Japan gets the gold for pseudoscience

This is the breakdown of Japan's gold medal winners - by blood type.

Even if it is with a bit of skepticism, blood-type-as- personality-indicator comes up among the Japanese staff at lunch time often enough and intensely enough that it seems none of them discount it completely, though my friend Miki saw this Olympic analysis and sighed, "I wish they'd drop this idea already."

As of Thursday, B had four, O and A had two each, and AB had zero. Suckers!

Of course, they can get transfusions from anyone, while I would bleed to death waiting for another O negative.

Pop quiz: What is this woman selling?

And you may find yourself

Alone in a swank conference room on the 27th floor.

Just run toward the sky then keep going

Paragliding in Nagano.

I baked you this delicious cake

We had all you can eat and drink at JPop cafe last night, for 90 underwhelming minutes. The buffet was half-hearted, but they really did up birthdays. The place was in Babel,they say.

Who needs a milkman?

The banner at this liquor store says free delivery. The insulated truck and scooters say they mean it.

Rebranding

Old-school bike messenger as Eco-delivery.

I think they deposit them into a Nigerian bank account

Remember that kid who would get his life-saving dialysis only if everyone sent their soda can pull tabs to their cousin's friend's office manager? It seems the campaign was so successful in America that he made a full recovery and is now traveling the world spreading alchemical medical procedures.

In our office, there is a print-out on the bulletin board announcing the good news that our PET bottle tops can now become smiling cartoon vaccines for sad cartoon teddy bears. It shows a complicated chart with a suspiciously cyclical part in the middle explaining how the screw tops become are converted at a rate of 800 to 1 into "vaccine" (which, incidentally and irrelevantly, is pronounced "waksheen" in Japanese), and then pleads that you "do now what you can do now. Save a life."

The three pages have been posted in English and Japanese and worked over with green highlighter, so it is obviously true.

Someone at the office has valiantly carved a milk carton into a receptacle, thereby performing two acts of planet-saving heroism in one selfless stroke.

Coincidentally, this was posted a few weeks after rules were changed to require PET bottles to
be recycled with the plastic labels and lids removed and - oh, but this is another topic - put into the burnable garbage.

Now they are just getting a little weird

Please do it at the beach.