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I like Big Bells
Sounds a little bit lurid to me, like it is some kind of reference to female anatomy. I’ve never heard it used like that but maybe I can start a trend. “Would you look at the bells on her!”...
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Sapporo Brewery of Japan is buying Sleeman Brewery of Canada, apparently I wasn’t the only one to see this as preferable to Molson or Labatt controlling an even larger percentage of the Canadian beer...
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This is the third in a series of amusing Asian television commercials featuring attractive women. I was counting on this one to be my Japanese example but it is a bit confusing what with the English...
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Definitely a Japanese Commercial
After an exhaustive search on YouTube I found another commercial, that is definitely Japanese, though it has basically no dialogue or Japanese text 漢字, ひらがな, or カタカナ. It features a Japanese woman and...
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Baidu to enter Japanese search market
According to Forbes, via Webmaster World, Baidu is going to enter the Japanese search market. Now this doesn’t come as a surprise to me, nor should it come as a surprise to people who read my blog. I...
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The World’s Largest Korean
While clicking around YouTube I found this footage of Choi Hong Man. He appears to be a K1 fighter. He fights Bob Sapp, a former football player who was brought to Japan to be a villain. A former sumo...
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New Internet Cafés banned in China
You can’t ban the internet, but apparently in a move to keep Chinese youth from spending too much time online, they have banned the opening of additional internet cafés. I learned this through my RSS...
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Women’s MMA
Recently on Veoh I came across a series of videos of women fighting in Japan (but after five years it has been removed). I watched part of one or two but it really doesn’t appeal to me. I saw a clip on...
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The Internet summarized by a single infographic
SEO Blackhat found this on Image Shack or something. I really don’t think the average English speaker realizes just how much of the web is already not in English and how much of the Web will not be in...
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A day later and a few dollars shorter
I think I’m now paying more for my webhosting, but I’m not sure I’m actually getting more bandwidth. I was getting a good deal before and now I’m possibly not. The company I was using DixieSys was...
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Of bananas and eggs
One interesting bit of jargon I’ve learned while in China is what it means to be a banana or an egg. A banana is yellow on the outside but white on the inside and is a term used by mainland Chinese to...
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3 Breweries, 1 Distillery
Long before the Lonely Planet was calling it the best destination in Asia I visited Hokkaido, so when I was asked if I would return, I of course said “yes” for the good of my loyal readers, but not...
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Of bananas and eggs
One interesting bit of jargon I’ve learned while in China is what it means to be a banana or an egg. A banana is yellow on the outside but white on the inside and is a term used by mainland Chinese to...
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Oh those crazy Japanese
As mentioned by Dave, I regaled my Tsinghua MBA classmates with tales from Japan. I don’t know what it is, but people seem to not believe me of late. Dave Kelsey isn’t even here to say “Musk don’t...
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