Okay, this has got to be a sign of the apocalypse. Not only is "Akihabara" and "fail" mentioned in the same breath, it's by Wired magazine, no less.

Hed a'Splode.

Wired: Dear Akihabara, You're Doing It Wrong

Despite all the stuff you hear that's bad about the Washington Metro....

...it's much worse. Tokyo, the biggest damn metro region on the planet, can build a new subway system from conception to completion in seven years. Here, they've been arguing for 20 years if the Silver and Purple lines are going to do any good...while gridlock gets worse, ( Read more... )

Ah, Japan and your obsession for overly expensive fruit...how I love thee. ^_^

CNN:( Japanese melon sells for more than $6,000 )

Warning: kanji ahead. You will be confused. ^_^

Well, it's been a great weekend. For starters, I finally got a chance to head to the Sakura Matsuri, something that the better half and I have been meaning to do for the longest time. After parking at the Vienna station and taking a long and arduous journey through the longest crowd I've seen at ( Read more... )

You heard it here first folks, before his stint at AUSA, our Director of Convention Support invades Japan.

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Yahoo/Reuters:( Japanese Official Mulls ''More Tranquil'' Executions )

Well, I finally activated my new cell phone, and am having a ball installing all sorts of JR ringtones to them.

JR ringtones? - yeah, you know, the jingles you hear in a JR station? (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to this page, which is a condensed version of the sounds of the Yamanote line; you'll hear some of the jingles there ( Read more... )

Just gotta love the guys at Penny Arcade!


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Considering how the past week has been for a few of my friends, I could honestly say they deserve one of these. Hell, if I had the cash onhand, I'd be shipping a couple, fully loaded for their (much needed) relaxation.

So to fausti, anushin and xale_d, here's to you:

Asahi Beerbot - Beer-pouring robot

And yet the strangeness abounds. There was once a time when people thought that nuclear energy was clean, efficient and trustworthy. Unless you lived through the Cold War of the 80s, where any of a dozen nations were going to saturate bomb the world with enough rads to smokehouse the Himalayas. Or unless you were from Japan, which is the one ( Read more... )