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— Jonathan Coulton, via Twitter

Warning: NSFW audio, likely to cause explosive laughter. (thanks, Tim )

(thanks, Kevin!)

emot -o- cats （´∀｀）　and （　´Д｀　） These guys are called モナー (monar), and I am assuming the origin of this word comes from 「お前もな」. There's a lot of 2 chan lingo, and 「お前もな」 is just one of them. Another 2 chan lingo that I know is 厨房 (chu bo), which means kitchen, but it actually means 中坊 (chu bo), a middle school boy (beginner). A lot of Japanese engineers and otaku's are VERY familiar with these 2 chan lingo. Try 逝ってよし (itteyoshi) to your fellow Japanese engineer colleague, when you want to criticize someone. (via tokyopia forum )

Japan has similar "mac vs pc" advertisements, but instead of John Hodgman and the geek from Dodgeball, we get The Rahmens and Miki Nakatani.

— Josh Billings

— Ernest Hemingway

( kd's comic blog )

Pixel: Photoshop for the Linux Crowd | Compiler from Wired.com : "Linux users unhappy with the GIMP image editor may want to take a look at Pixel, a cross platform image editing application, which more closely mirrors the behavior of Adobe Photoshop. Although Pixel isn't free in either sense of the word — a licensed copy will set you back $38 USD and the source is not available — in terms of ease-of-use Pixel trumps the Gimp on a number of levels." TEXT ( source )

( wtf-japan )

This is a band-aid fix, using a gadget to put my Google Reader's Shared Items directly into my page layout. Blogger's in-browser tool does not make it immediate apparent how to relegate it to the sidebar, so expect this layout to change again soon. Or I might get used to this layout.

siren , originally uploaded by isto-ica .

, originally uploaded by -kirra- .

Mars , originally uploaded by Federico Erra .

John Scalzi has made his novelette, The Sagan Diaries (a short story in the same universe as Old Man's War ) available for free  as an audiobook read by various female SF authors. ( futurismic )