I absolutely couldn't live without my satnav, I'd never get anywhere. I can't imagine how people manage with maps, even with sites like multimap - my satnav always knows exactly where I am and will redirect me if I go the wrong way. It knows when the...
I frequent DC.com mostly for the articles about Japan and Japanese culture. It's very interesting stuff. Incidentally, I browse exclusively via the RSS feed and never use any of the other ways of getting around the site. I don't enjoy the photo artic...
UK has 11 - the first two are always 01 or 02 for landlines and 07 for mobiles. No idea what 03-06 and 08 and 09 are used for. The next three are your area code, which is 452 for Gloucester and 162 for Leicester and so on. Then the next six numbers a...
Depends what I'm wearing. Most of the time I'm happy with a coat; I have an awesome army-surplus waterproof coat that absolutely destroys rain. But if you're suited up it's good to have a brolly - not one of those weak fold-up ones (they always seem...
Luckily here in the UK it's mostly "treat or no treat" - it's mostly 10-14 year olds and if you don't give them anything, they don't do anything. I normally just turn the lights off in the front of the house so they don't bug me ^_^
My monitor's 1680px wide, with about 1100-1400px for the body of webpages. Bring on the big photos! Could you perhaps include something to let people scale images though? A profile setting perhaps because auto-detecting that stuff always seems to bug...
I assume that's a joke, since Danny, who runs one of the biggest otaku blogs, is a very successful businessman in a country he's not from, with a language that he doesn't speak natively... it's an immense achievement for someone who sits in his room...
It's called the Streisand Effect, and it absolutely exists. Attempts to censor content are often more interesting than the content themselves in many cases, and people spreading it around leads to it spreading to many more people who ARE interested i...
This isn't an issue of crime prevention. Just like violence in video games, there's no consensus and accepted proof that games cause violent behaviour in otherwise normally-behaved people. Violet people play violent games because violence interests t...
Yeah, I use my card for everything! I wouldn't want to carry around big hunks of cash, anyway, in case I was robbed. Friend of mine's been mugged three times, once at gunpoint =/ And as for cinema annoyances - I normally just get them kicked out :P A...
I'd never have a shared bank account as my only account. I don't think it's an issue of trust, but rather about maintaining your independence. How would you buy a secret present for someone you shared a bank account with, for example? I absolutely HA...
One more thing - the member news thing that Mirai is shouting out animates MUCH too fast. I have just enough time to read one or two items on there and wonder whether I'd want to click them, and the rest are already gone. If I decide I do want to cli...
I'd never not pay if I was having a meal with a girl (or my mum :P), otherwise I'd pay my share or take turns. I was out for a meal the other day with a big bunch of friends, about 15 or so people. Each of us had a starter at about £6ish and a main a...
Got an account here specifically to reply to this post ;) I found you via BoingBoing. I'm not really interested in Japan specifically, I'm quite curious about just about anything. I've watched plenty of anime, but because I think they're entertaining...
