I’m willing to take back my earlier criticisms of Colorzip codes after seeing this gallery. The artistic possibilities are amazing!

If you were lucky enough to come by in the last couple of days, you may have noticed a brief appearance of Uniqlo’s fantastic Uniqlock on this page. It’s available as a Flash badge (2 sizes), and a screensaver, but you can test-drive the magic on their main page itself. Simply, it’s a neatly designed Flash clock, with music by the Fantastic Plastic Machine, that plays short clips of fresh-faced Japanese dancing girls every 5 seconds. They do a quirky mix of hand puppetry, ballet, and Jazz dance routines, and it’s simply mesmerizing. At work the other day, a couple of us just watched the damned clock for 10 minutes straight.

But the Uniqlock is gone now, because it was an unwieldy size for a webpage such as this. (RSS readers, do come by now and then!)

It’s a Web 2.0 age (Web 2,0 for the French), and this creaky old design with its non-standard, non-semantic web HTML – 382 validation errors and counting – just doesn’t have what it takes to keep the young kids entertained anymore. Why, just last night I learnt of the existence of tumblelogs! Have you heard of them? I sure as hell hadn’t! Suddenly, I understood how the great unwashed computer-illiterate masses feel, and it was the most unpleasant second of my life.

And so, in the grand tradition we have here of overcompensation by kneejerk reaction towards uncharted waters, I give you:
1) Larger, lovelier type.
2) blast!

Powered by the very nice tumblr system (Kevin Rose and Merlin Mann use it), this new channel/brand/flavor of my sangsara.net service/gift/blessing will deliver all short-form posts from here on out.

It’s simple:
Links, conversations, photos, tweets, YouTube videos, and short grunts – blast!
Long meandering posts, essays, reviews, complaints and grievances – blog.

Bonus: I’ve also added a handy link for visitors on mobile devices. It’s powered by Skweezer and trims all the fat off the blog page. Find it at m.sangsara.net.

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A hotline phone in every home!, originally uploaded by sangsara.

Spotted at yesterday’s Loof sale event. The utilitarianism of communism, the fantastic plastic ur-fashion of Chinese manufacturing.

Until I can choose to take legal action, that is.

One of my photos has been cyber-pilfered for use on a recipe site here. The recipe (in Spanish) describes a risotto that must be quite close to the awfully delicious one I ate shortly after taking the photo. If anyone translates and produces anything from the recipe, do let me know how it went.

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Ridiculously bad ad, originally uploaded by sangsara.

Are you ready for the Akihabara Liberation Demonstration June 30th? – JapanSugoi

This is truly amazing. A coalition of Otakus from 3 hilariously named groups will be marching through Akiba tomorrow (1.5km) to reclaim the territory that is rightfully theirs. All walls between the disparate disciplines of cosplay, manga, computer geekery, and flat-out weirdness will be torn down for this historic event. Check out the pictures!

And thus begins a new, and possibly-shortlived chapter of this blog. A new daily post entitled, Word on the Internet of the Day (Wotid).

It lends itself very well to funny Cockney accents. Without further ado, Wotid is today is Penguins.

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Afro Samurai DVD, originally uploaded by sangsara.

Pirated DVD with blurb for another movie, Ghost in the Shell:Innocence.

Makes fantastic claims of “Final Fighting!!!” and implies entertainment AND resonance, unlike Innocence.