Anime Expo is going on this weekend and there’s some cool anime coming our way. Ones I’m most happy about: Midori no Hibi, Bakuretsu Tenshi, and Popotan. I’m most happy about Midori no Hibi, because it’s one of my recent favorites. Also, it appears that TOKYOPOP will be releasing CLAMP no Kiseki: The Ultimate Collection. CLAMP’s 15th anniversary, 12 issue collection. With each issue coming with pieces for a CLAMP chess set (with some interesting choices for the pieces).

BBC News has the tale of a US chihuahua that is wowing the Japanese:

US chihuahua wows Japanese crowds

A wheelchair-bound chihuahua from the US is on a tour of Japan with his owner to tell his story of hope.

Wheely Willy was crippled and abandoned before being rescued by Deborah Turner and helped to gain mobility by using a specially-designed wheelchair.

Ms Turner and the 13-year-old dog are visiting schools and hospitals in Japan over the next two weeks to promote the book How Willy Got His Wheels. [BBC News]

Youwhores.com:

youwhores is a site for you to advertise what you are willing to do and the price you are willing to do it for.

And in turn youwhores.com is a site for you to browse the services on offer and choose the ones you are willing to pay the price for.

youwhores.com is free there are no charges or catches.

WARNING This is not a porn site.

We all have our price, what is yours?

For $50 bucks I’ll write a blog post about how great you are. I take paypal or cash.

Waxy.org has a wonderful post about the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game:

Here’s a fun game… First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on “Customer Reviews,” and sort them by “Lowest Rating First.” Hilarity ensues! It’s the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game! [Waxy.org]

Some of the ones listed are hysterical. Here’s one as an example:

John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme”

• “Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is the most overhyped jazz album in history. It is music? Maybe. But I find it to be unlistenable, despite several efforts to find something good in it.”
• “The first number is torture if you like melodic music. There’s no connection between the phasing and the rhythm. Again, is this supposed to be clever?”
• “Nobody will care about the technical achievements of these guys in 100 years.”
• “I think about Kenny G., for instance. His rythmic session is much more regular, whereas Coltrane’s session seems sometimes to loose the beat.”

Here’s my contribution: West Side Story

• I left this movie with the feeling of fairness what i mean by this is this movie was obviously given toooooooo much credit and really deserved LITTLE.I felt this movie was a rip off of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.The knife fight sequence even the backround music that went with it,oh and casting natalie wood,as i was watching this movie,scences of REBEL kept flashing in my mind. i would have enjoyed this movie if it was ORGINAL!ENOUGH SAID!
• The singing [stinks] and the characters barely talk. It is about a…girl who cares more about her evil lover than her brother….. It’s a really terrible plot not worth spending to see
• There are several old movie musicals that hold up … this isn’t one! Some of the music is good, though enormously derivative, hence the one star. Two scenes have some life in them still: the ‘officer krupke’ song and ‘america’. Everything else is tedious, unreal, awful, sappy … and it’s full of 35-year-old ‘teenagers’, this movie needs a remake: with a changed ending, the loss of a few songs, better choreography (it’s so bad now … I don’t understand my memory of it being exciting, at the time it came out …), and more reality: a better re-creation of that time … the directors did not have an eye for their own time at all!

From CNN.com

Rabies-infected organs kill 3 patients

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Rabies spread by organs taken from an infected donor has killed three transplant recipients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

“This has never happened before,” said Dr. Mitch Cohen, an infectious disease expert at the CDC, in a conference call with reporters.

A fourth recipient died during the actual transplant operation, before there was time to develop the disease, officials said.

Rabies was also determined to be responsible for the death of the organ donor. [CNN.com]

You know, I’m not sure I want the call to come sometime in the next day or two after reading that. I need some time to forget about it.

I watch fansubs. I admit it. But I also make sure that I buy shows I watch when they come out. I’ve got a much too long checklist of DVDs that I’m slowly working on filling. Lately I’ve been re-watching Angelic Layer as I get it on DVD and I’m really happy with how it is showing up for another viewing. Some shows I buy I start rewatching and find I just can’t get into them quite as much. The ones I watch and watch over and over again are the ones I’m most happy about owning.

What shows do other people find they love rewatching again and again?

Someone has made a video of the unaired pilot of “Heat Vision and Jack” available via bittorrent. From waxy.org:

First up, the best TV pilot you’ve never seen: Ben Stiller’s Heat Vision and Jack from 1999. Jack Black stars as Jack Austin, an astronaut on the run from NASA after a solar accident makes him the smartest man in the universe. Owen Wilson plays his talking motorcycle. Produced by Stiller, who also appears in the introduction and as a strip club DJ. [waxy.org]

[via boing boing]

From a mailing list I’m on comes this site: askthetechgirl.com.

What is “Ask The Tech Girl”?

If you like sexy, smart, strong girls with superior tech skills, you are in luck.

“Ask The Tech Girl” gives you the rare opportunity to talk live to a super smart, sometimes snarky and always sexy tech girl, geek chick or network ops cutie.

The next time you need tech support, why not spice it up a little? Call our toll free number and find out why we say “We Give Good Tech”…

(Aha, they got the link from Something Positive).

Mark Twain
“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.”
[Quotes of the Day]

From over on Population:One:

Ancient Masonic conspiracies

Let me get this straight. Nicholas Cage is playing Benjamin Franklin Gates, scion of the family Gates, which has been sworn for generations to find and protect a legendary treasure. The Founding Fathers of the United States left clues to the location of the treasure in the symbols of America, in particular the eye in the pyramid. Now he’s racing against a British rival to reach the treasure before it’s too late?

I’ll see that.
[Population: One]

The preview looks quite cool. And I’m a sucker for conspiracy type movies. I’ll definitely check it out.