Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sakai Design Business Center Preparatory Office (Headquarters: Sakai City, Osaka, Japan), supported by Sakai City, has launched the “Produced by Sakai” brand featuring
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Successful combination treatment with bevacizumab, thalidomide and autologous PBSC for severe POEMS syndrome Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, December 1, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.381 Authors: C Ohwada, C Nakaseko, S Sakai, Y Takeda, D Abe, M Takeuchi, E Sakaida, S Masuda, N Shimizu, R Cho, M Nishimura, K Kanai, S Misawa & S Kuwabara
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... February. Winter of ’06, I pitched Matt on my doing an interview with Usagi Yojimbo ’s Stan Sakai for the occasion of Usagi #100 from Dark Horse. He rolled the dice, everybody seemed to think it went okay, and then I started pitching more interview ideas. Two years later, I’m still at it. I live up in northern New Jersey, a stone’s throw (maybe five) from the Hudson River, which I travel...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... genuinely wanted to share images that are considered good by a community of people,” said Erica Sakai, a spokesperson for the company. “At the time, there were no Web sites that offered this kind of service.” As members add fresh fodder to the site, images appear and drift down the homepage, forming a steady stream of album covers, typographical posters, experimental photography and snapshots...
Bits (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... genuinely wanted to share images that are considered good by a community of people,” said Erica Sakai, a spokesperson for the company. “At the time, there were no Web sites that offered this kind of service.” As members add fresh fodder to the site, images appear and drift down the homepage, forming a steady stream of album covers, typographical posters, experimental photography and snapshots...
~生まれた町で夢見てきた...~ (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... E.M. Forster, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni MorrisonFAVORITE MANGAKA: Enomoto Nariko (Nobi Nobita), Sakai Kunie (Kunieda Saika), Hagio Moto, Furuya UsamaruFAVORITE MANGA: Berserk, GTO, Hanazakari no Niwa, Seiyou Kottou Yougashiten, Sentiment no Kisetsu, Tokyo BabylonFAVORITE ANIME: FLCL, Gravitation, Gundam Wing, Shoujo Kakumei UtenaFAVORITE SINGERS/BANDS: Sarah Brightman, Mary Fahl, Fleetwood Mac,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... conventional silicone cells.Sharp is also building a plant for thin-film solar cells in nearby Sakai City for launch in 2010. It produces crystal solar cells at Katsuragi, and runs plants in the U.S. and Britain.Earlier this year, Sharp and Enel announced a separate project to jointly build a solar power plant in Italy.© Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material...
The Moon Rose (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... one I love? no, that is absurd. then what makes me look up at the sky whenever I think of her? –Sakai no Hitozane
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
For fun, I decided to get the latest Alexa rankings for edu 2.0 and some other popular learning management systems (LMS). Here are some figures that include the number of years since the systems were released and the Alexa traffic ranking: Blackboard: 11 years, #1,100 Moodle: 7 years, #12,097 Dokeos: 9 years, #44,955 Sakai: 4 years, #125,305 EDU 2.0: 2 years, #220,587 I'm actually very happy...
