Ocean Biogeographic Information System

This is Database for marine life. Currently it contains 5.2 million records.
You can click on world picture and find kinds of fish in there.

OBIS Website.

The article about OBIS is found here

LED HOUSE - VOS SOLUTION

Look this! This is crazy! But so beautiful! This is definitely the future of the house! Are they using The Enlux LED light or what???

Check more picture at
VOS SOLUTION GALLERY

Sonic Vision

This is old article from Wired, but it looks so cool.

SonicVision is one of the world's biggest virtual reality simulator.

"SonicVison, a new show by the American Museum of Natural History and MTV2, blends technology, music and animations displayed on a 6,550-square-foot digital dome into a brain-melting fiesta of sounds and sights."

My favourite band Zwan's Honesty was played. I really want to lose myself in the music and the vision!

Marijuana Research - An Article on Scientific America

"Current restrictions on marijuana research are absurd"

This science magazine talks about marijuana research in America from the scientist point of view.

Check it out.

I think there should be more and more research on marijuana to find out the good and bad side of it. It should be easily researched by scientist, and should not be restricted too hard.

Coffee: Sumatra (from Starbucks)

Sumatra is what I am enjoying right now. It matches well with milk.
It has almost no acidity, which I didn't want when I get this.
I bought 200g of beans. They say I should drink in one week after open it, so I am drinking like mad.

Starbucks - Sumatra

Jimmy Chamberlin Complex

He was the drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan.
Now after the breakup of Zwan, he is creating solo album called "Life Begins Again".
It is announced that release day of the album is January 25th, 2005! Very soon!
I love Jimmy; the man who reborn after the tragic moment in 1995(?).
Go Jimmy Go!

"Ok, so what is The Complex? Well the Complex is my new band. I'll tell you how it happened. About a year ago, a dear friend of mine (and yours) asked me what I thought about doing a solo record. I said, well I think it's a great idea but I'm not so sure anyone else does. He said, “I think you'd be surprised". Well it turns out He was right and after a couple of phone calls the next thing I knew I was on a jet to NY to meet with my friend Merck (who also happens to be the president of Sanctuary Records Group). After about ten minutes of me telling him I had no Idea what I was going to do but I knew it was going to be cool, He agreed to give me a record deal. Now I was screwed! The next thing I remember is walking down Lexington Ave. wondering what the hell had just happened. Did you just agree to do a solo record? Ah, well, yes, I think you did........ That day started a new chapter in my life that has been nothing short of miraculous!"

Go to Jimmy Chamberlin Complex Website!

The Enlux LED light

This light looks wonderful and beautiful. Just awarded by Popular Science in Home Tech section. $79.95 is still little bit expensive, but not too expensive?

I just bought halogen light, like the one used in starbucks. Halogen light emits very nice relaxing color of light. I love it!

But these light are LED Light! I never seen in front of my eye. I look foward to see it somewhere someday soon.

[Red Light]

"Roughly two times more Red light is emitted, at 1/5 of the power of a 100W red incandescent floodlight."

[Blue Light]

"Twice as much light while using only 1/5 of the power of a 100W blue filtered incandescent floodlight."

[Green Light]

"at ten times higher efficacy than a 100W filtered green incandescent floodlight. "

[Amber Light]

"Rich amber light is emitted from this highly stylish LED Floodlight. Great for wall-washing and accent lighting."

And there are three different tone of white color light too.
Go to see it in their homepage!

http://www.enluxled.com/

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for finding scholarly literatures.

You need to pay to read some of the literatures... But this is a great way to find knowledge you cannnot find in websites.

I want to go to space!

Space Elevator could be the answer to make my dream come true.
Carbon Nanotechnologies is the answer to create this wonderful elevator.
And many research is underway including MIT lab.

Conceptual Images:
http://www.liftport.com/gcimages.php

Prototypes:
http://www.liftport.com/MIT_demo/
http://www.liftport.com/gplimages2.php

Programming: Koders

http://www.koders.com/ is great search engine.
It is not an ordinary search engine because it finds programming source code around the world. Programmers usually look at someone else's code to learn techniques, but it was hard to find what you are looking for. But now there is a source code finder!
Thank you Koders!

