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iPhone 3G in Japan. (Needless to say, I’m as happy as a little girl.)

June 11, 2008 – 10:55 am

(image from mobilegazette.com)
Apple’s iPhone is finally coming to Japan next month (3G, July 11th), and NTT Docomo (about 50% market share) is about to lose a whole lot of customers to newcomer Softbank who has negotiated a deal to carry the 3G iPhone. Interestingly, neither Softbank nor Apple mentioned any exclusivity clauses, so it […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in japan, economics, media, business, technology | Comments (0)

landrobot’s eye-rod exerciser II-Happy Christmas All

December 24, 2007 – 10:25 pm

Merry Christmas and all that.

By landrobot | Also posted in drugs, comedy, strange, psychology, friendship, otaku, human nature, goofy, happiness, perspective, japan, philosophy, art, media, personal, rants, games, humor, film, animation, manga, education, image, technology | Comments (0)

Great blog: Who Sucks

July 10, 2007 – 9:18 pm

This is one of my new favorite blogs. I have a lot of time for well-written cynicism…

Who-Sucks.com is a site dedicated to researching the reasons why certain people and things suck, and then posting about it. When creating posts, we check a variety of sites around the net, trying to represent as many negative […]

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More on Kid-Targeted Marketing: Burger King Execs Ought to be Ashamed of Themselves.

July 3, 2007 – 10:26 am

Mark over at Mark Ruins Dinner dares to ask the million dollar question:

“Isn’t this supposed to transform?”
That’s right, Have it Your Way at Burger King, except for the lame ass excuse for a toy we use to lure your kids here. That’s gonna come in the cheapest form we can hire a handicapped orphan Chinese […]

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Treating the Common Cold: Echinacea Over Airborne and Vitamin C

July 1, 2007 – 6:47 pm

When I was growing up, the accepted means of battling the common cold was chicken noodle soup
and sleep, and perhaps some vitamin C if your house happened to be stocked.
Then about 15 or 20 years ago, herbal supplements came into fashion and echinacea joined the A list of do-it-yourself remedies. For many people, echinacea and […]

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Corporate Funded Research.

June 11, 2007 – 10:09 pm

OK, now this is the kinda malarkey that gets me all hot and bothered. Not because it’s shocking or monumental. It’s neither. In fact, it’s all too common and predictable, but it represents so much of what’s wrong in the world.
I made a conscious decision to abandon moral philosophy as a career path, and yet […]

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1984 and the Oxford English McDictionary

March 22, 2007 – 2:52 pm

I happened upon this story over at Boing Boing and haven’t stopped shaking my head yet–> McDonald’s: take “McJob” out of the dictionary. All of the linguistic and authoritarian points are too cliche to rant, so I’ll just leave you to it. (sigh)
Luckily, it looks as though the OED is not yet governed by the […]

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BitTorrent ’sells out.’ Good for them.

February 26, 2007 – 3:50 pm

All too often, developers of innovative software must decide whether to hold on to their purist roots or face the risk of being labeled ’sell outs.‘
This SciAm article gives the lowdown on the decision to distribute paid content through BitTorrent, the–until now–always free, open source brainchild of coding genius Bram Cohen. BitTorrent’s latest move is […]

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Understanding ‘The Wal-Mart Effect’

February 21, 2007 – 2:41 pm

Some of you–especially those living outside the U.S.– may have missed this book last year (which I happen to be reading at the moment), so I thought I’d post a link to Charles Fishman’s interview by National Public Radio: Understanding ‘The Wal-Mart Effect’.
Rather than repeating the stock doomsday scenarios, I’ll just ask this: How […]

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