Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Waiting For Godzilla: The Tree Walks
IT’S a tree in Japan, and it looks like Godzilla:
Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Your Virtual Japanese Tortured Girlfriend
VIA Boing Boing, this gem of a toy from Japan:
Dennou AR girlfriend. Feministing deems her a “virtual torture victim”; Gizmodo declares the 3D webcam hottie “entrancing, if a little perverted.”
A little perverted? NSFW:
Looking Up Girls’ Skirts In Japan
Posted: 14th, November 2008 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Looking Up Girls’ Skirts In Japan
JAPAN…
Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Video Game Skillz Killz Man In Japan
DRIVING a real car will be easy, I haz the skillz…
Over the weekend in Osaka’s Higashiyodogawa Ward, a 58 year-old man was knocked off his bicycle by a car and dragged 180 meters (almost 600 feet) in a hit-and-run accident. The victim suffered serious injuries, and the driver was arrested by the police. The suspect is a 14 year-old junior high school girl from Osaka’s Toyonaka City..
There were three male middle school students in the car, and it was originally thought the girl was a scapegoat — until she gave an official statement. She told Yodogawa Police Station authorities in an affidavit, “I was confident in my video game driving, so I wanted to try the real deal… That day was the first time I had ever driven a real car.” Apparently, the girl had been “practicing” driving on arcade games. She decided that she had gotten so good at video games, she ought to try an actual car and thus swiped the keys to her father’s small mini-van.
Turning Japanese: How Japan Could Save The World’s Economy
IT’S someone pretending to be Japanese in the hope of getting their hands on the huge pile of dosh the Japanese are sitting on; according to the Japanese politician, Kotaro Tamura, Japan has $950 billion in government foreign reserves, $1.5 trillion in public pension funds and $15 trillion in personal financial assets.
Half of that is on deposit at extremely low interest rates in Japanese banks.
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Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Money | Comments (16)
Lewis Hamilton Walks To Work
AS Tim Blair notes, Formula One’s sop to global warming might not be enough:
This might be the most tokenistic tokenism in the entire history of Tokentown:
Formula One racing will show its support for the FIA’s Make Cars Green campaign by running on unique green-grooved tyres at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.
Those stripey Gaia tyres (taias!) are attached to vehicles that consume about 190 litres of fuel during a 300km race.
Lewis Hamilton walks to work…
Victoria Beckham Rubs Bird Poo On Her Face
THE Daily Star bring news that Victoria Beckham has taken to rubbing bird poo on her face.
The paper tells its readers peering up at a tree of nesting rooks that the “geisha face mask” has been used for centuries by Japanese women who, we must assume, could not afford more expensive treatments.
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Posted: 8th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comments (15)
UK Farms Human Livers, Germany Harvest Funny Bones
IF you could choose a liver door from any country on Earth, which nation would you harvest organs from?
Those living on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the small Sardinian mountain town of Ovodda and Loma Linda in the US are the world’s longest living. So any of them would be top of most people’s lists.
So listen up as David Mayer, chairman of UK Transplant’s Liver Advisory Group, says:
“If we were to provide livers for the world from the UK, then UK patients would be enormously disadvantaged.”
Well, yes. We would have no livers, ours being a nation of some 60million, and the rest of the world having far more bodies to fill with offal. And what with our binge drinking, you’d think the demand just wouldn’t be there. The UK as the world’s liver farming would be like the Germans farming funny bones.
But here’s Professor Nigel Heaton, head of the transplant unit at King’s College Hospital, London, transplanting part of an adult British liver into a boy from one of the Gulf states.
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Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comments (6)
Sarah Palin As Seen In Japan
SARAH Palin is so darn lovable. In Japan, they are welling up…
The video…
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Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (13)
Man Arrested For Fishing For Women’s Underwear
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
Fishing. Knickers. Make up your own headline…
Tokyo police said Tuesday they had arrested a man with a passion for women’s underwear who used a fishing rod to reel them in.
Akira Hino, 51, was arrested last week for stealing a pair of knickers from a laundry pole on a second-floor balcony, a police spokesman said.
He stretched out a three-metre (10-foot) rod and caught the underwear on a hook, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Called to his house, police found more than 500 pairs of women’s underwear inside. He reportedly told investigators he had got into the habit of stealing undergarments when he was 18.
Pass the wasabi…
Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Paul Routledge Can Rejoice As Credit Crunch Banker Tops Himself
“CREDIT CRUNCH BANKER KILLS HIMSELF,” screams the Daily Mail’s front-page headline.
Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire. Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world’s financial markets went into meltdown.
Believed by whom, is not said. But at least one man is happy: Paul Routledge can rejoice:
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Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Money, Tabloids | Comments (9)
Airbags For Randy Old People
A JAPANESE company says it has made an airbag designed to stop elderly people injuring themselves by falling over.
Nasty falls, however, may be things of the past — thanks to the invention of the human airbag.
Simply strap the 2½lb (1.1kg) pouch around the waist and the wearer is armed with the cutting edge of protection. Sensors detect movement and have been programmed to know when things have gone wrong — a slip on something wet, a stumble on an uneven paving stone or a fall down stairs.
Within a tenth of a second, the airbags inflate to the size of three footballs as they are blasted into action with 15 litres of compressed gas, offering a soft slab of padding on the most vulnerable parts of the body in a fall: the back of the head and the bottom.
And it doubles as a bed for when the moment surges…
The price tag on the device — about £700 — offers a hint at just how big the “silver yen” has become as a business proposition.
Internet Blamed For Rise In Middle-Age Sexually Transmitted Disease
Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
