Furui MAN

PS22 Chorus sings "Eye Of The Tiger"

2009-05-08T14:48:00.001+09:00

Your daily dose of put-a-smile-on-your-face! Enjoy!!!

Stand by me.

2009-04-29T20:04:00.001+09:00

From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music".
Enjoy!

Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Misirlou!

2009-04-03T13:46:00.004+09:00

Misirlou, (Greek Μισιρλού) you might know from Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" is in fact a very old music piece! It was first performed by the Rembetiko singer Michalis Patrinos in 1927.

[DOWLOAD]

Ever since was transformed and performed in various musical genres all over the world including Jazz, Oriental, Hebrew wedding, surfer and rap! Read more about it at the Wikipedia article of Misirlou, or listen to various renditions of it HERE! I'm posting 3 different clips for your enjoyment:

Anna Vissi, famous Greek-Cypriot singer, sings Misirlou at the Athens Olympics.

The Surf Costers, Japanese surfer group, plays Misirlou live.

Pulp Fiction's intro.

The Roads Less Traveled

2009-03-18T20:10:00.003+09:00

The Roads Less Traveled by Ross Ching.
In case you are wondering how the film was made, I quote from Ross's website:

For those of you who haven’t seen my previous work, the entire thing was shot using a still camera. I took about 15,000 still photos and strung them together to give the illusion of motion.

Read more HERE!

Enjoy!

Eclectic 3.0: The Roads Less Traveled from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

Kaiten-zushi camera!

2009-03-10T14:10:00.003+09:00

I'm surprised they allowed recording in the restaurant. Listen to the comments of the staff. Gaijin power!

Nice-looking Japanese Fonts in Fedora

2009-01-26T11:28:00.047+09:00

Tested this on Fedora 9 and 10. Use at your own risk!

First, you need to open the terminal and switch to root

$ su

Once root enter the following to install Japanese support:

# yum groupinstall japanese-support

Once the installation finishes create 2 new directories where
you will put the MS Japanese fonts gothic and mincho

# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msjapanesefonts

Download fonts MS Gothic and MS Mincho from
http://www.linux.ryukent.co.uk/show.php?id=24

Direct links to the files are:
http://www.linux.ryukent.co.uk/download/msgothic.zip
http://www.linux.ryukent.co.uk/download/msmincho.zip

Once the zip files are downloaded unzip them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msjapanesefonts

# unzip msgothic.zip /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msjapanesefonts
# unzip msmincho.zip /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msjapanesefonts

Then rebuilt the font cache by issuing the following command:

# fc-cache -fv

Finally create a new file .fonts.conf file

# gedit ~/.fonts.conf

and copy paste the following into it:


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>ＭＳ 明朝</family>
<family>IPAPMincho</family>
<family>Sazanami Mincho</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
<family>Thorndale AMT</family>
<family>Luxi Serif</family>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Times</family>
<family>Frank Ruehl</family>
<family>MgOpen Canonica</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>FreeSerif</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>ＭＳ ゴシック</family>
<family>IPAPGothic</family>
<family>Sazanami Gothic</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>Albany AMT</family>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Nachlieli</family>
<family>MgOpen Moderna</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
<family>FreeSans</family>
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
<family>Courier New</family>
<family>ＭＳ ゴシック</family>
<family>IPAGothic</family>
<family>Sazanami Gothic</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
<family>Andale Mono</family>
<family>Cumberland AMT</family>
<family>Luxi Mono</family>
<family>Nimbus Mono L</family>
<family>Courier</family>
<family>Miriam Mono</family>
<family>FreeMono</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>
/fontconfig>
</fontconfig>

Finally save the file and reboot. You should now have good looking Japanese
displayed when you browse web-sites with Japanese content.

Note: Info about fontconfig can be found at
http://www.fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html
Alternatively, you can download the .fonts.config file from
http://www.linux.ryukent.co.uk/download/fonts.conf.html

Built by humans...

2008-10-03T14:03:00.006+09:00

An ePassport or biometric passport is a combined paper and electronic identity document that uses biometrics to authenticate the identity of travelers. The ePassports were heavily criticized recently. Why? Not secure enough. For example the THC/vonJeek Dutch hacking group created an ePassport emulator which you can use to create a backup of your own passport chip(s). To demonstrate that their process works, they created a fake ePassport. Owner of the fake ePassport: Elvis! Check the video below and if you want to make your own ePassport check their site!

