A helpful graphic to explain why all those masks people wear on the train won’t keep them safe from all the airborne diseases in that Chūō Line car: Screen capture taken from this cool Flash exploration of the sizes of things in the universe.
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Twitter plugin
Yesterday this post alerted me to a plugin that looks like it might be useful if you run a WordPress blog and post tweets to it from time to time. Testing a new Twitter plugin for WordPress: http://is.gd/h62Uw 2010/11/15 12:37 via Tweetie for MacReplyRetweetFavorite @Durf Peter Durfee The Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin lets you produce [...]
Japan Echo Web
My company’s latest project, Japan Echo Web, went online this afternoon. (It will do the same in Chinese in a couple days.) Here’s a post to mark the occasion and to give an overview of what has happened over the last year or so.
Sorry for the link spam
My WordPress installation has been allowing some spammer to inject links into the header.php code. I think I’ve zapped them and made the proper permissions changes to the files in question to prevent it from happening again, but if you see any link insanity please contact me to let me know! Mmmm, links. Oddly enough [...]
More on translation choices
To follow up on the “whether to add things in translation or hew to the original” post over here, here are a few quick things from links I’ve been meaning to address here. First, Matt Treyvaud’s translation of Mori Ōgai’s 翻訳について (Hon’yaku ni tsuite; “On translation”): The sweets that Nora eats I translated makuron マクロン. [...]
