Japan Talk #164
CLICK TO PLAYOpening Monologue
- New theme song and opening
- Thanks to Steven at Discovery Sound
- Monetizing a website
- Designers and hosts and the horrors of dealing with them
- Bozos and idiots
- Pligg and other social bookmarking systems
- Users going rogue
- Podcasting and YouTube more fun
- Building is fun, maintaining is a drag
- Spammers – the only ones with energy left on the web
- Meet us in Kobe on December 12!
Japan Coastguard video leak follow up
- Japan Coast Guard worker admits leaking collision video onto YouTube
- Coast guard officer says he leaked collision video because public had right to know
- Coast guard officer says he has no sense of guilt over leaked collision footage
- Public has mixed emotions toward coast guard officer over leaked collision video
Man streams suicide live on the Internet
Cop forgets loaded gun in restaurant toilet
Female rice lovers more likely to develop diabetes
J-reporter held in Myanmar thanked by political prisoners
Middle Song
Ue Wo Muite Arukou (Sukiyaki) – Junco & Cheep
Man loses bag of contraband, arrested when he claims it
Tsukiji to ban visitors during year end tuna auctions
City of Phoenix looking for people to teach English in Himeji, Japan
Obama passes on Nobel Peace winner anti-nuke meet in Hiroshima
Seibu Railways starts maid train service
Ending Song
Sumeba Miyako (There’s No Place Like Home – Junco & Cheep
Links of Interest
- Discovery Sound
- Kobe Meet Up, December 12
- Maid Train Reservations
- Junco & Cheep Website
- Buy Junco & Cheep music (Japanese)
- JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
- Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
Contact: japantalker@gmail.com
Hi Ed, Andrew from Bad Communication here. Great show, I just had a few comments:
Spammers don’t post their spam personally, the use “botnets,” or automated software on computers that they’ve hijacked control of from unsuspecting internet users.
Also, if rice has as much glucose as dishes full of refined sugar, and vegetables aren’t that much better, than what are we supposed to eat to stay healthy? A strict diet of meat? Cardboard?
Look forward to seeing you in Kobe,
-Andrew
Thanks for the comments, Andrew.
Concerning your remark about my food comments, your are right, I kind of made it sound like vegetables are no good, didn’t I? Actually, what I was trying (not very well) to say was that eating low glycemic carbs (veggies) is not a very good way to balance high glycemic carbs (rice, bread, sugar, noodles, etc.) The trick is to stay away from high glycemic carbs as much as possible and get as much of your carbs as possible from low glycemic sources.
That said, I fully realize that there are many different ways of looking diet and nutrition, and I do not in any way claim an expertise in the field.
On the other hand, I firmly embrace the notion that all of my excesses can be countered by equally extreme counters. Smoke a pack of cigarettes a day but stay away from fried foods and sweets. Stay awake for 48 hours by consuming large quantities of caffeine and spend the following 18 hours asleep.
It all balances out in the end, right?
You sound like my friend, Mr. Pink.
Awesome podcast!!! Thanks a million.
I just realized you remind of Casey Kasem.
@discoverysound
Casy Kasem counting them down….
Thanks much to you, Steven, for all the kind assistance and support over on YouTube.
I’m really excited to hear you are back doing the podcast! Japundit was one of my favorites. I’m looking forward to the future episodes.
Thanks, Vin. I plan on concentrating more on the podcast and less and blogging.