news.orf.at: "Der Kult mit dem Persönlichen". österreich, wahlkampf und weblogs.
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages. (via susu.at-mail.)
i have a similar picture showing two asian warrior girls in action, which i got from a waitress of a pub called rotkäppchen in hannover at its closing night.
it's amazing how referrers work: two days ago i found takemurasan's orphaned weblog, today keisuke shingu's weblog pops up in the list of referrers.
in 1997 when the hydrants were invited to kyoto keisuke (well, we used to call him shingu but that's due to our ignorance towards japanese names) was takemura's assistant and our very nice guide to the beautiful, time-honoured city.
all the best from vienna to you, keisukesan!
just arrived: antville 1.1pre2 (with layouts!).
fixing apple's mail app. (at least the trouble with self-signed certificates and the annoying NSStreamSocketSSLErrorDomain error.)
mitsuhiro takemura's blog. unfortunately in japanese only. and, even worse, out of service since march 2003. (nevertheless with a bunch of interesting links.)
it's nice to be number one at msn search for the term "futkarli". rock'n'roll!
btw. if you have seen the movie "lost in translation" you probably got fooled by the stupid idea japanese people could only say "lock'n'loll". (and just for a bad larf.) in fact, japanese cannot pronounce the "l" at all and thus say "ribingu rumu" for "living room".
the smartypanted nitpicker has spoken.
btw. i still wonder why none of the movie's reviews offered the slightest reflection about charlotte's travel to kyoto.
people there told me they moved away from tokyo to escape the megalomanic urban madness of shinjuku. in fact, kyoto represents the traditional japan. it's green, quiet and comfortable.
thus, i am still uncertain if this somehow misplaced and quite irritating movie scene is a pretty reactionary twist or a beautifully poetic subtlety of the plot (just as my mood goes).
figlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text, e.g.
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