Archive for March, 2009
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090328-00000563-yom-soci
愛知県半田市の市立中学校で、１年生の男子生徒１１人が、担任で妊娠中の女性教諭を「流産させる会」をつくり、この女性教諭の給食に異物を混ぜるなど悪質な嫌がらせを繰り返していたことが２８日、わかった。
このニュースを目にしたとき、酷い不快感を覚えた。
悲しさや怒りを通り越して、恐怖と憎しみに似たものを感じた。
年齢が中学生だからだろうか。
もしこの騒動がどこかの会社で、
部下が上司に対してやっていた事だとしたら、僕はただあきれていただろう。
ただ、これからの日本を担っていく中学生がこういう騒動を起こした事に
僕は恐怖と憎しみを感じた。
イタズラとそうでないものの線引きは何処でするのだろうか。
So I’ve recently moved into a new apartment, and I haven’t had Internet in a while. Then today, I found out that there is free wifi in the lobby area of the apartment. So here I am. I am only surprised by how dependent I am on the Internet in collecting news and information.
Take a moment and think back on your daily life.
How much Internet do you use, and what other source of information do you have besides the Internet? (gossips not included) How much of those information do you take seriously, and how much of those information influence your actions?
I feel like information is like water:
Some take it for granted, some are deprived from it. We suffer in the lack thereof, but we drown in its excess.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/worldclassic2009/index
This was by far the most exciting baseball game I have ever seen.
Congratulations Japan,and Thank you Korea for a great ball game.
Who would have exepcted that homerun on the bottom on 9th?
Korea is no doubt one heck of a team.
Wow. Ok. Back to work.
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日本、WBC２大会連続制覇！！！
いやぁ、過去にこんなにしびれる試合は見た事無かった！
最高の試合だった。
やっぱり韓国の執念というか粘り強さは違うね。
９回、あの場面で同点まで持ち込まれるなんて思わなかった。
日本、韓国、最高の試合をありがとう！
»Rights group: 1,000 seized in Gambia ‘witch-hunt’
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/18/gambia.amnesty.witchcraft/index.html
Around 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia have been locked up in secret detention centers and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, according to human rights organization Amnesty International.
Thousands of people are deprived of their freedom for the weakness of a man who cannot overcome the death of his aunt. I understand it’s sad, but come on Mr. President, witches? Really?
»Pope tells Africa ‘condoms wrong’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7947460.stm
HIV/Aids was, he argued, “a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem”. The solution lay, he said, in a “spiritual and human awakening” and “friendship for those who suffer”…While in Africa, the pontiff is expected to talk to young people about the Aids epidemic and explain to them why the Catholic Church recommends sexual abstinence as the best way to prevent the spread of the disease.
The Pope, in fact, made a very good point when he mentioned “friendship for those who suffer.” This sort of mindset is the basis for community-based support service, and I fully support that position. However, when it comes to saying “Condoms? No. Just don’t have sex,” I think he is lacking practicality. If it was that easy, AIDS wouldn’t have shown this much of a spread in the first place.
Probably one of the very first online campaign that uses just the annotation boxes to make an animation. The client is BEAMS, a major casual wear company in Japan, and the creator is Shingo Ohno form W+K Tokyo.
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Youtubeのアノテーション機能だけを用いたバイラルアニメーションムービー。クライアントはBEAMSで、クリエーターはW+K Tokyoの大野真吾さん。アノテーションだけをアニメーションにしたオンラインキャンペーンは世界初（かな？）
Building the electronic sensor components from scratch, Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort managed to send their heavy duty £43 latex balloon to the edge of space and take readings of its ascent.
Woot!
Bravo for their creativity and the willingess to challenge.
This is a series of TV spot campaign, by the Transport for London, to cause awareness for cyclist safety. Very simple message, very simple creative, and a very powerful aftereffect. I love simplicity. It’s so easy to understand, and therefore has a lasting impact.
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ロンドン交通局による、運転手のサイクリストへの注意を喚起するテレビコマーシャルキャンペーン。シンプルなメッセージとシンプルなクリエイティブだからこそ、分かり易くとても強い驚きが心に残った。やっぱり、シンプルって素晴らしい。
