Archives for January, 2005
2005.01.31 (Mon)
Anyone seen £5 billion?
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I don’t know about freedom being on the march, but it sounds like an awful lot of money is
2005.01.30 (Sun)
Sparrow door
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Sparrows and irises depicted around the door to a restaurant in Roppongi
Kūhaku & Other Accounts from Japan
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Kūhaku, a book of writing on Japan published by Chin Music Press
2005.01.29 (Sat)
Meiji-era newspaper on a wall
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A figure remains on a scrap of newspaper dating from the late Meiji era glued to the wall of an old house.
Bird ‘flu: here we go
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BBC: Professor John Oxford, a leading UK expert, said the virus had broken down the “final door” which prevented it being spread between people.
2005.01.28 (Fri)
To be less stupid
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Web standards help
2005.01.27 (Thu)
Oh, the chimpanity
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BBC: Chimpanzees display a similar sense of fairness to humans, one which is shaped by social relationships, experts claim.
2005.01.24 (Mon)
First swim of the year
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It seems a ridiculously long time to be out of the water, but I went for my first swim of the year in my regular pool today.
2005.01.23 (Sun)
The way of the brush
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The floor of a calligrapher friend’s studio
Some people do need convincing
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Phil Ringnalda on the new tag soup
2005.01.21 (Fri)
Four more years
12:28 | Comments (24)
Dangerousmeta neatly and chillingly sums it up
2005.01.20 (Thu)
Advertising on the trains
12:28 | Comments (10)
I wonder how long it will be before we hear something like this…?
2005.01.17 (Mon)
Tag:Hibiya
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Technorati gets meta on me
2005.01.16 (Sun)
Straw trees
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Very Dr. Seussical indeed.
2005.01.15 (Sat)
Red ruins
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…what they were hoping to do and whether they did it.
Fearful Asymmetry
12:28 | Comments (9)
I don’t know who has an immortal hand in this, or eye toward the effects, but nature, as someone once said, seems to abhor symmetry.
2005.01.13 (Thu)
Penultimate sunset
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Sunset on the second last night we were in Mandurah, Western Australia. Spectacular sunsets are orders of magnitude more common there than in Tokyo, that’s for sure.
2005.01.12 (Wed)
Buddy, can you spare a hotspot?
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A digital divide of a different kind.
tokyo.craigslist.org
12:28 | Comments (3)
Craigslist finally makes it to Tokyo
A winter ritual
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When it’s cold like this, tucking in the bottom of the futon just so becomes a little nightly ritual.
2005.01.11 (Tue)
Very belated New Year’s greeting to you. Back from a holiday-without-computers.
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