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• Commented on A quick and dirty Japanese humor tutorial
  Oh, and Lisa Katayama is hot. There, I said it....
• Commented on A quick and dirty Japanese humor tutorial
  The rise of a worldwide Japanese ethic is really just getting started. Yesterday kaizen; today penis jokes, drifting, and running robots; tomorrow less religiosity, more social order, and plenty of stress release 'health' spas on every corner. It's a good,...
• Commented on Upcoming Byrne/Eno album: "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today"
  He's still alive. Who knew....
• Commented on Video of "Japanese Only" signs in Japan
  Debito is a malcontent who wishes upon a star that he could just wake up one day and be a Japanese in Japan. The fact that he complains about this not happening proves he never will be. The irony is...
• Commented on Pro-Tibet protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge in SF
  Free Tibet....from the Buddhist theocracy, where boys as young as 8 are forced into religious subservience and, too often, "passive" sexual partnership with senior monks. In the glory days before Chinese re-occupation, Tibet was a paradise: no tv, no radio...no...
• Commented on China's instant cities -- jaw-dropping National Geo feature
  Big whoop. It's development. Just because it's happening outside of the US of A and at a pace faster than the lumbering West is used to doesn't make it remarkable. The pics are nothing special, unlike most from Geographic....
• Commented on True Names: story podcast about the warring superintelligences of the Singularity
  I just listened for about 35 minutes and still have absolutely no idea whatsoever exactly what any of it is supposed be about. And I'm one of the five people who actually read 'The Singularity in Near' without laughing myself...
• Commented on Julian Cope's Japrocksampler blog
  Not to be PC, but why JapRock and not JRock? Four out of five Japanese agree, referring to something Japanese as Jap--- is a lot like referring to something African-American as Nig---. Not cool. Especially when JRock is widely used...
• Commented on What does a sonic blaster ("less-lethal" audio weapon) feel like?
  Israel has the best weapons...declared and otherwise....
• Commented on Dancing man wearing a horse mask cooks wild mushrooms (video)
  Better yet, here's where you can also buy the exact same horse head ask used in this video for only Y1570 (save Y509!!) http://www.hiltonjapan.com/2008/02/japanese-performance-art-dancing-man.html (Link at bottom)...
• Commented on Dancing man wearing a horse mask cooks wild mushrooms (video)
  I think I've met this guy in the wilds outside Kajimi city a few times. But as good as that was and on so many levels, this may be even...better: http://www.hiltonjapan.com/2008/02/japanese-video-edits-insane-ronald-san.html If you haven't seen it, you better sit down....
• Commented on Web Trend Map 2008
  Did I miss BoingBoing.net?...
• Commented on Dopplr's spacetimegeist
  Tokyo to Sapporo is the busiest air route in the world, by a fair margin. Did this include only international flights?...
• Commented on RIP "Curry Hell" restaurateur
  Never tried Curry Hell, but did try something possibly as hot: a curry dish served at a restaurant in Vancouver that was so hot, you had to sign a waiver to order it. The restaurant was located on Kingsway and...
• Commented on Larva chocolate
  In many parts of Western Japan people still eat real insects, usually pan fried in sweetened soy sauce. A few of my Japanese friends eat them whenever they're in season (late summer, I believe). On the topic of interesting foods...
• Commented on Mario controlled by a giant ghostly hand
  Lovely re-imaging indeed. And I know I've seen that hand somewhere before. It was in Shibuya, I believe....
• Commented on Beautiful high dynamic range photo from Japan
  I've never seen a back-side city-scape of Tokyo so devoid of commercial ads, nor have I seen many haze-free blue-sky days. A rarity. How much enhancing of the photo?...
• Commented on Vanishing Of The Bees documentary
  They're just getting bored....
• Commented on Life After People, new documentary
  Well, long after the traces of our modern civilization are wiped out, the pyramids, cave paintings, etc., will linger on. Who's to say it hasn't happened already, more than once?...
• Commented on China: "citizen journalist" beaten to death
  People talk about China rising. The nation is such a long way from civility in so many ways, it seems to be going backwards....
• Commented on Exoskeleton for farmers
  Soon, very soon, the organic host won't even be required. And the next one will be from Toyota (and you'll just have to plug it it, like this hybrid): http://www.hiltonjapan.com/2008/01/toyotas-plug-in-hybrid-due-by-2010.html...
• Commented on Letters from Working Girls / Letters from Johns
  Dang, missed another chance to get published......
• Commented on Bag of rice with new baby's photo
  This isn't related in any way shape or form, except that it's a packaged food product from Japan. Oh, and it's funny. http://www.hiltonjapan.com/2008/01/best-dogfood-name-bar-none.html At least I think it is......
• Commented on Compound reverses Alzheimer's in minutes
  I wonder what would happen if they injected someone without established dementia. I'm thinking super-human cognitive ability and higher scores....
• Commented on Premier of Alberta threatens to sue blogging uni student for registering a domain with his name in it
  You have to be a bit of a jerk to register a domain of someone else's name, unless it's a gift....
• Commented on Deep-fried things that ought not be deep-fried
  Reminds me of a movie I've been wanting to download. In it, a young Japanese schoolgirl with a machine-gun arm gets it deep-fried in tempura batter. http://hiltonjapan.blogspot.com/2008/01/machine-girl-is-coming.html Cool stuff....
• Commented on Police ordered to pull over people doing nothing wrong
  This will turn out to be one of the worst PR debacles, if someone reacts poorly to being pulled over for no reason. Especially if they hate Starbucks......
• Commented on Unusual old Japanese model kits
  I suppose I'm jaded. Bowling boars just don't seem all that unusual to me anymore....
• Commented on Unusual old Japanese model kits
  Hey Mark - what makes them unusual, exactly? Or rather, unusual to whom? You probably just meant "Old Japanese model kits", or "Creative Japanese model kits" because there's not really anything usual about them, except they probably weren't available in...
• Commented on Photo of crocodile with severed arm
  Looks fake, but the satisfied expression on the croc's face would be hard to Photoshop......