Ghosting through

Trick cycling

2006-12-11T16:37:00.000Z

Trick cycling for beginingers

A good blog on depression.

Wills and writers

2006-10-31T12:46:00.000Z

the importance of wills

important and pass it on

A day in the life of the working poor-Japan

2006-09-20T13:29:00.000+01:00

Working poor in japan. I was one for a long time in Ireland.

Following on the heels of risutora (layoffs due to corporate restructuring) and domesuthikku baiorensu (domestic violence), another unpleasant English borrowing has found its way into the contemporary Japanese lexicon: Wakingu pua (working poor) appears on the cover of not one, but two business magazines in the same week.

A day in the life of the working poor-Japan

When the old rules change

2006-09-20T12:06:00.000+01:00

Then came the new run of cars that aren't worth buying used. They're poorly made to start with and they have fewer user-serviceable parts. Most of the "old grandpa" cars are gone. Add to that the new realities of emissions testing, smaller parking spaces, and changes in insurance, and suddenly doing things our old way is no longer an option.

When the old rules change

Imperial baby joins his mother

2006-09-08T10:19:00.000+01:00

I hope Princess Kiko remains in good health.

Imperial baby joins his mother
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060908a4.html

Princess Kiko gives birth to boy. 1st heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 41 years
http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/383384

Spoon theory

2006-09-05T11:40:00.000+01:00

As I tried to gain my composure, I glanced around the table for help or guidance, or at least stall for time to think. I was trying to find the right words. How do I answer a question I never was able to answer for myself? How do I explain every detail of every day being effected, and give the emotions a sick person goes through with clarity. I could have given up, cracked a joke like I usually do, and changed the subject, but I remember thinking if I don’t try to explain this, how could I ever expect her to understand. If I can’t explain this to my best friend, how could I explain my world to anyone else? I had to at least try.

The spoon theory

everyday terrible reality

2006-09-05T11:20:00.000+01:00

Of course, of course! This is exactly the kind of world in which I lived, this hostile society where anything can happen at any time and me, powerless to stop it.
beam-me-up-someone

Dignity, Not Modesty

2006-09-05T11:09:00.000+01:00

The problem with talk of "modesty" is the underlying implication, even if sometimes unintentional, that feminine beauty is shameful. I know it made me ashamed, and I certainly didn't get that from my parents. But this facet of "modesty" talk, if even admitted to exist, is quickly dismissed as accidental and of little significance compared to the all-important task of protecting men and boys from their helplessness before their own thoughts.
http://veronimitch.blogspot.com/2006/09/dignity-not-modesty.html

A Cradle Song

2006-09-05T10:46:00.000+01:00

The danann children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold:
I kiss my wailing child and press it to my breast,
And hear the narrow graves calling my child and me.
Desolate winds that cry over the wandering sea;
Desolate winds that hover in the flaming West;
Desolate winds that beat the doors of Heaven, and beat
The doors of Hell and blow there many a whimpering ghost;
O heart the winds have shaken; the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles before Maurya’s feet.
http://www.bartleby.com/146/7.html

In the grey skys of connaught you can see how he wrote this.

The Collar-bone of a Hare

2006-09-05T10:10:00.000+01:00

Would I could cast a sail on the water
Where many a king has gone
And many a king’s daughter,
And alight at the comely trees and the lawn,
The playing upon pipes and the dancing,
And learn that the best thing is
To change my loves while dancing
And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

I would find by the edge of that water
The collar-bone of a hare
Worn thin by the lapping of water,
And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare
At the old bitter world where they marry in churches,
And laugh over the untroubled water
At all who marry in churches,
Through the white thin bone of a hare
http://www.bartleby.com/148/5.html

A couple of thoughts on the poem,
you reach the celtic land of the dead by sea and yeats was traditional in these beliefs.
So I would see this singing of going home to the land of the dead and using the charm
of looking through the hare bone to see back to this ireland (where they marry in churchs compared to the old beliefs where you marry outside).

french terms

2006-09-05T10:02:00.000+01:00

Bel Esprit (French).
A vivacious wit; a man or woman of quick and lively parts, ready at repartee. (Plural, beaux esprits.)
http://www.bartleby.com/81/1627.html

Bel-à-faire-peur.
A handsome, daredevil of a fellow.
http://www.bartleby.com/81/1626.html

