Caption contest
http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/photograph/pickup/?1309850081 Having just upgraded to WP3.2, something is screwy with the photo insertion function, so you’ll just have to click the link and see for yourself. Leave your suggestions here, tho, for posterity.
“Publisher embraces Web future”
Image by Getty Images via @daylife This article by Eric Pfanner tells those who have been paying attention to mainstream media like the newspapers as well as to future trends such as online news, some things that they already know. This is to be expected. After all, the article appeared in the New York Times [...]
Japan throws out its conservative government after 50 years
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Here are some links I found today: From the Telegraph: Japanese election: Hatoyama’s agenda includes tax breaks and distance from the US Yukio Hatoyama wooed the Japanese electorate with an agenda for change, but the 62 year-old nicknamed the Alien is an unlikely revolutionary. Japan votes for a new [...]
Japan news: over 100 teachers opt for demotion
For one of the classes I teach, I need to find news items in English about Japan (especially items that look at Japanese society from an unusual or non-Japanese point of view), and Japan Probe is a good source of such news. Japan Probe is a Japan news blog in English that focusses on general-interest [...]
