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In the grand tradition of year end top-ten lists, here's the top ten most clicked-on and linked posts of this blog for 2008. That's ...

Beginning of the holidays and amazingly life manages to become more, not less, hectic. Anyway, a recent nugget of news from a Swedish paper ...

Traditional Japanese Christmas cake. Traditional Japanese Christmas fried chicken. Really, it's no stranger than any of all the other od...

Below a sample picture set of a poodle that has been boldly groomed where no poodle has been groomed before: Creative Grooming Awards I'...

Pro Baseball Material? From Slate, an interesting take on the automation of manufacturing . While people in the US (and Japan) worry a lot ...

The New Year is coming up, and one tradition is to eat soba noodles. Soba is a common kind of noodle in Japan, along with udon and ramen. Th...