Japanese Food Fight
Did you know that the traditional all-black “ninja” outfit comes from the black-clad stage hands of Japanese theatre?
Add comment May 23rd, 2007
Archive for May, 2007
Chinese gold farmers documentary
Boing Boing posts about a Chinese gold farmers documentary in the making. Check out Anda’s Game while you’re at it.
Add comment May 23rd, 2007
Toilet Seat? Chicken or Frog? Ehh?
Add comment May 17th, 2007
Japanese Spidey
If Spiderman 3 had been more like the Japanese Spidey series, maybe I wouldn’t have hated it. -.-
Add comment May 17th, 2007
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries Video
Fujiya & Miyagi (no, not Japanese) have a cool music video for their song Ankle Injuries that is seemingly rotoscoped from a zillion dice. If is was done by hand, it is quite impressive.
Add comment May 17th, 2007
digg labs visualizations
digg labs has some really cool visualizations of realtime digg activity.
Add comment May 16th, 2007
Foot to Knob
The Tone in Progress “3rd Hand” is such a simple but useful product that allows you to use your foot to control a standard knob.
Add comment May 16th, 2007
DWR Airstream: RV in Style
If I really had to own an RV, I’d be down with the DWR Airstream.
Add comment May 16th, 2007
Chinese Fake Branding
This Gallery of Chinese Fake Brands is quite amazing. How much can you scramble letters and shapes just enough to be totally different, but still look essentially the same?
Add comment May 16th, 2007
FlexPetz
FlexPetz is a really weird business that rents out pets for you to coo coo over. My better half said that this sounds alot like pet prostitution. How do these pets feel not having a permanent home? Though I can see how this might be reasonable to see if you would really enjoy taking care of a pet… Wtill weird
Add comment May 16th, 2007
Moe Sounddrops
A new type of gashapon (capsule toy) coming out of Japan is the “sounddrop” - a little droplet that when pushed plays back some clip of an anime show or in this case ‘moe’ voice clip. Here are some available in the US - and a video of the “moe” kind available only in Japan for now.
1 comment May 12th, 2007
The roundest objects ever built by hand
NASA makes theroundest objects ever built by hand and then puts em to work.
Add comment May 8th, 2007
Food Quantity Perception
New York Times article, Your Plate Is Bigger Than Your Stomach, discusses the interesting study of how our food containers affect how much we eat - large plates make useat more, etc.
Add comment May 8th, 2007