I’m off to Tokyo for 8 days to visit family and do a bit of work as well. I’ll be checking email, so that’s the best way to get ahold of me.
Yahoo! Weather – Tokyo
I’m off to Tokyo for 8 days to visit family and do a bit of work as well. I’ll be checking email, so that’s the best way to get ahold of me.
Yahoo! Weather – Tokyo
Tissue-san is the hot new character from downmarket Sanrio competitor San-X. I know it’s been covered extensively by everyone already but I wanted to mention him. Koge-pan comes from the same wackos.
Photography at a Crossroads: View from the Window at Le Gras
“It’s so easy to lose information,” says Stulik. He likens the arrival of digital cameras to the introduction of Gutenberg’s moveable-type printing process in 1455. “Everything changed,” says Stulik. Wouldn’t it have been nice, he suggests, if someone had sat down in 1460 and described the methods used by medieval scribes to create illuminated manuscripts before people forgot how to make them?
Science Times has a very cool article on the very first photograph ever made. I still love printing photographs by hand with chemicals but I don’t have the time to do that more than a few times a year, sadly. My best friend Peter is raving about his new Nikon D100 and his new Epson 2200 and while I may try that stuff out someday soon, there’s value in NOT sitting in front of the computer to make your photographs.
via Doc Searls’ weblog
The Japan Times Online – What are Japan’s teens on about?
If you invite a friend to sutabaru, it means to patronize Starbucks. Likewise, you can find teens who makuru over to McDonald’s, dotoru at Doutour, deniru at Denny’s and misudo at Mister Donut.
Note, however, that to visit Tokyo Disneyland is referred to as nezumi shibaku (literally, to flog the mouse).
Now that last one is brilliant ^_^
Spring Desktop Web Productivity
Looking very cool for OS X. I won’t miss not having my thebrain.com software I’ll imagine…
Register.com review