting: The top camera makes and models used to take photos uploaded to Flickr “The lists are generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads.” I had no idea my camera, the D50, was so popular. Of course, I feel it’s still the best DSLR for the money (I bought mine over a year ago), so it’s unsurprising other people feel the same. Shit, if I wasn’t completely happy with it, I’d switch to a different model just to not have the most popular one… Now that I’ve invested in Nikon glass, if I were ever to lose or break my current…
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Here Be Commies
Also found over on reddit: The World According to Ronald Reagan (map) Even in California, our whole class cried the day he got shot. I remember the principal’s voice over the PA system. “Ecotopia” sure has grown over the years…
