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Director’s cut
Got the director’s cut of Se7en the other day. It was kind of disappointing, really.
Dwarf Complete
Dwarf Complete is this groovy flash game that I played a while back. The text is in Japanese but there isn’t much of a story to worry about; just wander around and try to collect all the goodies. There are some things you can pick up to produce tools that you need to finish the game; there’s a certain room with a magic book that tells you all those recipes . . . Good for killing an hour or so, assuming you don’t walk into that one room where the door closes on you and fail to realize that there are sometimes hidden walkways to let you out of such places.
(Spotted on Mari’s diary.)
Translating for Global Security!
Overheard in the Office: “The Global War on Terror Hits Another Snag”
Tech #1: There. Translations are done. All nine languages.
Tech #2: That was fast. I didn’t even know you spoke Arabic much less any of the others.
Tech #1: It’s easy — just highlight the text and change the font.
Tech #2: What?!
Tech #1: Yeah. We should hear back from the Army in a day or so. I went ahead and sent the new files off.
Tech #2: [Huge sigh.]
Thanks to the poster on JAT-list who shared this find.
Congress gets its rock on
Fun stuff spotted at the Foreign Policy blog:
Japanese ads
Over at Japan Probe, a solid blog I recently found and stuck in my list of feeds, there’s a post giving out awards to Japanese commercials. Lots of these make for amusing watching.
There used to be a website (”the hall of shame”? forgot its name) that featured foreign celebrities’ appearances in Japanese ads—Sylvester Stallone selling ham, Charlie Sheen tied up on a sofa as a woman walks by in high heels. I think that was for some clothing brand. Can’t find that site now, but YouTube seems to be a place to go get those goodies these days. And one nice thing about watching ads online is that while TV program creators get upset when you view their stuff for free, without sitting through the ads that fund it, the creators of the ads themselves are quite happy to let you watch them over and over, in whatever medium you please.
So. Foreigners are still wandering over here and appearing in commercials for products they will never actually use in real life. Tommy Lee Jones drinking Boss canned coffee, Kiefer Sutherland shouting to the Japanese guy that YES YOU CAN EAT MY LAST PIECE OF CALORIE MATE NOW SHUT UP I AM DEFUSING THIS BOMB. Those are both available on the Japan Probe page linked above. Go check them out.
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