In 2003 Tokyo celebrated the four-hundredth anniversary of its designation as Japan’s political capital. In that year and the next, Japan Echo magazine commissioned a series of articles by Edo-period specialists outlining interesting and little-known details of life in and one of the world’s greatest cities of that age. They’re still available online, in all [...]
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It’s ice cream time
I have to admit, I liked Stoyn.com a whole lot better when I thought there were actually booze-flavored popsicles shaped like Marxist revolutionaries and Disney characters and the like. Still a fun site put together by an “ambient advertising agency.”
Full Frontal Translation
That’s right, totally nude, letting you see it all. In December I posted about EtherPad, an online tool that lets you type up a document while keeping track of every single change made to it—every character typed, moved, replaced, or deleted. I went ahead and did a short translation with EtherPad last month, which you [...]
The death of etymology
An update to this post from a few days ago. The site now looks considerably less amazing: That’s a shame. I hope he has the data from the site and will be able to get up back up onto a new server soon. EDIT: Next day, and the site is online once again, with this [...]
Chinese characters through time
This Chinese Etymology website looks pretty amazing. Input a single hanzi (kanji input with a Japanese IME work just fine) and the site gives you lists of older variants—the versions of the characters used in seals, old oracle carvings, on and on. Click the image to see what it gives you when you search for [...]
