What a fantastic time in Japan. Paraphrasing J. Ramirez-Escudero it’s the memetic equivalent of the Galapagos Islands.

Notes from Japan: use your camera to text and walk.

Notes from Japan: there is no need for trashcans in a clean country.

Notes from Japan: ancient wisdom still applies.

Poor Twitter, only getting bad press lately.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-new-twitter-replies-are-giving-me-an-ulcer Trying out Mastodon, looks fantastic.

Notes from Japan: purikura

Notes from Japan: Akihabara is the Gomorrah of geeks. You will never find a more wretched hive of anime and arcades.

Global investment firm uses an advertising firm to create a faux work of guerrilla art to subvert real guerrilla art
https://gregfallis.com/2017/04/14/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point/

Just finished ThimbleweedPark & about to start it again -just like with a great movie or book. We need more games like that. We need MI3a.

In the century of recommender systems, Serendipity ought to be carefully programmed.