Be’jan.
A freshman or greenhorn. This term is employed in the French and Scotch universities, and is evidently a corruption of bec jaune (yellow beak), a French expression to designate a nestling or unfledged bird. In the university of Vienna the freshman is termed beanus, and in France footing-money is bejaunia.
http://www.bartleby.com/81/1625.html

Bayard (Chevalier),
Pierre du Terrail, a celebrated French knight (1476–1524). Le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.
http://www.bartleby.com/81/1500.html

Between Bels two fires

2006-09-05T10:01:00.000+01:00

Between Bel’s two fires. Scylla on one side and Charybdis on the other. In Irish, Itter dha teine Bheil, in a dilemma. The reference is to the two fires kindled on May Eve in every village, between which all men and beasts devoted to sacrifice were compelled to pass.http://www.bartleby.com/81/1633.html

Bell phrases

2006-09-05T10:00:00.000+01:00

A ceremony in the greater excommunication introduced into the Catholic Church in the eighth century. After reading the sentence a bell is rung, a book closed, and a candle extinguished. From that moment the excommunicated person is excluded from the sacraments and even divine worship. 1 “Bell, book, and candle shall not drive not back.”—Shakespeare: King John, iii. 3. In spite of bell, book, and candle, i.e. in spite of all the opposition which the Christian hierarchy can offer. (See CURSING.) http://www.bartleby.com/81/1643.html

Give her the bells and let her fly. Don’t throw good money after bad; make the best of the matter, but do not attempt to bolster it up. When a hawk was worthless, the bells were taken off, and the bird was suffered to escape, but the advice given above is to “leave the bells” and let the hawk go.http://www.bartleby.com/81/1642.html

Ringing the bells backwards, is ringing a muffled peal. Backwards is often used to denote “in a contrary direction” (tout le contraire), as, “I hear you are grown rich—” “Yes, backwards.” To ring a muffled peal, is to ring a peal of sorrow, not of joy. 5 In olden times bells were rung backwards as a tocsin, or notice of danger. http://www.bartleby.com/81/1642.html

Massive pill price hike in the usa

2006-08-25T14:10:00.000+01:00

from 1 doller to 18 dollers. thats steep.
souless. And when your on a low wage the pill is hard to afford.

No one much noticed, but thousands of family-planning clinics across the country went into a tailspin last month. They were reacting to a drastic price increase by Ortho-McNeil, a major supplier of birth-control pills and maker of the popular contraceptive patch. The company used to charge publicly funded clinics as little as a penny a pack for the pills. Then, as of July 1, the price of some pills jumped to more than $18 a pack. Ortho’s move was apparently legal under federal pricing rules. But it’s anybody’s guess as to why the company chose to do this now, without giving the clinics any real notice.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/23/the-pill-price-hike/

Names

2006-08-25T13:55:00.000+01:00

Titular mess
I was annoyed now im pissed

pastel - something to read.

2006-08-03T14:57:00.000+01:00

Basic plot from Anime news network:

Tadano Mugi, a high-school student, falls in love with a girl, Tsukiyaki Yuu. When Yuu's father passes away, she and her sister are invited to move into Mugi's house by Mugi's father. Mugi and Yuu must then cope with the new challenges caused by living together and the growing relationship between them, as Yuu adapts to a new environment and Mugi struggles not to confess his feelings out of consideration for her situation.

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/aFFi/pastel.html

leda and the swan

2006-08-02T15:56:00.000+01:00

Leda and the swan
(writen by William Butler Yeats)
A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Thread/454823
http://www.walnet.org/stanley_woods/muteswanz/leda.html

older bloggers

2006-07-20T15:15:00.000+01:00

http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/
http://agelessmarketing.typepad.com/

Life in paris

2006-07-20T15:08:00.000+01:00

Life in paris.
I love the french language and their culture.
I know the bad points, but I don't care.

I love their food, their art, their writing, their cartoons.

