October 24, 2008

Virtually True Crime

Fake marriage plus fake divorce plus fake murder (But it's also a suicide, right?  What do you call that?) equals real arrest.  

Note to self:  the Japanese take their avatars very seriously.

Aside:  On the off chance that you are a Harper's subscriber and haven't read it before this is a great piece on internet addiction across Asia, but focusing on China. Well, I haven't been able to find it before but it looks like this person cut and pasted the whole thing here, worth a read.

Aside 2:  When did Yahoo start that annoying "Read full article" tab thingy? 

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