Author: Malcolm Bastien
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The Kyotokumaru
A 330-ton, 200-foot-long fishing boat called the No. 18 Kyotokumaru (第十八共徳丸)—still sits where the waves left it over 800 meters (.5 mi) from the city’s harbor. The city of Kesennuma is debating whether to leave the Kyotokumaru as a monument or dismantle it. (via Japan tsunami: Country marks two-year anniversary of deadly earthquake | World…
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Playing Weiqi at the Water Pavilion
(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Playing Weiqi at the Water Pavilion)
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Facebook is Like a Chair… That Confuses and Surprises
Facebook is like a chair… that confuses, defrauds, misleads, spams and surprises users. Facebook as a company doesn’t do these things, but they happen on the Facebook platform through the apps third party developers create for it. Take a look at the ways that Facebook is having to control the permissions that third party applications…
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A Quick Look at the Surface Site
A couple problems I have with Microsoft’s website for Surface. The whole site makes learning about the Surface such a chore. The content is really bad too. Sometimes it feels like they put it through Google Translate a few times and came out with inflated passages like the following: A feat of engineering and a…
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