Solve a puzzle and live in super expensive Roppongi or Aoyama for free. This is perhaps the greatest promotion ever: Japanese real estate company HOME’S is offering people a chance to live rent-free for two years in a high-end apartment in Tokyo’s Roppongi or Aoyama districts – both of which are very expensive places to live in Tokyo. As for the puzzle? Uh, good luck with that.

Business of Fashion’s Imran Amed x Searching for Style: The Business of Fashion and the Digital Revolution event in Vancouver. We don’t get many good fashion heavy-weights coming to Vancouver very often. The Business of Fashion is one of the best and most popular fashion blogs online today. If you’re lucky enough to have gotten an invite to this event, please fill me in on what happens. [8/19/2010 Edit: Got an invite! I'm going!]

The accidental confederate and t-shirt culture in Japan vs North America. Néojaponisme put up an interesting post a couple of days ago sparked by a Japanese youth wearing a t-shirt with the confederate flag on it. I think it’s safe to assume the guy was not actually a racist confederate, so why exactly did he wear that shirt? Interesting thoughts both from the author and the commenters.

New York Times sits down with Vice Magazine’s founder, Shane Smith. VICE magazine is huge for street culture and hipsterdom in general, so we should be proud of the fact that Shane Smith is Canadian.

Complex Magazine lists the 50 greatest Saturday morning cartoons. They’ve got a lot of good cartoons covered (I used to love Kid ‘n’ Play and Ewoks!!), but they’ve also missed out on a lot of huge cartoons such as Teddy Ruxpin and My Pet Monster, while including some random bad cartoons like Street Sharks. Still, it’s a nice nostalgic list of shows I used to love and would love to see old episodes of again.