Archives for April, 2003
2003.04.30 (Wed)
mtaste: Coordinating Musical taste
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Steven Frank’s nutty idea about a musical taste coordinate system.
Linking to the iTunes Music Store
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Creating links into the iTunes Music Store
2003.04.29 (Tue)
Rogue Satellite Terrorises Earth!
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Tomorrow should be interesting. 400 kg of burning satellite will crash to earth somewhere along the equator according to New Scientist.
Iraqi Antiquities Summit
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From the BBC: Representatives from some of the world’s leading museums are meeting at the British Museum in London on Tuesday to discuss how to help museums and archaeologists in Iraq.
The Apple Music Store
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Congrats to Apple on the new Music Store. I just wish I could use it from here in Japan.
The Venezuelan Waltzes of Lionel Belasco
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I can’t stop listening to the Venezuelan waltzes, calypsos and paseos of Lionel Belasco on this amazing album from Rounder.
2003.04.28 (Mon)
Buddhist Action Figures: Collect ‘Em All
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Is there anywhere else but Japan where you can walk into a convenience store and buy a full-colour collectible Buddhist Action Figure in a box … along with some chocolate-covered almonds?
2003.04.26 (Sat)
The Iron Heats Up
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Not so long ago, dear reader, I asked you to remember “that when Jesper gets around to interviewing the really smart people, you want to be able to impress your friends by saying you’ve read the whole series from the get-go.”
That the next victim is d of waferbaby makes me right so far.
2003.04.25 (Fri)
War-Era Tunnels Collapsing Throughout Japan
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Following secret Tokyo network allegations, it’s time for another tunnel story. WWII-era tunnels are collapsing and taking houses and people with them.
2003.04.24 (Thu)
Zeitgeist
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Screen-shot of BBC headlines in the feeds tonight. Such is the spirit of the times.
2003.04.23 (Wed)
“Who falsifies this?” - Blix
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Dr Blix: “Is it not disturbing that the intelligence agencies that should have all the technical means at their disposal did not discover that this was falsified?” From the Sydney Morning Herald. Also contains a link to an op-ed piece in The Independent on the absence to date of any WMD in Iraq.
Next on the List: France
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Move over, Syria: there’s a new contender for that number 2 spot.
2003.04.22 (Tue)
Japan Bloggers’ Webring With a Bullet
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The Japan Bloggers’ Webring shoots up the Daypop charts.
2003.04.17 (Thu)
More on the Ransacking of Baghdad
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Salon.com has two additional lead stories on the ransacking of Baghdad. Neither of them brings much new to our understanding of the tragedy, but that’s not the point. I think they’ve been posted to help keep the story in the news and make sure it gets the full coverage and accounting it deserves. There are people who would love for this story to just disappear, but that simply cannot happen.
Enron-style Blogging
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Scurrilous allegations of Enron-style trading of esthet.org over on Blogshares.
Stocking Up on Soup
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Cerebral Soup’s trading over on Blogshares.
Spam We Will Never See
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In the spam industry, vast untapped markets remain unexplored.
The Return of the Full Post RSS Feed
23:58 | Comments (7)
By popular demand (well, OK, Daniel — but he’s popular!) I’ve reinstated a full-post RSS feed in addition to excerpts and comments.
2003.04.16 (Wed)
Waffle On!
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Jesper wrote to say that there was a little trouble with his moving the server to Linux which meant people couldn’t post questions after the interview he did with me. Everything’s fixed, and now you can post questions and, by golly, I’ll even answer them.
As a bonus, Jesper’s cunningly typeset the interview so that there are now ASCII pictures of naked people doing things throughout the text (squint and turn your head slightly to one side).
And Now the Library
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This is just insane. Robert Fisk reports in The Independent that the Koranic Library has been torched. [Updated with additional links from dangerousmeta.]
2003.04.15 (Tue)
Our Lost Heritage
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In no time at all Bush and Hussein will be minor footnotes in history — insiginificant men remembered (with a sense of mild amazement that they could ever have come to power) only for their failures and the destruction they wrought — and their victims will be completely forgotten.
But the looting of Iraq’s National Museum has potentially destroyed vital links in the great chain of human civilisation running back several thousand years.
2003.04.14 (Mon)
Crashing Bore
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I hate it when I crash other people’s browsers…
Lungsta Rap
23:58 | Comments (5)
Killing your roommate and eating part of her lung will certainly help cultivate a ‘gangsta’ image all right.
2003.04.12 (Sat)
Little Eva, 1946 - 2003
23:58 | Comments (5)
So, you’re the BBC reporting on the passing of Eva Boyd (better known as Little Eva), singer of the 1962 hit “The Loco-Motion.” Do you include her photo?
The Return of the Header Image
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Thanks, Blanco!
2003.04.09 (Wed)
The Petal Storm Begins
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[Photo] Now we come to the time where the cherry blossom petals start to fall
Under the Iron
23:58 | Comments (9)
Jesper Lindholms of Waffle is starting a series of “interviews with web designers, yahoos and people” and I’m the first victim — er, subject!
2003.04.07 (Mon)
Happy Birthday, Astro Boy!
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On this day, Astro Boy was created by Dr. Tenma. Happy birthday, Astro.
Auctioning the Breton Archives
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André Breton’s archives of more than 5,000 objects seem set to be auctioned off by his family.
Utzon Wins Pritzker Prize
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Joern Utzon has won this year’s Pritzker Prize.
2003.04.06 (Sun)
Sakura Manju
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[Photo] Someone gave us some sakura sweets — little doughy things made up to look like cherry blossoms. T’is the season.
Habeas Sues Spammers
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Habeas, the company that aims to stop spam by embedding copyrighted and trademarked material in the headers of e-mail, is springing into action with cases against alleged infringers.
Manichaean Maniac
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A comforting story about George W. Bush’s religious tendencies, guaranteed to help you sleep better at night.
The Business of Blogging
23:58 | Comments (11)
We’ve got big things planned around here, shareholders! Aggressive union busting, Enron-style accounting, we’re moving all production to China, and tough austerity measures are being implemented (I’ll be panelling the auxillary jacuzzis in Japanese cypress rather than mahogany).
2003.04.04 (Fri)
Sakura By Streetlight
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[Photo] Sakura (cherry trees) overhanging the road last night.
2003.04.03 (Thu)
Terry Southern’s Literary Archives
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Terry Southern’s literary archives go to the New York Public Library
2003.04.02 (Wed)
NetFuture
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If you’re not already subscribing to the NetFuture newsletter, you should be.
Corrugated Housing
23:58 | Comments (30)
Talk about minimalism. This is an old photograph of the front of a house which lives a few blocks away. Everything’s corrugated tin or plastic.
McDonalds: More Sugar!
23:58 | Comments (6)
Bring on the sugar so we can boost that caramelization index, I say.
2003.04.01 (Tue)
April Ghoul
23:58 | Comments (4)
Cold-smitten and cough-racked on April Fool’s Day. Hope everyone had a good one.
Nude Volleyball
23:58 | Comments (7)
Re-rendering game characters so they appear nude when they play volleyball … why does this not excite me?
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