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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:27:24 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 10:09:42 -0400

This!

landscapearchitecture: Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of...

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:39:10 -0400

Tokyo’s subway system is arguably one of the most complex in the world. The map itself can be an immediate turn-off for any unfamiliarized straphangar. But exactly how do all these lines run underground, overlapping as they carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each day?

Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama decided to answer that question be recreating an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.

Abercrombie & Fitch Refuses To Make Clothes For Large Women

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:00:49 -0400

Abercrombie & Fitch Refuses To Make Clothes For Large Women:

halffizzbin:

thegirlwhocriedfandom:

Abercrombie and Fitch has decided that anyone over a size 10 jean isn’t sexy enough for their clothing line, and doesn’t want them shopping in their stores and sullying their clothes. They decided to only hire good looking people so that only good looking people will come into their store.

“It’s almost everything. That’s why we hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that,”

That is an actual quote from their CEO Mike Jeffries.

I know I don’t have a lot of followers but this is something that isn’t right. They’re excluding people from being able to buy their clothes and they make it seem like it isn’t okay for people to be slightly chubbier or bigger than the average “cool kid” to own their clothes. This is something that shouldn’t be allowed to happen.

I’ve seen tumblr do some amazing things, and this place would be even more amazing to me if we were somehow able to show the douchebag who runs this company that his elitist, skinny-people only attitude ISN’T okay, and that we won’t stand for it.

Another quote from the article by Jeffries:

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”

And according to the source, Abercrombie & Fitch has no problem selling XL and XXL clothing to MEN. So this isn’t just body-shaming and dismissal of overweight people in general, but OVERWEIGHT WOMEN SPECIFICALLY, who are by Jeffries’ SUPREME judgment objectively incapable of being cool or attractive.

FUCK

THIS

GUY

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Tue, 07 May 2013 13:59:36 -0400

japanese-revision: japanese-revision: Textbooks: An Integrated...

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:22:09 -0400

japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar

Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

ALC (I use this everyday)
→Expression encyclopaedia

Goo dictionary

Weblio

WWWJDIC (with audio clips)

JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)

JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)

Idiomatic Expressions

Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]

Counters dictionary

Hovering dictionaries:
→Rikaikun for Chrome
→Rikaichan for Firefox
→Floating Dictionary for Mac

Current Affairs dictionary

For kanji.

Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)

Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters

Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)

Online reading:

Hukumusume Fairytales

竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)

吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)

Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT

TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)

Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Manga.

Free online manga

Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)

Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

Japanese pronunciation guide

Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table

Topics for Language Exchanges.

Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)

Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

Listening:

“Real World” Japanese

泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

Lang-8

www.Japan-Guide.com

原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)

Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

NewsWeb Easy

NHK News (audio news with speed controls)

Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)

TBS Radio’s Junk

TOKYO FM

YouTube:

Afternoon Hirusagari

Jet Daisuke

バイリンガール英会話

Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

Heartful Power Hideo

Shuwa Island

TV:

Japanese subtitles for anime

KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)

風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)

映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

Kanji-a-Day

Holy crap Japanese

Nihongo ga Suki

Jumpstart Japanese

Nihongolog

Nadine Nihongo

That Japan Addict

ChilliMuffin

Japanese through Fandom

F-Yeah Native Japanese

J-Vocab of the Day

ぶらりめし [Japanese only]

Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Those studying in Japan.

Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)

Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)

Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)

Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)

Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Blogging:

Yaplog

Learning websites:

JapaneseClass.jp

The Japanese Page

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)

Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning

JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

lacigreen: “You Can’t Be a Princess” | Journalists from ABC’s...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:58:31 -0400

lacigreen:

“You Can’t Be a Princess” | Journalists from ABC’s “What Would You Do?” planted hidden cameras in a Halloween store and filmed shoppers’ reactions to a boy who wanted a princess costume and a girl who wanted a Spiderman costume.

we are policed into our respective gender roles at a very, very young age.

dubuveronew: angelaioffe: Criss cross, criss cross Right foot...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:42:50 -0400

dubuveronew:

angelaioffe:

Criss cross, criss cross

Right foot lets stomp

Left foot lets stomp

Cha cha real smooth🎶

awwwww so cutee

alare-chan: zookeeper aiba-kun vs. panda in China | Shimura Zoo...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:50:46 -0400

alare-chan:

zookeeper aiba-kun vs. panda in China | Shimura Zoo (2008)

justfortheshows: Arashi Popcorn tour part 2 When I say lucky...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:22:07 -0400

justfortheshows:

Arashi Popcorn tour part 2

When I say lucky you say man ! popcorn man! popcorn man !

justfortheshows: Arashi Popcorn Tour part 1

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:19:26 -0400

justfortheshows:

Arashi Popcorn Tour part 1

arashi-no-megami: Popcorn- Up To You credits to Vendy...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:51:33 -0400

arashi-no-megami:

Popcorn- Up To You

credits to Vendy (HachiArashi)

arashi-no-megami: Popcorn - Welcome To Our Party Credits to...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:32:51 -0400

arashi-no-megami:

Popcorn - Welcome To Our Party

Credits to Vendy (HachiArashi)

fishandf1: Ohno’ solo- two ASDFGHJKL

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:59:26 -0400

fishandf1:

Ohno’ solo- two

ASDFGHJKL

masakanki: by APYON

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:55:59 -0400

masakanki:

by APYON

toptumbles: Little pandas drinking milk Aaaaaaaaaaah

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:03:51 -0400

toptumbles:

Little pandas drinking milk

Aaaaaaaaaaah

forsciencejohn: love-megz: annetdonahue: The importance of...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:33:11 -0400

forsciencejohn:

love-megz:

annetdonahue:

The importance of consent: a narrative.

I will forever reblog this gifset.

look at how badass she is though i mean some of it gets on her too and doesn’t even give a fuck

THIS

nazerine: airpi: emae: 2 week old bunny’s first day outside...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:55:05 -0400

nazerine:

airpi:

emae:

2 week old bunny’s first day outside and he discovers the slide

why does the slide lead to a brick though

because 2 week old bunny must master control as its ancestors did or die trying

:D

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:08:25 -0400

!!

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:59:27 -0400