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Month: August 2005

  • The Good Design Presentation 2005

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    Wanna catch this year’s Good Design prize winners? The Good Design Prize is part of the Good Design Product Selection System, established in 1957 by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. It is Japan’s only comprehensive valuation and recommendation system for design products. The Good Design Prize is one of a kind, surpassing other international…

  • Mobile Phones Vs. Smoking

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    Who would have imagined that keitai use would lead to a healthier lifestyle! From Japan Today: The number of junior high and high school students who own cell phones is increasing, and there is a high chance that phone bills are weighing on the money they spend on cigarettes Kenji Hayashi, head of the research…

  • Shobo Shobo BBQ

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    If you’ve been enjoying the Shobus Diary, the following events are going to be a nice way to take in the Shobo Shobo experience live. For about one month, Shobo Shobo mastermind Mehdi Hercman is traveling all across Japan in a bus, together with O.lamm, Domotic and some other folks of the French label Active…

  • RATN: J

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    I was late discovering Tujiko Noriko, but I’ve become a fan, and this new collaboration album, RATN: J, sounds like something I’m set to enjoy (as well as news of the new Disques Corde label). In the first of a series of collaborations this summer, Tujiko Noriko teams up with Japanese breakbeat master Riow Arai…

  • The Wired Momus

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    Momus is now writing a bi-monthly column over at Wired News, and the first edition, “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo,” is now online. My first Wired column is online. It’s a piece called “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo” and it’s about how capitalism shows different faces in different places, how some of its…

  • MXUT

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    While I was busy enjoying my time in NYC, our second Radio OK Fred guest mix got released in the form of Marxy + U.T.’s MXUT megamix hour of fun (hopefully the first of many)! In his own words: We went back in time to the year 1993 to ask 75 middle-school students what they…

  • It Grows

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    Chin Music Press’ Craig has something growing just outside his window, which inspired him to create a neat little time lapse movie.

  • GQ Japan Vs. Boing Boing

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    GQ Japan published an article on the Boing Boing site — here’s a translation.