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Mitamekara Yomigaeru: Otona no Kikonashi Training
via NCSX Import Video Games & Toys by ©NCSX on January 23, 2008
... than thrice in your lifetime? If so, you might need a fashion consultant. Japanese publisher Success presents a digital stylist which helps users avoid a major fashion faux pas by recommending clothing color matches and advising on pattern c...
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Government Flu-LIVE-Dead Kennedy's
via Latest Videos Sifted at VideoSift.com by choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) on January 23, 2008
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ANSI Art, Raised to Gallery Status in SF
via Create Digital Music by Peter Kirn on January 23, 2008
I miss ANSI art. In the character-only days of the online world (pre-Web), these text-based graphics had a strangely pop-art quality, with hard edges, digital textures, and bold colors. This is not to be confused with ASCII art, mind you — ANSI art had lots of extra graphical features. Even by the early 1990s, landing on a modem-based BBS with ANSI art felt like leaving the grungy dullness of...
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Dining in New York's Koreatown [New York]
via Gridskipper by Debbie Lee on January 23, 2008
In the New York Times' first-ever review of a Korean restaurant, former critic Ruth Reichl asked, "Why Korean food hasn't become more popular in New York City?" The finger was pointed at menus, which were deemed too hard for American diners to navigate. Almost fifteen years after posing the question, Korean cuisine has a gained a higher profile, but menus remain as encyclopedic and...
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Mario controlled by a giant ghostly hand
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on January 22, 2008
In this stupendous youtube, Japanese hackers merge an old (pre-EyeToy) hand-recognition system with Super Mario Brothers, and screengrab several rounds of bonkers Mario, nudged along by a ghostly, giant hand. In the climax, over 100 Marii are unleashed into pale-blue-sky-land and set to running and bouncing by the Barely Visible Ha
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last.fm gets major upgrade
via MetaFilter by cowbellemoo on January 23, 2008
last.fm has gotten a major upgrade. Full tracks stream on-demand without login. Easily get a peek into genrefavorites. Artist coverage is hit or miss, but I was still impressed enough to want to share. Give it a try!Note: Each track may be played thrice. Tracking method likely by IP.
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Big in Japan: Sega plans to open mega-arcade in Dubai
via Gadling by Matthew Firestone on January 23, 2008
... spread out over two floors of the shopping mall.All I can say is that if you're planning a trip to Dubai in the near future, you had better start saving your quarters!** Today's post is dedicated to my wanderlust-ridden sister, who made her brother incredibly jealous of her exploits by partying it up with royalty in Dubai. ** Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Everybody always generalises
via Japanmanship by JC Barnett on January 23, 2008
The perpetrator this time was an episode of Radio 4's Excess Baggage revolving around Japan in which several foreign residents discussed life here in the usual ways. The usual ways being a kind of academically removed, observatory role casting a clinical eye on a culture without really inhabiting it. Being a professor in Osaka and eating sushi every Wednesday is hardly a basis for a...
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Global Warming Strikes Mushroom Kingdom
via Press The Buttons by MattG on January 23, 2008
Have you seen the new Mushroomy Kingdom [sic] level from Super Smash Bros. Brawl? It's the familiar World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., but look what's happened to it. It's a dead and dusty world. What happened?! I practically grew up in World 1-1, so to see it so dry and lifeless now is a little depressing. Ah, the Mushroom Kingdom. Most Smash players recognize...
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The Mysterious “Poe Toaster” Strikes Again!
via Neatorama by Alex on January 23, 2008
... crowd, said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum.The tribute takes place every Jan. 19 — the anniversary of Poe’s birth.The visitor did not leave a note, Jerome said, electing not to respond to questions raised in the past year about the history and authenticity of the tribute.Link (Photo: Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum. Photo by Rob Carr/AP) - Thanks Sara!
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