Japanese Balloon Battle

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Microsoft to battle Japanese watchdog

Microsoft to battle Japanese watchdog 07/27/2004 04:24 AM
Seattle Times Jul 27 2004 8:45AM GMT

Microsoft Admits Japanese Monopoly
Battle Hurting Image

Microsoft Admits Japanese Monopoly
Battle Hurting Image 08/11/2004 04:57 PM

Japanese Chip Giants Join Forces in
Uphill Tech Battle

Japanese Chip Giants Join Forces in
Uphill Tech Battle 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Struggling in the face of large losses and heavy competition in the memory and computer chip arenas, Japan's largest semiconductor makers have joined forces to focus on system-on-a-chip technology, no doubt hoping to regain a competitive edge.

MI5 IT upgrade costs balloon

MI5 IT upgrade costs balloon 04/09/2005 02:47 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 9 2005 6:53AM GMT

Fly Over Mars... in a Robotic Balloon

Fly Over Mars... in a Robotic Balloon 02/12/2004 01:24 AM

Did you ever wonder what it would be
like to see a water balloon pop in
space?

Did you ever wonder what it would be
like to see a water balloon pop in
space? 02/12/2004 03:32 PM
What does it look like when you pop a water ballon in zero-g? .. Why every little kid wants to be an astronaut someday .. water balloon at zero gravity .. deze pagina

microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm
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Israel uses high-tech spy balloon

Israel uses high-tech spy balloon 08/13/2004 05:49 PM
Aljazeera.com Aug 13 2004 9:42PM GMT

4 Hurt in Balloon Stuck Over Baltimore
(AP)

4 Hurt in Balloon Stuck Over Baltimore
(AP) 07/17/2004 07:25 PM
AP - A balloon ride turned into a scary ordeal for 20 people Saturday when the aircraft got stuck high above the city, then was tossed around by high wind like a pinata for an hour and a half before rescuers brought it down.

Buy Stephen Hawking's balloon basket

Buy Stephen Hawking's balloon basket 11/13/2003 09:52 PM
Balloon basket for sale. Low mileage. Only used by possibly the smartest man on the planet. [via linkdump]

The Problem, the Balloon, and the Four
Bedroom House

The Problem, the Balloon, and the Four
Bedroom House 04/16/2004 08:49 AM
Without a problem, there is no project. Where there is a problem, however, there is a stakeholder who is desperate for a solution and who has a delivery deadline -- which is normally sometime yesterday. Find out how a good process can tame even the most unruly project.

That High-Tech Balloon Is Going
Ssssssssss

That High-Tech Balloon Is Going
Ssssssssss 07/10/2004 07:25 PM
With technology companies cautioning that their businesses softened in the second quarter, the sound of air escaping a balloon is more than detectable.

'Spongebob' Toy Balloon Flies 800 Miles
(AP)

'Spongebob' Toy Balloon Flies 800 Miles
(AP) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
AP - A Spongebob Squarepants balloon with a holiday wish attached traveled hundreds of miles from Central Mexico to southeast Texas, where a landowner found it in some bushes.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

Boy's Balloon Note Found 20 Years Later
(AP)

Boy's Balloon Note Found 20 Years Later
(AP) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
AP - A note sent aloft on a green balloon 20 years ago by an elementary school student was returned to him this week by someone who lives halfway across the state.

Greenwich Park's sky to be turned into
RF-driven balloon-art

Greenwich Park's sky to be turned into
RF-driven balloon-art 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Rupert sez, "On May 4th, above the Greenwich Meridian in Greenwich Park, London, a cloud of a thousand radio-sensitive glowing balloons will monitor the airwaves and respond by changing colour and brightness. Everyone's invited to bring their mobile phones and make contact with the cloud, which will also listen to atmospheric phenomena and the cackle of the rest of London's radio users." Link (Thanks, Rupert!)

Davinci Announces Balloon Rocket
X-Prize Contender

Davinci Announces Balloon Rocket
X-Prize Contender 08/07/2004 10:36 AM

Kenneth Armstrong wrote in with this report: The Davinci Project, a Canadian team vying for the ANSARI X PRIZE unveiled its Wild Fire rocket yesterday in Toronto. The plan is to have a balloon carry it to 60,000 feet over the Canadian prairies and engage the rocket which will make "The da Vinci Project is on the cusp of a new era of space travel for humankind. Our team is proof positive that ingenuity and innovation can overcome the impossible." at least according to pilot, Brian Feeny. He also announced the sponsor for the flight, online casino Golden Palace.com.

No humor when an online casino sponsors a balloon carrying a rocket into space, no sir. How do you double-or-nothing a rocket?

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Long-shot, balloon-aided rocket aims for
X Prize

Long-shot, balloon-aided rocket aims for
X Prize 08/20/2004 06:45 AM
USA Today Aug 20 2004 10:53AM GMT

The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21

The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21 12/21/2003 07:18 AM
Philip Gourevitch, writing in the New Yorker .. Winning and losing

newyorker.com/talk/content/?031222ta_talk_gourevitch
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Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent

Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Battle Torrent .. proposal for making bittorrent usable

downhillbattle.org/labs/battletorrent
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"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent"

"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

No sex please -- we're Japanese

No sex please -- we're Japanese 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
USA Today story on statistics published in a popular Japanese news magazine that point to an acute shagging deficiency throughout the country.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."

More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. "They don't want a complicated life," says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.(...)

AERA reports that condom shipments are down 40% since 1993 (probably in part because Japan finally legalized birth-control pills in 1999) and love-hotel check-ins are off at least 20% over the past five years. What's more, an increasing number of those visiting love hotels aren't there for romance, AERA says; they've found that love hotels offer the cheapest access to karaoke machines and video games.

