you've got to check out these crazy japanese cakes too:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/cakes/
these people are amazing, and what's most amazing is that these "pieces of art" which i can only imagine takes ages to make, don't even sell for extortionate sums of money.

A common sight that is also not surprising, since these umbrellas are mostly cheap, but quite often freely distributed...

That's from Japan! One is because I've seen it, and two it's only a Japanese madman, like myself, who who would have an obsessions with vending machines. I dont have an obsessions, but I do really really like them. I have to admit, vending machines are weird things to really really like. But what can I say, Im Japanese.
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/vending-machines/

Oh man those cakes look terrible! Potentially theycouldve been great. like these ones:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/mario-madness/

or the non-mario ones:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/cakes/

And another one to check out:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/lego-bookshelf/

damn. i bet these cakes were definitely not made with 99c store stuff:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/cakes/

but one can try. one can certainly try

let's hope no one gets forked in the bum. OH!

I remember watching this on tv when I was back in Japan last year. The clip is actually a 30 minute documentary. inside, instead of stairs he has a slide that he uses to get from the top floor to the bottom. and if I remember correctly he has a few lizards - like iguanas, several other weird pets and a wife.

Sorry, correct link here:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/

That goes really well with my Mario-themed stuff. I think I;m into this my blog will eventually turn out to be a shrine of cool stuff retro. Check out the mario madness:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/#more-478

That goes really well with my Mario-themed stuff. I think I;m into this my blog will eventually turn out to be a shrine of cool stuff retro. Check out the mario madness:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/#more-478

dammit. a parakeet was just what i was looking to buy a dozen of. how bout lovebirds? they got lovebirds down there?

As cool as it looks (tee hee) I really cant see many people wanting to pay 4 grand for the chair

Antinous> yeah, i take a wad, throw it at someone's face and see how loud the "OW" is

Thanks for this post! It sparked an idea as to how I can show people how i count cash
How I count

Wait hang on...."BUILD ITSELF? that's a scary thought.

I had this conversation with a colleague the other day and I had told him that what we'll see is, with web 2.0, we're going to have legions of testers and consumers and consumers congregating on communities online where companies can go to and gather information or to ask for volunteers to be guinea pigs.
Gone will be the days where we will hire market research agencies because we will get a 99% accurate sampling and very honest (painfully sometimes) opinion. That becomes transparent what's allowed to be published becomes credible, thus PR.
We probably won't need that many lab conditions to test things because we'll get it straight from the horses' mouths.
I also wrote this article speculating the future of how a supermarket would be:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/supermarket-of-the-future-a-brief-introduction/

I'm from longone, I mean London, and these toilets are real crap (pun intentional). They smell like it's been there since the Ice age and the doors either don't open, or if they open, they don't shut and if they do shut, there'll be a gap so you'll be showing your happy bits and pieces to the passing world outside. Of course judging by the brands of bottles and cans in there, I can tell just what sort of people use it so the door problem ain't going to be a problem. For a serious loadda crapper, you should check this out: http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/a-very-costly-doo-doo/

Boing boing admin: if we're not allowed to put up links like that, please let me know. I wasn't sure where you stand on this so please accept my apologies if I broke the rules.

Woah! I thought those were japanese fermented beans. (Nattou)!