Archives for November, 2001
2001.11.30 (Fri)
Today’s Leaf: Bamboo
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Continuing in our day-late leaf series, here’s another something from the garden: bamboo (no surprises today).
In these wintry economic times, spam is flying around like snowflakes in a gale. My e-mail filters are pretty good at sweeping it into the trash, but here’s a subject line that’s good for a chuckle:
Flash On Your Phone. I Can’t Wait!
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During his stay in Japan in mid-November, Elop also said in an interview that Macromedia would focus more on the interaction with Web services provided in the .NET environment of Microsoft Corp.
2001.11.29 (Thu)
Trash X from Northern Softworks puts the trashcan back on the OS X desktop, just like Classic. A good idea,…
I Hate Christmas Music
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Not even December yet and Christmas music is seeping out of the stores like something from an open wound. No wonder suicides start to skyrocket as Christmas approaches.
Lone Leonid
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Damn! I shot 24 exposures of Ektachrome 400 on the night of November 18/19 and managed to capture just a single Leonid meteor. It’s the little blur heading into the trees on the right-hand side of the picture.
“Search Japan”
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A Japan-focused web directory, Japan.co.jp is now online
Yet Another Leaf
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Today’s leaf: wasabi
Stand and Deliver!
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Get ready for some new films about Ned Kelly. You can’t know Australia (should you want to) without knowing Kelly.
2001.11.28 (Wed)
Au revoir, Microsoft?
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MacNN reports that France is banning Windows from government officces, and that England is expected to do the same. The…
I’m Stamped!
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The Immigration Office visit couldn’t have been smoother. I’m not just ready to fly, I’m once again a single passport holder.
Off to the Immigration Office to get rubber-stamped for next month’s trip back to Australia.
2001.11.27 (Tue)
Today’s Leaf: Unidentified Ivy
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Unidentified ivy, Henry Miller, and serious procrastination tools
Sleeping Giant
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Fuji, it should be remembered, is a dormant volcano
Suzuki’s Final Fantasy
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Square chief quits as “Final Fantasy” flopsZDNet Japanese game software maker Square Co. Ltd. said on Monday its president and…
It’s a Start, Maybe
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Shunning professional models, Davenport began an in-store competition two weeks ago to unearth four representatives of the “healthy and confident” Australian woman to represent their merchandise.
Hitchhikers Guide to Mac OS X
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Rob Griffiths of Mac OS X Hints has released a 60-page Mac OS X Solutions Guidebook in PDF format. The…
Leaf Week at Antipixel
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OK, let’s make it Leaf Week at Antipixel. Today it’s a blueberry leaf from the garden.
2001.11.26 (Mon)
Ginkolicious
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Here’s a recipe for chawan mushi (“Egg custard soup” - which makes it sound worse than it is) using ginko…
2001.11.25 (Sun)
Yellow and Its Discontents
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Throughout the neighbourhood the ginko trees are competing with each other to see who can most loudly proclaim the doctrine of The One True Yellow.
2001.11.24 (Sat)
Another Good Name
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Another good name for a personal site: blogging a dead horse. Sports a very striking design, too….
Marshmellowed
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Had a great day out at Okutama. The autumn colours are spectacular.
Riparian Feast
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Slow news day at Antipixel as we’re going to head off to Okutama for a barbecue by the river.
Good Luck, Masako
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Japan awaits royal birth BBC News No males have been born to the Imperial family since 1965. The world’s longest…
Modern Times
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The convenience store down the street sells MO disks and CD-Rs (the good kind, too; TDK ones with the Toughness…
Ben Greenman Week
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“Arcimboldo has been bothering me again,” Condulmaro wrote. “I saw him in the market yesterday, and he would not leave…
2001.11.23 (Fri)
Milo Vermeulen runs milov.nl. I like it.
Killer Crocs Hamper Scientific Discoveries
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Killer crocodiles lurking in north Queensland rivers are stopping scientists from fully documenting the unique animals of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Happy Thanksgiving
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A happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends
Big Long Book Rant
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Recent books
2001.11.22 (Thu)
Breeding Computers
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Here’s a story that’s getting lots of attention: Scientists build tiny computer from DNA By Patricia Reaney, Reuters Following Mother…
Should Have Used the R2K
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Penis enlargement in court The Age A man suing his plastic surgeon after a penis enlargement operation left him diminished…
A True Education
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It’s an effective and irresistable tradeoff: Be quiet and do as we say and you will be admitted to an elite which will guarantee material success throughout your entire life.
How Much to Be a Doctor?
