ronin - 5:18 pm on Jul 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I could try to discover what's happening in Japan I suppose but I wouldn't be able to read a single word... i'm not Japanese.

That's right! Because there are no Americans, Canadians, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, Gibraltarians (need I go on?) living or working anywhere in Japan. There are no English language newspapers in Japan. It is impossible to encounter anything at all in the English language anywhere in Japan. No books. No metro signs. Nothing. Also no-one English speaking ever goes on holiday to Japan and no English language news networks ever send reporters to Japan or have correspondents based there.

Come on. You know better than that. It's the 21st century. There is information in English on the Tokyo Subway just as surely as there is information in Japanese on the London Underground. You know this. I know you know this.</offtopic>

I rather like the new Twitter front page.

Thank heavens they got rid of that "What are you doing?" - that never should have been pushed as one of the top uses of Twitter.