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Blog Parts!

White strawberry was developped. Look ast this! Those are not unmature, it's white strawberry.

This white one is "gel remote". The remote is soft, flesh-like gel, but when you touch it, it'll be hard as if he wakes up! The remote was designed by Panasonic dessign company. In their official site, you can see their past products. I have iamge Panasonic stuffs are not so cool looking, but they are not bad.

Today I collected nice blog parts.
I love this Cat paw. You can enjoy push a cat pow. We say niku kyu and really love cat paw! As cat blog parts, this is cute too, Cat telling you temparature. A cute cat one that you can know temparature of your place. The site has English instruction so that I guess you can use it in your country.

If you like to set a clock, how about this? Pocky clock. It's lovely and easy to set. This is an another kimokawaii(ugly cute) banana clock.

As addiction type, how about this? Blog ants. You cand kill ants forever. Or you may love this popping bubble wrap? Like we have such toys, it's very addictional, right?

Maku Puppet : You can arrage your original caracter and make him/her moving your blog. Make your original caracter in this page (like wii) and copy top script in this page, you need to copy your code after pfp as "?m=your code", if you want to let him walk, add "&anim=walk" in the end.

The best manga of the year

Takarajima publishing released "the best manga of the year" (kono manga ga sugoi) that was selected by editors, members of manga club in colleges, book store stuff, writers, etc. This is the ranking of 2009 is here.

Boys manga
1.Saint Young man : I really love this manga. Today I've found this site. Wow, I am not sure this is okay or not, but you can read 4 chapters here. My best one was pool episode, but they don't have it yet. 2. Uchu kyodai : Brothers go to NASA to be space pilot.
3. GIANT KILLING : foot ball story.
4. March comes in like a lion : This is an ongoing manga series by Chika Umino, best known for Honey and Clover.
5.Shinya Shokudo (midnight restaurant) : It's cheap but delicious gulmet story in a small restaurant.
6. Kino Nani Tabeta? (What did you eat yesterday?) : Guys cooking story.
7. AOIHONO (blue frame) : A story about High school students. 8　Yotsubato! :This is popular one that published in the wrold.
9.Ore wa mada honki dashite naidake (I've not done my best) : A story about a guy who want to be manga writer.
10. Fantasium : Story about a boy magician.

Girls manga
1.Sakamichi no Apron (Apron on the hill) : Love story
2.Ekikara 5fun(5 minutes from the station) : Love story
3.Chiyayafu : Story about karuta game.
4.Kimi ni Todoke : A girl called Sadako by her classmates for her resemblance to the character from Ring because of her appearace.
5.Machi de uwasa no Tengu no ko : A story about a girl of half between human being and tengu.
6.Amenashi mura yakuba sangyoka ken kanko gakari : A guy trys to boost the village economy.
7.Round about : A life of junior high school girl.
8.Natsume Yujincho : Natsume's just an ordinary kid, except he can see spirits, just like his grandma Reiko could.
9.Kennkon shinakute iidesuka? (I don't need to marry? ) : A single lady's life.
10.Syojo Manga(Girls comic) : capture the essence of past masterpiece of Shojomanga (girls comic) and remade them.

This is past winners
The best manga of 2008
Boys:81 Diver
Girls:Kimi ni Todoke

The best manga of 2007
Boys:Detroit Metal City
Girls: Honey and Clover

The best manga of 2006
Boys:PLUTO
Girls:Honey and Clover

Merry Christmas!

  Merry Christmas!

robot fight

Look! a bacon on my site. You can add a piece of bacon on your site in this page.

Moe save Japan. That is the messege borad talking about rice with moe charater package. Most people are positive for the package, but honestly I feel something wrong to the package. I am not sure, maybe I am conservative and not moe chara fan.

This is very small news but I feel wrong to this too. Agriculture center in Fukuyama city developed ladybugs that can't fly so that they can be the harmful insect extermination. （web translated).

TGI Friday opened thier restaurant in Japan by corporate joint venture with Japanese restaurant chain WATAMI. Last week, they open TGI Freiday's RED in Shibuya. Thier menu is much cheaper and they say it's healther than regular menu. Click right button (not PDF one ), you can see their menu. I have never tired TGIF before, but it's very reasonable.

Fuji Xerox makes nice TV ads

Fuji Xerox makes always interesting TV ad. This is a well known one. Bull and Cristiano Ronaldo.

And this is making fild of that ad.

