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 »
Maison Ikkoku–Anime Review
If I tell you the plot of this story it’s going to sound like a laundry list of anime and manga clichés. But in this case there’s a good excuse:… Read more »
Amazing Grace
Last Friday was the 200th anniversary of the passage in the House of Commons of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which largely eliminated the Atlantic slave trade. More significantly,… Read more »
Hollywood Accents
Quite why the majority of US critics are so offended by this particular outrage remains a mystery. Hollywood has always had a somewhat cavalier attitude towards foreign accents, as those… Read more »