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4/16/2008

Japanese ‘Heavy Metal’ earthquake early warning

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Weather bureau makes heavy metal song to plug earthquake early warning system
Mainichi News - April 16, 2008, SENDAI — The Sendai District Meteorological Observatory has produced a heavy metal song to promote a recently developed earthquake early warning system...more...

Singing the catchy, headbanging “Earthquake Early Warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuhokinkyu-jishin-sokuho earthquake early warning*, here’s my special extended remix of the so-called “Heavy Metal” version of the public service announcement.
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Watch and listen to 15-second “Earthquake Early Warning” public service announcement in the WMV format provided by the official Sendai Meteorological Observatory in either of the two following styles:
—”Heavy Metal” or
—”Piano” (with squeaky bimbo chorus)

earthquake-early-warning website TV PSA
Click to watch and listen.

And here’s an alternative way to download and listen to my special remix of the “Heavy Metal” verision of the earthquake early warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho.”.

Click here to get your own player.

* 緊急地震速報 means Earthquake Early Warning in Japanese kanji.


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4/11/2008

Japanese to start to replace its humans with humaniods by 2025

The  Wheel in Space -  Cyberman vs Japanese girl

Japan turning itself into Cyberman machine civilisation
–Three million converted to undying robotoids by 2025–
The Register / 9 April 2008…. a specialist thinktank, the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation (MIMF?), has been set up to monitor the gradual infiltration of society by mechanoid impostors… MIMF’s latest estimates predict that 3.5 million Japanese workers - nearly three per cent of the population - will actually be automatic surrogates as of 2025.
In fact, the idea is that this is positive - the greying of Japan’s population is well known, as is its failure to reproduce itself.more...

Japanese love to claim they are “Homogenous” [inbreed] and “Unique” [un-diverse], so the nation policy of promoting humaniod robots makes perfect sense.
No foreigners—yes Cyberman!
Japan wants a robot “future” ….even though humanoid robots can’t do any real work and won’t able able to for many decades. Any kind of humanoid robot, even a clunky ”Star Wars” C-3PO is damp dream since autonomy –“consciousness”–for acting on their own is a long, loooong time away. Without “consciousness” robots are just spot welders, bolt tightening arms, burger flippers, spray painters, and factory drones that can swivel dexterously back and forth in a pre-programmed for assembly line work. They’re expensive toasters—one-trick-ponies. It will be many decades before humaniod style robots are going to be sentient.

And, this is much better!

diy Gundam battle bot
DIY Battle Bot? All You Need Is $742 Million and No Sense of Reality!

Wired.com


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4/7/2008

Japanese eco-trash canoe

Ni-i-i-ice, but….

Canoe made from disposable chopstickscanoe made from disposablechopsticks
07 Apr 2008, PinkTentacle.com –-A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria....more

warbashi disposable chopsticksIt is a nice idea to be obsessed with preventing the waste of waribashi—disposable chopsticks— since millions of disposable chopsticks are thrown away after a single-use.
However, the fact is that this canoe uses much MORE toxic petroleum resin to hold together all the recycled chopsticks than a regular strip-built canoe. The final environmental load/damage of this Japanese eco-trash canoe is greater than just using strips of wood.

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3/21/2008

Set to slow ’simmer’

Set to slow “simmer” is a how-to drawing from the Japanese bestseller with recent sales exceeding 30 million copies, “Practical Introduction to Slow Sex(Kodansha, 2007).

Practical Introduction to Slow Sex
–From bottom to top “simmer” (machine translation)


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3/20/2008

Japanese nanotech misgivings

Imperial Japanese Nanowar flag

Japan’s Gov’t to Evaluate Safety of Nanomaterials
Nikkei Business Online, Mar 5, 2008 21:03
…”study group on nanomaterial safety” will discuss how to assess safety and what safety measures should be implemented amid the rapid advancement of nanotechnology applications and development, which has resulted in the possible health effects of nanomaterials uncertain…Labour Standards Bureau under the ministry issued to the director of the labour department in every prefecture on Feb 7, 2008.
In this notice, the bureau required efforts to seal manufacturing facilities, manage processes so workers are not exposed to nanomaterials and require that workers wear dust masks and other items to protect their breathingmore

The potential dangers are not obvious–on the nanoscale, nature itself creates all kinds of nano objects. However, nanoparticles can pass the blood-brain barrier, which could make benign, seemingly non-toxic materials potentially harmful when inhaled or ingested (as well as beneficial as delivery vehicle of medications).
And then there is the “Grey goo” end-of-the-world scenario that replicating nanomachines run amok and consume everything. Fun hey?


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3/4/2008

Japanese scientists discover traffic jams are caused by too many cars!

