] This corporation from the picture where you place on and
] the like the desk horizontally, developed the new display
] technology which makes three-dimensional image indicate.
] This display is visible, opening is sent being something
] which in for the education exhibition and the arcade
] game, when from the front it disdains in slanted
] direction, in order image several cm to come up even with
] the naked eye making use of the special glasses.
] In the future, combining with touch panel the performance
] and the like which is operated concerning the picture is
] added, toward commercialization aims within 2 years.
]
] Naked eye three-dimensional display delivering the image
] which barely slips in both eyes, being something which
] makes the 3-D feel, is formed by the software which
] creates the image which responds to the angle which you
] see as the display panel which controls the travelling
] direction of light with the film which arranges the
] minute lens.

Cool.

[ I guess so, from the pictures, seing as the engrish is completely incomprehensible... -k]

Toshiba: Press release (2005.4.15)

Its quite simple. This law will cause an increase in dividend yeilds measured in small fractions of cents for companies that provide financial services, and the cost is to ruin people who have been the victims of severe unpredicatable catastrophies.

In other words, they are fucking you up the ass, and you are smiling about it all the way.

[ Be fair, the vast majority of people don't even know this happened, so they really have no opinion on it. They're getting fucked in the ass while they focus on other shit, like American Idol, or being poor already.

Anyway, you're misunderstanding, I think, the right's conception of being responsible, which is essentially that success is the measure of responsibility. It's a nice standard because being unprepared for the worst is the same as mismanaging. If you're not successful, it's your fault. You may not have been able to forsee the medical emergency, but you should have planned for it anyway. -k]

MarketWatch: Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy -- Himmelstein et al., 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.63 -- Health Affairs

] In conclusion, it is important that developed countries
] and WIPO acknowledge that IP protection is an important
] policy instrument for developing countries, one that
] needs to be used carefully. While the claimed benefits of
] strong IP protection for developing countries are a
] matter of debate - and nearly always in the distant
] future - such protection invariably entails substatial
] real an immediate costs for these countries. In
] formulating its IP policy, therefore, each country needs
] to have sufficient flexibility so that the cost of IP
] protection does not outweigh the benefits. It is clearly
] in the interest of developing countries that WIPO
] recognizes this and formulates its work program
] accordingly - including its 'technical assistance' - and
] not limit its activities, as it currently does, to the
] blind promotion of increasingly higher levels of IP
] protection. This is where WIPO, as a specialized UN
] agency, can make a major impact - by truly incorporating
] the development dimension into its mission - in letter
] and in spirit, so that it is appropriately reflected in
] all its instruments. Certainly it will result in a
] revitalisation of WIPO as an organisation sensitive to
] integrating the development concerns of developing
] countries into all areas of its work.

[ Very cogent words from India... I hope everyone's listening... -k]

[A2k] India's Statement at WIPO

] Thousands of people rioted this week in a village in
] southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving
] away officers who had tried to stop elderly villagers
] protesting against pollution from nearby factories.
]
] By this afternoon, three days after the riot, witnesses
] say crowds had convened in Huaxi Village in Zhejiang
] Province to gawk at a tableau of destroyed police cars
] and shattered windows. Police officers outside the
] village were reportedly blocking reporters from entering
] the scene but local people, reached by telephone, said
] villagers controlled the riot area.

[ It seems like this is becoming almost a trend. China's changing a lot, and fast, and I feel like there's a lot of anger that's not going to be resolved simply.

The article, I think, mildly suggests that the hubbub over Japan's textbooks was encouraged by the government as a way to distract attention from this event. I dunno, possible I guess. -k]

NYT | Thousands of Chinese Villagers Protest Factory Pollution

] After the panel, I discussed this issue with Kenn Cukier
] of The Economist, who has followed the development of
] this technology for a while and has a good perspective on
] how we reached the current state. It seems that the
] decision to use contactless technology was made without
] fully understanding its consequences, relying on
] technical assurances from people who had products to
] sell. Now that the problems with that decision have
] become obvious, it's late in the process and would be
] expensive and embarrassing to back out. In short, this
] looks like another flawed technology procurement program.

Freedom to Tinker: Why Use Remotely-Readable Passports?

] a watch designed to supposedly wake you up while at the
] lightest part of your sleep cycle leaving you completely
] rested sounds a lot like paid-advertising poppycock.
] Refreshingly enough, (note the subtle pun) the
] Sleeptracker more than lives up to its namesake and
] received quite a dreamy (omg again!) review from Gear
] Live.

[ I can't help but be skeptical. Still, I must admit, the notion of feeling refreshed in the morning is a pleasant one to contemplate. -k]

Sleepwatcher Alarm Watch Reviewed (Verdict: Fantastic) : Gizmodo

] Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the
] environmental movement will reverse its opinion and
] activism in four major areas: population growth,
] urbani­zation, genetically engineered organisms, and
] nuclear power.

Environmental Heresies

The internet is changing the entertainment business from one that is driven by hits to one that will make most of its money from misses.

[ A solid article on the long tail meme that's so very hot right now. I'm glad they discuss the fact that this all comes about due to a failure in the model of scarcity in the digital domain. Too few people get that yet. -k]

A miss hit

] A Stratellite%u2122 is a high-altitude airship that when
] in place in the stratosphere will provide a stationary
] platform for transmitting various types of wireless
] communications services currently transmitted from cell
] towers and satellites. It is not a balloon or a blimp. It
] is a high-altitude airship.

Apparently, this is getting "close" to being able to be deployed... they're working on FAA approval right now, apparently.

[ Always thought this was a good idea. Dammmit, bring me my wide area wireless broadband nets! GPRS is SLOW! -k]

About the Stratellite

]
] Viewers eagerly awaited director Shinichiro Watanabe's
] first broadcast series since Cowboy Bebop, and this
] quirky, violent period adventure was worth the wait.

This came out just last year, apparently.

[ NetFlix queue updated. -k]

Amazon.com: DVD: Samurai Champloo - Volume 1 (2005)