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China: Woman Sees Mother's Face For First Time in Five Years Thanks To Chinese Twitter
China: Chinese Ghost Cities The article is 80% trash, but the pictures are interesting.
Japan: Sumida River Fireworks Festival
Japan: Little Thailand (in Kanagawa)
Japan: Haunted Tokyo Tours Been meaning to do this for a while.
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Pyromania: NYPD Explodes Confiscated Fireworks [Video]
Science: Pen Draws Working Circuits
Science: Memories Subject To Peer Pressure
Space: What was that halo of light seen in Hawaii?
Space: Details on Cygnus X-1, the first black hole to be discovered
Tiger&Bunny: Sky High-centric sketches from youkofujima
Tiger&Bunny: Comic Anthology scheduled ( Read more... )

Ego: Translation of a Foreigner's Comments on "Catch The Lion" into Japanese Someone read my Tokyo Toy Show review, I guess. ;)
Japan: TEPCO Holds a Shareholders' Meeting
Japan: Temporary Workers in Fukushima
"Photography": Backstage at Men's Fashion Week
UFOs: The Plane Truth Behind Area 51

Playing with Google's new(??) image search feature. You ( Read more... )

First, baby clouded leopardsNow, a list of new summer anime coming in July. Take care when opening links, since this includes all the new anime I could find and some of it is inevitably lolimoe crap. The one genuinely NSFW link is marked, although I really do wonder. It seems to me that a gentle drama with prepubescent fanservice is far more ( Read more... )

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Anime: English anime map compiled to attract foreign tourists
Anime: Live action Noir?
Anime: Studio Ghibli displays anti-nuclear power banner
Business: Mos Burger to open branches in Australia
Film: Could there ever be a Neuromancer film?
Japan: Preventing radiation contamination more important than TEPCO's stock prices Some days it's ( Read more... )

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Harry Potter: What is pottermore.com?
LGBT: UN Passes Resolution Condemning Discrimination Against Gay People
Japan: Are People Hired Based On Their Looks? (Judging by my recent experiences, yes, obviously. That doesn't mean they're highlighting a particularly well-designed study.)
Japan: Schools Must Be Better Equipped To Handle ( Read more... )

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George Takei Gets His Own Category: George Takei Is Second To Nun [Video]
LGBT: The Best LGBT Books Of All Time(?)
Music: Schiller - Dream of You [Video]
Music: Take That - Love Love [Video] If you had told me 15 years ago that I would be linking to a Take That video and describing it as 'surprisingly good,' I wouldn't have believed ( Read more... )

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Health: Risk From Mobile Phone Use Officially Uncertain
Photography: Manhattanhenge
Random: Kabutomushi (This may seem bizarre, but I was happy to see something I wrote appear and be reblogged on Tumblr. I can definitely see the appeal of that service and the idea of posting stuff for the express reason of getting it reblogged certainly ( Read more... )

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Earthquake: Survey on Disaster Information-Gathering Behaviour For those living in the Kantou region only, conducted by the International Center for Urban Safety Engineering.
LGBT: 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners
Kittehs: Cat and Kitten Hugging　(via jukebox_hero)
Music: Metallica's Nothing Else Matters Slowed Down
Random: Man Dresses as ( Read more... )

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Anime: Dantalian Looks a little generic, and the costume design looks crappy for something that apparently has a brand name gothic lolita sponsor behind it, but the name is intriguing (Dantalion is the Grand Duke of Hell). Features Ono Daisuke and Sawashiro Miyuki.
Anime: Mayo-Chiki I tend to roll my eyes hard at anime (apparently) ( Read more... )