Posted on 19 May 2008 by r
Following the appointment of Doraemon as the Japanese official ambassador for anime, Hello Kitty has been appointed the Japanese official ambassador for tourism to China and Hong Kong by the Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba. Her duties include blogging — but likely not policing counterfeit goods.
The idea of fictional characters [...]
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Posted on 28 March 2008 by r
Neither the Chinese Democracy involving a change in political process in a vast Asian country nor the Chinese Democracy involving the most expensive never-released album seems to be forthcoming. Yet non-change is presently newsworthy.
The Guns n Roses “forthcoming” album, Chinese Democracy, has been a joke for years. According to a 2006 New York Times [...]
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Posted on 10 December 2007 by kdccdk
Nobel Prize in Literature winner Doris Lessing thinks that television and the Internet is responsible for the cultural decline of modern society.
From ars technica:“And just as we never once stopped to ask, How are we, our minds, going to change with the new internet, which has seduced a whole generation into its inanities so that [...]
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