Paris, je t'aime. Paris, je adore.
http://www.petiteanglaise.com.nyud.net:8080/
http://lacoquette.blogs.com/

Sweet Swan of Avon

2006-07-18T10:25:00.000+01:00

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered—the trick is to discover them.—Galileo

This is a very very good review of a the book sweet swan of avon .
It will really make you want to get the book.
I love reviews where the person loved the book.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/07/the_sweet_swan_.html

tadalist

2006-07-17T16:42:00.000+01:00

http://www.tadalist.com/

Jana’s Journal and Sketchbook

2006-07-17T14:58:00.000+01:00

http://janabouc.wordpress.com/

found the shop, Castle in the Air, that carries Noodler’s Ink (highly touted by artists in the Every Day Matters group as the only waterproof ink that won’t clog fountain pens and great for use in the Lamy Safari pen). The gentleman working there insisted that Noodlers is not waterproof and showed me his smeared sample of the ink that he’d brushed with water (in a cool little handmade book with samples of all their many, many inks). While he was persuasive and fun to talk to (being another art supply lover and an artist) I decided to buy the ink and try it for myself.

Someone whose children are in lebanon

2006-07-14T10:24:00.000+01:00

My kids were supposed to stay in Beirut with their dad´s family for 2 weeks, then they would travel on to spend some holiday with their paternal aunt (who married a Jordanian citizen) in Amman, diving a few days in Aqaba and at the Saudi border, and then perhaps travel on to another paternal aunt in the United Arab Emirates (their cousin married a UAE citizen last year).Now my kids are in deep s..., because the zionist occupation forces have bombed Lebanon, killing several civilians, destroying important bridges and smashing two runways of Beirut International Airport. Fatima sent me an SMS around half past 6 in the morning, telling me they love me and they are alright. I´ve told her back thru SMS to get the hell out of Lebanon on the next cab, but received no answer. Internet shops are out of question, as are phones, because the zionists bombed electricity power stations, too.

http://safiaaoude.blogspot.com/2006/07/holiday-hell-cutting-off-lebanon-from.html

2006-07-14T10:04:00.000+01:00

Israel invades Lebanon

Geist: I wish Israel would just stop bombing, rocketing and killing people and children.

Voices from lebanon
http://ramziblahblah.blogspot.com/2006/07/are-you-happy-now.html
http://blog.thermo-police.net/2006/07/showdown.html
http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/07/syria_is_bigges.php

Most of the casualties are between 18 months to 12 years of age, a blatant sign that the "democracy" of Israel has no value for civilian life, infant or otherwise. The lack of humanity on the part of the Israelis is beyond a question of disproportionate. Murdering innocent civilians aimlessly is criminal behavior at its worst, and has done nothing but strengthen the recently withering power of Hizbullah. -Yalibnan

http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/07/death_toll_in_l.php

I was taken ten years back yesterday.It was back in high school, last year of it. I don't remember laughing as much as I did that year. Choked laughter in class, laughing out loud while getting kicked out of the class by my Biology teacher and the tricks we played in the day light and dark.

I think it hit really hard that April.I was addicted to school. My life rotated around my friends and that school. It was my escape, away from the pain that the house brought, the severe fits of missing my dad and the panic of "what's next".They left the village and came to our house in Beirut, announcing reality.I felt the world closing down on me:What do you mean I can't go to school?What do you mean we have 4 families at the house?What do you mean I have to give up my bed?What do you mean it's going to be weeks before normal life kicks back in?I cried like a kid who kicks and screams in refusal to go to school. But on the contrary, I want to run to school. I sobbed because my world was closing down on me, because I felt claustrophobic in that full house, because I couldn't see Mel's face that makes me laugh my heart out, because I can't walk to school.

It hit hard with Qana. Seeing the bodies, the skull-less infant, the weeping mothers, the .....I listened to my mom's hysteria, to my jiddo's " La 7awla wala Qwa Ila Bil lah" to his palm meeting his beloved palm, to the screams ..... and everything went numb...

http://compulsiveyearnings.blogspot.com/2006/07/numbness-calling-late.html

http://www.beirutbeltway.com/

latin quote of the day (takes summer holidays)

2006-07-13T16:17:00.000+01:00

http://arb0rv1tae.typepad.com/bookworm/
http://www.righthandpointing.com/latin/

Childhood game

2006-07-13T12:34:00.000+01:00

Balladofyoko talks about a childhood game she learned when young.

Dear Elena

2006-07-13T12:29:00.000+01:00

I can't remember if I talked about this before. Dear Elena is one of those blogs you will keep going back too.

I have my own recent deaths to deal with and I'm sure you do too, or old deaths to remember. And this blog gives me a lot to think about as I read it.

