Let's Get Our Hate On: Anime

Everyone ready for the hate? Today we'll be hating on Anime. Oh yes, mwhahaha...And here are a few links to anime haters. I love those sites actually. They embody some of my feelings towards anime. Anyway, I won't repeat what's already been said, so just *click click* and laugh a bit.

Links

• I Hate Anime Fans
  
• Anime Sucks!
  
• So You Want To Learn Japanese...(Just added)
  
• Anime Sucks Clothing from CafePress
  
• "Anime Sucks" Googled
  

From AnimeSucks.com

The vast majority of anime geeks will only watch 'fan-subbed' stuff because obviously, shit that isn't in Japanese is un-American. I'm not a Nazi, but I play one on TV when geeks pelt me with their hypocrisy. Some fag called "Sorata-kun" (You aren't allowed in the japanophile club if your name is Bob) says to me, "Oh, boo hoo, I am Christian and I follow the cross and I follow all laws, you people who download mp3s are evil, Satan is going to assrape you, blaa blah." All the while he is trading his illegally stolen, illegally fansubbed, and illegally distributed anime. Hey geekboy, which part of the Berne Convention are you not understanding?

I couldn't have put it better myself. Illegally fansubbed I disagree with because all it's an overlay and doesn't modify the content...Actually, I'm just going over the Berne Convention right now, and Article 8 states that, "Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall enjoy the exclusive right of making and of authorizing the translation of their works throughout the term of protection of their rights in the original works." So maybe fansubs are illegal.

Jory on this forum puts it best:

I can't understand people who spend three or four hours a day, every day, watching characters with no faces and weak surface personalities talk in pygmy-voices and giggle. Not when there's a library in this town.

Stay tuned for the next installment of Let's Get Our Hate On. I think I'll be getting together some Emo Sucks links together. Or maybe, just maybe, something anti-stupid-computer-lusers.

Thingies of the Day

Picture(s) of the Day
Here's a picture of a Naruto fan. For those of us who don't have anything to do with anime (i.e. sane people), Naruto is an anime series about a dude who has a demon in him. Judging from the costume, this guy is FUBAR. Oh and great news for anime fans and anime-haters. It looks like the industry is going to be cracking down on pirates more. Pirates = people making fansubs and distributing the damned videos along with the subtitles, aka morons who can't figure out how to distribute subtitles seperately. A quick search on Freshmeat.net turns up a few programs that let you make subtitles. DivX allows you to create "movies with multiple language subtitle sets". And onto the next item.

I just have to plug my own photos. You can find them at Flickr. I uploaded a few photos that I took a few weeks ago. The bike jump is one of the good ones I think.

Cool Tech Thing of the Day

Mr. trouble never hangs around,
when he hears this Mighty sound,
Here I come to save the day!
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
Mighty Mouse will join the fight!
On the sea or on the land,
He's got the situation well in hand!

Click the lyrics and you'll figure it out.

Link of the Day
Cast of Super Mario syncing The Offspring's Why Don't You Get a Job. There a few more like it (Bohemian Rhapsody, Mr.Roboto, etc.) but I lost the link. I'll let you Google for them...

Anyway, that's all for today.

It's alive!!!

I finally got Slackware 10.1 working. The 2.4.x kernel was the cause of my hardware woes. So, I re-installed Slackware after fucking up my bootdisk (thanks lilo...) and then I compiled the new kernel. Then I created a new boot disk with lilo and so, everything works and I'm typing this in Firefox in KDE 3.2.x on a Slackware 10.1 machine :)

Slackware Install Update

Warning! The follow paragraph is for geeks.
Ok, Slackware is on my 40GB hard drive. It works. But, the soundcard and network card are messed up. There seems to be an IRQ conflict and thus emu10k1 (Soundblaster Live! MP3+) won't load with modprobe/insmod. Knoppix loads them fine, but Slack kills them...The network card is good, but the routing is messed.

Nice story on how Even Geeks Need a Breather.

Today's the day!

Today I'm (finally) adding my relatively new 160gb hard drive. I ordered it back in May and I had to wait till all my school stuff was done. Now it's August and I can finally do what I've been waiting three months to do. Adding the hard drive is a big deal because now I can dualboot Windows 2000 and Slackware Linux.

Since you have a lot of choice with Linux, I could choose from dozens of great distros, but I chose Slackware because it's one of the original Linux distros. I know, not a great reason, but anything's better than Windows. I know a few people who run Slackware and they're happy with it. I've tried Ubuntu and it's not for me even if I can switch window managers.

My next choice is which Window Manager to use. I've decided on KDE and FluxBox. KDE for the user-friendly crap so I can show people how easy it is to get going with Linux. FluxBox is the other choice because it's lightweight and would be good for coding I think.

My last choice is which Open Source software to run and what theme to have in KDE. I'm thinking a nice Matrix green-and-black theme. Oh, and for software? OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. and the new ones I've been waiting to try for a while like FreeJ, Jahshaka and Rose Garden.

A few intriguing programs...

The following were found on Freshmeat.net (These are all Open Source by the way...)

FreeJ

FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance and theater performance, veejaying, medical visualization, and TV. With FreeJ, multiple layers can be filtered through effect chains and then mixed together. The supported layer inputs are images, movies, live cameras, particle generators, text scrollers, and more. The resulting video mix can be shown on multiple and remote screens, encoded into a movie, and streamed live to the Internet. FreeJ can be controlled locally or remotely from multiple places at the same time, using a slick console interface. It can be automated via JavaScript and operated via MIDI and joystick.

Unfortunately there's no Windows version. But! you can download dyne:bolic, burn it to a CD and boot it up. It's a Linux bootable CD that includes FreeJ and some other great multimedia tools. I'm definitely trying it out.

Jahshaka

The worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and Solaris is on the way! Jahshaka is licenced to the public under the GNU GPL agreement.

Currently only downloadable from Sourceforge until they fix their site. It looks sexy. I can't wait to try it.

Anywho, it looks like Windows users are getting screwed when it comes to software. Looking at Freshmeat.net, I can see there are a lot of Linux- or Mac-only programs. So yeah, "Software, like sex, is better when it's free."

Tidbits

This just in...Microsoft has a new tool(add-in) for Office 2003. It's the Word Redaction Add-in.

And looks like someone really likes taking pictures of themselves (more than 10 photos of yourself is kind of creepy no?). The sad thing is that they look mostly the same.

And an interesting story at kuro5hin.org about "Murder Simulators" (video games). Check out the poll at the side of the article.

Poll (from kuro5hin.org)
After a game of GTA what do you most like to do?
18% Smack your bitch around.
22% Rob a liquor store.
11% Go for a nice good driveby with the top down.
29% Perform a hatecrime down at the local pakishop.
18% A bit of fast-paced vehicular homicide.

Great stuff heh.

Earth, Nostalgia, and Other Amusements.

I discovered Google Earth this weekend up at my cousin's cottage. It is simply amazing. I look forward to seeing Microsoft's half-assed attempt in the future. There are three versions of Google Earth; the free Earth, the $20 Earth Plus, and the $400 Earth Pro. Each one comes with more features. What I'd really love to do (and is available in the non-free versions) is to make a path of the cottage route we took.

At the cottage I went canoeing with my cousin. That was alright, but not as much fun as playing SNES and NES games on his laptop. I played some Contra, Metal Gear, Ice Hockey, Megaman, Castlevania, among others.

Interesting images from tonx (Flickr image sets):
latte art
espresso porn
more coffee stuff

And the last link for today: A female android.