Link: http://mosdo.jp/

Could someone explain to me what this is about? Could it trully be a donut burger from my two favourite Japanese food chains? I must be dreaming.

Link: http://xorsyst.com/japan/watch-japanese-tv-online/

Kate pointed out to me this blog post about a nifty little program called Key Hole TV that you can use to watch several TV channels from Japan online. The video quality isn't great, but the program works fairly well and streams several of the major Japanese TV networks. Key Hole TV also provides broadcasting software that lets anyone stream video through the service if they like. At the time I looked at it there was a clearly illegal feed from CNBC running, as well as a Spanish sports channel, a music video channel from Switzerland and a bunch of random radio stations. Key Hole TV is not nearly as sophisticated as new streaming video players like Boxee, but it's probably the only place online you're going to find many of these Japanese TV channels.

Get Key Hole TV here

Link: http://spacing.ca/wire/2009/03/11/sam-the-record-man-exposed/

Spacing posted this interesting photo of what the old Sam the Record Man store now looks like with it's famous sign removed.

Update:

Here is what it looked like BEFORE Sam moved in.

Link: http://toronto.ctv.ca/dave

CTV icon, Dave Devall announced his retirement last week after 48 years of reporting the weather. I was charged with the task of making a tribute micro-site for Dave. Check it out at and send Dave your well wishes if you like! Not sure if Dave will ever actually read it though as he's already received over a thousand messages, and there's still 7 weeks before he retires.

Google has been acting strange for us today both in IE and Firefox. No matter what we search for, we get the message "This site may harm your computer" and then I can't proceed any further. I don't think this is a Spyware issue because we also have a Mac and it is also having the same problem.

Could Bell Canada be doing some weird packet-sniffing stuff that's messing up Google? Anyone else having this happen to them today?

*Update: Seems like Google is working properly again

Link: http://pacificloons.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/mold-the-neverending-battle/

I stumbled across this interesting blog belonging to a couple of JET Programme ALT's that have taken over my old job and home in Noheji, Japan. If any of my faithful readers from back in the day are still reading this, you may notice a number of similarities between my old blog posts and theirs, such as posts about climbing mount Eboshi (mine here) or the battle of man vs. mold. From the looks of this post, mold has completely taken over my old apartment! As anyone who visited the place while I was there can attest, the mold smell was really quite bad despite my best efforts to eradicate it. The school even half-offered to move me into another building because of it, but my supervisor suggested that I turn down the offer as they were just being nice offering it to me and didn't actually want to give it to me. So there I stayed for three years, and while I miss Noheji and might have stayed longer if I could, I'm kind of glad I got out of there before the mold completely took over!

Link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5guS5SDtsatYeoiqgvvpYmEAm621QD93UCCJ00

Link: http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2008-06-24_mario-ybarra-jr/

For a good time, click here, and then click on "Exhibition Video".