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Getting Twittery
Yet another Web 2.0 thing, yet another account registered with the “durf” name. Here I am on Twitter:
I find this account a helpful one to follow: the Train Kanto Twitter stream lets me know which lines have run over somebody and are stopped as a result, so I can decide whether to go home or to stop by a Toranomon stand bar somewhere for a drink first. (Oh yeah, I guess this guy’s stream is worth subscribing to as well, if you’re on there.)
UPDATE: The Twitters, or tweets, or whatever are visible in one of the sidebars to the right. Unfortunately the “Twitter Tools” plug-in chokes on Japanese text for some reason.
Things Seen in Japan
Things Seen in Japan is a 1907 book by Clive Holland. It’s interesting, it’s old, it’s in the public domain, and it’s available for online reading at the link above. The photographs are staged (ridiculously at times; the plate on page 25 is a classic) but are worth looking at.
This hundred-year-old book has the added attraction of being in English, which is a good thing when you consider the fiendish difficulty of this language:
Scandinavian vacation
This was a vacation in 2002, actually. I had a few photos from it posted on a previous incarnation of this website, but I never got around to uploading any of them to Flickr after getting the account there. Now that’s changing.
There’s a set of photos that will grow as I post more. Today there are 20 shots from Stockholm, our first stop on our honeymoon lo those many years ago.
Reading PDFs for pleasure
So it turns out I had a bunch of links saved in MarsEdit. Now I’m posting them.
Here is one: pdf-mags.com. Your one-stop shop for free PDF reading material. This place is worth exploring. When I was at Berkeley we had to read free newspapers filled with “Ernie Pook’s Comeek” and other travesties in order to get a taste of innovative layout design from young designers; now, in the Web Age, this stuff can be sampled in the form of fashion mags from Thailand and illustrated journals from Germany and the like.
(Via Jean Snow.)
This page is another one offering a good list of links to free reading material online.
The mental health zodiac?
One more quick one before I run out the door and head home. It’s a posting frenzy!
One question to ask yourself, particularly when a baby has joined the family and given you a new birthday to remember, is this: Does the month of your birth affect your risk of mental illness? A quick look at the chart on that page tells me that I am on a steady keel, unless I came in a bit early for some alcoholic tendencies; my daughter, though, is looking at the same sort of schizophrenia that doubtless affects my wife. Oh noes!
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