Its gives me hope and sadness I think. I have the sadness anyway and I find reading this helps me think about it in a more positive way.

Tags: dearelana, hopeandsadness, death.

Life on the edges of society

2006-07-13T12:17:00.000+01:00

I came across on wordpress Compartments: An Escorts Weblog. And so I read it.
It has a lot of links in the blog roll of women living lives different to the norm.

I also read some of
http://ex-courtesan.blogspot.com/
http://www.jetsetblog.com/
http://postmoderncourtesan.com/

Some of the lives seem happier than others. But I'm not really in a place to know that.
Still this is another story you wouldn't hear about except for blogs.

The Long tail

2006-07-13T12:05:00.000+01:00

I applied for a review copy of the long tail ages ago and it arrived the day before yesterday. Im really enjoying reading it. Its compared to the tipping point on the front page. I'm inclinded to agree so far. I read the tipping point about 6-8 years ago.

The long tail is very comfortable to read. The words flow. Everything is explained very well as its easy to keep up. I had heard of the theory of the long tail but I hadn't read his blog. I still havent checked it up so ill leave that to you if you want too.

Ill post more when I'm further into it. Im just at chapter three now.

Im loving the examples. There is lots of them and they are all well done. It mentions Firefly in one example which is very cool. I love firefly.

Tags: thelongtail, firefly, thetippingpoint

timelords

2006-06-28T16:33:00.000+01:00

http://www.torsononline.com/hobbies/timelord/main.htm

2006-06-28T12:58:00.000+01:00

W H Auden; 'down Bristol Street'

As I walked out one evening,
Down by Bristol Street,
The crowds along the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under the arch of the railway:
'Love has no ending.
I'll love you dear,
I'll love you'till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain,
And salmon sing in the street.
I'll love you 'till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky!
The years shall run like rabbits
For in my hands I hold
The flower of the ages
And the first love of the world.
'But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime;
'O let not time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
In the burrows of the nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadows,
And coughs where you would kiss.
'In headache and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away
And time will have his fancy
Tomorrow or today.
'Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the divers brilliant bow.
'O plunge your hands in the water,
Plunge them up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin,
And wonder what you've missed.
'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
'Where the beggars ruffle their bank notes
And the giant is enchanting to Jack
And the lilly white boy is a roarer
And Jill goes down on her back.
'O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress,
Life remains a blessing,
Although you cannot bless.
'O stand, stand in the window,
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour,
With your crooked heart.
'It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.

http://fjlathome.blogspot.com/2006/06/drac-and-his-nanny.html

Daft bush policys

2006-06-06T17:02:00.000+01:00

Unwanted abortion

The rubbish I have read from many many bloggers about this article amazes me.
I cant belive anyone would write nasty crap about this.

Basic googleable facts.
The plan b pill is not an abortive, it stops the egg being released and joining with sperm. If you had a sex-education class, read a sex-education book or just googled it now you would know that.

Basic moral fact.
A doctor should not be allowed to put his moral beliefs before yours. That is why we have the oath. No democratic country should allow doctors to not sell medication to you because of their 'beliefs'.

Ugh. The world has definately gone downhill thoughout the 00's.

Week of bad news

2006-05-31T11:54:00.000+01:00

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0530/sex.html

Chaos

2006-05-26T14:09:00.000+01:00

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web-20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork/

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreillys-mean-spirited-response/

http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/2006/05/26/tim-o-reilly-cmp-sarah-whinge-whoeverread-this/

2006-05-22T14:54:00.000+01:00

Platinum Garden
http://savefile.com/projects.php?pid=359057

Haou Airen
http://savefile.com/projects.php?pid=599949

manga - more manga !!

2006-05-19T11:16:00.000+01:00

http://www.shinrin.ic.cz/fscans.html

http://savefile.com/projects.php?pid=495426

http://community.livejournal.com/free_manga/833010.html

manga -more links

2006-05-19T11:14:00.000+01:00

Goong is popular girls manga.
http://keemun.manganut.com/goong.php

Forum with many manga links.
http://strawberryvanilla.net/phpBB1/viewtopic.php?t=65

Naruto - popular boys and girls manga.
Manga and anime here. All episopes.
http://www.narutochuushin.com/

Saiunkoku_Monogatari
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7f5sr8

host club

This manga is really for girls.
Boys unless they are gay will find this boring.

