[CNN.com] A GameBoy Advance title “Boktai” uses sunlight as an essential part of the game. The amount of light determines the amount of power your hero has to defeat his enemies. The content of the game changes according to time: – the Undead come out at night and stay in dungeons during the day and [...]
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new tatoo
Shelley Jackson is looking for 2095 people to each get a tattoo of a single word from her novel Skin. To keep company to the tatoo i got on my right hand palm a few years ago, I eventually decided to take part in this piece of mortal art. If you too want to participate, [...]
Posted by admin on February 2, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/new-tatoo/
mind mapping
[Widgetopia] As sites have grown larger and more complex, ways to navigate them is changing. The hyperbolic tree shows promise. The one found at the XRCE website is particularly easy to understand and navigate. KurzweilAI.net are also using a similar navigation tree for their Brain of words and terms related to Artificial Intelligence. It is [...]
Posted by pbaron on January 19, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/mind-mapping/
Tokyo to ban panty trade
[Japan Today News] The Tokyo metropolitan assembly intends to ban trade in girls’ underwear by sex shops in a set of proposals on juvenile issues drafted by a government advisory panel, officials said Monday. So it was true…
Posted by pbaron on January 18, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/tokyo-to-ban-panty-trade/
safely lose money in Japan
Last year, I lost about 25,000yen (about $250) in Roppongi. I had the bills in my pocket with my mobile phone, a rare case, and I was watching closely as I knew that the bills could fall if I was to pick up the phone. My mobile rang and I lost the money. Not in [...]
Posted by pbaron on January 11, 2004
http://blog.aka.me/safely-lose-money-in-japan/
The origins of carrots
Now I never knew that until i read it in the Guardian last year, but i couldn’t believe it, and we weren’t near the 1st of April. a red and a green carrot … two kinds of carrots, one “red,” juicy and tasty; and one green blending into yellow but coarser than red
Posted by admin on November 27, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/the-origins-of-carrots/
Space+Place+People
Habitat Perspectives by Marcos Weskamp is one of the 2 best shots at trying to link place and space with the participation of people. SuperFuture being the other one. Imagine if both could become one?! If you have a GPS equipped mobile phone you can take part in this new adventure. Let’s anotat”ing” the world. [...]
Posted by pbaron on October 16, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/spaceplacepeople/
bilingual codeswitching
Ever had a conversation (kottke.org) where you find yourself switching repeatedly from one language to another (even at the sentence level)? I do that too with English & French. Most of the points raised in the discussion are fascinating.
Posted by pbaron on September 14, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/bilingual-codeswitching/
Visualog
The best moblog I have seen: Visualog. Up there with yours Carsten of course. Would that guy release the code of his moblog for world stardom?
Posted by pbaron on September 3, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/visualog/
I was bit here!
Hilarious moblog post of a guy who’s just been bitten by a mosquito. He added a GPS map link of where he was at that instant.
Posted by pbaron on July 14, 2003
http://blog.aka.me/i-was-bit-here/