Monthly Archives: April 2007

Title: Google Transit Japan Is Here… OR… Marry Me Google

If Google was a woman I’d marry her…
that’s right, you heard me, if Google was a woman I would marry her. Ahhh, if only… IF ONLY!
Anyway, back to reality.
Google has just launched a great program for anyone commuting in Japan.
It’s the Japan version of Google Transit and it is awesome!Check it out, it’s at http://www.google.co.jp/transit
And [...]

Hasta La Vista Schwar-chan!!!

Awww. It’s been a good run for the Governator.
Our Arnold Schwarzenegger hot search “Arinamin V” has been fairly popular, but now it’s time for him to say goodbye (or at least “hasta la vista”).
If you missed our earlier post about him and the hilarious (And I mean HILARIOUS) video clip of him in the Japanese [...]

Free Internet Broadcast Japanese TV!

Extra! Extra! Nipponster Japan Toolbar just got better!
What can be better than FREE JAPANESE TV?
Free Japanese TV right on your browser!
To our loyal users:We are dedicated to makingthe Nipponster Japan Toolbar the BEST toolbar of Japanese language and entertainment resources available!
We have recently made some improvements to it.
In case you haven’t downloaded it and taken [...]

Part V: Hackers cracking sites & hijacking your email to send spam

If you missed them (and have way too much time on your hands) here are the other parts 1,2,3 and 4.
I decided to write a part 5 for all of the people coming in from search engines, digg, and reddit who are interested in information about having you site hacked and what you should watch [...]

Stone Soup and the Nipponster Japan Project

Have you ever heard the story “Stone Soup“?
The old folktale seems to have different versions but basically it goes like this:
Their was a man with nothing but a pot and a hunger for soup. He puts a stone into the pot of water and tells everyone passing by that it is the most delicious soup [...]

Oops…

oOpS
We just received feedback from a user notifying us that the archive links for this blog were dead-links (links that lead to non-existent pages).
After beating ourselves up about about not catching the error earlier we fixed the problem.Like we’ve said before, to err is human but your forgiveness is devine
To the user, thank [...]

Ando Hiroshige Has Usurped The Throne :)

Absolutely beautiful.
Those are the words that best describe Hiroshige’s artwork.
And it is his beautiful artwork that compeled us to make him the next new “reigning” hot search.(sorry Prince Pickles)
Were we wrong?…

Keitaro

The Prince Has Been Dethroned

Prince Pickles that is…

If you haven not checked out that hot search yet, here it is:http://nipponstercom-swicki.eurekster.com/Prince+Pickles+War+Cartoon/(and you can comment on it and vote for it in the hot search archive)
For those out of the loop prince pickles is mascot of Japan’s Self Defense force.Japan + Military still frightens/angers many (especially in Asia) so the [...]

I said Part III would be the last but… We had a minor victory! So here is Part IV

Ahhhh (sigh of relief)
It feels good to have those pages back!
And… (which makes the minor victory so much sweeter) I was right!
As I eluded to in the first post, the hackers probably did not do any extensive damage to the site. It was beyond simple to fix once I figured out what they did.
This is [...]

Pages Reclaimed From Hackers!

We love you Tori!
Tori was able to fix the pages that were hacked. And we rejoiced!
Now to get him to talk about how he fixed it and won us a victory over the hackers…
-Keitaro