http://a.scarywater.net/lunar/ (host club 1-6)
http://hyouden.net/ (blog but has links)
http://savefile.com/projects.php?pid=452067 (project)

Manga music, manga links, links to reviews.
http://ninjaconsultant.livejournal.com/11671.html

Links.

http://www.aicoalition.com/manga.php
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BIH1KE3L

racism and the duke university rape case

2006-05-18T13:16:00.000+01:00

http://cdaniels225.blogsome.com/2006/05/16/racism-and-the-duke-university-rape-case/

I dont really want to comment on this issue. Others have said anything I wanted to
say better. So read this post, and read http://www.feministe.us/blog/ posts on the topic
and you have the story in all its uglyness.

Actually I changed my mind, from looking over the posts again.

What this case really brought up was the amount of men willing
to attack that young women with nasty comments. And that sickens me.

dating a gangster

2006-05-18T12:04:00.000+01:00

http://resolutelyslutty.blogspot.com/

This women is dating a gangster.
Very very odd.

Under the fire star

2006-05-18T11:19:00.000+01:00

'Agni Nakshetram, 'fire star,' is an astrological period ruled by Agni, the god of fire. It traditionally marks the hottest period of the year in Chennai. Since it is always hot here, I feel that I am always under the fire star'

http://underthefirestar.blogspot.com/

Beautiful images and pictures from india. Wonderful conversation.

vision from 1905

2006-05-18T11:17:00.000+01:00

The blog,
http://www.withinandwithout.com/

The link,
http://home.earthlink.net/~twoeyesmagazine/issue2/sultana.htm

F-R-E-E-M-O-N-E-Y

2006-05-18T10:40:00.000+01:00

MMM free money

Letters of abused in ireland.

2006-05-09T13:32:00.000+01:00

http://adrian.i.ph/blogs/adrian/?item=letters-of-abused-in-ireland

Harrowing.

Dear ben

2006-05-09T13:28:00.000+01:00

http://thebookofben.blogspot.com/

About the death of a child called ben.

Dead letter office

2006-05-09T13:26:00.000+01:00

http://deadlettersoffice.blogspot.com/

For people to send letters that cant be sent.

two e-books, two links

2006-05-09T13:10:00.000+01:00

http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/1/7/3/5/17354/17354-8.txt
http://litteratureaemporter.free.fr/romans/_arcs/collodi_adv_of_pinocchio.htm
http://www.feministe.us/blog/
http://ajtp.iusb.edu/Back%20Issues.htm

Forbidden book of the day.

2006-04-18T12:28:00.000+01:00

My opposition is based on two grounds; first, the right of every rational being to become a "Priest unto himself," and by the test of enlightenedreason, to form his own unbiased judgment of all things natural andspiritual: second, that the reputation of the Bishops who extractedthese books from the original New Testament, under the pretence of beingApocryphal, and forbade them to be read by the people, is proved byauthentic impartial history too odious to entitle them to any deference.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6516/6516.txt

Hmm. Never heard of this. Interesting reason for opposition.

Insignificant Elephant

2006-04-18T12:12:00.000+01:00

I was rereading T. H. White's Bestiary in the bath, and marvelling at the entry on the elephant, particularly the strange and wonderful medieval belief about the Insignificant Elephant who turns up to help fallen elephants to their feet after huger and stronger elephants have failed,
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/archive/2001_10_01_archive.html

Not related but interesting.
The Killing of the Elephant Kuvalayapida
http://www.krsnabook.com/ch43.html

Links
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/children/reading_lists/elephants.asp

"When an Elephant falls down he cannot get up. Hence he leans against a tree. Hunters saw part way through the trees so that elephants will fall down. And as he falls he cries out, and immediately another elephant appears. But he is unable to lift him up, so they cry out together and twelve more elephants arrive. No use. Then at once there comes a very Insignificant Elephant who lifts him up. "
http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/note.cgi?id=7971

The troll.
http://www.agora.kva.se/meetings/abisko02/story.htm

Book illustrations

2006-04-11T12:47:00.000+01:00

Awe inspiring images

old book illustrations.
odd but cool.

Salon posts archive of Abu Ghraib photos, videos, reports

2006-04-11T12:46:00.000+01:00

Americans being evil

This is just bad.

Interesting person.

