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To celebrate recent interviewees Kids In Glass Houses getting onto the Radio 1 playlist with ‘Give Me What I Want’, Roadrunner Records have given us a great prize to give ...

I'm flying off to Bangkok to Japan in less than 20 hours! Exclude my sleeping time, bathing time, eating time, watching tv time, chatting time, and etc. All these ...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MELISSA DARLING! Thanks for being there when I needed someone. Hope your year ahead will be freaking awesome! Love you! (: ...

The Educause Learning Initiative has published “7 things you should know about Ning.” A PDF version is available. Ning is one of the many social networking systems (SNS) to emerge ...

I was at Ichizu and Koya, the two elementary schools that feed into Tomorogi, all this week. Koya is the one that is blamed for all of the badness. I ...

2 weeks off: time to see friends from good old IUJ times... but also friends from new good APU times... Good-bye Beppu-shi...Ferry to Osaka...Hisao-san, Sakura-donou and Haru-chan...Haru-chan with uncle ...

First LASERThe first LASER started to operate on May 16th, 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories. Theodore Maiman was the guy behind it. He died one year ago. In my opinion, ...

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Around 1.5 years ago, we got wind of researchers in the UK working up a battery-free pacemaker. Fast forward to now, and we've got yet ...

Robot Dog from Hell Is Terminator's Best Friend, My Worst Nightmare Although it's not as scary as the spooky Big Dog—actually, it looks as friendly as the hilarious Fake ...

Namba Parks is a really amazing piece of architecture, a place where you’ll spend half your time shopping and the other half admiring the design. It stands where Osaka’s baseball ...