ca1ic0cat said...

ca1ic0cat at 02:46 AM JST - 18th March

Kim Jong Il looking for brandy, I'll bet. It's the freaking huge sunglasses and the sickly looking face that are the giveaway. Nasty knife to threaten with too. Guess he couldn't get a nuke under the hoodie.

I hope they catch the guy. I can only imagine what the clerk…

Posted in Wanted at 02:46 AM JST - 18th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:20 PM JST - 17th March

The poor kanuks got their apology as an afterthought to the apology to the US. That's going to chafe....

Posted in Toyota apologizes to Canadian car owners at 09:20 PM JST - 17th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:17 PM JST - 17th March

That place will certainly suck the cash right out of your bank account. But the life blood? Dunno. Maybe it has something to do with the type of people it attracts.

Posted in The rise and fall of the Roppongi Hills 'tribe' at 09:17 PM JST - 17th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:02 PM JST - 16th March

Yeah, right. The way this works in China is you send the software / hardware and they make the copies...

Posted in Japan, China to fight copyright piracy at 09:02 PM JST - 16th March
ca1ic0cat at 10:10 AM JST - 16th March

Yep, we're from the government, we're here to help.

Posted in Iran bans leading pro-reform political party at 10:10 AM JST - 16th March
ca1ic0cat at 10:09 AM JST - 16th March

I suppose he would have been safer in Afghanistan then. But obviously the Pakistanis don't take orders from Karzai.

Posted in Karzai 'very angry' at Taliban boss' arrest at 10:09 AM JST - 16th March
ca1ic0cat at 10:02 AM JST - 16th March

More publicity? Not much more, really. It won't much matter to anybody and he's just going to get to meet some of the less savory locals...

Posted in Detained activist says he boarded whaling ship to arrest captain at 10:02 AM JST - 16th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:27 PM JST - 15th March

Freedom of expression is one thing. But if the material is depicting criminal activity as being normal then you have to wonder about the motives. I am still amazed that men actually read smut (well, what I would call smut) in public. If you are going to subject my wife…

Posted in Cartoonists oppose new regulation on sexual expressions in comics at 09:27 PM JST - 15th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:08 PM JST - 15th March

This falling off the platform bit is really getting old. Seems like it never used to happen ten years ago. I wonder what is going on.

Posted in Man falls from Ueno station platform but avoids oncoming train at 09:08 PM JST - 15th March
ca1ic0cat at 09:07 PM JST - 15th March

What I would like to see is a paper that details every incident of unintended acceleration, the investigation and the result. The rest is just speculation. It would appear that both Sikes and Toyota have some explaining to do.

Posted in Mystery over runaway Prius in Calif deepens at 09:07 PM JST - 15th March