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Teikyo med school may have asked for preadmission bribes Daily Yomiuri On-Line The Education, Science and Technology Ministry said Wednesday…
A menacing-looking stainless steel foreskin restorer (I kid you not)
2001.11.21 (Wed)
Good Band Name
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Good name for a band
Good Name!
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Great name for a weblog
Road Sense
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You would think that in a country with such narrow roads and such a high urban population density as Japan that people would have developed better road sense. But you would be wrong.
Glenn McGaha Miller
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Glenn McGaha Miller, photographer
Boondoggled!
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Won’t be getting a lot of done here today: a crew is ripping up the road
Fat Nation
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Chefs cop flak as nation goes to fat smh.com.au It was “old-fashioned” to suggest that regulating food intake was entirely…
The Right to Die
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Survey Finds Australian Doctors Hasten Death Yahoo Daily News The survey of almost 700 doctors, to be published in the…
2001.11.20 (Tue)
Another Meiji Girl
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Anonymous print from 1908
Low-fibre
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Big disappointments from Usen with their 100Mb fibre optic service
Crikey’s Limerick Competition
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A limerick contest where nobody seems to be able to write a limerick
2001.11.19 (Mon)
A Bridge, A Lamp, A Sky
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Rummaging through old Polaroids
Awestruck!
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Just magnificent! I’m awestruck. The clouds thinned out and the show went on. Absolutely beautiful. By 4:00am the sky was…
Some Leonid Action After All
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Cloud breaking up a little, mostly to the north. I’ve seen about 2 dozen so far. Going to walk up…
Colonel Sanders is Attacking Tokyo!
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Jim Knipfel, New York Press In a moment of horror, I saw myself in 20 years. I keep finding myself…
I Hate Clouds
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This totally sucks
2001.11.18 (Sun)
Getting Ready…
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We’ve got about 25% cloud cover here at the moment, mostly to the south-west. But it’s early yet and I’m hoping it will clear up like last night (which was perfectly clear).
Rika-chan Expecting
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Japanese get two for one with pregnant “Barbie” Delivery of the baby – literally – comes some two weeks later,…
Sushi and Mental Health
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Scientists think they have evidence that fish oil could cure mental disorders such as depression and dyslexia
Australian Wine
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The New York Times has an article by Aurelia Scott on Australian Wines That Travel Well (and Far) Scott concentrates…
2001.11.17 (Sat)
The Face of a Woman
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Yannis Behrakis is taking some amazing photographs for Reuters in Afghanistan. This one is just transfixing: A young Afghan woman…
iPod in Harajuku
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Apple has placed a huge iPod banner on the Laforet department store
PaperSizes
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It does one thing and one thing only: changes the default paper size in OS X from US Letter to A4.
2001.11.16 (Fri)
New Scanner!
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Got a new scanner last week…
I Am Jack’s Abdominals
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Big, beautiful, but not necessarily benignsmh.com.au Ideal male bodies appear regularly in advertisements for aftershave, men’s fashion and a growing…
Die Like a Dog
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There’s an expression in Japanese “to die like a dog” which means to die a miserable, insignificant death.
The Chicken’s Off
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School chickens avoid the curry potThe Asahi Shinbun An elementary school scrapped a program to slaughter student-raised chickens for a…
The Corrections
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Franzen wins National Book AwardBy Hillel Italie Franzen received a few boos as awards host Steve Martin read down…
2001.11.15 (Thu)
Quit the Gym
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Imagined Workout Can Up Muscle Strength
Woodring & Tomine
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Jim Woodring exhibition in Tokyo and Kyoto, plus a new book from Adrian Tomine
“With the Leonids there are no guarantees.”
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Jaw-dropping Leonidsscience.nasa.gov Although certain parts of the world are favored for intense activity this year, Cooke encourages people everywhere to…
It was never premium, baby. Never.
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I often get the feeling that Matt Wilson over at mecawilson must have been really bored by South Park because…
2001.11.14 (Wed)
Happy Birthday, Jun
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Jun’s 7th birthday today
2001.11.13 (Tue)
Yi! Making a change in the comment settings in MT seems to wipe out existing comments.
Meiji no Bijin Ga
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Beautiful women of the Meiji period.
Doesn’t look like we’re going to be able to get out of town for the Leonids next weekend. Going to…
2001.11.12 (Mon)
Little-known Fact #2
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It’s also a little-known fact that since the mid ’80s, all personal computers have shipped with integrated DOPE circuitry (Deadline…
Little-known Fact #1
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It’s a little-known fact that some people still actually read 404 error messages and will get in touch to let…
Wherefore art thou, Leo?
