Hey everyone! As you all know, a new post hasn’t graced the frontpage of SparkPlugged in quite some time. For that I apologize and thank you for sticking around long enough to read this.
I’ve been so busy with college stuff these days. I won’t bore you with the details, but assignments are limiting my [...]
If you’ve ever wanted to be a sushi bar tycoon, here’s your chance.
“Sushi Go Round” is a fun game on Miniclip.com that has you, the player making and selling sushi to your customers.
Its combination of delightfully cute pixel graphics and increasingly fast-paced gameplay make “Sushi Go Round” pretty addicting. As far as flash games [...]
SparkPlugged has recently featured album art a couple times. Well, here’s more.
A fan has his collection of 60’s & 70’s Asian pop record covers online. David Greenfield’s collection features some 130 Asian pop record covers. The collection consists of records from the 60’s and 70’s from Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand.
I must [...]
SparkPlugged’s quick guide to typing Korean
It’s one thing to write Korean but if you’re like me, you want to be able to type it.
The problem: The placement of Korean letters on keyboards is not the same as QWERTY keyboards. The order of the letters is different and not equivilent to the Latin alphabet. [...]
Full wrap-around advertisements on public buses is nothing new. Some catch your eye and others don’t. But there are some that really stand out. These ads don’t use the bus’s flat walls as simple canvases; rather they [...]
Free Photoshop brushes are a great thing. They are little clippings of artwork for you to use in your projects. While overuse of these brushes is evident and looks silly, a good Photoshop brush can add depthcharacter to many projects. [...]
Well, maybe I’ve been “out of the loop” for a little too long but I ask this: What the hell happened to Tofu Records?They’ve seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth (Earth in this case = internet). Those great guys that were dedicated [...]
One of the most poignant stories that I’ve read recently was the short story, On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning by the great Japanese author Haruki Murakami. 1500 words (approx.) have never moved me so much. The story about lost love [...]
Having trouble finding the guitar chords or tabs for some of your favorite Japanese songs? I know I did…until I found XXX SOUND, a Japanese guitar chord/tab site.
It’s been one of my favorite secrets until now, so I’ll share it if you don’t already know of it. XXX SOUND is a Japanese site that [...]
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you didn’t know the title of?
The folks and midomi.com are here to help you. While it’d be most useful for them to somehow magically erase the tune from your mind, they do the other best thing: help you find out the name of [...]
