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Category Archives: just for fun
Anime Festival Asia ’08 Day One
I was there. My only purchases – a set of Collateral Damage Studios works: three beautiful Nanoha prints (art by Xeph and Mycstea) and a hilarous Burning Arisa doujin (art by WaHa) for SGD 45. Too tired to do a … Continue reading
Ancient machines and anime
While I have procured DVD replacements for my Slayers and Evangelion VHS tapes, the same can’t be said of the hardware used to actually watch said animu. In contrast to moyism’s Samsung 50″ plasma 1080p TV/monitor or Stripey’s Sharp Aquos … Continue reading
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The otaku gift economy
In the opening page of The Gift: Forms and functions of exchange archaic societies, Marcel Mauss asks: In primitive or archaic types of society, what is the principle whereby the gift received has to be repaid? What force is there … Continue reading
Top HNSO non-blogger commenters
Kabitzin introduces yet another handy plugin. But quantity ain’t always quality and I prefer a more qualitative (i.e. haphazard and subjective LOL) approach.
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It don’t matter you’re in black and white
1280 x 800 As requested by Chichiwomoge and to share the Yuki love – a really simple wallpaper that relies mainly on the impact of the artwork by Toshihide Sano that conveys the glory of our great goddess Nagato. Set … Continue reading
Posted in just for fun, melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
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The order of the name
I’m in complete agreement with LOLFANG of Nyoro~n fansubs on this LOL (though the all caps make it hard to read). Even though I silently fume when journos from big newspapers who should really know better regularly make mistakes with … Continue reading
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A particular reading displeasure
of mine is when I’m trying to read a post and the text gets pushed down repeatedly as images load. [Add: Blog owners who don’t realize this because the images are already preloaded in their browser caches in the course … Continue reading