American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman HarperTorch 2002 For thousands of years people have come to America, sometimes in small groups, sometimes in large numbers, across the Atlantic and the Pacific,… Read more »
Chobits–Anime Review
This may be the most controversial of the many anime series adapted from CLAMP stories. Many people love it; others really hate it. Personally I like it. I find it… Read more »
Switching Permalinks
When I first set up this blog I selected the WordPress option to use “numeric” permalinks for posts, which just assigns a sequence number to each post. Over time I… Read more »
I’m Still Not Sure What I Think About Kanon
…so maybe I need to think about it some more.
Internet Pirate Radio
Elliotte Rusty Harold proposes pirate radio as the solution to the problem posed by the Copyright Royalty Board decision (see The Death of Internet Radio.) The RIAA’s Internet radio purge… Read more »
300
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. –Simonides of Ceos (Epitaph on the burial mound of the Spartans.) There are few turning… Read more »
The Death of Internet Radio
Doc Searls on Linux Journal describes a remarkable case of a new industry being regulated out of existence to please its old-style competitors. In a move that recalls the Vogons’… Read more »
Cartoon Censorship
Cartoon Brew digs up an old article on the censorship regime that prevailed in the 1930s. (via. Wired). Most of it seems ridiculous now, but some of the material would… Read more »
Does Manabi Straight Actually Make Sense?
After seeing a total of three episodes, I can’t get past the obvious problem that everyone else comments on: that the supposed high school students look ten years old (at… Read more »
The Horrible Botch of Haruhi Suzumiya
When they announced that The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was going to be released in Region 1, my worst fear was that the clueless American distributors would ruin the story… Read more »