This is the new one we can watch on TV now.

a baseball game MAJOR for wii is hot in Japan now

This year, Japan is warm and ski places are in trouble because they don't have snow enough. Usually I use electric blancket in this season but this year, hot-water bag ( I can make this warm by micorwave, so convenient) is enough. Actually on Sunny day, I don't need to use heater, today I found this one "cat hot bag", you can put on your knee in daytime. lovely! ( I don't need it though)

I am always looking forward to see this "American Mug Shots Of The Year". This year no.1 is this Obama people collection. But of course my best one is this "Cow lady". I found her first on Boing Boing.　It was very hard to stop laughing at work, I remember well.

"MAJOR" is a new baseball game for wii that has released on 11th. But It has horrorble bugs and people reported each other what they found and experience. I laughed at this news "A new super poor baseball game MAJOR for wii". This is web translated, but it works fine, read it, it's so funny. This game is on sale in Amazon by 5500yen, review rate is so low of course. I found some bug movie here, enjoy it.

Neck! Neck! This is horror

Everything is wrong!

Cup Noodle light

Very cute and funny video. "Western spagetti".

Another great one from foreign video. Big paper Gundam.

Finally Nissin will released Cup Noodle light, regular one and see food one. Normal Cup Noodle has 364kcal. Of them, fried noodle part is 310kcal. Nissin uses Air dry method for noodle instread of oil and also add fiber in center of noodle, so Cup Noodle light has only 198kcal. It will be release in 5th Jan, I want to try them. And I didn't know Glico released Pocky light. I will try it tonight.

food fraud

This is great! Jingle bell" Jingle bell!

I found some interesting foreign posts and news.
Did you see this? The world's smartest mouse. The mouse seems to enjoy that obstacle course, it's great. "Burglar who picked the 'wrong' house" is a mysterious story. The house has some spiritual power? Or is on some holy spot? I laughed a lot when I read this one: "Helpdesk need help." When I was a PC beginner, I deleted all the configuration systems and system files because I didn't create them and I needed to save hard disk space (we were so nervous, right?).

This is a nice idea. You can determine foods' freshness with these labels. The Japanese designed this stuff, since we have had a lot of food issues like this and this. Today, we have this news (web translated). The photo on the label was not of farmers who made bamboo, but were of employees of a can factory. This food issue did not occur in Japan, but is a news item from Korea: in Korea, when you eat meat in restaurant, you get a lot of free small side dishes (banchan). Actually, I like them more than the main dish, but it was found that they were leftovers from other customers, so some Korean people started a "No leftover food" campaign.

Japanese is tasty?

Aha ha ha ha. This is a funny post: "Japanese people taste the best, whites are too salty!" Is this a fake news site?

I've seen some of these before, but I like this collection: "funny animal photos." I love this too: "come here." Look at the second photo, that dog is sooo cute. By the way, the cat is a tortoiseshell cat (a cat whose fur has three colors), it's very common in Japan but I read that it's rare in foreign countries.

The Japan toilet organization started the exhibition "Love for Toilet" in the department store Takashimaya. They are campaigning to save toilet paper. They have toilet paper poems and toilet paper art. If you like, you can set this as your wallpaper. I don't need it though.

imagawa-yaki?

KOKUYO released this Beetle-Tipped Pen. The pen has a strange tip that's shaped like a beetle's horns. You can draw three type of lines with it.

I read this news: in LA, the Japanese imagawa-yaki sweets shop "fulfilled" is hot and even Paris Hilton goes to eat there. The owner seems to be a Japanese guy, he creates imagawa-yaki based on his own ideas and makes up those funny names on the menu on purpose. Basically, imagawa-yaki is not a high class or fashionable dessert; it's more of a local, cheap type of sweets that are sold in food stalls or in small shops like juice stands.

Regular fillings are sweet azuki bean jam (anko), custard cream, chocolate cream, and sometimes cheese. Some shops have curry, shrimp chili or other savory fillings. I am very interested in this news, because we have many other sweets and snacks that I think American people would like: oyaki, takoyaki, rice cake (mochi), etc. Actually, rice cakes pair very well with cheese! Is it hard to open a small food stall in the US? Would I need to get a license to have one? Tell me if you have some information please!
This is the chart "top 10 countries by robot density." I can tell that Japan's industry is highly dependent upon robots. If there is a world-wide robot rebellion like in the movie "I, Robot," Japan would suffer the most damage.