2006-03-31T15:52:00.000+01:00

Havent finished reading this yet,
so make you own decision on
what they are like.

http://lifeupdates.blogspot.com/

horoscope and blood type

2006-03-27T14:48:00.000+01:00

"Blood type A : A man with blood type A is diligent, methodical, steady, and nervous.
Blood type B : A man with blood type B has originality, but is fickle.
Blood type AB : A man with blood type AB is sociable and sensitive.
Blood type O : A man with blood type O is durable and resolute.
"

japsuper.html
blood type a
secrets in blood

other interesting links
tokyofeaturestoriesinc.htm

Wrong side of the tracks

2006-03-10T15:43:00.000Z

http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/the_wrong_side_.html

Euan talks about watching the world go by in the wrong side of the tracks in syndey.
And it reminds me that although my own family wasn't well off when I was younger there is many from a lot harsher backgrounds. I wonder how many from them backgrounds go into computers, gaming, art and writing?

I would make a guess not too many in computer's and the net. Quite a few in gaming and art. Not so many blogging, but maybe writing.

Whats your guess?

International womens day

2006-03-08T12:00:00.000Z

http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/08/women-learn-to-laugh-or-speak-in-public/

http://mamanpoulet.blogspot.com/2006/03/problem-with-women.html

http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/12/01/women-still-underrepresented-in-the-irish-bloggersphere/

Sinces its international womens day I was looking out for blogs talking about irish womens issues. I found these couple of posts and enjoyed reading them.

Have fun everyone and do something good for womens rights today.

A million ways- the dance video

2006-03-08T09:29:00.000Z

http://www.okgo.net/news.aspx

The video everyone is talking about.
Made for 20E and now a world famous dance

Banks Offer Birth Incentives in korea.

2006-03-06T12:57:00.000Z

Bank offers reward for births

The Industrial Bank of Korea recently introduced a new savings account for couples, which provides an additional 0.1 percentage points in interest rates for the subscriber's first child, 0.2 percentage points more for the second child and from 0.3 to 1 percentage point more for more than three children.

Chizuko Ueno

2006-03-06T12:47:00.000Z

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20060305x1.html

"Chizuko Ueno, a University of Tokyo professor and one of Japan's most celebrated women's studies scholars who, thanks to her very un-Japanese passion for bluntness and public debate, is also easily the most controversial. Or, as 57-year-old Ueno says of herself: "I'm critical. I'm assertive. I'm disobedient.''"

Strive roots ski song.

2006-03-02T14:24:00.000Z

http://www.striveroots.com/wordpress/

You can download the gold medal winning song from here.

"During Teter’s gold-medal winning run, she was inspired by Lieberman’s music – and was listening to one of his songs, “Communicate,” on her iPod when she raced. ) "

World book day

2006-03-02T14:00:00.000Z

Favorite book: Tigana by Guy Gabrial Kay.
Favourite manga: Fruits basket.
Favourite magazine: Neo.
Favourite serious book: NoLogo.

Whats yours?

My friend fell for this.

2006-03-02T13:56:00.000Z

jessica alba wants to sue playboy

Jessica Alba is threatening to sue Playboy for putting her image on their cover, claiming that Hugh Hefner & Co. are trying to make it seem that she appears in a "nude or semi-nude pictorial."

Hahaha.

I know someone who fell for this.
"Jessica alba naked, I must buy this."

"Playboy is selling really well this month, must be because jessica alba is in it."

Damn funny

Mmm Blackberry tea.

2006-03-02T13:54:00.000Z

http://www.dooce.com/archives/nubbin/02_18_2005.html

In japan if you want to know about someone
they ask your blood type and favourite drink

so..

A-
Blackberry tea.

Doesnt that make me sound smart and tasty.

Insulated Ignorance

2006-03-02T11:51:00.000Z

Quote from the former health minister of Uzbekistan,
"Wanton women, drug abusers, and givers of ass, are not compatible with Islam, and therefore we have little if any problem with disease in these groups, as they simply do not reside in this country"
http://bluetide.typepad.com/bent/2006/02/insulated_ignor.html

Shows how much ignorance there still is in the world. How much still has to be done to educate women and fight for civil rights. It is easier for gay men and women to catch HIV than straight men, but that does not men straight men can not catch it.

I was talking to two south african women in the last year, one white, one black. Both had left the country as they had young daughters. They were frighting that their children would be raped due to the belief that raping a virgin cures aids. Reading this you might not belive me. You may say this women is racist thats why she says this. I wish I was if it would stop this.

