www.acupuncturefootwear.com/h_acu2.html
You'd be hard pressed to do a day of shopping in Tokyo's Harajuku-Aoyama-Shibuya-Daikenyama hub and not find a particular brand of footwear. All the designers seem to be represented. Except one: this cool little trendsetter from London called Acupuncture. I should've known to look on the Net first. Acupuncture's artsy site doesn't sell the goods but it'll direct you to several online stores that do.
fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en
The World Cup comes to South Korea and Japan at the end of May. The draw was a week-and-a-half ago and this site caught my eye a couple days later. It's the official site of the World Cup, and Yahoo! is doing it up right. Enough here to keep you busy until the tournament starts.
www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html
The New York Times continues to build on its already impressive site with little extras like this tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien. I could be condescending and describe it as a mere tangent flying off Hollywood's slick marketing of the upcoming film adaptation of "Lord of the Rings." But that would be disingenuous. The fact is interest in Tolkien's works is spiking, and it's because of the movie. Before the Internet age, it would have been impossible to truly indulge our curiosities about such an aging subject. Now, a decade into that era, The New York Times, supposedly among the least agile of the newspaper dinosaurs, has been the quickest to adopt to the new technology. And it keeps giving our curiosities the keys to the candy shop.