Too cool.
2 weeks ago
2ch Responds to Scanslation Crackdown
Daniel Lau has posted translations of 2ch comments and opinions on the news of the recent shutdown of popular scanslation sites, including One Manga. It makes for some interesting reading. Recommended.
Underdog... or Überhund?
Adolf Hitler was infamous for many things, but among the late Führer‘s most well-remembered obsessions was eugenics — the practice of breeding human beings in order to improve the race. In his rantings, he alluded to Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch, or “overman”, as the hoped-for end result of the Nazi eugenics effort. (It is important to note that Hitler’s concept of the Übermensch was different from Nietzsche’s in many ways.) This superbeing, the product of “pure Aryan blood”, was, in Hitler’s view, the only hope for mankind — a being of great power and will, capable of destroying the Jews and other “mud races” and rescuing the German nation from their evil aspirations.Underdog is the key...
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New Stuff on Flickr
I just finished a hueg update to my Flickr site. It's chockful of downloadable fun -- new stuff in B-CHAN SKETCHBOOK and THE COOL EYE sets. Drop by!
Coming Soon: Hong Kong Phooey
A live action+CGI Smurfs movie can only mean that Hollywood is mining deep for ideas.Courtesy of Yahoo
'Airbender' and Misperceptions
A lot of ink has been spilled over this, and I'm still scratching my head.
In recent weeks, M. Knight Shylaman has done a sound (if p-o'd, frenetic) job in explaining his casting decisions, and yet the True Believers aren't satisfied.
I really wish the show's original creators would chime in on this just to stir the already troubled waters some more...
Your Weekly Dose of Stupid
"As much as I would love to hail Miyazaki as being pure and untouched; as someone who was as excited as you seem to be introduced to his work, some facts are in order.
Early work shows him very much aware of the world's power structures with overt references to Intelligence, the UN, occult ritualistic leadership etc." - J.H.
Since late last year The Website Formerly Known As "Save the Males.com" has become a repository for articles and missives from a variety of weekly guests, with occasional encore articles from the site's founder, Dr. Henry Makow.
Any of Dr. Makow's long time readers* would tell you that some truly ridiculous claptrap has been posted at said site in the past 8 months or so, but this article really tickled my fancy.
P.S. Here is Dr. Makow's take on 'My Neighbor Totoro'
H/T Jeff Rense
*I include myself among this number @_@
No Humor at BB
NSFW (Language)
Apparently this was done by a Best Buy employee on his own time. BB corporate found out somehow and might be trying to fire him because they were afraid what apple/at&t would think. If they would have shut up and looked the other way they wouldn't be getting all this attention. Way to go.
And to be fair to the iPhone fans, the "rebuttal" (again, NSFW).
via Tech Crunch
Apparently this was done by a Best Buy employee on his own time. BB corporate found out somehow and might be trying to fire him because they were afraid what apple/at&t would think. If they would have shut up and looked the other way they wouldn't be getting all this attention. Way to go.
And to be fair to the iPhone fans, the "rebuttal" (again, NSFW).
via Tech Crunch
