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初音ミク

Atsushi Enomoto — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:21:43 -0000

Recently a vocaloid software 初音ミク (Hatsune Miku) got popular in Japan. It takes a song (can be a midi file) and lyrics and outputs wavs.

The outcome songs sound humanish. I have to say, I was surprised. Listen to the demosongs on the page: http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01.jsp

「2000万本はない」－好調なWindows Vista販売に疑問

Atsushi Enomoto — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:19:44 -0000

I happened to read this news,
http://enterprise.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/infostand/2007/04/02/9971.html
which is talking about "stacking vista too high"
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/stacking_vista_licenses_too_high.html

This news article describes the article as looking logical and the reaction of the readers as flamatory criticizing. It looks true to me too.

So, is Vista like PlayStation3, counting sales by shipping? Amen.

an ideal life and the worst life

Atsushi Enomoto — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:36:40 -0000

This was funny: http://simple-u.jp/pd200401.html#2004-01-26

an ideal life: Live in American house with Japanese wife, French gf, Chinese chef and English butler.

the worst life: Live in Japanese house with American wife, English chef and Chinese butler.

What true legal mind tells us is ...

Atsushi Enomoto — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:05:02 -0000

This guy - one of very popular economists in Japan, talking much about open source, and media, has lots of imprtant posts on his blog - is recently extraordinary interested in recent American movement on "Ianfu" issue:
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ikedanobuo/e/ab4e9f4e372098e706c47ba5c5d032a2

In this post he points out that
- all LA Times, Washington Post and Economist affirm that the existence of comfort women is the historical truth, while there is actually no evidence,
- all of those posts says 200,000 women, which seems from the translation of Yoshiaki Yoshimi's literature (吉見義明), while there were only 170,000 official (probably "registered" here) women, and
- Even Yoshiaki Yoshimi admits that there is no evidence for the "fact" that the army brought them by force.

... and a lot of misled information found in American resources.

Also:
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ikedanobuo/e/56c1b3873ea7cf5ad9680d6cbf754a9e

He points out that Wikipedia has/had a lot of incorrect information on this issue. For example some quotes are from the translation of Seiji Yoshida's book (in Japanese 吉田清治, which was incorrectly written as Kiyosada Yoshida), while Yoshida himself admitted that the content he wrote was fiction.

The reason why this kind of misunderstanding happened is because there are lots of non-English resources on this matter (since most of those who has such resources primarily translated them into Asian languages for their "frontline"). Nobuo Ikeda (the author of the blog) represents this situation as "the American selfish nationalism which respects only English literature".

What is problematic Ikeda points out is that Abe the prime minister should not admit something without evidence. Ikeda is not saying that he denies every kind of responsibility that the goverment has. It is very important to exactly scope *what* should be condemned. And more importantly, it should be evidence-based.

There are some evident things, like the army "helped" transporting those who called "ianfu". Some of them were brought in reflection to the payments to their parents, so the women themselves were likely to have felt "forced". That is force by non-government entities.

That is (part of) what we (those who learned laws) say "legal mind".

This story reminded me another American nationalism expressed in "Moyashimon" (もやしもん), a comic book about alcohol and bacteria. The author strongly criticized the fact that American scientists keep saying that Aspergillus oryzae, which is used to ferment sake, is harmful. It used to be regarded as identical to harmful Aspergillus flaves in the most authoritative book "the Aspergillus", and thus regarded as harmful. According to the comic, American scientists do not admit their fault even after Fennell, the inherited author of that book, admited the fault.

Song Hye Kyo

Atsushi Enomoto — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:18:25 -0000

wow, I didn't know about this incredible CG:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=399499

rimo

Atsushi Enomoto — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:05:35 -0000

Rimo is an extra-simplified youtube interface, which could be connected even via Wii.
http://rimo.tv/

only for those who kinda remember Tokyo...

Atsushi Enomoto — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:10:12 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_0zOR_bdM

recognized flying objects

Atsushi Enomoto — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:15:22 -0000

uhoh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icIaRRgWcEE

Uh, what kind of test for courage?

Atsushi Enomoto — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:00:18 -0000

http://www.officeorganix.com/images/ErgoQuest500_3.jpg

Cryptographic Quotes

Atsushi Enomoto — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:14:58 -0000

I gotta love them
http://www.samsimpson.com/quotes/cquotes.php

foxtrot

Atsushi Enomoto — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:26:22 -0000

When I was playing Genesis' Foxtrot in iTunes, I've noticed that the Album is ranked as ★★☆☆☆ in Japan. I wondered why. Wasn't this album the best one from Genesis?

I opened iTMS and then there were only three songs: without "Watcher of the Skies", "Get'em out by Friday" and "Supper's Ready" ... wait. WTF?

The only one review on iTMS was like: "It's like Katsu-don set lunch, minus katsu and rice". Very nice expression :|

bidi filename: this-(U+202E)txt.exe

Atsushi Enomoto — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:51:03 -0000

http://openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/public/20061209/momiji.html

oh, yes. wow
http://monkey.workarea.jp/tmp/2007/bidifilename.png

xterm is fine.

am so terrified

Atsushi Enomoto — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:11:53 -0000

http://garbage.web.infoseek.co.jp/pcp/honbun/blog/top_flameset_top.html

hatena serifu generator

Atsushi Enomoto — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:48:57 -0000

- post an image
- specify area for words
- fill words

my favorite one is
http://serif.hatelabo.jp/bda2d4c99ea21caa5fec75edd66c08ec283011df/list

life365

Atsushi Enomoto — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:39:02 -0000

It is not an internet radio. It is Chinese SNS.

http://www.life365.com/

Wow, it is very close to mixi. Some Japanese idiots complain that it uses cosmetic images for web designing from mixi (as long as they are not copyrighted it is legal). Anyways, interesting.