Write upside down

On 2010-04-05, in pop culture, by kurt

Recently, an amusing phenomenon came up on Facebook: a page that claimed to let you type words upside down. But when I actually followed the link later on, I found it led you to a gaming website. But I discovered the Unicode characters they were using to generate the upside down characters, which would be easy enough to enter manually.

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Phones and life in Japan

On 2009-10-12, in pop culture, by kurt

Anyone who’s spent time in Japan — any at all — recognizes the importance of mobile phones in today’s Japanese lifestyle. Wherever you go, whether it be on the train, walking along the street or waiting for a bus, you’ll see people around you staring fixedly into their little folding window to the world, which [...]