Fanta Ads in Japan

December 13th, 2007

Here is a series of ads from Japanese TV advertising Fanta soda. They’re just hilarious, particularly for all you Japanophiles out there. Mr. Shogun is my favourite followed by Mr. DJ.

Many people don’t understand the Mr. Blackbeard one. Basically there is a game out here (for kids or for drinking) called “kurohige” which literally means Blackbeard. It works pretty much as shown; there’s a pirate in a barrel and you take turns plunging the coloured swords into slots until he pops out. It’s a game of luck, but still fun (I played it in a bar in Akasaka).

P.S. If anyone finds a high-res copy of this let me know.

Procmail recipe for sorting by date

December 13th, 2007

This is not a super complex recipe or anything, but I’ve wanted this functionality for a while and never quite got around to working though procmail’s arcane syntax.

Basically it saves a copy of each incoming mail into a folder ‘$YEAR/$MONTH’ so that I can easily go back and look through older mail. It also lets me delete anything in my inbox, knowing I have a backup.

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