Japander.com Yes. Here you can see the ads that rich American stars do in Japan to become even richer, but which are never shown in North America. The ads they wanted you never to see, all over there on Japander. Heh heh heh.
Tag: odd
Christopher Hitchens on Diets and Dieting
Christopher Hitchens has a wonderful little piece about diets and dieting in the Mirror. Here’s a taste: THERE’S an old conundrum, familiar to those who have viewed the clientele of health-food restaurants. Did these people always look so pale and ill and scrawny and pustular? Or was it the nut cutlets and prune juice and special grains that made them that way? In other words, which came first, the chicken or the egg – and which one would you be better advised to drop from your own intake? The question is an important one because, if people stop asking it, …
Teen Girls Magazine Bible?!?!?
ABCNEWS.com : A Cosmo-Style Makeover for the Bible? Okay, this is just bizarre. Found it on Adam’s site, the oft-recommended a violently executed plan. (Thanks Adam!) Revolve is, we are told, some kind of adaptation of Christian scripture. We are amused, horrified, but at least not quite at a loss for words… I understand translating the Bible into the vernacular, of course, and I suppose that for people who adhere to the Christian faith a modern-English translation would be handy (though somewhat lacking in the poetry that makes us literature geeks return to the King James Bible time after time). …
Since 1984: With a constant mind
Sandoll Font Bank This only amused me just because the English is funny. Come on, admit it. It is. This is what I get for searching for Korean fonts with an English-language keyword search. The company as a specialty in the development of fonts makes the Hangeul, which is the most pride of the Korean culture, to be used with a computer as well as digital equipment. And the aesthetic/functional sense of each font makes the users have the pride themselves on the Hangeul. The company will keep and develop the highest level of study ability on the digital area. …
Neil Stephenson, Christianity, Informational Hygiene
This is the weirdest writing I have ever seen on computers and knowledge. The idea of memes is basically one of the materialist’s most powerful arguments against Christianity, after all – for memes claim religion is an idea-complex virus just like fashion and art and anything else. How can one use memes to defend religious ideas? I don’t get it. I hope this person got some medication or psychotherapy or something.