Half of American Say Sorry to the World.

Go to Gallary to see pictures posted by Americans with signs.

http://www.sorryeverybody.com/

The Polar Express (2004) [Expectation 4/4]

“It doesn't matter where the train is going.
What matters is deciding to get on.”

Is coming to theater near you tomorrow, but not in Japan yet.
One of my favourite director, Robert Zemekis' new film is all in CG.
I'm a fan of him since Forrest Gump and Contact (especially Contact), and I cannot wait to see this film. My expectation rating is 4/4!

Official Site
Greg's Preview

See Trailers

Laptop: VAIO type E (VGN-E71B/G)

This one is nice one too. Too bad this wasn't released from Apple.
I love to see similar color apple note book to be coming out.

http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Product/E/index.html

iPod mini - Green

I think it is nice looking one.
I really want to have it.

But rumor about flash memory version of iPod coming very soon. Maybe after christmas.

Cell Phone: Talby

This phone is very very nice looking. I'm really consider buying one, since my cellphone sucks right now.

http://www.talby.jp/
AU Design Project

By the way, the cell phone I loved, because very thin, but washed with clothes was

Science Channel

Here you can watch many science tv program in Japanese.

サイエンスチャンネル

Enjoy!

Bose-Einstein Condensation Video (Japanese)

You can watch it here

原子の波が見えてきた 〜ボース・アインシュタイン凝縮の世界〜

Physics: Bose-Einstein Condensation

Recently I saw on NHK(Japanese TV channel) about this topic.
Bose-Einstein Condensation or BEC is a state of many atoms become as one big atom (Not exactly).
In the small world (Quantum world), an atom, an electron, a photon(light), or any small thing looks as a particle or a wave. In quantum world, things can not be exist or not exist. we cannot say it is there or not, UNTIL we observe. It is very strange, but it is true in quantum world.

I was thinking "It is strange, but it is small world. That is why it is strange." But now with this Bose-Einstein Condensation, we created about 1mm size quantum state. Bunch of atoms in very very cold temperture become as one becoming a "large particle". It acts as a wave.

It is hard to put in the words. So please check this site below.
You can experiment and see it happen.

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/

Quantum Theory fascinates me a lot.

Flores Man

This news was the most surprising one this year so far. There were drawfs (or hobbit like creature) living in the Earth just 18,000 years ago! Nature.com has great site for Flores Man HERE.

Bush Won the Election 2004

This link has Kerry with Apple's Powerbook.
It says there will be 4 more years of dark days.
I feel the same... But I hope not.

Elliott Smith

When I was still in Vancouver, Canada, I went to his live by myself.
Because his album "Figure 8" was so good. Because his songs has his soul and power, I had to see him in live. I remember it was a great night. And last year, he killed himself in front of his girlfriend, stubbing himself on his chest.

And this year, his last album "From a Basement On The Hill" was released.

I haven't listened to them, but I surely buy very soon.

http://www.elliottsmith.com/

Why so many great musician die so young?

Hikaru Utada

Debut in U.S.
Her new album "Exodus" is not doing well in U.S.
I hope her success.

Website

Yelena Yemchuck and Billy Corgan

Who is Yelena Yemchuck?
If you are a fan of Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan, you might know.
Yes, she is Billy Corgan's girlfriend.
What is she doing?
She is an artist. She takes photo, and she also paint.
Here are some links to her pictures.

http://yemchuk.free.fr/truth.htm

http://www.dactyl.org/art/artists/yemchuk/yemchuk.html

http://www.ikcor.com/yelena/

http://homepage.mac.com/dactyl.org/PhotoAlbum66.html

Another things,
Billy Corgan recently released his first poetry book called "Blinking with Fists"

Amazon Link

Cover art is done by Yelena Yemchuck too.

Check them out! They are both so talented!

I love both of them!