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This made my day.
January 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I guess I’m far from the only one to have mistaken Shang Shang Typhoon for an Okinawan band. None of the members is from Okinawa—a fact I actually learnt from this very book.
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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January 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM
手のひらを太陽に!(いずみ たく)
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Vapor trail.
December 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This toilet in some of Japanese trains brings together the genius and absurdity in terms of affordance in one design: The door doesn’t have a lock because it doesn’t need one. On the other hand, who can hold the handle while taking a leak?
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
December 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Is it really rocket science to make the label in Apple Music for Mac/iOS clickable, now that it is in Apple Music Classical?
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reposted by Lawrence
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November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Finally, there’s link to the record label in Apple Music Classical. Why it isn’t available in Apple Music is beyond me, and while being able to browse all of Biddulph’s releases is a godsend, you can’t copy the link. Also, ‘Universal Music’ isn’t helpful at […]

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November 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
「申し訳ございません。現代小説はあまり読まないので。」
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Kudos for adding Cantonese, Disk Union.

https://diskunion.net/pdf/kaitori/2025/202510_asia_2025winter_02.pdf

Funny that Indie = 近年盤 (p. 14–15)
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What was Hu Jintao promoting? Just read the chapters about Google and China in @stevenlevy’s In the Plex. Those things all happened under Hu’s reign.
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It has finally come. Six-year-old while watching NHK news: Why can't we rewind it like we do on YouTube? (We almost always watch YouTube on the big TV and rarely watch live YouTube videos.)
October 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
#til

That song in Curb Your Enthusiasm is ‘Three Little Maids from School Are We’ from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
https://youtu.be/eHXKWOoFu_w

I have no speech. I'm without speech.
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
馬齢を重ねる

馬齒徒增
September 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
‘No Labubus please, we're Japanese.’

https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/no-labubus-please-were-japanese

Well, today on the lottery (kujibiki) stand at our local matsuri, Labubu had the biggest box, right below Nintendo Switch 2.
September 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Elaine's father: ‘I don't need anybody to tell me it's gonna rain. All I have to do is stick my head out the window.’
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM