http://www.mutantfrog.com Photos, Stories and articles on East Asia Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:28:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm about to take a short weekend trip down to Taichung, the most central and third largest city in Taiwan. I'll probably be back Sunday afternoon, but then I have a translation project to finish so I'll likely be incommunicado until Monday. http://www.mutantfrog.com/2005/06/30/going-to-taichung/ I've tried a couple of RSS readers briefly but haven't found anything that I really loved. I know a lot of you reading this are using various RSS programs, so what would you recommend? For reference I'm running Windows, so don't bother with any software that only runs on other ... http://www.mutantfrog.com/2005/06/30/rss/ The Japanese cell phone provider Tu-ka has just announced an interesting new phone, designed by Kyocera, with the unique distinguishing feature of being as featureless as possible. Looking at his phone you may be wondering where the LCD screen and half the controls are. You may be wondering if I haven't ... http://www.mutantfrog.com/2005/06/30/tu-kas-new-cell-phone-for-the-elderly/ Normally I wouldn't post something I spotted on Boingboing, but any readers that haven't seen it will appreciate this. Because the lousy HTML on the original site has the images blown up to twice their normal size and correspondingly pixelated and ugly, I've just posted them inline here. http://www.mutantfrog.com/2005/06/30/anti-japan-wwii-propaganda-posters/