Said November 2008
12th
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Elsewhere
wp-Hyphenate
A clever Wordpress plugin that embeds soft-hyphens and zero-space entities in your text providing browsers with the cues necessary to successfully hyphenate words. hyph-n.com has a dingus to try it out if you don’t use Wordpress.
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13th
Writing
Elsewhere
Quarter Pounder
McDonald’s serves up gaijin-size Quarter Pounders (and Double Quarter Pounders—and that’s it) sans branding. Intriguing. Of course, it’s still just a Quarter Pounder.
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14th
Writing
Elsewhere
The Future of Japanese Food
No doubt exacerbated by the aforelinked Quarter Pounder and its kin of “gourmet” versions of familiar Western chains.
Art Space Tokyo
A gorgeous guide to twelve intimate art spaces around Tokyo (designed by Craig Mod, most recently of Everymoment Now). I purchased my ticket to Ghibli this morning.