Japanese Website Tracks Stinky Areas Using Google Maps (?)

Link here. Really?

Those Japanese sure are an interesting technology-based culture. I sometimes wonder if entire nations that are around for a long time eventually "jump the shark" (See generally France ). I lived with a Japanese guy for a few months in undergrad and he was one of the most kick-ass people I've ever met, but he came to the U.S. to study because he was so enamored with our culture and said that his was lame. I think it's too early to tell with Japan (an old-ass country that's gone and come back again) beings that we bombed the ever living hell out of them just over half a century ago, but they're on the watch list.

Notable nations that have jumped the shark:

1. Rome
2. Persia
3. Greece
4. The Oakland Raiders

So, my advice is this: watch out countries you might become parodies of yourself. I mean, could you imagine a place like the United States -- a country made great because it was built upon freedom and individual liberty -- slowly acquiescing to regulatory intrusion in the marketplace and our social lives? Ha ha, that's funny. I mean, what a tragi-comedy that would be (See Bailout, Proposition 8).