The Simian Downtime Analyst

Hiya, I’m The James, and I have some glorious news for those of you watching today.

You are so not going to believe this.

I mean really, you aren’t going to believe this, but Facebook now has their entire site completely available in Japanese! Screen cap below:

This is a great advancement for those of us who want to enjoy their facebooking while also increasing their understanding of the Japanese language. Come on, I know there’s at least 5 of you out there.

On the other hand, anyone who really truly wishes to test their skills and work their vocab skills already has an account with Mixi.jp

ciao!

So I know you saw at least one of the cell phone popcorn videos.

Cardo Systems started the whole hooey about the cells making the popcorn pop to sell some bluetooth headsets.

I hated the videos not only because the premise was silly, but also because in half the videos, the cell phones did not even light up. 99% of the phones I see ringing, the backlight kicks on when it rings—that was annoying the daylights out of me.

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As I have stated before many times, I have having to drag my laptop all the way out to find out if there is WiFi nearby and I never could bring myself to purchase the little finders because they would just get lost in the sea of gadgets on my desk. A great solution comes in the form of “A Step in The Right Direction“, they light up solid when there is signal, blink when you are out of luck. Not the most aesthetically pleasing shoes, but they are harder to lose than the other WiFi finders unless you have acres of shoes.

Via Make/WifiNetNews

The folks @ hottrix.com have some downloadable mini magic tricks that can be put on the iPhone. My favorite :

200 posts and around the fourth theme later, the biggest search that leads to this blog is for a stick figure drinking what is insinuated to be alcohol.

Speaking of alcohol: Green (Eco Green) Beer c/o ecogeek

Image via Wikipedia

If you use PayPal but the site you want to buy from does not, use this browser plugin (ie7 and FF2 in Windows).

Lets you pay with your preferred method by generating card numbers to satisfy the website. I dig it, but alas I must wait until its compatible with FF3 because I am too lazy to use something else. Paypal had introduced the method of using them anyway awhile back. Now it comes in the convenient form of a plugin.