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Why do I sometimes see Japanese male bureaucrats/office workers wearing black sleeves like these:

Are they cold? To protect their shirt from ink?

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/celebrities/lady-gaga-sued-over-wristbands-124583189.html

Maybe 2ch wouldn’t like her so much if they knew…

It appears Sony is now in the business of phishing.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002160.html

http://torrentfreak.com/distributor-offers-to-purify-and-monetize-pirate-files-110411/

A manga creator and distributor has offered to do something positive with thousands of unauthorized copyright files to be found on file-sharing networks. In what appears to be a first of its kind project, users will be encouraged to upload their illicit media…[Read more]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20110329/video/vwl-bus-caught-on-cctv-in-near-miss-15af341.html

In China you can drive through an Aqueduct and not even notice. I am however impressed by the driver’s quick reactions and the number of cameras (3) in that bus.

… is somehow disappointing.

I’ve been using a kanjidict provided by bisqwit, but it’s down and has been for a while. Could someone recommend me a free internet dictionary that would allow me to search in Japanese or English and in romaji.

http://www.thelocal.se/29456/20101006/

Not the smartest guy. I’m surprised by how activate the headmaster was though.

http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html

We all knew it, but there's confirmation from a completely reliable and accurate source. Finland is the best country in the world. Japan, on the other hand, barely scrapes in a top ten finish.

[quote]# 2010-06-24: KRP haluaa käyttää pakkokeinoja vääriin mielipiteisiin
Keskusrikospoliisi on antanut lausuntonsa [hare.vn.fi, rtf] käynnissä olevaan lapsipornoakin koskettavaan lakihankkeeseen jossa KRP esittää omia näkemyksiään. KRP tulkitsee että todenmukaisuuden vaatimuksen poistaminen laista antaisi heille oikeuden lisätä estolistalleen…[Read more]