First I read this news bite about the police going after the biggest organized crime group in Japan. That’s good news in many respects; it’s evidence, along with Koizumi telling Nakasone to forget about it, that a growing number of Japanese are willing to take progressive risks in severing old, hindering ties. But [...]
So my buddy Brian also works within Sony, and has been keeping a rather detailed diary of his exploits both within the company and in Japan in general. Makes for interesting reading, but here’s one entry that caught my eye (dated 10/1):
Breaking a rule I had set for myself at the beginning, I began [...]
A bit out of date, but if you never did hear Lessig’s talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, you can hear (and watch) it here. Came across it reading up on Reed Hundt.
So many things to fight for, so little time.
A recent article by Debito Arudou/Dave Aldwinkcle shows how far behind Japan still is in race-relations. In fact, Japan is “…the only OECD country without anti-racial-discrimination laws.” And upon finding that quote, looks like he just spoke near where I work. Damn. Wish I could have made it. Even some friends who [...]
From Terrie.com:
Ikea International, the Swedish furniture retailer, has announced that it will open its first store on the old SSAWS indoor ski drome site, in September of 2005. Ikea will buy the 42,500 sq. m. of land from Mitsui Fudosan, and build a massive store on the site. The location, just down the road from [...]
Nippon Goro Goro had an interesting post listing the bios of the newly reshuffled cabinet, as Koizumi won the general election once again this past weekend. After skimming the list, I was surprised by what seemed to be an unusually high average age. With all the talk of a typical Japanese long life-expectancy, [...]
Some of you have already heard the news, while others may have noticed an abnormally high frequency of entries recently. Technically as of last Friday evening, and officially as of this past Monday morning, my group’s research has been terminated and the group is being disbanded. Luckily I saw this coming almost six [...]
It seems the proliferation of image-capture devices of all kinds is starting to really piss people off. I snapped a photo of this ad while on the Yamanote JR line this past weekend; I was in a bit of a hurry so the text is unreadable, but it essentially says “Taking a photo of [...]
Salon has an interesting article about a coalition of tech companies working together to keep the “internet neutral” from cable’s big grip. For example:
“Imagine if you called 1-800-L.L.-Bean and your phone company said, ‘Sorry, we’re not going to connect your call because we have a deal with Land’s End.’” For telephone service, that would [...]
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