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The iPod Goyaboy Shuffle
What do the new iPod Shuffle and Goyablog have in common? Their vibrant green color. My first look at Apple’s iPod Shuffle page flashed Goyablog to me. The unpredictable lime-green-yellow (what is that color anyway?) used in the background of the ad looked so close to that of Goyablog that I suspected Apple stole [...]
All of the People with Whom I Had Some Interaction Today, the 43rd Anniversary of the Day of My Birth
Presented in chronological order:
1. Safa Figal (my six-year-old daughter; live)
2. Ruth Rogaski (my wife; live)
3. Devin Fergus (colleague; email)
4. Leah Holland (neighbor; live)
5. Taryn Jeffreys (bank clerk; live)
6. Receptionist at Vanderbilt Student Recreation Center (live)
7. Peter Lorge (colleague and racquetball partner; live)
8. Janitor at Vanderbilt Student Recreation Center (live)
9. Dan Usner (colleague and chair of [...]
Day of Birth, Day of Mourning
It’s my bad luck to have my birthday (thanks mom!) on inauguration day. While Repugnicans have their gaudy celebration of GWB’s second term, I am in mourning. This “president” has done more to kill the United States of America—as idea and physical reality—than any other president to date, and he’s taken down a good deal [...]
メイドイン琉球 (Made in Ryukyu)
East Wind T-Shirt Label
“Okinawa” is now a brand. Not the word itself, but the idea. In the summer 2004 issue of the Okinawa mag ちゃんぷるー (Champroo—their romanization, not mine) there’s an interesting article,「沖縄は、いまブランド王国へ」, on the designers behind the recent boom in what I would call gourmet and boutique neo-Ryukyu goods. [...]