Monthly Archives: October 2010

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt — Episode 1

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the final evolution of Gainax. The transformational journey from Gunbuster to Evangelion to FLCL to Diebuster to Gurren Lagann has finally ended with the release of the first epsiode of Panty & Stocking with … Continue reading

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Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright

Two of the NDS’ top selling franchises decide to get into bed together. I suppose this makes one compelling reason to get an overpriced Nintendo 3DS.

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Google v Major Networks

I’ve long been a keen observer in the growing war of opinions over the future of intellectual property rights. Just a few days ago, ABC, NBC and CBS decided to block Google TV devices from streaming from their websites, joining … Continue reading

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Torrent the whole Geocities

We have won one or two Internets before in our lifetime and now we can finally claim our hitherto figurative prize. The entire hosted content of the defunct Geocities free hosting service will be released as a 900-gigabyte torrent file … Continue reading

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Hinomoto Oniko

日本鬼子 (ri ben gui zi) is a common disparaging term in China for Japanese, dating back to the Sino-Japanese War(s). After the recent Diaoyu/Senkaku geo-political drama, the term has seen a resurgence in popularity in China, where the anti-Japanese movement comes back in fashion every so often.

Some creative Japanese folks noticed that 日本鬼子 can easily be parsed as a female Japanese name “Hinomoto Oniko” and the moé-fication began. Continue reading

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