The black women said in the village she was born in, a tiny nowhere place like my own home town, had a terrible case a month before she left. A father raped his 10 month old baby to cure his aids. The wife caught him in the act. She called the police to stop him, they did. She asked them to wait a while before taking him away so she could speak to him in private. The police obliged. When they came back, she had murdered him.

Maybe I should not tell you this story, maybe I should leave your eyes closed and ears stopped. But I cant. I was horrified, I was terrified, I felt helpless when I heard that story.

See a secret post a secret.

2006-03-02T11:01:00.000Z

Interesting idea.

Shows how terribly sad inside many happy people are.
I know a lot of people who are very very depressed and unhappy.
I get depressed myself several times a year. But Im managing it.
Doesnt make it less hard though.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/guys.jpg

The main page of the site.
Post your secret and feel a bit better.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Power laws ruling our lives

2006-02-24T09:25:00.000Z

http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

David Sifry writing on power laws and how they create a-list blogs, a-list websites and even a-list pages.

2006 bloggies

2006-02-23T12:01:00.000Z

2006 bloggies
http://2006.bloggies.com/

Have read a good few of them and heard of others. I think they made some very good selections and all the blogs in it are good.

The Irish blog awards are out too.
http://www.awards.ie/blogawards/
Not a bad batch either but you can still see the difference between being on the home stage and the international.

manga scans

2006-02-06T13:00:00.000Z

http://www15.brinkster.com/sakuramagic/mangascanlations.html

http://photobucket.com/albums/v286/koisuru/

manga stories

2006-02-02T09:45:00.000Z

http://community.livejournal.com/butterflychase/

Fun for girls or gay/bi guys.

hikikomori

2006-01-31T12:09:00.000Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

Ah. This is familar. We have this in ireland too.
The word for parasite singles is useful too.

more on hikikomori
http://towakudai.blogs.com/my_weblog/hikikomori/index.html

baby names

2006-01-16T15:47:00.000Z

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

Somewhat funny, but mostly a bit mean.
Some of the names are just foreign to wherewhere the person lives.
So greek, irish, italian, japanese, spanish, russian, old english etc
names get mocked.

along with new names
old names with new spellings
nicknames given as birth names.

I am a Lucy Stoner

2006-01-16T13:46:00.000Z

http://www.segnbora.com/lucystone.html

I respect this.
I may even be one if I marry.

Wonder if men would like to be able to change their surname if they wanted to?
Wonder if any of them do?

Bird flu and japan

2006-01-13T09:06:00.000Z

http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2004/12/bird-flu-danger-signal-from-japan.html

Flu masks and anti-viral seem to help prevent it.

so it was faked, no human clones yet

2006-01-10T12:24:00.000Z

"An academic panel investigating Korea’s cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk Tuesday announced the 52-year-old falsified data in his purported feats of creating
cloned human stem cells. "

http://times.hankooki.com/times.htm

I'm disapointed.

"The technique of creating human blastocysts is a great medical feat, although Hwang’s team failed to extract stem cells from them. The know-how should be developed further,’’ said Prof. Park Hee-sung at Jinju (Chinju) National University who created a goat clone last year. "

But apparently they did clone a dog
and some of their work is still valid.

So a human clone might not be far off.
I don't really belive people will actually ever go and get cloned however.

House of one person

2006-01-10T12:07:00.000Z

House of one person by japanese zen master

Quite interesting.
He has made a positive effect on his surroundings.

And how many zen masters open a bakery?

hyperdrive

2006-01-10T12:05:00.000Z

hyperdrive studies

Interesting.
Sounds like a reasonable theory.

what is your sexual orientation.

2005-12-23T11:41:00.000Z

You are pansexual.

What is your sexual orientation?
brought to you by Quizilla

Not what I was expecting,
in fact I hadnt even heard of it,
but the art is very nice.

Bedroom verses kitchen

2005-12-23T10:38:00.000Z

"The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together
in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen."

Nice quote.
Topical with the irish ferries dispute (those not eating in the kitchen)
and gay civil marriages becoming legal in ireland (the bedroom).

