Month: December 2005
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IC UC WC
From Japan Today: Ryuichi Sakamoto, second from right, and experimental electronic music group Raster-Noton perform at the NTT InterCommunication Center to bring attention to the plight of the multimedia museum, which has been threatened with closure by sponsor NTT East. Patrick went to the show, and posted about it. Audrey and Yoshi of OK FRED…
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Courrier Japon
Tetsuya Ozaki’s latest OUT OF TOKYO column takes a look at the recently launched COURRIER JAPON magazine.
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Gas Project Blog
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I never realized there was a bilingual Gas Project blog. Too bad images don’t seem to display properly in their RSS/Atom feeds. Link via Eternal Gaze.
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Mobile RSS
Innovative use of RSS feeds: In Japan, cell phones with RFID tags can now subscribe to an RSS feed with one swipe. For example (from the world of commerce, why not?), you go to a store, like what they have, swipe your phone at the register…voila, automatic updates to your phone when new merchandise arrives.…
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Xbox 360 Launch Party
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The Xbox 360 launch is today, and Kotaku has a few pics from last night’s launch party at the Aoyama Xbox Lounge. Yuko was just telling me that they’re reporting huge line-ups at game shops for the system, so looks like this launch is at least going to beat the last Xbox’s rollout. If you’re…
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Gaming Meet
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As I mentioned yesterday, we’re having another gaming session at Cafe Pause tomorrow (Saturday). We’ll meet up at around 16:00, PSP and DS in hand, with a whole bunch of games (including GTA and MARIO KART DS) to try out. Everyone is of course welcome to join in the fun. Update: I like how Paul…
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PingMag 2.0
The great online magazine PingMag has just launched an updated version of its site, with some new features and a new layout.