4:14 PM (0 comments)
I swear I've posted this before, but Google didn't turn it up when I was relating the story to someone at work earlier today. In case I haven't I now give you (or re-post, perhaps), the story of Nasubi and the cruelest Japanese television game show ever, wherein a hapless man spends a year alone in an apartment trying to live off of winnings from other contests:

When he arrived at the apartment, he was shown a stand full of magazines, a huge pile of postcards, and told to strip naked. The room was empty except for a cushion, a table, a small radio, a telephone, some notebooks, and a few pens. There was not a crumb of food, a square of toilet paper, or any form of entertainment. Whatever he needed, he was to win by sending thousands of postcards into contests. The producers left and Nasubi was on his own in his unique survival challenge. Imagine what was going through his mind: How am I going to eat? Why are they doing this to me? How long will it take to get out of here?...

Nasubi won his first contest on February 8th. He got some jelly, a 1560 yen value, leaving him with 998 440 yen left to win. That day, he ate food for the first time in two weeks! On February 22nd, he won a 5 kg bag of rice. Unfortunately, he had no cooking utensils. At first he tried eating it raw, but eventually devised a cooking method where he put it in an empty can beside a burner for an hour until it was "cooked". He ate about a half cup of rice a day using two pens for chopsticks.

11:55 PM (0 comments)
Google Notebook. A pretty cool little tool. Microsoft OneNote came with my laptop, and while cool, never really became a tool I used very often. We'll see if Google Notebook steps up.

7:14 PM (0 comments)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Freetar Hero.



(via Jason and the SA Forums)

2:59 AM (0 comments)
Via J-Walk, 100x100, 100 photos of the residents of Hong Kong's oldest housing project, 100 rooms each 100 square feet in size.

9:42 PM (0 comments)
Skype announced today that you can use Skype to call any landline or mobile phone in the US or Canada for free until the end of 2006. I can only hope that gets more people on the service. Heck, if any of you sign up, email me and let me know--I need someone I know in there so I can play around with it a bit.