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Tokyo Shrine Blesses Computers from BSoDs

2:20AM September 11, 2008 | Mark Wilson

Leave it to Japan to continually live up to their own charming stereotypes. At the Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo—a temple otherwise like any other—visitors can bring their computers to be blessed for protection from problems like malware and BSoDs. Not-so-coincidentally, the temple is very closely situated to Tokyo’s famed tech mecca Akihabara and offers these microchip-like talismans:

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