The indomitable mr brown spoofs this year’s National Day theme song:
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Le Lundi au Soleil
or, “Monday in the Sun” as interpreted by Kenzo Saeki. Ah, electronica and kitsch ^_^
As far as I can tell, this track is from a Japanese tribute album to French pop singer Claude François.
More tracks/music videos:
Chanson Populaire
Comme d’habitude (the basis for “My Way”)
Decepticons x Lucky Star
Itasha – anime-decorated cars
Itasha are cars decorated with decals and paint jobs depicting anime, game and manga characters. The word itasha, which literally means “painful car,” is derived from the kanji for itai (”painful”) and sha (”car”). The word also appears to be a reference to the Italian sportscar, also known as itasha (although the ita for Italian is spelled with katakana instead of kanji), a conventional sort of chick magnet driven by a different sort of guy.
(via Pink Tentacle – which has more links to itasha pictures)
Morinaga caramels
I’d never seen these before, but I really like the antiquated aesthetics: the box illustration, colours, type and the old Morinaga logo.
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Only $1.20 a box, so I got two: traditional milk caramels on the left, more modern green tea ones on the right.
UPDATED — as requested by Mayann:
PS: I like the matcha ones better. The milk ones are too sweet.
Randomness #54x
Still alive! Too much working and reading, not enough writing.
– All the cool stuff happens after I leave. Chicago now has a Festival of Maps. That’s a small version of a 17th century Map of the Nile on the site. Big version here.
– Detailed satellite surveys show that Angkor was probably as big as modern-day LA, adding credence to theories that people eventually deserted the city because its surrounding environment couldn’t sustain it.
– If you’re too lazy to search for clips of the Helvetica documentary on YouTube (like me), World of Kane kindly provides a selection.
– Radar finds out how desperate some folks in Second Life are for virtual sex (Funny, but NSFW photos):
Radarette: Very good! Ready for something a little … HARDER?
Student: Yep.
Radarette: Haretown and Tortoiseville are 50 miles apart. A hare travels at nine miles per hour from Haretown to Tortoiseville, while a tortoise travels at one mile per hour from Tortoiseville to Haretown. If both set out at the same time, how many miles will the hare have to travel before meeting the tortoise en route?
– Speaking of sex, The 50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Cinema
– The 12 Sins of Chopstick Use (in Mandarin script)
“3D Gundam”
Hardcore otaku from the 80s recreate the well-known battle between Amuro and the Black Tri-Stars:
Am impressed by their improvisation and clear love for the series. This was a time when you had to edit film manually, frame by frame. No Mini-DV or digital editing programmes yet!
Hope these guys are still Gundam fans. /salute
(Found on ectoplasmosis)
Goodbye ToM, Hello Ectoplasmosis!
1 July 2007. Smoking banned indoors in all bars, restaurants etc. GST up to 7%. And Table of Malcontents, my preferred source of the esoteric and weird from all over, closed.
Fortunately, the folks behind ToM have their own sites. And there’s an official (well, as far as these things go) successor. All hail Ectoplasmosis!
Huggable meat
Sweet Meats are handmade plush objects that look like various cuts of meat. They are made out of super cuddly polar fleece, cotton quilting thread and polyester fiberfill stuffing. All of the meats come in individual (toy) size and some also come in family (pillow) size.
Browse the whole range at Sweet Meats
Then check out The Food Section for a Q&A with the maker of these meaty plushies.
(thanks! ;o) )
writing without rhythm 
