Uh hi, long time no see and everything and I'm still kinda hibernating, but... See, JLPT is tomorrow (it's two minutes past midnight, so today is Saturday) and I thought, okay, let's go read stuff you HAVEN'T read before. Let's try out Japanese internet lingo. Let's try out the much-rumoured 2-channeru ( Read more... )

The fuck, tinypic? O.o I DON'T LIKE PHOTOBUCKET.

... I found a posting dated 16th Feb. 2006 (therefore a bit old) regarding the translation of "Bachelorarbeit" into English. The whole thread is here.

This is what I found terribly amusing:

"I just find it amusing that evidently one has to write a thesis/dissertation/long essay/lengthy piece of written work for a BA in Germany.Something like this ( Read more... )

I know many of you use Mozilla Firefox as your browser, and some of you might be using Firefox 4.0 beta (currently version 3 of that). I had some difficulties with several add-ons being disabled because they were reported as not being compatible with 4.0b1-3, but I found a posting whose link hopefully won't break; it's on TheJapanesePage.com, so if ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm really, really thankful for the knowledge about the existence of trolls. Some people only say things to be hurtful on purpose, to rile other people up or to have fun by starting a stupid discussion. They don't necessarily mean what they say.

So while this makes me want to gag, the rational part of my brain tells me that this anon is ( Read more... )

Why on Earth is CrossAsia down when I need the Biographic Database to finish my paper? *selfish ( Read more... )

...is not for me. I don't know what it is, but reading stuff on GB doesn't reach me in any way. Must be the constant scrolling down, bleh. Thank goodness for well-stocked public and university libraries. Additionally... is it just me or does GB really lack a feature to mark a page? I mean, seriously ( Read more... )

The gist of it:
- Cyber attacks originating from China on Google, specifically Gmail accounts of (Chinese) human rights activists and other companies in various sectors ( Read more... )

Everyone, please go and read THIS post on "so you want to write fanfic on the internets" by traveller; if only to be able to say YES with all your heart a great many times.

So, miraizu asked for the link to a random short story in order to practice for an English exam. I wanted to help out and googled "short stories" - with the result of stumbling over Short Stories at East of the Web. This site hosts a gazillion short stories, I think after my first look at it ( Read more... )