Is it me? Why can’t I find something mundane or boring about Japanese culture? In what surely must be the first wedding of its kind, a man has married an anime videogame character. Last Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of [...]
12 months and we’re still alive and kicking, I’m not sure what to make of the last year. We’ve seen a global economic meltdown, the cancellation of Jon & Kate Plus 8, the election of a Black U.S. President, the birth of singing sensation Susan Boyle, the flame out of Sarah Palin, the introduction of [...]
This week we found out that the practical European country that gave us Ikea and Volvo is burning bunnies to stay warm. The BBC reports that the bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden. The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the [...]
Things are not getting better all the time. Why? Because of lousy customer service and lack of competition. Case in point, a group called Unlimited IT played David to Telkom’s Goliath. Fed up with lousy service and stunningly slow bandwidth speeds from Telkom, Unlimited IT proved that it was faster for them to send data [...]
Reports of the English Cockney accent’s death in the UK Times in 2005, must have been greatly exaggerated. Today comes news that Bank Machine, a company that operates 2,500 ATMs in the UK, has added Cockney to the language options of five machines in East London. The ATMs asked users if they wanted, “some moolah [...]
What is it with Brits getting burned by Facebook? First the head of MI-6 has his vacation photos and other private information out for the world to see thanks to his wife. Now a couple of teens in Southern England cause a riot when they posted details about their house party on their Facebook page. [...]
Can somebody please explain to me why every time a new iPhone comes out everyone with an old iPhone bitches about not getting a reduced price? No one bitches when a new Honda Insight comes out or a new Sony Bravia TV. Nowhere else can you or would you consider whining about not getting a [...]
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Conventional wisdom would say, “The Shadow knows”. But in 2009, its the Department of Geography at Kansas State University, who knows what kinds of evil and precisely where it lives in America. How do they know? Because they made maps of it. The question of [...]
Thank you Farhad Manjoo of Slate.com for asking the burning question of the month and then spelling out the pros and cons– Do I Really Have To Join Twitter? It seems that every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta, is on Twitter. Teenagers do it, U.S. Senators tweet during speeches, athletes do it during halftime. I can’t [...]
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