A central aesthetic principle in Japan is simplicity, but it is different from simplicity in the West. Let me explain the difference by comparing cooking knives. The knives made by the German company, Henckel, for example, are well crafted and easy to.

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Come, sweet death

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Found this in the end of a TED video . Of course it’s an IBM self-promotion, but if it works, yey! More cities should think about it.

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I am currently in the process of migrating all the websites I have running on this VPS from apache2 to nginx. The Apache2+passenger bundle was working really fine, except for some unknown slowness with redmine , but I wanted to try another httpd and...

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Portuguese band Clã coverig Golden Skans from Klaxons. Images from the 1982 video Vicent, from Tim Burton. Also check their cover of The Beautiful People during SXSW .

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