<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Japanese candy friday... : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>49976</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49976/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese candy friday...]]></title><description><![CDATA[An entire blog about trying tasting and commenting on some of the Japanese sweets.<br/>(oh.... toasted maffy, I must try!)]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>232</score><crdate>2/9/2008 7:22:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-09T07:22:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21253</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21253/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese taste nostalgia in adult candy shops]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's every child's dream: you find yourself in an abandoned sweet shop and can finally wolf down as many lollipops and marshmallows as you please.<br/><br/>And one Japanese childhood favourite is pickled squid on a stick?! eeewww]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>100</score><crdate>5/24/2007 6:45:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-24T06:45:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69215</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69215/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Made Of Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[No, not made <i>in</i> Japan. Made <i>of</i> Japan, or at least made of Japanese blogs.  The site taps into 150 blogs each hour, analyzes the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from.<br/><br/>Could be nsfw, you never know...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>135</score><crdate>7/18/2008 9:31:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-18T21:31:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63184</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/63184/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Traveller given gift by Japanese customs officer]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a bad case of <i>It seemed like a good idea at the time</i> syndrome, a Japanese customs officer decided that the way to test their sniffer dogs was to hide a bag of cannabis in a random passenger's luggage.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>223</score><crdate>5/26/2008 7:57:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-26T07:57:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26776</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26776/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese work out video.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Is the taxi on its way?&quot;<br/><br/>Great way to get abs AND learn English.  Awesome byproduct of Japanese efficiency.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>113</score><crdate>7/9/2007 9:08:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-09T21:08:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54179</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54179/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How many yummies can YOU stack on your ani-pal??]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clip of a Japanese television show where the object is to stack as many nummy treats on your pet as possible without the stack falling OR being eaten.<br/>Cute, funny, AND Japanese... the trifecta!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>258</score><crdate>3/13/2008 11:27:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-13T11:27:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49694</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49694/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese McDonalds Commercial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japanese Version of Ronald seems a bit... sexy.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>201</score><crdate>2/7/2008 1:40:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-07T01:40:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28082</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/28082/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese Smoking Manners Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of Japanese signs intended to improve people's manners about smoking.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>108</score><crdate>7/19/2007 11:04:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-19T23:04:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31326</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/31326/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese 'iron man' completes extreme ironing atop Mount Fuji]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Japanese participant in the unusual sport of extreme ironing, in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron clothing, has succeeded in an extreme ironing attempt on the top of Mount Fuji.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>94</score><crdate>8/13/2007 1:20:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-13T01:20:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70341</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70341/1/</url><title><![CDATA[10 Even Weirder and More Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is it with Japan and weird drinks?<br/><br/>Our list comprises the bad, the even more bad and the downright ugly of Japanese Soft Drinks.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>33</score><crdate>7/28/2008 2:13:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-28T14:13:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67803</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67803/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Strange horror claymation thing NSFW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seems to have been made by the same Japanese artist (takena) as  <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/animation/l/67750/1/#fast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this one</a> that was posted recently.<br/><br/>there are more videos by this guy here.<br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/user/takena" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/takena</a></div>]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>484</score><crdate>7/5/2008 2:30:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-05T14:30:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39018</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39018/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese Tetris]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Japanese skit of some very strange Tetris games]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>117</score><crdate>10/20/2007 3:56:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-20T15:56:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14319</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/14319/1/</url><title><![CDATA[No Sex Please, We're Married.  And Japanese.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Doctors and anthropologists say that there are a number of reasons why the Japanese are giving up sex. I would hate to live in Japan.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>3/28/2007 12:53:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-28T00:53:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34217</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34217/1/</url><title><![CDATA[10 Cute (and Addictive) Flash Games From Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japanese are probably the best when it comes to creating cute characters.Here is a collection of simple but fun little puzzle games made in Japan - of course, if you willing to kill a few hours!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>20</score><crdate>9/3/2007 2:01:34 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-03T02:01:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25442</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25442/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese Pay Top Yen for Deformed Puppies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fad for unusual, ultra-small dogs - possibly child substitutes as the birth rate in Japan falls - has a price in sickly, deformed puppies.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>99</score><crdate>6/27/2007 11:10:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-27T23:10:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23500</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23500/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Weirdest Japanese Horror Movie Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[This clip from &quot;Hausu&quot; is, by far, the weirdest bit of Japanese horror movie I have ever seen.<br/><br/>I want to see the whole movie.<br/><br/>The theme pic doesn't do the insanity of this movie justice.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>105</score><crdate>6/12/2007 1:10:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-12T01:10:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48641</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48641/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese Beetle fights Scorpion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carrying on the time honoured tradition of Mothra, he Japanese have, it would seem, developed a penchant for putting enormous insects in a box to see which will win in a fight.<br/><br/>Taken from <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.japanesebugfights.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Japanese Bug Fights</a>]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>338</score><crdate>1/28/2008 9:49:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-28T09:49:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80005</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80005/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese climbers claim to have found the Yeti's footprints]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of Japanese climbers claimed they have found the footprints of the legendary abominable snowman in the folds of the eastern Himalayas in Nepal.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>119</score><crdate>10/22/2008 8:26:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-22T08:26:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49708</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49708/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Caught on camera: Harpooned mother whale and her calf dragged to their death by Japanese whalers]]></title><description><![CDATA[These heartbreaking photos of a mother whale and her calf being dragged to their death by Japanese whalers have been released by the Australian government and greeted with fury by the public.]]></description><comments>21</comments><score>495</score><crdate>2/7/2008 7:24:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-07T07:24:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81193</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81193/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japanese researchers said Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>285</score><crdate>11/6/2008 8:57:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-06T08:57:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68738</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/68738/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Notes of Japanese Soldiers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manga diary of the Japanese WWII prisoner in the USSR. Interestingly, descriptions in languages other than English are a lot more detailed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>298</score><crdate>7/14/2008 8:55:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-14T20:55:30+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>