Note: A Hacker is not a Cracker!

Bonus: Interesting reading!

Speedtest!

2008-10-01T14:12:00.007+09:00

Test the speed of your internet connection.

Speedtestgreat free widgetsWidgetbox

OMODAKA

2008-09-04T17:18:00.003+09:00

Simply awesome!!!
More info at FarEast Recordings.

Where did my balloon go?

2008-08-23T20:40:00.002+09:00

Let your imagination fly!

The story of a sign!

2008-07-29T17:34:00.004+09:00

Short film, about 4 minutes. Time worth spent.Try to watch it to the end (get your hand off the mouse!). You will anyway, it does have that effect on you. Have a nice day!

Five Year Old Blind Genius Pianist

2008-06-21T14:23:00.002+09:00

You have to see this! She is only five years old, blind and was never told to play the piano. Watch it, you are up to many surprises!

How to fix Japanese Input bug in Fedora 9

2008-05-17T15:22:00.005+09:00

The bug is replicated when trying to run im-chooser in Fedora 9.

Additional info:
This is the output received when attempting to run the program via terminal:

(im-chooser:3232): IMSettings-WARNING **: Failed to invoke a method `WhatInputMethodIsRunning': Failed to open file '/tmp/scim_conf:xim::0.0-pramod': No such file or directory 2a3bf786-ce35-484b-70b72762-3ca7ec7b is dumped

How to FIX it:
Install im-chooser-0.99.6-4.fc9 which can be found at the Fedora 9 testing repository. Run the following command in the terminal:

su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update im-chooser'.

For more info please refer to:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445129

Ringtone, or not?

2008-02-20T10:29:00.003+09:00

Watch it to the end!

No presents from Santa this year...

2007-12-14T17:12:00.001+09:00

This is why you won't be receiving a present from Santa this year!

Feeling stressed lately?

2007-11-12T21:18:00.000+09:00

Robin Williams on Whose Line

2007-10-01T16:49:00.000+09:00

Now this is funny! Robin Williams on "Whose Line". Enjoy!

Eddie's soul mate!!

2007-08-26T12:38:00.001+09:00

Eddie I found your soul mate!!! Watch for yourself and act quickly!

You're Pitiful!

2007-08-20T14:41:00.000+09:00

"You're Pitiful" is "Weird Al" Yankovic's excellent parody of "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. Enjoy! Eddie listen closely, he is singing to you!!!

Here are the lyrics:

My life is brilliant...

What, was I too early? Oh, sorry. Should I...Do you wanna start over? Or, keep going?
Okay, now? Now?

My life is brilliant
Your life's a joke
You're just pathetic
You're always broke

Your homemade Star Trek uniform
really ain't impressin' me
You're sufferin' from delusions of
Adequicy

You're Pitiful (X3) It's true

Never had a date
That ya couldn't inflate
And ya smell repulsive too
What a bummer bein' you

Well ya just can't dance
And forget romance
Everybody you know still calls ya
Farty Pants
:
But you always have a job well I mean

As long as you still can work that slurpie machine

You're Pitiful (X3) It's true

You're half undressed
Eatin' chips of your chest
While you're playin' Halo 2
No one's classier than you

Lalala la
Lalala la
Lalala la Loser

You're Pitiful (X3) It's true

Your dog would much rather
Play fetch by itself

You still live with your Mom and you're 42

Guess you'll never grow a clue
When it just sucks to be you

The hide-the-bald-spot pro!

2007-08-13T17:58:00.000+09:00

This guy is a real pro!

Crazy Cats!

2007-08-06T23:11:00.001+09:00

How can you live in a house with so many cats? She can!

Human Tetris!

2007-07-24T14:44:00.001+09:00

Japanese shows rule! This is really funny!

BONUS: Simpsons Tetris!

White & Nerdy!

2007-07-12T14:19:00.000+09:00

Watch it to the end! Dedicated to my friend Giancarlo - he meets the requirements!

How to make "koupepia" (stuffed grapeleaves)

2007-07-06T16:05:00.000+09:00

Second clip on traditional Cyprus cuisine! Enjoy!

How to make FAJIN!

2007-06-19T21:41:00.000+09:00

A traditional Cyprus Recipe! Enjoy!!!