Female Seppuku and Unwanted Phonebooks

[abracanabra]

Now that's what I call a subject line!

This is to follow up on a couple of conversations I had at xcorvis's wine tasting. Alas, I cannot remember who wanted to know what, and I forgot to include that in my reQall note-to-self.

Jigai
Ladies in samurai-era Japan had their own female version of seppuku, called jigai. Like seppuku, jigai could be done as a way to regain honor after dishonor or as a protest, but it was also frequently used preemptively to prevent her from being dishonored. The notable points of the ritual include binding one's legs to keep them from sprawling in an immodest manner during the death throes. The lady would then slash her jugular vein with her knife. (And while looking up the details, I came across this post about seppuku.)

Phonebooks
YellowPagesGoesGreen is a central online place where you can try to notify the distributors to stop sending you phone books. This is still in the early stages and it's not a national registry, so your mileage may vary. Via Lifehacker.

Comments

[xcorvis.livejournal.com]

I signed up!


For the yellow pages thing, not seppuku.

Any idea why that is transliterated with 2 'p's? That's odd...

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Were you the one who wanted to know the link?

Hmm.

As far as spelling goes, they're probably lucky it didn't end up being spelled "Smith."