Apparently this is a photo of a commercial shoot in San Francisco where thousands of super balls are released at once.
July 2005 Archives
As a blogger in Japan, I feel it is my duty to point you to this site which offers you blogs of models in Japan. Nice url!
...this way please...click here, thank you.
Absolutely riveting and terrifying indictment of the TSA's Secure Flight program. A must read.
If I had any reservations about leaving Sony when I did, frankly they are all gone now.
Sony has increasingly been looking to Samsung to revive its sagging fortunes. Samsung, long seen as a low-end electronics maker, is now being courted by Sony for its manufacturing prowess and innovative technology.
And with good reason. For the first time, Samsung's brand is now worth more than Sony's, according to an annual Interbrand-BusinessWeek survey of the top 100 global brands that was released on July 21.
The poll, which weighed the profits those brands were expected to generate, showed that Samsung was ranked 20th, while Sony fell to 28th.
Samsung and Sony, the Clashing Titans, Try Teamwork [nytimes.com]
Very interesting discussion on China's recent saber-rattling.
I'm of the school of thought that economic forces are stronger than all others at this point in time, but history doesn't agree with me.
Mixed-quality but a whole boatload of mashups for those of you who enjoy them.
99X.com - Everything Alternative!
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I've been using my Powerbook for over a year and have replaced the battery after a year, because the original battery couldn't hold much of a charge after a year. I won't go into all the heat issues related to my Powerbook, because I love the operating system. Mine is an original 15"er that still has the "white spots" because I use it daily and haven't had time to send it back for repairs. I plan to do so when I have the time- whenever that will be I don't know.
HOWEVER, I just found out that the replacement battery I bought a few months ago is in the official recall! This is a battery I bought at the Apple Ginza store here in Tokyo.
If you are an Apple iBook or Powerbook user, please, please, please check to make sure that your battery isn't in the recall.
15-inch PowerBook G4 Battery Exchange Program
Apple - Support - iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 Battery Exchange Program - FAQ
Josh sent this around to us last Christmas.
Now it's on BoingBoing.net :)
Boing Boing: Hilarious Passion of the Christ poster in Japan
Check this for a nice AJAX interface- autorefreshing...
This is just amazing. Google Maps now supports Japan, and because Tokyoartbeat.com has venue information data on all of the galleries and museums in Tokyo, you can now see that data in Google Maps!
Thanks to Andreas for the pointer.
Technorati Tags: google, Tokyoartbeat.com, Tokyo Art Beat
This is more than a few weeks old now, but there was a Q&A with Jeffrey Garten, who was at the time stepping down as Dean of the Yale School of Management.
Q. Do you feel that in your 10 years, you were able to improve the way business students are educated?
A. Ten years ago, the role of business in society was on an upward trajectory. There was a sense that business leaders would be the champions of globalization and would in fact fill in where governments had left a huge vacuum in terms of the rules of the world economy. Today, that seems like a very fanciful notion. Post 9/11 and post Enron, the role of business leaders has been enormously diminished. It's been an enormous challenge to have an impact on business education because the ground has shifted so dramatically. I have been enormously humbled by the task. It's extremely difficult to figure out what to teach in a two-year course, to reflect today's realities, let alone what the world will look like 10 or 20 years from now when the graduates reach their stride in terms of their careers.
Q. Is this challenge confronting all business school deans?
Technorati Tags: MBA, business school, Yale
Continue reading the future of the MBA....
Today's NYTimes has a decent piece on the announcement that CBSnews.com is starting a weblog.
...CBS said yesterday that it would also introduce a Web log to comment on CBS newscasts, whether broadcast or online.
To be written by Vaughn Ververs, who had been the editor of The Hotline, a Web site covering politics, the Web log, to be called Public Eye, will assemble questions from viewers and criticism from various sources, and immediately bring in reactions from the CBS newsroom.
CBS has decided to treat its online news site much the way other networks treat their cable networks. Its correspondents and producers will create video news reports throughout the day that will be distributed only on the Web site. In addition, Web users will be able to see most of the breaking-news reports used on the network's daily broadcasts, though they will not be able to watch entire programs.
"We are looking to the future," he said. "This is a place that all journalism has to go."
It will be interesting to see how this goes. After the wiki debacle of the LA Times, we'll see if CBS News or CBSnews.com really understands the online medium.
The CBS Evening Blog - New York Times
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The Village Voice has a nice profile of one of my favorite DJs who now lives in my hometown. Nicholas Matar is a New York native who was a resident at the super-club Pacha on Ibiza for over 6 years, the only non-Spaniard to do so.
"Nightclubs historically have been owned and operated by people that are in it for the wrong reasons. They're in it because they're seeking notoriety. They're trying to buy in to a lifestyle that they weren't a part of."
"People in this country talk about Studio 54 being a legendary club, but Pacha opened in 1967, and it's still open today. As far as I'm concerned, it's the most legendary nightclub that's ever existed. I was fortunate in the early '90s, in the heyday of the club, to have worked as a resident DJ there for almost a decade, and I also got involved as a consultant at that time for them. It was like the Harvard Business School of nightclubs. That big club New York City underground experience died for me when the old Sound Factory closed."
Cozy Club: Meet Cielo's Nicolas Matar, the non-club owner club owner [villagevoice.com]
Discogs.com is down right now (has been for a few days; I hear the site owner's on vacation?) so I'll point folks to Amazon, where you can find Matar's mix CDs, including the new 2CD set "Cielo Club 9" which is awesome!
Amazon.com: Music Search Results: Matar, Nicolas [no affiliate]
Technorati Tags: Cielo, house music, New York City,
Back in 2003, I mentioned Justin Lin's independent film "Better Luck Tomorrow" as it was one of the first, if not the first Asian-American indie films. It was praised by many for breaking stereotypes about Asian-Americans and portrayed them in a way that mainstream media had not done to date.
Today, I see that Lin is scheduled to direct "Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo" - what looks to be a horrible film likely to reinforce stereotypes about Asian-Americans and Japanese people.
Continue reading Justin Lin sells out?.
This is what makes weblogs riveting. First-person account from the London Tube.
I will be totally haunted by the slender line of fate that separates those two carriages. Because just after I’d sat down, about a minute after the tube had left the station, and I was reaching into my bag to get my GBA SP out to continue playing Fire Emblem, I heard a fucking massive bang coming from the carriage behind me. It may have been accompanied by some sort of light flash or something, but I can’t really remember very well, though I do have a vague recollection of the glass between the two carriages shattering. And then the lights went out and the train stopped.
The Triforce - Tubes really are cunts. So are terrorists. And Tony Blair.
Technorati Tags: blogs, London, journalism, terrorism, Underground
I don't really know what to think other than this is a horrendous event for a dire time. If anyone has forgotten that we are in a war with Islamic fundamentalists, this is a brutal reminder of that.
My thoughts and hopes are for the best outcome for all of those affected and injured in London.
Swift justice against the perpetrators.
Why do I feel helpless?
UPDATE: Dave Sifry has a lot of good links to first-hand coverage of the events.
Richard McManus uses Alexa to track weblog search services. It seems as if Technorati is doing much better these days.
Read/Write Web: Technorati the No.1 blog search engine according to Alexa
Full disclosure: I am employed by Technorati Japan.
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I love the fact that I didn't go to Syndicate 2005, but that I can see Doc's presentation and hear his speech.
The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, July 4, 2005
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