Posts Tagged ‘Japanese’

H3 is a Magic Number

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

I have the entire collection of School House Rock on DVD, and “Three is a Magic Number” is my personal favourite. Everytime I hear it I feel weepy and nostalgiac, as I’m sure half the people I know in their 30s do as well. So leave it to Spike Jonze Noam Murro to take a song that I love and a vehicle that I love to hate and mash them together with giant kitchy monsters. Meet the Hummer H3: half Iron Giant, half Godzilla.

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Note: Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t General Motors already use this song for their 3-door Saturn commercials?

Add-on: Check out the Making-Of Video at JenniferLovesTheRobot.com. This just played on the SuperBowl.

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Sodoku

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Sudoku widget

The name Sudoku is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, “suji wa dokushin ni kagiru,” meaning “the digits must remain single”. Personally I think the pure translation is Number Crack.

If you don’t know what Sudoku is yet, boy are you in for some sleepless nights. It’s an addictive and challenging game that will drive you mad but keep you itching for more.

Download either the time-sucking Macintosh OSX Sudoku Widget or one of Yahoo!’s Konfabulator Mac/PC Sudoku Widgets. I expect never to here from you again.

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