MachineMachine /stream - tagged with japan http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com The social cell http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/04/social-cell A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way of capturing energy (a metabolism), a way of reproducing (genes or something like genes) and a membrane that lets in what needs to come in and keeps out the rest. ]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:46:07 -0700 http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/04/social-cell revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/21646715002

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Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant neutrino detector, buried 1000m underground in Japan. Usually filled with 50,000 tonnes of pure water, the observatory detects neutrinos by watching for interactions with the subatomic particles in the water. These interactions are extremely rare, which is why the detector needed to be built to the scale it is.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:25:09 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/21646715002 What Makes Sushi Great? http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/4704-what-makes-sushi-great Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can make it. But take an impossible eye for detail and apply it to fish—Where did it come from? How long should you age it before serving for best flavor? How long should you massage it to make it tender, but still have texture? Where should you cut a piece from, and at what angle, to highlight the flavors of different parts of the muscle? Since temperature affects aroma, how… ]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:51:28 -0700 http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/4704-what-makes-sushi-great Godzilla shoes http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/16461131244

Godzilla shoes

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:15:02 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/16461131244 I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2004/01/fujimoto.htm/the-atlantic-januaryfebruary-2004-i-was-kim-jong-ils-cook-fujimoto True tales from Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il's one-time chef http://t.co/U0UVeok1 ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:35:58 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2004/01/fujimoto.htm/the-atlantic-januaryfebruary-2004-i-was-kim-jong-ils-cook-fujimoto Real Samurai Sword Technique - Cutting BB Gun pellet by Isao Machii - Japanese Katana Kenjutsu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzhs1Z8Rwnk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 05 May 2011 05:56:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzhs1Z8Rwnk&feature=youtube_gdata GLTI.CH Karaoke http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5584726853/

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GLTI.CH Karaoke event, hosted 2nd April 2011 at Meanwhile Space, Whitechapel.

See our website: glti.ch or follow us on twitter @gltich for more information!

]]> Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:04:34 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/5584726853/ (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/182301 Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at the moment?! The more contemporary the better ]]> Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:41:31 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/182301 Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10324/ The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback.

The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards life that has served Japan well in the post-Hiroshima era. It makes a powerful point, which is that looking for someone or something to blame is often a time-consuming exercise that rarely has positive outcomes. Whereas nothing can be done about an unfortunate event that has already occurred, we can mobilise our creative powers to fix problems that stare us in the face. History shows that… ]]> Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:48:19 -0700 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10324/ GLTI.CH Karaoke http://glti.ch

Saturday 2nd April : Come and join us a for an afternoon of GLTI.CH KARAOKE!

GLTI.CH KARAOKE will be hosting this live karaoke event in conjunction with the citizens of Kumamoto City, Japan. All proceeds raised at Glitch Karaoke will go to The Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund.

Defy human spacetime by warbling Elvis, the Spice Girls, and Beat Crusaders with friends in London and Kumamoto at the Meanwhile Space (Whitechapel) at the End of the Universe with the power of Skype, hand-me-down computers, and mutual love of amateur live singing.

Free to attend, donations encouraged. There… ]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:38:00 -0700 http://glti.ch/Gltich-Karaoke Punctures - Shintaro Kago http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/3345105669

Punctures - Shintaro Kago

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:15:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/3345105669 SAME HAT! (tumblr) http://samehat.tumblr.com/ For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running!

The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music and random whatever from the bowels of the internet-- all stuff loosely related to the imagined community that is "SAME HAT". ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:34:00 -0700 http://samehat.tumblr.com/ Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive... http://machinemachine.soup.io/post/58501112/Neutrinos-are-some-of-the-most-abundant

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Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our universe. Every second 50 trillion of them fly through our bodies without so much as a trace. Their neutral electric charge and miniscule mass allow neutrinos to pass through ordinary matter practically undisturbed.

This characteristic of neutrinos also makes the tiny particles frustratingly difficult to detect. It is no surprise, then, that scientists must go to great extremes to build a functional neutrino detector. Often the equipment must be buried beneath a mountain or submerged in an ultra-deep lake to isolate the… ]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:56:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.soup.io/post/58501112/Neutrinos-are-some-of-the-most-abundant My Famicase Exhibition 2010 http://famicase.com/10/index.html With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise? A collective of Japanese designers and artists imagine cartridges for their favorite Famicom (8-bit Nintendo) games that never were.

While this year's crop has strayed away from anything as blatantly/lightly controversial as last year's Bush Jr cart, it takes no less a sardonic swipe at Western culture with Burp'n'Shoot! above. The game, the artists say, is a "fun lazy redneck experience" that involves "sitting on the… ]]> Thu, 13 May 2010 05:25:00 -0700 http://famicase.com/10/index.html The Stag http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4153206033/

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The Stag

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]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:28:50 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/40336995@N03/4131171983/ On Being in Japan and Elsewhere http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/09/on-being-in-japan-and-elsewhere.html

by Daniel Rourke

Japan. That's where I am. With the rice-triangles and the tatami-mats and row upon row of vending machines. In a country where serving others is paramount, and where holidays are something that other people do, I find myself being served - on holiday... I am the ultimate gaijin 1 and every ticket I buy and photo I take seems to confirm this. I came to see Japan. But now I realise that the culture of seeing has been commodified into an experience in itself, and perhaps not an…

]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:05:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/09/on-being-in-japan-and-elsewhere.html to a destiny http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/3869299669/

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to a destiny

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]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:47:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/groups/karaoke-screens Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/129825 Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I have looked into flights and trains (for the 17th of August) and both seem expensive (about £200-£250 a ticket). I am in the UK at the moment. Would it be worth waiting until we arrive in Japan? Perhaps trying to get last minute flights at the airport? Information on this site suggests cheap train travel, but has no links to buy: frommers.com

Air travel is looking pricey: farecompare.com or… ]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:09:56 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/129825