According to Trivia no Izumi, the original meaning of the word "nice" is "stupid". So, looking it up apparently they are right.

I was on Amazon today and they are pushing some short movie project called Amazon Theater.

Okay, I'm a gadget freak to some degree but this is just overboard.

It's the ability to browse a program schedule on your phone, pick a program then point your cell phone at your VCR and have the phone program your VCR. I don't need that feature. My VCR already does that thank you. 😉

Docomo's newest series, the 901i has been announced recently. The line up of new features is not that compelling.

The new features are

Living in Japan has it's advantages

I found this site today called audioscrobbler while I was searching on Google Japan for 小島麻由美 (Kojima Mayumi) since I went to her concert yesterday which Rocked!

This page came up. The page shows what that guys listens to by band. His #1 band as of today is Pizzicato Five, also one of my favorites and his second is 小島麻由美.

The piqued my interest so I checked out the site. It's a service that tracks what you are listening to. It does this with plugins for iTunes, WMP, Winamp, etc. What's the point? Well:

Hmmm, I can see myself reporting on random trivia now that I'm watching that trivia program but anyway, according to the Japan National Institute of Population and Social Secruity Research the average number of kids born per couple is 1.2. Computing out, if it says the same there will only be 27 people left in Japan in the year 3000.

According to "Trivia no Izumi", a popular trivia show on Japanese TV, the reason there are only kids in Peter Pan's group is because it's against to rules to grow up and Peter Pan kills any kid who does.

I saw this post today Torrent of Free Bits and it reminded me of something I'd thought about.

First, let me make it clear. Piracy of games pisses me off. It's my job to make games, it's damn hard work. 15 to 100 people for two years, 1/4 to 1/2 of that time is often 60 to 80 hour weeks. For someone to pirate it and tell me it's not worth the $40 we ask for all our effort. ***K THEM!

For other media there are other arguments possibly.

Suntory has been running this campaign in Japan where they are giving away 4000 iPods.  As I don't have an iPod and I enjoy Suntory Oolong Tea I thought I'd give it a try.

In Japan most of the big beverage companies have lots of contests.  Most of them work on the point system where for each drink you get some kind of stamp or sticker. You put them on a postcard.  When you fill the postcard you send them in and you are entered in some raffle for the prizes. Common prizes are things like bikes, DVD players, stereo systems, TVs etc. Often they are special contest only items like a bright red Coke Sony TV for example.

Just happened upon the latest super cute cell phone from AU.