Ekkusaito comments

Maybe in Japan where I see many a parent smacking their kid on the head.

DNA evidence? Fingerprints surely.

Last year I put a little wind chime (風鈴) next to the window in my living room. You would never have guessed it was 38 degrees with 90% humidity.

@export expert. Solar panels still work in the rain.

Amory Lovins has a good TED talk "A 40 year plan for Energy". He talks a lot about the power of invention.

I'm going to bitterly complain and immediately go back to browsing it complacently.

I hope this didn't happen in Kawagoe.

Italy dominated the game, hit the woodwork 2 or 3 times, scored (albeit offside). England's best chance to score was the penalty shootout. Even if we had of won, the Germans would have turned us over easily in the semis. I do like Roy Hodgson though and think he should be judged after the world cup.

@SquidBert. Interesting to know. Thanks.

As we've heard many a time, Norwegian prisons are based around rehabilitation rather than punishment and are viewed as "holiday camps" by some. If one truly wanted to punish Breivik, then perhaps throwing him in a mental institution would be the harshest sentence. A sane man being pumped full of drugs he doesn't need, listening to the screams of the insane day in and day out, will not stay sane for long. I can think of few thing more torturous.

*legal sense not lawful.

Marijuana should be legalised. Then it can be safely regulated, crime will be reduced, governments receive tax income. Legalisation also means it will be harder for underage kids to get it as you would need ID to buy it in the same way as alcohol and cigarettes. Then people wouldn't have to resort to these man made/chemical "herbs" or bath salts which send people crazy. Legalisation makes lawful and economic sense.

paulinusaJUN. 20, 2012 - 09:08AM JST Why is the center area left blank on some of these guys?

I believe it's because that area is sometimes visible through the space in between the buttons of your shirt.

tjguyJUN. 20, 2012 - 08:31AM JST I'm sorry, but to me that is just plain old ugly!

The subject of tattoos is always going to be divisive but I think they are fantastic.

Anyway this was a good article and anyone interested in Japanese tattoos should really check out more of Horiyoshi's work.

Japan has been very stabby lately. Quite worrying.

At first glance I thought he was passed out drunk. We've all been there right? Right??

SEX JOKE

a story that explores the origins of teenager Peter Parker and how he became a superhero.

I thought Sam Raimi's Spider-Man already did this.

I agree with others, Honda was man of the match for me. The ref tried his best to ruin the game.

When David Cameron says "We're all in this together", he's clearly not talking about the family Range Rover on the way home.

You would expect Tim Cahill start as he usually does the business against Japan.

Very brave attempt.

tokyokawasaki: Religious delusions have no place in government. It is sick an nauseating to think that religion has anyplace in the modern world we live in....

My thoughts exactly. NOt only that but any (US) candidate showing signs of being non-religious is immediately rendered unelectable.

They should have compromised and called themselves "7 o'clock in the Evening".

LUV U MILEY YR IN MY HART 4EVA!!

kurisupisu So when can I put one on my roof ?????

Probably never. The cells are designed for concentrated photovoltaic systems which are huge.

Nobody "suffers" the munchies.

@Fadamor A generator in the truck I would think.

@Debucho. I saw a woman with two dogs in a pram last weekend. Almost dropped my chuhai.

@swingaway. Yep Allen Carr's book did it for me too. Been smoke free for a year, after smoking 20-30 a day for 14 years.

The dressing up of dogs is one of my pet peeves...