Anyone out there had their communication transformed by Skype? Me too. I used to talk to my parents once a week or so. Usually they’d call me using MCI prepaid phone cards they bought at Costco. Now we use Skype and call each other whenever and wherever. For free. I talk to Jackson almost weekly […]

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And if they did come out of the water it might be at Jangsaengpo Port, Ulsan, near where I live, where there is a long row of whale restaurants lining the coast. More on that in a minute.
From the Telegraph:
Scientists in Japan have given a beluga whale a vocabulary of three words, the first time a […]

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A topic I’m personally fascinated by. Replacement level populations, to put it in Sabermetric terms. But this is serious business in Asia and Europe, and I’ll try to link to it more often. I highly recommend Canadian conservative columnist Mark Steyn’s many writings on the subject.
Here’s an article in today’s Washington Post on how Japanese […]

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According to an AP article, former Yankee Irabu Hideki was arrested for a drunken meltdown in a bar in Osaka.  The portly hurler–20 beers into the evening, according to sources– assaulted a bartender and smashed nine bottles of alcohol after the bar rejected his credit card.   He apparently paid with a different card afterwards.

Meanwhile, rocker/poster […]

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A Japanese IT company, along with researchers from Keio University, have developed a high-tech brainstroming room that actually listens to its inhabitants and then locates and feeds them data and images to raise creativity.
From Pink Tentacle:
The system — called “Kage Roi” — relies on a speech-recognition capable computer that monitors the brainstorming session via microphone, […]

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Sorry, but this sounds ridiculous.
Cameron Hughes is his team’s biggest fan. Depending on his mood, he might pull off one of the multiple team jerseys he wears and spin it wildly in the air, scream at the top of his lungs, and exhort fellow supporters to do the same. Or he might pull an old […]

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Terrific, must watch video courtesy of Shanghai List, about the Song Qing Ling Memorial, a little known cemetery in western Shanghai. The cemetery plays host to Song, who is amongst China’s most significant political figures of the early 20th century, but also scores of other Chinese historical figures.
As the documentary (which was produced by Daedalum […]

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Here’s one of these YouTube deals where someone with an Internet connection starts gabbing into the camera about nothing in particular, yet finds an audience. I’m almost embarrassed to say I’ve now spent roughly 30 minutes of my life watching this young lady from Japan. Yet, as I sit here and type this I have […]

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