As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a piece that tells us one way to live longer: be famous, successful, and praised. “Social status helps you live longer,” goes the article title, and it tells you just what sort of status to shoot for: The researchers studied 524 men – 135 winners and 389 nominees [...]
Archive for January, 2007
A long and 健康な life?
Good news for translators: Bilingualism Has Protective Effect In Delaying Onset Of Dementia By Four Years, Canadian Study Shows. This study was a limited one examining medical records from one memory clinic, so nothing’s been proven to be sure. But it isn’t hard to believe that keeping your brain filled with multiple vocabularies, grammars, and [...]
McDonald’s takes on the konbini
Awesomeness abounds in the video linked over at Japan Probe. Donald (known elsewhere around the world as Ronald) McDonald does epic battle with representatives of Japan’s convenience stores for . . . I dunno. Maybe he’s trying to keep them from selling those microwaved burgers that I never see anyone buying. It’s got kung fu, [...]
The Apple *yawn* phone
The Los Angeles Times has a pretty good article on the iPhone’s reception in Japan, which to date has been almost no response at all: “In Japan, barely a ripple.” There are a number of reasons why this product announcement just isn’t important in this market, and the article touches on a few of them: [...]
Spammers getting tired of it too?
The spam comments on this blog are sort of ridiculous. I don’t go look at the comments queue too often, but when I do there are hundreds and hundreds of bizarre URLs in there. There can’t be this many people on the planet actually interested in phentermine, whatever that is. A hopeful sign, though: some [...]
