Koichi Toyama, the man who ran for governor of Tokyo and became a YouTube celebrity through his speeches calling for the destruction of Japan, is back! Now he’s got something to say about the presidential election in the United States: And for those of you who missed it, his famous Tokyo gubernatorial election speech:

Yesterday, there was a photo of Ollie using what was believed to be a DM9, and last night, Dye posted a video of the new DM9, though I didn’t notice since I was too busy playing Spore, which is awesome by the way. The video just consists of fading/focusing shots of the marker followed by the features, which most seem to be patent pending. Thanks for letting me know Dye; I was planning on copying ...

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It’ll probably last about a week. The island of Tristan da Cunha and its surrounding archipelago are located in the southern Atlantic ocean, 2816 km from the nearest continent, making it the most remote island in the world! Tristan da Cunha is a dependency of the British overseas territory Saint Helena, and also a live volcanic island. The main settlement, ...

The trailer for Kevin Smith's new film Zack and Miri Make a Porno is out and it looks friggin' hilarious!Snootchie bootchies!BTW, NSF!

Police in Izu responded to a report of a possible corpse in the woods by dispatching an investigation team: Fifteen officers were dispatched to the scene, where they discovered a human form wrapped in plastic and tightly bound around the neck, midriff and ankles, with hair protruding from one end. The body was left untouched and taken away for examination, and the crime scene duly secured by a police cordon. Back at the local police ...

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren’t just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world’s largest monthly computer publication! The article went live this morning and we think you might be interested in it - it’s called 10 Amazing Google Earth Add-Ons, and in it we detail 10 user-generated overlays, visualisations and data-feeds that in our infinite ...

Google has launched their own Web browser called Google Chrome. The public beta, which will be available Tuesday morning for Windows only, is based in part on Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox. It promises it's own Javascript Virtual Machine, a new Tab method, and much more. You can read more about it here. Google states that a Mac and Linux version of their open-source browser is on the way. Advertisement:

With fast food joints offering a limited soft drink menu of usually Coke, Diet Coke, Orange, 7up and Root Beer (or their Pepsi “equivalents”) sometimes the only way to keep drink options interesting is with the classic “suicide,” (mixing them all). Well now, Coca Cola is poised to introduce a Fountain Machine that will dispense soft drinks with up to 100 flavor combinations. What’s advantageous to store owners is that they won’t have to redesign ...

Rumors have abounded that Amazon has been poised to release a new version of the Kindle. Amazon is reported squelching such rumors by saying a new version wifi enabled e-book reader are unfounded. The rumor going around was that Amazon was planning a stripped down, cheaper version aimed at the student market. The idea being that with more universities opting for PDF copies instead of expensive books for students, that an eBook reader would be ...

Earlier this year, we reported on a cool gadget by RED called the Scarlet, which will bring ultra high resolution video to the consumer market based on the commercial RED ONE camera which has turned the filmmaking world upside down. Well, not content to rest on their digital laurels, RED has set it’s sites on a new market … digital SLRs. Dropping a nuclear bomb into REDs user forums, Red CEO, Jim Jannard recently announced ...

This post is an expansion on a one I wrote during discussion over at our creative writing role-playing game, Escaping Reality. Feel free to drop by the game boards. Writing fiction can be an amazing adventure and a fantastic release from real life. But characters can also create chaos in your life. They’re creatures from your mind. You thought them up. You made them what they are. What happens when you feel like you’re just ...

Lesley Downer, an author known for her books about geisha, has an article in the Telegraph today about Japanese companies that specialize in making divorces easier by setting adultery traps for spouses: In Japan, if you have the money you can sort out virtually any problem in your love life. If you want to get rid of an unwanted spouse, retrieve a straying one, get back with an ex or even get together with someone ...

Gustav, the category 4 hurricane threatening the gulf coast, is spawning theological implications. Left-wing filmmaker, Michael Moore, recently claimed that the category 4 hurricane coming ashore during the Republican national convention is, and I quote, “Proof There Is a God in Heaven.” RepentAmerican.com, however, saw Hurricane Katrina as a judgment from God upon “South Decadence,” a raucous homosexual gathering that meets each Labor Day weekend in New Orleans. (Their events were cut short this year.) ...

Duke officials were a bit surprised when, at 6 p.m. Saturday, about an hour before the scheduled kickoff of their game against James Madison, two men parachuted into Wallace Wade Stadium and landed with a game ball. Problem was, the Blue Devils weren't expecting it. North Carolina was scheduled to receive the game ball for its contest against McNeese State via an aerial team at about that time in Chapel Hill. (Raleigh News & Observer)

Former North Carolina track star and 2004 Olympics Gold Medalist Crystal Cox will be a member of the cast for the 17th season of Survivor this fall. Cox captured the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics while a member of the 4x400 meter relay team and will be one of 18 contestants on the show that premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. (Tar Heel Blue)

I wish YouTube (or an equivalent video streaming site) had the Spongebob Squarepants episode, The Sponge Who Could Fly. If you thought Nickelodeon couldn’t get anymore shameless with Rock Bottom, think again! As there are no clips, I will have to summarize to the best of my abilities. Before the episode begins, Patchy the Pirate (played by Tom Kenny, the American Steve Blum) is given a map (via a brick through his window) revealing the ...

Two of the biggest names in the English language Japan blogosphere, Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku and Jean Snow of JeanSnow.net, have teamed up to create a book about Japanese Arcades and gaming culture: As you can see from the image, the book is called Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan’s Game Centers. It covers a wide variety of Japanese game types, such as: Crane Games (claw machines!) Sticker-Picture Machines (purikura) Rhythm Games (DDR & ...

Some footage of a group of about 90 baby sea turtles being released after an aquarium in Chiba Prefecture protected and cared for some wild sea turtle eggs:

Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has applied for a patent for a multi touch screen interface for laptop computers. This move makes the long awaited, and bi-annually rumored, MacTablet computer one step closer. And it’s all thanks to the iPhone, isn’t it? The iPhone brought the multi touch interface to the world and it has taken that world by storm. Is Cupertino now looking to expand it (Literarlly) into a MacTablet? Most of the ...

Always ones to do something completely ridiculous to demonstrate something, Mythbusters build a 1100 barrel paintball gun to paint the Mona Lisa. They used it, and a single gun attached to a robot, to show the differences between a CPU and GPU, or more precisely single-core to multi-core processors. It’s not really a good explanation, but it does look cool. Mythbusters Build 1100 Barrel Paintball Gun - Paintball