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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)
Random Japanese Graffiti
Found this in Kobe between a stairwell and a hidden shotengai a couple weeks ago. The artwork is reminiscent of gishigishikun (an ultraviolent schoolboy manga) for some reason… Maybe that bloody nose.
Snow Crash the Movie
It seems like the rumors about a movie version of Snow Crash from a few years back have basically disappeared. If so, good. I have zero faith in Hollywood being able to create anything even remotely as good as the book. Plus, there’s the whole half-black, half-asian protagonist thing to work out – more than likely, they’d devise some brilliant way around it involving Tom Cruise, eyelid glue, and a can of creosote.
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Zero faith. Heh. Reminds me of a planning company I used to pass every day on the way to work, near Nam’s old apartment in Tamade (Osaka): ZERO PLANNING.
Feel Good, Inc.
The Gorillaz, live at the MTV Europe Music awards: LINK
Plus, a background article on how it was done.
(via mofi)
Stephenson as Prophet
I just figured out why I loved Google Earth so much from the very first time I tried it. The concept and the interface were already planted in my brain:
Earth materializes, rotating majestically in front of his face. Hiro reaches out and grabs it. He twists it around so he’s looking at Oregon. Tells it to get rid of the clouds, and it does, giving him a crystalline view of the mountains and the seashore…
…Hiro looks up, focuses his gaze on Earth, zooms in for a look. As he gets closer, the imagery he’s looking at shifts from the long-range pictures coming in from the geosynchronous satellites to the good stuff being spewed into the CIC computer from a whole fleet of low-flying spy birds. The view he’s looking at is a mosaic of images shot no more than a few hours ago.
I’m reading Snow Crash again for the first time in few years. I do this partly out of habit every once in a while, the same as watching the Blues Brothers for the twentieth or thirtieth time, but also because its a damn good read.
I’ve realized partway through, this time, that a lot of what Neal Stephenson envisioned in this book has actually materialized in the real world. Perhaps the items I refer to were actually being developed when he wrote the book, but just off the top of my head, in the last year alone I have read about the commercialization of products that could be considered real-world equivalents of Snow Crash technology: The Earth program mentioned above, advanced crash suits/collars for motorcyclists, dentatas (Latin for “toothed vagina”), gargoyles (wearable or implanted computer enhancements), loogie guns.
Next on my personal wish list: Rat things, the Deliverator’s ride, and Reason v1.1.