“HavenCo Limited is exploiting a unique opportunity to set up the world’s first real data haven. The initial showcase datacenter is the Principality of Sealand, the world’s smallest sovereign territory. It was founded over thirty years ago and has obtained a unique legal status as the only sovereign man-made island. Its claim to sovereignty has been tested and supported in several legal challenges.”
I’d heard of Sealand before, but never really thought about what it looked like. As it turns out, it wouldn’t have looked out of place on the set of Waterworld:
Kewl.
More pics here: LINK
Mediterrasse
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A new love hotel shopping center (see comments) being put up in Kobe. I love my new camera.
Times change…
From August, 1981:
The story behind this ad can be found here.
And as for the present day: Nihau, Lenovo.
You knee chloe
The UNIQLO I walk by on my way home from work.
Fantasy E-mail Functions: Auto-Append
Description: This feature automatically appends the phrase “, you fucking idiot(s)” to every sentence you write. This feature is toggled ON by scowling or narrowing of eyes (as interpreted by facial recognition software), and OFF by slamming your fist through the computer screen.
Default Setting: ON
Losers, one and all
Now I got these losers posting spam for free iPods on my blog by hand. SarahAnderson@yahoo.com, you are a simple bitch.
UPDATE: My blacklist let out a foul belch when he ate your site. You gots bad juju or sumfin.
On the bathroom shelf
peko-chan
What, then, is a parm?
Parmanent!
Fly on Flower
I hate flies, but this one was cooperative. Taken on a nature trail at the Awaji Highway Oasis last Sunday.
Rules is rules…
From the Bangkok Post:
An ancient Thai marriage rite in which wives prostrate before their husbands should be revived to bring back the disappearing happy family, Social Development and Human Security Minister Watana Muangsook said yesterday.
Wow. I wonder what Nam will throw at me when I try to hold this one over her head… But honey, when in Rome…
(via Farang Affairs, the Bangkok Post)