• ReiKiTantei.net
  here are commonly used Japanese phrases, their pronounciations, and their basic english translations.
  (tags: Japanese language manga anime)

• Top 10 Cravings of CES (NOTCOT)
  This is not your usual list of Top 10 CES picks ~ here are 10 products that are actually relatively attainable (either out now, or soon, and aren’t concepts), that made my wishlist far too quickly - and don’t fall under the cliche mobile, tv, pc launc
  (tags: gadgets home network technology wishlist)
• Cintiq 12WX Product Information Overview
  Now you can experience all the advantages of direct pen-on-screen input in a low profile, lightweight design! At just 4.4 pounds, the new Cintiq 12WX ($999) combines the advantages of a wide-format LCD monitor with Wacom’s patented, professional pen techn
  (tags: cintiq wacom tablet wishlist technology)
• Lithoglyph » Mondrianum
  Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this
  (tags: color software plugin osx macintosh freeware tools)

I’ve been getting a lot more into — I don’t know how to put it — doing things? So I’ve started spending more time learning stuff, making things — mostly web pages and crap. But it’s toward building more interesting web applications, and I’m looking at and working through a lot of different stuff — CSS, javascript & DOM, ruby/rails, java & jsp (that’s for work, really) and even some computational graphics type stuff.

So to sort of glaze over my experiences, I spend a lot of time reading words written by people who are totally in the mix, right? I mean I basically at this point am the creepy paparazzi skulking in the alley out side of Web 2.0, Inc. picking up every little scrap those fat-cat bastards throw away.

So it’s kind of funny to eavesdrop on another group’s conversation and hear something that is so outside of the above referenced mix that the people having the conversation seem to be well, mentally impaired.
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• KOMAR & MELAMID
  They devote their projects in the 90’s to iconoclasm (Monumental Propaganda, American Dreams), democracy and elitism by statistics (People’s Choice), and ecology (Ecollaboration with Animals, Asian Elephant Project). Komar & Melamid’s most recent pr
  (tags: art artists painting)

• Law & Order: Artistic Intent

• - Old Book Illustrations: pictures scanned from old books
  This site is designed to provide you with a wide range of illustrations scanned from old books. Most of these pictures are wood engravings or woodcuts, fewer are etchings or copper engravings; Visitors looking for nineteenth century or victorian clipart m
  (tags: art books free illustration images clipart publicDomain)

• How to copyright Michelangelo | The Register
  Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, founded Corbis, the world’s largest source for archival images in 1989. There is a (probably apocryphal) legend about Gates conceiving the idea for Corbis because he wanted fine art to display on the large screen TVs i
  (tags: ISC MDID copyright culture art IntellectualProperty)
• How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer | The Register
  I’m a freelance professional photographer, and in recent years, the internet ‘economy’ has devastated my sector…
  (tags: IntellectualProperty copyright photography business media)
• Pearl River
  Store in NYC that had some nice housewaresy stuff, Japanese and other asian cultures represented.
  (tags: home Japanese nyc supplies shopping chinese Asian)