Well according to this post http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/2338229/scientists-study-how-little-exercise-you-need?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+UK&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+UK earlier today. A person's maximum heart rate can be calculated: "very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220".

From these two 'facts' that I have learnt today I conclude that once your maximum heart rate drops to 106 - you die.

'A circuit is considered to be closed when electricity flows from an energy source to the desired endpoint of the circuit.'

from here

The Japanese character set is bigger, bolder and to my western eye rather scruffy and scrawly. All characters are also the same size as CAPS so it feels like their websites are shouting at you.

I was working on a Japanese site recently and during production we had it all set to English so that we knew what we were referring to within it. Design wise it was a nicely put together clean and simple site. As we neared the end of development we switched it all over into Japanese and suddenly it looked crowded and messy and as though there was too much going on in the page.

If you, switch the Japan Airlines example into English http://www.jal.co.jp/en/ it becomes much more palatable to the western eye.