Every once in a while the internet just blows my mind.  Not that it is anything special, it's just the things it lets people do.

I've been getting a lot of fansubbed anime online lately.  Basicly what people do is get ahold of the a show or movie and they translate it and lay the subtitles onto it.  They they make it available online.  This has been going on for a while.  The thing that suddenly blew my mind was realizing that the show I'd just been watching (Chobits) had actually aired for the first time under a week before.  So basicly people are getting a copy of it right away, translating it, and putting it up online within days of it.  This means that we're able to get a sampling of shows in almost realtime.

Of course the downside is now I probably will have to wait forever for these shows to come out on dvd here.