Ok, ok, I will stop giggling about the how funny it sounds that traffic jams are caused by too many vehicles and say that even Tokyo pedestrian traffic is at times unfathomable without applying higher physics. tokyo-traffic-control244x14.jpg

An accident? Construction work? A bottleneck? No, just too much traffic
Institute of Physics / 4-Mar-2008
A new study from a Japanese research group explains why we’re occasionally caught in traffic jams for no visible reason. The real origin of traffic jams often has nothing to do with obvious obstructions such as accidents or construction work but is simply the result of there being too many cars on the road….model patterns, normally used to understand the movement of many-particle systems, have been applied to real-life moving traffic...more...

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3/3/2008

“No sex please — we’re Japanese.”

UPDATE Fun new information from the 2007/2008 Durex Sex Survey once again showing the Japan as No. 1 for the third year in the running.

Durex Sex machines
The Sun / 03 Mar 2008
BRITS are among the world’s most undersexed, according to a new survey. Around 55 per cent of us have nookie on a weekly basis - making Brits the fourth-least sexed on Earth. Americans and Nigerians fared worse, coming second to last in the love stakes. nihonjin waving flagJapan came bottom in the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey, with just 34 per cent of its people having sex at least once a week…

Aussies among world’s most undersexed
NEWS.com.au
About 60 per cent of Australians have weekly sex, making Aussies the sixth-least sexed nationalities on Earth, the Durex Sexual Wellbeing study …
No dating, thanks, just sex
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Mar 1, 2008
The programme makers did the story after Kiwi women last year topped the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey as the world’s most promiscuous. …


2005’s survey…

Durex-brand 3Yen's XXL condoms
Asians too stressed for sex
Singapore—-
Stressed-out Asians have the least active sex lives globally, with nine countries and territories from the region making up the bottom 10 in terms of love-making, condom maker Durex said on Tuesday. Japan was bottom of the list of 41 countries and territories covered by this year’s Durex survey. Japanese have sex an average of 45 times annually, less than half the global average of 103 …Singaporeans ranked second-last with 73. Indians (75), Indonesians (77), Hong Kong residents (78), Malaysians (83), Vietnamese (87), Taiwanese (88) and China (96 times a year) …The Swedes were the only non-Asians in the bottom 10, with 92 love-making sessions a year.…more…

Over the age of 30, the Japanese don’t have time for doing it.
Under 30, Japanese sexual activity is bipolar.
Some are very active, with multiple partners. However, there many, many clueless otaku who are increasingly reluctant to do anything at all….except stay home and scare at a screen. Yikes, that sounds like what I’m doing now!


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3/2/2008

Triptych of Tokyo Tummy Tripe Terror

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Watch ‘em all and learn more about sushi safety.
Actually, sushi worms appear all the time in sushi restaurants but most people are too tipsy to notice.
Enjoy the mirth of Japanese food safety.



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2/23/2008

Japanese Franken-Mouse with a camera in its brain

Japanese researchers have developed this cute Franken-Mouse with a camera in its brain to give better insight to the processes of creating memory to help with general cognitive science and specially with research into treatments for Parkinson’s disease.robo-mouse camera in its brain

Japan researchers put tiny camera in mouse’s brain
Thu Jan 31, 2008 TOKYO (Reuters) –Japanese researchers have implanted a small camera inside a mouse’s brain to see how memory is formed, in an experiment … published in the “Journal of Neuroscience Methods” and “Sensors and Actuators”, used a camera 3 mm (0.1 inch) long, 2.3 mm wide and 2.4 mm in depth, said Jun Ohta, professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in western Japanmore


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2/21/2008

‘THE NATURE OF MONKEY WAS IRREPRESSIBLE!’


Update:

It’s that time of the year again!

zebra-370x280.jpgAFP News. Feb. 20. 2008—Zoo staff spread a net to catch a fake zebra, which made a break for freedum from its cage, as it strolls in the zoo park during the annual exercise for runaway animals at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on February 20, 2008. Some 150 zoo staffs and policemen participated in the annual exercise.


Previously posted on Feb. 28, 2007….

Every year the Tama Zoo has this “escaped” animal drill. However, the 3Yen found out last year about the scary truth in, Tama Zoo Reveals Secret. Now, there are more revelations about the zoo…

‘Don’t cry children, I was only aping about’
The Daily Mail, 20:55pm on 27th February 2007
As acting goes, it was a little too convincing.
The idea was to test the readiness of zoo staff for the escape of a dangerous animal.
But despite the ludicrously obvious disguise of the runaway beast, its pre-ordained destiny - to be shot with a tranquillizer gun - had children in tears...more...monkey man

‘Saru mo ki kara ochiru’ ‘THE NATURE OF MONKEY WAS IRREPRESSIBLE!’ [猿も木から落ちる]


Hello Kitty monkey bobble —Hello Kitty monkey bobble


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