Learn for free

2005-12-23T09:52:00.000Z

stingy scholar
Learn for free, the best way !

stop violence with a click

2005-12-21T12:54:00.000Z

stop violence

stop violence against women

Angry because of 'nothing'

2005-12-21T12:12:00.000Z

http://mosaicundone.blogspot.com/
"And worthwhile anger, anger at the society that promotes this abusive environment...well that just leads me to hopelessness. Why be angry when nothing is going to change?But will it not change? "

"2)Men are taught to seek their own pleasure, to fullfill their needs. This creates an environment of rape
Men are taught not to grow up. They are taught not to take in others feelings, especially a womans, because it might be an insult. They are told to get as much sex as they can, that being a man is defined by the amount of ass you get.Are we surprised that America has one of the highest rates of rape?"

dominatrix verses abuse

2005-12-21T11:56:00.000Z

http://mistressmatisse.blogspot.com/

read the "Wednesday, May 12, 2004" entry.
Then if you want to read the blog.

But she makes an excellent point.

and
Is doing a very different job.

united-irelander,views on ireland

2005-12-20T09:15:00.000Z

http://unitedirelander.blogspot.com/
Kind of nice.
Admire his passion even if you disagree.

Quotes and Whispers_Of_Me

2005-12-19T11:34:00.000Z

www.xanga.com/Whispers_Of_Me

I enjoyed reading a few of the posts on the main page.
I cant copy the quotes, even though they aren't in anyway copyright,
(her own words are of course).
And dont feel like googling for them.
So read and enjoy,
or hate it.
Your choice.

Not otaku, Akiba-kei.

2005-12-16T10:32:00.000Z

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ek20051213ks.htm

"Mou, moteotoko no jidai wa owatta. Akiba-kei no houga yasashikute, dasakute, kawaii (The age of the hunk is over. I prefer the kinder, nerdier, cuddlier Akiba-kei.)" Indeed, Maiko and her friends profess that the less dating experience a guy has, the more they are susceptible to -- and appreciative of -- feminine charms.

*smile* The akiba (otaku) becomes as fashionable as the geek (nerd).

About this blog

2005-12-16T10:29:00.000Z

I intend to use this blog to post what I consider
to be interesting stories about the world we live in.

This can be peoples words about themselves in blogs
or news stories or pictures.

But there will be a story to it.

Africa and Human rights, foolscap media

2005-12-16T10:21:00.000Z

Africas court of humour rights

http://www.foolscap-media.com/

"Ask an average Nigerian his perception of Northerners, the Igbo and the Yoruba and he would tell you that the Northerner is a lazy dullard who covets power. For the Igbo, you would be told that he is a greedy person who worships money and is ready to do both the thinkable and unthinkable to acquire it. And the Yoruba? You would hear that he is a frivolous person whose motto is partying from sunrise to sundown. These are stereotypes. It is however, instructive how Nigerians view one another."

News on america

2005-12-16T09:32:00.000Z

Welcome to the future.
http://anunfounddoor.blogspot.com/2005/12/american-gestapo.html

She also talks about americas use of wille pete (white phosphorus)
and civil rights in america.

Depression+ treatment

2005-12-08T11:46:00.000Z

http://www.testingdepression.com/
True story about depression

"A few years ago, I broke down from severe depression and ended up in a psychiatric hospital. I rarely spoke about it afterward, ashamed and determined to forget the experience. But I couldn't forget the past, and I felt weighed down by my secrets."

Biathlete on the move to ireland

2005-12-08T11:35:00.000Z

Latvians watched with horror last month when the Olympic biathlete Jekabs Nakums announced on television that he was leaving to go wash cars in Ireland.
http://nogreatmatter.blogspot.com/2005/12/nation-of-emigrants-2.html

Techies on the net

2005-12-08T10:50:00.000Z

Techies on the net

Managing director of Blacknight Internet solutions.
http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/glovesbymaterial.html

damien mulley
http://www.mulley.net/

http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/

the doc.
http://doc.weblogs.com/

Dealing with life

2005-12-08T10:24:00.001Z

Dealing with life, one step at a time.
http://www.childabusesurvivor.net/

Coining new words

2005-12-07T13:14:00.000Z

Coining new words.
The lady of dooce.

http://www.dooce.com/

Ghosting through part 1

2005-12-07T12:36:00.000Z

Starting this blog with the story of an angel.

http://travelingangel.blogspot.com/
http://www.searchingforangelashelton.com/