JTV – April 2008

A catchup of recent JTV action.
With Super Special FX Sumo, YoYoMaster, Bug Guys, Velcro Wall and more and Girls on Slippery Slides.

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Hanami in London

Up in this half of the world, its heading into Spring time. In Japan, that means Cherry blossom season, or “Sakura” (which means Continue Reading…

Cloverfield

I went to see a midnight session of Cloverfield last night, and I guess it was as I expected. It’s campaign was basically viral marketing, and had no title, simply the date 01-18-08. J.J Abrahams was behind Alias (great) and LOST (couldn’t get into it). I had a feeling this movie was going to have too much of that LOST feel to it. Anyways, It’s a little hard to write about without spoiling things, but I’ll give it a go.
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JTV – Jan 2008

There’s one reason to love New Year in Japan, JTV. This is one of the best times of the year for Japanese TV. There are loads of specials, look backs for the last year, shows that revisit guests and episodes up to 10 or 15 years earlier, and even 24hr Live shows, where some hosts stay on for the entire show. Its totally crazy, and not hard to understand why people stay at home watching TV before heading off to the local Shrine at Midnight. So there’s loads of stuff for this month

Matrix Olympics – Similar to (the original and still the best) matrix pong and matrix pole volt.

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Japan & Whaling, Here’s the Gist of it

Right now, Greenpeace ship ‘Esperanza’ is currently chasing ‘Nishin Maru’, one of the Japanese whaling ships, and will attempt non-violent methods to stop or interrupt their hunt. They played this message in English and Japanese to the group of ships when they found them, taken from SMH

“Your so-called scientific whaling is a hoax and has been dismissed as useless by the International Whaling Commission. Modern scientific research on whales does not require killing them,” the message said.

The ships dispersed and fled with Esperanza in pursuit.

Theres a lot of news, reports, jokes, commercials, and YouTube videos going around causing a fuss on both sides.
Here’s a quick round up of WTF is going on, some clips, and points from both sides.
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Bumblebee

This is AWESOME! Engadget spotted this big guy at CES.
Now if only I could find the remote control…

Essential Free Software

After a recent format to make some space, I decided to replace ageing software with Free / Open Source Solutions, so I have put together this list of some of the Best Free Software. This is a general list useful for most Windows users (XP targeted), and best installed directly after formatting or on a new PC!
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JTV – December 07

This is why you have to love JTV. They built a real, man-sized version of those little sticky men you throw at walls, and put him on a sky scraper just for kicks! Part one wasn’t as successful but the failure is also funny.

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