Cyclops of Chubu

Cyclops is a quiet humanoid machine which simply gives a staring glance at passers-by.It owes its name to Cyclops, the single-eyed giant in Greek mythology.
Its backbone is similar in structure to that of humans, and some 30 pneumatically controlled muscles enable it to actualize <<elegant and smooth movements.>>

Cyclops is designed to react to moving objects. When Cyclops has spotted you,make a conspicuous move and see how it reacts.

Chubu Community for Millennial Symbiosis.

http://www.chubu1000.jp/en/

Mountain Zen

  http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/07/17/sports/17tour583.jpg Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

With temperatures reaching 108 degrees, firemen sprayed cyclists with water during the Tour de France's 14th stage, which covered 137 miles from Agde to Ax-3 Domaines on the Tour's first day in the Pyrenees.

Battlestar Galactica 2.0

The interior of the Battlestar Galactica is a warren of shadowy, angular hallways and spare functional chambers split over two sound stages situated on the semi-industrial fringe of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Galactica is a spaceship, but it does not feel particularly space-age. The communication panels on the walls were scavenged from a Canadian destroyer; the desk lamps are from Ikea.

John Hodgman, Ron Moore's Deep Space Journey, New York Times Magazine, July 17, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17GALACTICA.html

cybercafe culture

a frew weels ago, Coquitlam [British Columbia] city councillor wanted to ban all internet cafes in the city because of complaints about drugs and alcohol.


Similar rowdiness has occurrend in Loa Angeles. In fact, because of these troubles, on July, 2004, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance restricting the hours during which minors can visit Internet cafes and requiring the shops to install video cameras for security. [2]

So, what is really going on? Are there cybercafes (internet cafes) that have webcams that we can watch ?  What can google turn up for us ?

(1) cybercafes in canada
- http://www.world66.com/northamerica/canada/alberta/edmonton/internetcafes


[1] Internet cafes draw complaints in Coquitlam, CBC News, Jul 11 2005 08:33 AM PDT. http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_internet20050711


[2] http://www.internet-cafe-guide.com/los-angeles-internet-cafe.html

On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Garret Sokoloff wrote:

I seem to be one of the few people diagnosed with level 3 onomatopoeiaphobia. ...[F]or fellow suffers of this dreaded syndrome, I recommend the following website:http://www.dokidoki.fr/poket.htm

Live footage from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

40,000 caribou calves are born in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during the first weeks of June. Our team of cinematographers and technicians are on the coastal plain right now- in the area slated for oil development.

See what we are seeing! http://www.drexel.edu/seemore/

Link from http://www.sierraclub.org/explore/caribou/

Suggested by Ossain.

chinese family names come from a poem

The first known people to acquire surnames were the Chinese. Legends suggest that the Emperor Fushi decreed the use of surnames, or family names, about 2852 BC. The Chinese customarily have three names. The surname is placed first and comes from one of the 438 words in the sacred Chinese poem Po-Chia-Hsing. The family name is followed by a generation name, taken from a poem of 30 characters adopted by each family. The given name is then placed last.

Found with the google query "chinese family names come from a poem" at http://www.mayrand.org/meaning-e.htm

Additional information

The Generation Name Poem (班次聯), http://www.legacy1.net/generation.html

Chinese Family Names, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_family_name