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Some geeks like to post pictures of their computer desktops for others to see. If you do this sort of thing, be careful that you don’t unintentionally give away your proclivities the way the guy who posted the screenshot below did (click the picture below to see the screenshot at full size).

What’s so embarrassing about this screenshot? Click the photo to see it at full size.

Here’s a hint if you can’t see what the guy who posted this screenshot is unintentionally revealing to the world: look at the names of the file folders on the desktop.

Continuing the theme of “Weird Things in Asia”, here are some directions to the washrooms:

Thanks again to Miss Fipi Lele, a never-ending source of photos!

The Japanese are Weird, chapter 832: Here in North America, when one thinks of “gangster cars”, images of black Lincoln Town Cars with tinted windows, Escalades with spinning rims and riced-up Hondas come to mind. In each case, the car exudes serious macho.

Things are different over in the Land of the Rising Cuteness, where the gangster cars exude more Hello Kitty or Pokemon. Consider the van below. In Japan, this car says “Caution: Members of a speed tribe inside!”. Here in North America, this says “Caution: Even the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy found this vehicle too campy!”

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele and Gwydion

Take a gander at this yellow beast:

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele and d_mcplum.

Doesn’t it remind you of Pikachu, pictured below?

Maria’s birthday party takes place tonight, and I expect that it will be a genteel Mexican affair like the one pictured below:

Feliz cumpleaños, Maria!

Here are the most recent articles in the tech blog I help write, Global Nerdy:

• Working at Reddit: Wired. Working at Wired: Tired. And Bummed. Aaron Swartz writes about his new working situation now that Reddit’s in the Wired offices.
• Every Time a Bell Rings, Apple’s iPhone Gains a Feature: The speculation about the iPhone is getting pretty silly.
• Sony PS3 Drops: $840-Worth of Machine for $600. “Hey, kids! Go tell Mom and Dad about the great bargain you found them!”
• Internet Service: The Fifth Utility. A link to the podcast of Doc Searls’ and Elliot Noss’ keynote at ISPCON Fall 2006.
• Vista Registration Annoyances: “I had hoped that these three entries chronicling my troubles with installing Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft’s Vista operating system would mark the last of the annoyances I’d encounter, but that wasn’t to be. My new problem: registration.