This is a very good podcast about life in Japan. Josh is an American in the US Navy that is stationed in Japan. He has a Japanese wife and two kids and throughout his shows he tell you what he’s discovered about his new home. Everything from visas to gift giving to food is discussed. If your ever wanting to know what to expect if your planning on visiting the land of the rising sun for more than a few hours you should spend some time listing to this impressive podcast.
WEB2DNA – Convert your website into DNA art
Quite cool.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure.
H1 is brighter than H2, which is brighter than H3.
TABLE is brighter than TR, which is brighter than TD tags.
Images and flash elements appear as 70% white.
New HTML tags like STRONG and EM is brighter than older ones like B and I
UL, OL and DL is brighter than their LI, DT, DD
DIV layout is brighter than table layout
Basically a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code.
What a clever way to check a web page’s design structure out.
[via MAKE]
Evil Office Cube Prank – Newspapers
This is just the thing you hope never to see on a Monday morning after a long weekend of drinking.
Radioactive Venom May Cure Cancer
This will either cure the cancer or give the patients super human abilities. OK, I realize that the radioactive part is an iodine tracer used to see where the venom is going in the body but the idea is cool. In a comic book sort of way.
The study showed that a synthetic version of a protein found in the venom of giant yellow Israeli scorpions targeted tumor cells but did not harm the healthy cells of brain cancer patients.
Look forward to a whole new crop of bad comic book references in the near future:
Other researchers are investigating whether a protein in snake venom can stop bleeding and whether Gila monster venom can treat diabetes. They also have developed a painkiller based on the venom of a deadly sea snail.
That’s right, he has the powers of the deadly sea snail! Yeah, Spiderman is quaking in his boots now.
[via slashdot]
Millions of OLPC Laptops Ordered
I’m all for kids having the option to better themselves through technology but these things have access to the Internet right? And a million of them have been ordered by Nigera? Umm, can you say ‘biggest scam mill on the planet? I hope not. I’m sure this won’t happen but you have to admit, it makes good Internet…
Four countries commit to buying 4 million Linux-powered OLPC laptops
Classic Plastic – Handheld Games of Yesteryear
This site brings back some fond memories of trying to get and LED from one end of a screen to another. Hey, it was fun when I was a kid.
[via ektopia]
HANDHELDEN © 660 handheld and tabletop games from the 1970s and 1980s