Link. Hope this has nothing to do with the butter dog trend recently reported by Fleshbot. Or, god forbid, her .(Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl).

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I know what I am buying as soon as I am back in Japan. e-Navi is a new PDA that...

Peculiar Japanese

Peculiar Japanese 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I just got back to Japan after a few weeks abroad. It's the longest trip away from Japan that I've taken in awhile. When I was in the waiting area before boarding the plane, which was mostly Japanese, I noticed that the Japanese people seemed peculiar. I remember feeling this in the past after long trips. It's like suddenly I'm aware of weird Japanese body language, fashion, behaviors and facial expressions. It made me self-conscious too. I'm sure this is a pretty common phenomenon, but it was odd because it was disproportionately stronger compared to a one week trip away. Maybe it's because I was in Paris, South Africa, San Francisco and Boston before returning and the variety of cultures scrambled my cultural blinders. It was also strange reading the International Herald Tribune on China's anger over recent statements by Japanese about ramping up their military while watching the Japanese news in the plane talk about the same thing from their perspective. It was like having two cultural identities coexisting in my head. Somewhere over the arctic, both cultures seemed mighty peculiar.

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Folksonomies in Japanese

Folksonomies in Japanese 02/01/2005 08:41 PM
OK, I need some help from people who speak Japanese. This post is about folksonomies (tagging), and how it might be really hard in Japanese. This is mostly speculation at this point, please comment or email me if you speak Japanese. On the Sigia-L list, Fiona Bradley writes: "I don't know Cantonese, ...

Those Crazy Japanese...

Those Crazy Japanese... 01/06/2005 10:19 PM

You want some iMac fingernails?

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go

Japanese Spy Satellites No Go 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
A rocket carrying two spy satellites meant to keep an eye on North Korea malfunctions following liftoff, failing to gain sufficient height and speed to reach orbit. Japan's space agency, JAXA, destroys the rocket.

Japanese popstar van-art

Japanese popstar van-art 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
This is a stunning gallery of fan-car art inspired by Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki. Link, Link to lots more Ayumi fan art (via MeFi)

What is Technorati (in Japanese)

What is Technorati (in Japanese) 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Masahiko Satoh posts an extensive explanation of Technorati in Japanese for folks in Japan trying to understand better what the service does, and how it works. Thanks Masahiko!...

Japanese fashion

Japanese fashion 08/18/2004 06:16 PM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

What are the cool kids in Harajuku wearing?

Glad you asked. Link to an online photo gallery with street snapshots from Harajuku station in Tokyo. (Thanks, Todd!)

Pete sent me this picture. Marc, were you in Harajuku recently?

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Japanese Engrish

Japanese Engrish 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Japenese products with hilarious Engrish names .. .. This Engrish site takes the cake! .. rather amusingtranslations .. Japanese-english .. Engrish dot com .. *focroflmao* .. Engrish! .. C

engrish.com
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Japanese for Nerds (I)

Japanese for Nerds (I) 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Japanese is the perfect language for nerds. There are just a bunch of standard interfaces to learn, which you string together like so many nested functor objects and voilŕ: fully-formed correct Japanese sentences!

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy 06/10/2004 04:57 AM

Read Les Earnest's hillarious story about how his secret decoder ring got FBI on his tail when he was 12 years old.  That was in 1943 but it shows what can happen when paranoia grips a nation.  It could be now if you are related in anyway to the Middle East. [via Gaget opia via Espen Adersen].

Japanese to tag schoolkids

Japanese to tag schoolkids 07/09/2004 11:39 AM
My first RFID

Japanese videophone

Japanese videophone 03/13/2003 12:53 PM

Amazing footage over at TokyoDV of the unreleased FOMA P2102V video cellphone. With the screen folded sideways it looks almost like a very small MiniDV camcorder.
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Japanese numbers

Japanese numbers 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
Joi runs the startling results of a survey of Japanese Internet usage. Some highlights: 36.2% of homes have broadband. 72.5% have heard of blogs, about double last year., 25% of women in their teens and 20's have blogs. (!) Wow....

Unicode-Japanese-0.22

Unicode-Japanese-0.22 05/31/2004 05:39 AM

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye

Shibori Japanese Tye-Dye 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
Shibori< /a> is an amazing Japanese textile dying technique--a very sophisticated form of tie-dye, where nubby, lumpy, bizarre things like this are transformed after dying into this fish or these flo wers (scroll for detail) or these starbursts. Specifically this odd thing became this (detail). You can find excellent photos and descriptions of the process here, here(scroll down and hold mouse over photo), and here. There is also information at the World Shibori Network . This photo shows partially dyed fabric and here is a video of the preparation for dying. Shibori is very labor intensive (carpal tunnel syndrome-city) and was a one time subject to a sumptuary tax and one form was outlawed by an emperor for being too extravagant. There are many different knots and ties for different patterns--browse here, here(gallery1-7), and here. Shibori can be used to make some striking and detailed images. Diverse examples of shibori --iris, layer ed squares, waves, kimonos, large bridge banner, subtle black and white winter scene, , a nifty “aerial view” of earth as a tidal pool with hot air balloons (detail of anemones). Don't miss the stunning work of Hiroko Harada (English/Japanese) . I especially like Rain In the Forest, There Are Ripples On the Cloth, Seasonal Changes, and this large installation. You can browse more here, but the Japanese page has more.

Unicode-Japanese-0.19

Unicode-Japanese-0.19 01/19/2004 05:05 AM

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