Bluemist noticed Direct-Anime, went into a tl;dr mode. I am ready to fight with scrappers, but so far there wasn't a cause. Direct-Anime pulls from Antenna, not from me, so the decision to poison their feed and/or block them rests with my provider, because all AB blogs are …
read moreGatefold, schmatefold
When commenters at Avatar's place discussed "Gatefold" packaging versus the conventional plastic box, a thought occured to me that it's comparing bad with worse. I do not really care which one. But what I really would like publishers do is to devise a packaging which holds a DVD at the …
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Danny Choo
I heard about Danny Choo several times before, but for some reason could never understand just how his (supposedly famous) site actually worked. It's just such a horrible mess (very cute though!). This time I think I'm getting it, at least somewhat. It's a portal. Danny himself said the word …
read moreJ.P. Meyer and ACC's capacity
As seen at Minaide, Hizukashi:
It makes no sense, for example for AX to be worried about “growth” at Anaheim when there was usually multiple other cons using the same amount of space.
Here's what was actually said, including the interruption:
WANG: ... understand that people have issues with Los Angeles …
read moreJ.P. Meyer and Yaoi Paddles
From Minaide, Hizukashii:
What’s the deal with those yaoi paddles, anyway? I saw three different kinds for sale (and they were expensive, too! Like $30 each!): ones that said “UKE”, ones that said “SEME”, and ones that said “HARDCORE SIDE” and “SOFTCORE SIDE”. Do you smack people because they …
read moreServer Log News
I received a few hits from Mark Wade's Astronautix.com, which made me curious. Mark is not an anime fan. He is a spaceblogger of certain repute, although he's best known for being curmudgeony, a natural soulmate of mine, perhaps.
As it turned out, Google allows to generate a feed …
read moreKabitzin's wit
Actually, it was rather a sense of humour than wit, but anyway, the taglines for blogs were funny:
read more- meyer.jp: Don’t look, it’s embarrassing.
- han.tj: Didn’t respond, perhaps not all three cannons were up.
- mugyaa.com: Go and upload a picture of Hung’s ideal girl …
Technical Difficulties
I run a bleeding edge pre-release Fedora on the main laptop, and yesterday's update ended with this:
VLC media player 0.8.6b Janus
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***MEMORY-WARNING***: [3884]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been …Sennin and Rein on Nymphet
I do not usually read manga, so I regard the scandal with the cancellation of Nymphet (aka "Kodomo no Jikan") as a small piece in the puzzle of mainstreamization. The official letter by Jason DeAngelis read, in part:
It was not until these past few days, actually, that I personally …
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