Friday, July 07, 2006

Kendo v. _______

Kendo_suriage_men(Right click on the image to animate) I’ve been doing kendo for more than two (2) years now and I was wondering how kendo would fare against other disciplines. Well let’s see. Here are videos pitting kendoka against another kendoka (cool disarmament technique, wow!), against a naginatadoka (using the naginata or pole weapon, interesting), versus a robot kendoka (high tech practice!), against a fencer (tricky to decide who really won) and lastly – believe it or not, versus a soccer team (yep, it’s the Nike commercial).

Friendster Patents Social Networking Technology

Techdirt reports: "The company announced today that it has received a broad patent for a 'system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.' In other words, it's basically a patent on online social networking."

Uh oh.

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