Stupid comment-box encoding not working properly for double-byte whatnots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel_Shift_JIS_art has plenty of examples of hardcore Japanese emoticon action.
It's probably worth noting that the examples given in #4 aren't used so much by actual Asian people as much as by white people who wish they were Asian. (^^) and m(_ _)m are roughly the most common ones in Japan among normal people. Computer-nerdy types tend to use the expanded character set provided by the double-byte characters required for a language that needs more than 256 different characters in a font, so Cyrillic letters show up a lot, such as (,,???).
Good god. Apple includes one with the iPhone (and a much better looking one, to boot). When someone is charging more than Apple for an item that doesn't look as good (a replacement iPhone power-to-USB adapter is $30), there's a critical step in your plan missing.
For what it's worth, water that's been heated up AND ALLOWED TO COOL BACK DOWN to a comparable temperature will freeze faster than water of that temperature that was never heated, but that's only because heating the water removes dissolved gases. It also provides you with far less cloudy ice.
I just happen to find political cartoons kind of annoying in an RSS feed. Yes, I usually agree with them, but to be perfectly honest there hasn't been a time I can remember where I felt poorer for having avoided editorial cartoons.
If you're posting these, you might as well start posting photos of interesting rocks you saw on the way to work. There's absolutely nothing special about political cartoons that we can't find on our own if we cared.
Would you prefer a brain-dead "ZOMG OJ IS GUILTY HE IS BLACK ALSO MICHAEL JACKSON MUST MOLEST CHILDREN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS WEIRD AND KIND OF CREEPY" or something?
I'm not too certain why I'm getting worked up about it, but it really is kind of a waste of your time to post these when it's ridiculously easy to find them somewhere that they DON'T stick out like a sore, out-of-appropriate-context thumb.
In summary: Political cartoons from 1906, archived on the internet? Potentially interesting. Political cartoons from 2006, taken from the front page of a different web site? Why even bother?
I've put up with it all until now, but seriously, enough with the editorial cartoons. Regardless of whether someone shares your politics, the "neat" part of "Neatorama" is being progressively diluted by your politics. If I wanted to read this sort of stuff, I'd just check the aggregator at slate.com.
On the other hand, about 10–15 minutes' walk from the castle is perhaps the best ramen shop in Fukui prefecture, so that's cool, I guess.
Sounds like America, all right.
For what it's worth, water that's been heated up AND ALLOWED TO COOL BACK DOWN to a comparable temperature will freeze faster than water of that temperature that was never heated, but that's only because heating the water removes dissolved gases. It also provides you with far less cloudy ice.
If you're posting these, you might as well start posting photos of interesting rocks you saw on the way to work. There's absolutely nothing special about political cartoons that we can't find on our own if we cared.
Would you prefer a brain-dead "ZOMG OJ IS GUILTY HE IS BLACK ALSO MICHAEL JACKSON MUST MOLEST CHILDREN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS WEIRD AND KIND OF CREEPY" or something?
I'm not too certain why I'm getting worked up about it, but it really is kind of a waste of your time to post these when it's ridiculously easy to find them somewhere that they DON'T stick out like a sore, out-of-appropriate-context thumb.
In summary: Political cartoons from 1906, archived on the internet? Potentially interesting. Political cartoons from 2006, taken from the front page of a different web site? Why even bother?