Japanese Poop Museum? Yes. You heard right. Where else but Japan would you find a museum exhibit devoted to poop? Well, I live here, so I grabbed my camera and headed over to the Himeji Museum of Literature to explore the world of animal feces and childrens' excretory literature. It's even weirder than it sounds. Don't

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Do you want to learn Swedish? Know someone who does? Here are a couple great resources for students of the Swedish language. Listen to Swedish radio online, but not just any radio - radio in easy Swedish. Targeted at non-native speakers. Great for developing listening comprehension skills. These Swedish news programs have

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Having big feet in Japan can be a big problem if you need new shoes! My shoe size is 30cm and stores in Japan just don't stock shoes that big. Oh no, I need new shoes, what do I do? This article shows you how to get the shoes you want, in the style you want and in the size you need. Cutting your toes off is not a solution!

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What do Swedish Pancakes, Chocolate Apple Cake, a double-scoop waffle cone from Baskin Robbins and six enormous tacos have in common? They are all things I ate this week, despite being on a diet in competition with my brother. Official weigh-ins are tomorrow and I am afraid of what the scale will say. I have a lead over Fat

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FatBrother Kenny explains why losing too much weight too fast can be a bad thing.  He talks about how your body stores fat, why it burns muscle instead of fat when it detects rapid weight loss, why you don't want to burn away that muscle, and how the whole ordeal leaves you wide open to being sodomized by a llama.  T

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Snacking can be a big problem when it comes to weight loss.  All those extra calories (along with other bad stuff that comes with most snacks) don't help at all in our quest to drop the pounds.  But snacks are so delicious!  It's hard to control our cravings and quit.  This article has a solution.  I

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Sometimes we want to write a foreign loan word in Japanese.  We type it in like normal, but when we hit the space bar, the Japanese Input system doesn't recognize our intention and gives us a bunch of random kanji (Chinese characters).  Luckily, there is an easy hotkey to force the Japanese Input system to give us ka

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Want to lose weight? Want to get in shape? Want to punch and kick something? Bas Rutten's Mixed Martial Arts Workout is just what you need. It's on 4 cds, so you can even do it in your home. Bas Rutten is a former king of Pancrase and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, so he knows about getting into top shape. I use this

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"Horseshit" and "Bullshit" are two words that have a similar meaning. We use them when we think some statement is wrong, ridiculous, a lie or just plain stupid. So are they interchangeable? Not quite. Believe it or not, there are some differences between these two adorable words. This article examines these differences

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Tired of walking behind slow people? Do you wish there was a way to make your way through a crowded street without knocking people on their ass? There is! Buy a bicycle bell and carry it with you. People will hear it and get out of the way thinking you are on a bicycle. This works even in places where a bicycle could never

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Do you know which months have 30 days and which ones have 31? I don’t. At least not off the top of my head. If I need to know how many days are in a month, and there isn’t a calendar around, I use the knuckle-counting method. It’s not as fast as having them memorized, but it works. The Japanese have a cool trick for remembering it: nishi muku

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Fat Brother Kenny recommends that you piss a lot to lose weight. In this post, he talks about the important of drinking water: what it does for your body, how much you need and why, and what happens when you don't get enough (believe it or not, drinking less water in an effort to avoid gaining water weight will backfire on you and give you

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With the Japanese government about to sit down to start the first ordinary Diet session, it's interesting to see the topics they're not talking about. Important things like pensions and the future economic security of the nation are all taboo as it could potentially lead to a loss of confidence in the current government.

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I share my six step formula for BloggingZoom success. What should you write about? When should you submit your article? Which articles should you submit? How can you increase the chances of people Zooming your work? This article sets out to answer those questions.

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It’s been about eight months since I started using Milo’s theme on this site, and it’s been great for the most part, but I’ve learned that some browsers just don’t like it. Considering how I’ve been looking at making some changes to the panels and even some of the visual aspects of child pages, it might just be time to buy a professional one

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