Day: February 18, 2004

It’s IMDB… for Japanese movies! Rule!

It’s in Shift-JIS format, if you can’t read it.
Web link of note: Japanese Movie Database
(At http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/)

Click on your state to see how your primary works. California’s seems especially pointless:

Modified closed primary

After a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declared the state’s open primary system
unconstitutional, California set up a “modified” closed primary. A voter can mar
k any party’s primary ballot, but only votes cast by registered party members co
unt toward the official tally.

Web link of note: CNN: How does the primary work?
(At http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/special/president/primary.explainer/frameset.ex
clude.html)

Dan is really into “Humppa” lately- a Finnish rock style. He’s playing a lot of it on KALX.

Except as it turns out, what he’s playing isn’t even real humppa. The real humppa is a Finnish jazz/(polka?) music genre. Investigating this, I got two music genres in one… although I still don’t speak Finnish.

DANH: apparently the band i have been listening to is a parody of real humppaa
BRIAN: woah
DANH: real humpaa is traditional old people dance in Finland
DANH: someone said real humppa is way more insane

From a post on orkut:

Real humppa 2/1/2004 11:35 PM

The real humppa is a very serious thing – it’s a dance quite like waltz or tang
o and there are many people that are passionately into it, but they’re mostly ol
der people.

Eläkeläiset is a parody of the real humppa. Actually it’s even more – it’s a parody of old people’s traditional lifestyle in Finland.

DANH: i would upload a ton of humpaa but my upload rate is slow

You can make a map of the countries in the world you’ve visited, the states in the US you’ve visited, or the countries in Europe you’ve visited. Savable as a .gif file for inclusion in your blog!
Web link of note: Make a “Countries I’ve Visited” Map (World 66)
(At http://www.world66.com/myworld66)

The whole first part is Jamie Kennedy talking about how “Crazy” he and his family are. Weak.

However, once he gets going, his accounts of struggling for years is pretty great.

He also makes a good pitch of his show, “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” which I totally would have watched if someone had explained the concept to me. It just looked like a lame prank show… but the writing philosophy was more interesting- they deliberately set up situations where the mark’s ethics would be put to the test. Bad marketing!

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