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Yen, slow down! Or dollar, strengthen up! The Yen continues upward. It hit a record 75.95 yen for a moment which is a record. This basically means that the dollar is weak in Japan, thus preventing imports and tourism. The typical 110 to a dollar is far off. So when you see pricey imports from Japan, you’ll understand (Mainichi – yen)
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Sad times when an epic disaster that’s somewhat on par with 9/11 gets used in a chant against someone else in sports. Imagine if it were a 9/11 pun, would anyone in America stand for it? The soccer match was actually halted which is a miracle, but the damage was done. To be helpful in understanding, isn’t Van Damme from Belgium? Ah, that makes sense! (Washington Post – Belgian Soccer)
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No photo of the book has surfaced, but it’s amazing that there’s now a fake biography about the Apple Chairman. What’s next? It’s Apple season in China and all that’s missing is a fake Steve Jobs!
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It’s awesome that there’s help in Japan, but not awesome when there’s the late apologizing, radiation in rice, and the continuing gloomy news, yet there’s some help who’s in Japan cleaning up photos. They’re doing other things too, but they’ve so far cleaned up 55,000 photos and they have worldwide help to do the work. Imagine a world of Photoshop experts are able to help from home. The idea of why clean up photos is obvious. In a place where many lost everything, the memories that live on through a single photo is all they may have. (NPR – Tsunami Photos)
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At first it was almost innocent, but after getting their views up and getting popular online, the NMA news is just ridiculous. Great job on getting stuff done so fast, but pandas, lucha libre and more? Stupider. It’s less fun seeing the insane fiction, than seeing something that somewhat resembles the actual events. Still to something more real, please. [youtube]A5o6z1fXwRw[/youtube]
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