Welcome to the fifty-ninth edition of the What Japan Thinks
newsletter.
Site stories
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Favourite dead people:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/13/talking-to-dead-people/
Radio advertising:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/14/radio-advertising-in-japan/
Phone usage:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/15/mobile-fixed-line-and-public-ph...
Views on society:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/16/society-in-the-japan-of-2008-pa...
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/17/society-in-the-japan-of-2008-pa...
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/19/society-in-the-japan-of-2008-pa...
My favourite of the week!
PLC:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/04/19/plc-awareness-and-usage-in-japan/
Statistics
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One in ten Scottish 15 year-olds on the wacky backy:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2206561.0.Alarm_as_s...
Other news
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Vitamin pills kill (perhaps):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7349980.stm
A and E and beta-carotene are perhaps not that good for you. I don't
think I take these except through a multi-vit pill, although I suspect
the whole business is pretty much unnecessary as we usually eat a good
balanced diet, but wifey orders it...
Not illegal to call baldies "slaphead":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/73505...
Blogging
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Went through the one million page view mark on Friday! Yay my blog!
Arghh! AdSense is really utterly useless and getting worse! I'll have
to do something to get it to perform better, but I can't think what.
However, the modification I mentioned a few weeks back, about adding a
Search option above the fold, seems to have increased my number of
searches a little, so that makes a few more cents.
I had some good surveys this week but few comments, so that was a bit
depressing.
I might do this newsletter as a Podcast next week. I thought of doing
it today, but I didn't have the free time I thought I would have.
And finally
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COMMY
SCREW ANCHOR
Close Cover Before Striking
COMMY WILL!
Where Screws Won't Hold
I'm sitting opposite someone in the train with a baseball cap with a
patch on it with the above written on it. Engrish, don't you just love
it?