Archive for October, 2009

Zoo-themed construction site in Japan

A construction site near JR Chiba station has been given a makeover:

The decorations around the site are part of an art project called Chibanaka Zooland. A representative for the project states that he hopes the pretty crane and zoo-themed barriers around the site make the construction work seem like less of a nuisance to residents of the area.

Let’s just hope that they follow proper safety precautions, so that we don’t see any houses crushed by pretty giraffe cranes. This clip is from a recent construction mishap in another area of Chiba:

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Anime Makeup

A girl who puts a lot of effort into looking like her favorite anime character:

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Ultraman drives a Honda

The whole Ultraman family expresses their approval of the new Honda Stepwgn:

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Windows 7 Whopper

CheapyD & CampingKev of Cheap Ass Gamer try the Windows 7 Whopper, Burger King Japan’s 7 beef patty monstrosity:

Celebrating the launch of Windows 7 in Japan, the Windows 7 Whopper is 791 grams or 1.74 pounds of Burger King beef.

[hat tip to Brian Ashcraft]

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Windows 7 Fail

FTV tries and fails to give a demo of Windows 7 during a live news broadcast:

The anchor tries to zoom in on the FTV studio, but nothing happens. At the end of the failed test, he concludes that Windows 7 is indeed faster than Windows Vista…

Update: Another problematic Windows 7 demo for FTV’s “Tokudane” morning show [hat tip to francois]:

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Cute Assassin Costume

The Korean nationalist gunman independence activist who killed Ito Hirobumi now lives on in cute mascot form:

Independence activist Ahn Jung-geun remembered: Officials from the Ministry of Patriots & Veterans Affairs and citizens take part in a hand printing ceremony Wednesday, at the Yeouido Park in Seoul, to mark Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910)’s 1909 assassination of Hirobumi Ito, a former prime minister of Japan, in Harbin, China. Ahn held Ito responsible for the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910.

[from the Korea Times via ROK Drop]

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