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Location of Leo at 2am PST, 18 Nov 2001, as seen from Tokyo
2001 Leonids
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In a slashdot thread on next week’s Leonid Meteor Shower, Brad Templeton wrote: Though there are 4 different sets…
Dalliance
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The 2002 Emigre font catalogue arrived today.
Space Storm
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Space storm alert as comet cometh smh.com.au This could be interesting… Space shuttle flights have been cancelled and astronauts in…
The art of the ricochet
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Weblogs set up a giant game of billiards with a thousand balls and a thousand pockets and no one really knows what shape the table is.
Brisk walk up a muddy track
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Hiking up Myoujingatake for a view of The Fuj’.
2001.11.11 (Sun)
Eurowelcome #02
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(Antipixel’s big in Europe)! Welcome Germany, Greece, Italy and the U.K.
A Little Less Light
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A little less light in the world:Novelist, 60s Icon Ken Kesey Dies “Anyone trying to get a handle on our…
Congratulations, Prime Miniature
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The Prime Miniature wins…
Hello, gmtPlus9
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Scored a link on gmtPlus9: now I’ll have to try to post something interesting…
Impregnated Geisha
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It’s a box of matches
Tokyo Tales
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A chronicle of modern-day Japanese weirdness from Chris Jennings. A couple of excellent photographs of the roof of the Tokyo…
Eurowelcome
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Antipixel would like to welcome France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Youkoso. Send cheese!…
2001.11.10 (Sat)
Soundtrack
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Winter Was HardKronos Quartet Web A fitting soundtrack. This record always seems to grow more resonant about now, when the…
Nobody could have predicted it, and yet it was there all along. The desperation …
2001.11.09 (Fri)
The visit to the Minka-en got me thinking about Glenn Murcutt, and good houses in general.
2001.11.07 (Wed)
Museum of Contemporary Ephemera
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Plans are afoot for a new museum of contemporary ephemera
Mug’s Game
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Reeling from the Versace vengeance smh.com.au Third from last paragraph contains a where-are-they-now moment from miles and years away: Monte…
Wonderful Sky Tonight
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A very clear night allowed for a spectacular show of the moon in gemini with Jupiter, Saturn & Orion
2001.11.06 (Tue)
More on Microsoft
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Doc Searls talks about the MS settlement on his weblog, concluding with the following paragraph: This whole legal exercize has…
Japan fashionistas hooked on ‘Arab scarves’
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Focus-Japan fashionistas hooked on ‘Arab scarves’ Don’t take this to mean that people actually know what’s going on: “I didn’t…
Nihon Minka-en
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Visit to the Japanese Folk House Museum
2001.11.05 (Mon)
A Brain for all Seasons
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William H. Calvin’s new book is available online. (There’s also a downloadable version for the Palm OS.) William H. Calvin…
Call me Pimp
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Find your hobbit name…
State-sanctioned Illegal Monopoly. Right On!
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Full text of proposed final judgment in United States v. Microsoft Cnet.com With the case expertly stalled to allow for…
2001.11.04 (Sun)
The Real Menace to Society
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Actor Ishida avoids jailMainichi Interactive Issei Ishida gets busted with some hash and acid. The sentence is 18 months, suspended….
Scientists Kill Mice with Dance Music
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Scientists Kill Mice with Dance Musicby Danielle Demetriou The study by Cambridge University examined how loud music strengthens the harmful…
2001.11.02 (Fri)
It’s born
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Announcing Antipixel, sort of…
Search works
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OK. The search seems to work. I got the Atomz templates looking reasonable, I hope. It’s the freebie version (of…
Nippon Catfight League vs. Pussie’s Hole
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Cat fighting sex kittens no pussies Mainichi Interactive Just as women’s status has risen remarkably in all sectors of Japanese…
Visit to a White Elephant
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Tokyo International Forum atrium
Dogs and Demons
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Finishing reading Dogs and Demons…
2001.11.01 (Thu)
Tokyo View #01
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Tokyo View #01: Buildings from R’s balcony.
Comments are Go
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Turned the comment system on in that last post, by the way. If I add another paragraph here it helps…
Flying Sharks
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It wouldn’t be Antipixel without a picture of a flying shark. Photographer Chris Fallows has documented great whites leaping…
Where are we?
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Not sure why I’m unable to get to sleep before 3am these days but anyway, it’s quiet, it’s peaceful,…
This being Halloween, there has to be a post right on midnight. Let’s see how close I get this….
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