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My buddy Jun shared a link via email earlier today:
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
What’s really annoying about these sensationalized news bites is that they’re just that - sensationalized.  It talks about energy totals, but there’s no mention about the more important factor - energy source. If even 10kWh is from [...]

Well okay, my experiences last week weren’t nearly as bad as the following, but it seems the xenophobic trouble that’s brewin’ isn’t just localized to Japan: Martin Varsavsky of Fon reports two American students were attacked by skinheads in Madrid.  Could this have anything to do with Bush’s international politics and “leadership”?

If you’re coming from Digg and own a Wii, don’t forget to visit

MiiStation.com! :)

Two days ago:  I get up from my train seat motioning to get off and the man standing in front of me, grasping a dangling handle, won’t budge.  I duck under his arm and swing around to his right, but the door is to his left so now I must walk behind him.  It’s a [...]

this is just ridiculous:

(Hi Gen! :P) We’re not running Photoshop or Renderman here people!  My browser has been up for only 2 days, and the one plugin (aka “Add-on”) I’ve got going is FireBug (no other plugins, as I try to figure out why FF keeps crashing).  Please tell me these memleaks will be cleaned [...]

Is anybody else experiencing weirdness with their flickr account?  Some recently uploaded photos are linking to completely random images of which I have no … idea … what they are.  Strange.

iTunes storage / backup, for complete mobility of music!  (Well, music stays put; mobility applies to the listener :)  Read more here!

For my archive, but also for anyone thinking of moving to Japan long-term (from Terrie’s Take):
…there are few if any concessions being given to encourage foreigners to feel like they are anything other than tax-paying guests.
Here are a few examples:

It’s now been a little over 48 hours since the launch of miistation.com, and the response has been … active!  A few key news sites and portals picked up on this impulse project (big thank you to those who helped spread the word!), driving traffic and - to our surprise, customers! - to Make Mii.  [...]

Update: Well, Shin beat me to it :)  Thanks!
Minja and I were slurping spaghetti last Tuesday when talk turned to
Nintendo’s new game console, Wii.  The Wii lets users create their own
little avatar called a Mii.  For some, after the first few hours of
playing their new Wii and trying to make a Mii of some semblance [...]