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Month: January 2006

  • Moriyama House

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    Momus on Ryue Nishizawa’s Moriyama House (which also gets a write-up in the latest issue of CASA BRUTUS). Also, why are Japanese homes so cold? (One of my only peeves about living here.)

  • Marxy and the Studio

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    Marxy, Sound Studio Noah, and his follow-up album (NEOMARXISME II – DE LA SOUL IS DEAD). Update: And a canned coffee review for good measure.

  • Flickr Feed Problem

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    I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks like my Flickr feed is suddenly posting plenty of pictures that aren’t mine. Anyone know what’s going on? Are other users experiencing this? Update: Weird, if I view the feed in Safari it seems OK, but when viewed in Bloglines (I re-subscribed to the feed, just…

  • Feedlounge

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    Continuing on my theme of moving all my activities to the web, the Feedlounge online feed reader looks rather sweet. Too bad you need to pay $5 a month to use it (which is why I’ll stick to Bloglines). Also, from using the mobile phone access to Gmail, I’ve noticed that I can actually access…

  • New DS Feature!

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    Sorry, had to share this, it made me laugh (you know, cause it’s sort of true). Good to see Miyamato and Iwata in such good moods! Found at DS Fanboy.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Ghibli Museum Inside Omotesando Hills You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here.

  • Shigureden

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    Kotaku has huge coverage of the Shigureden interactive museum in Kyoto, in which you roam all sorts of environments (based on a traditional Japanese card game) with a specially tricked-out Nintendo DS as your guide. Looks fascinating, although it does seem as if you’d need a minimum of Japanese ability to take everything in. There…

  • Nintendo DS Lite

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    I’m sure you already all know about the recently announced Nintendo DS Lite (out in March), and I quite like the image you see above, as it helps put the new console’s dimensions in context (more comparisons in this Joystiq entry). I’m quite liking it — love that it’s white — and since I’ve pretty…

  • Street Art

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    A shot of some street art taken on one of the walkways over Omotesando Dori.

  • Butlers Vs. Maids

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    Patrick Macias has the scoop on Japan’s very first “butler” cafe, and it’s coming to my hood of Ikebukuro. I think the maids have nothing to fear though.