Quite a bit has happened so far this month dealing with the Space Race 2.0 or whatever you want to call the recent surge of interest.
First off is the most exciting, Google and the X Foundation just teamed up. They are offering $30 million in rewards for the first privately funded rover to get [...]

Skull hase been living up to his second single’s title “Here to Stay” while his other single still holds it down on the charts. But the “powerful voice for Korea may soon be silenced”.
Korean reggae artist Skull’s US debut single “Boom Di Boom Di” is still on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales — after [...]

The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, just announced his plans to resign, with less than 1 year in office. He stated political reasons; however, Abe was hospitalized shortly afterwards. How much of it was based on his health vs his political career remains to be seen.
His popularity as of recent has taken a [...]

Imagine if your PC had no hard disc drive. Instead, the hard drive would be a large flash memory chip.
I was recently amazed by Micro SD chips but this takes it to a new level. Samsung Electronics will begin shipping 64GB SSD (solid state drive) hard drives.
There’s no motor, no head and actuator, no disc. [...]

“Udedamashii” is a Japanese arcade game that will break your arm for only 100 yen. Wow, what a sweet deal!
An arm wrestling arcade machine broke a man’s arm as he played it. The man, a 25 year-old Korean is not alone since the machine also fractured the arms of a Japanese guy and a Frenchman. [...]

Korean reggae artist Skull has made a Billboard Top 10 chart in the US.
His debut US single “Boom Di Boom Di” most recently hit #10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hiphop Singles Sales chart. This comes as a pleasant surpise even to his management, YG Entertainment.

This is a great accomplishment for a Korean artist in America [...]

Have you ever dreamed about riding on a flying Giant Panda? Perhaps not, but thanks to ANA now you can. ANA has some of the prettiest planes in the sky when they’re painted regularly. But they have had some pretty great [...]

So pretty much the E3 2007 highlight for me is the latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The latest preview from Hideo Kojima and company is an 8-minute-plus cutscene movie — beautiful. [...]

I’m sure that many of us know by now about the death of James Kim. This tragedy is especially heart-felt for me since I knew of him and who he was.
James Kim was a senior editor at CNET. I particulary remember him from his days at TechTV. He was a regular tech guy on the [...]

In an effort to fight growing obesity problems, two Japanese bureaucrats have stepped up to the plate. Noritoshi Ishida and Keizo Takemi, both Vice Health, Labor and Welfare Ministers have launched a blog project to keep track of their weight loss efforts.
The men, both 55 years-old plan to exercise more frequently and eat and drink [...]