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Like Nerdy Goodness: Trials, Tribulations, and Musings of a Nerd before it, Genki will be adding a 'categories' page to it. Again, I'm too lazy to go adding a bunch of code, so I'm just going to put up links to my old posts here.

Gadgets

Wii U?
Japanese Invent Spider Man Robot
Sauce-Dispensing Chopsticks

Culture

Valentine's Day in Japan
The Secret to Living as Long as the Japanese

News

Easiest Way to Help Quake Victims Ever!
Stupid People on the Internet and Disaster .PDF
Massive 8.9 Earthquake in Japan
More News About North Korea
N. Korean Missle Launch and the Big Brother of Japan
British Man Attempts to Defraud a Japanese Bank
Obama Masks Invoke Huge Sales in Japan
J-Pop Makes a New Year's Resolution?

Language Learning Tools

The Best Flashcard Program Ever: Anki
Gakuu
JapanesePod101.com
Reading in Japanese
All Japanese All the Time
TextFugu: A Second Look
LingQ
Textfugu
Japanese-Online
Japanese Video Tapes
Genki vs. Pimsleur
Pimsleur Japanese
Japanese the Manga Way
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese
Genki: An Integrated Course into Elementary Japanese
Power Japanese
Remembering the Kanji Volume 1
Rosetta Stone

Other

The Poopcycle
Rocket Japanese Reviews?
Success is a Mindset
Ways to Use Anki
Reading in Japanese
Should I Watch with Subtitles?
Best Places to Buy Japanese Stuff
No Wrong Way to Eat a Reeces
Everybody Dance Now
Numa Numa - The Japanese Version
Dragonball Evolution - Ugh!
Introduction to the Genki Japan Blog

Friday Review

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
ICO
Trigun
Chrono Cross
Haibane Renmei
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
Chrono Trigger
Vampire Princess Miyu (TV)
Endless Ocean
Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV)
1 Litre of Tears
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