Bertrand Russell: “The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.” [Quotes of the Day]

According to Anime Blog Muyo!, Funimation announced that it has licensed Kiddy Grade. This was one of those shows that I was kind of enh on at first, but by the end really enjoyed. If they do as good a job with it as they have Fruits Basket I’ll be very happy.

After the ‘more’, notes on the first episode of Ultra Maniac, and episode 8 of Last Exile.

My friend Greg pointed me at this wonderfully translated page with outfits for cats. I just want to know how they got the cats to sit still with those things on.

1. You need to dress a cat. And you will say to a cat together with a family. “It has changed just for a moment”. [ “it being very dear” or ] You will pass pleasant one time.

Courtesy of Cygnoir’s Quill, the Friday Fuck-all:

1. Big Brother Is Watching You. Describe one event in your life you hope he missed because he was blinking. I only get one? There was that one time with that thing, and that other thing, and it all got tangled and it hurt.
2. In the future, people don’t have names, merely letter-number combinations. Each male has have a single consonant, followed by three numbers, and each female has a single vowel, followed by three numbers. What will your designation be? g666, the number of the greg.
3. Where were you and what were you doing in 1984? I’d just gone away to boarding school at Northfield-Mt. Hermon.
4. Improve upon Shakespeare: “O brave new world, / That has such ______ in’t!” CHEESE
5. They’re burning all the books! Which one will you memorize to pass on to future generations? The Monster at the End of This Book

I’ve decided I’m going to play around a bit with writing episode reviews. Hopefully this way will let me hide them behind a link. There are most probably spoilers ahead.

Men. Are you missing something in your life? Maybe it’s the loving words of a women. LovingVoice.com is a service where you can get recordings of a woman saying whatever you want.

But I have a loving partner…   Well that’s wonderful, you are fortunate. But, will your partner say with love and happiness, anything you want them to say? Will they enthusiastically say exactly what you want to hear? If not, LovingVoice can help even you. (And if you are not in a loving relationship, LovingVoice can help even more.)

Positive energy, positive feelings, a happy state of mind – are all powerful things – more powerful than any pill or drug – to make you feel better. People feel better when they are complimented, loved, and appreciated. The more positive feedback you get, the better frame of mind you will have, and the more you are likely to accomplish. Having a sweet human voice recorded in a computer format can help you become motivated – you can repeat it over and over to accomplish any goal. [LovingVoice.com]

Uh, okay. I don’t know that I’m convinced. The site’s FAQ gives even more details. I thought the script of the customer looking to lose weight was pretty entertaining at least. (Link thanks to Carinah again)

It’s nothing new. Traditional news sources tend to suck at reporting technical news. But every once in a while I read an article that just seems to get things more wrong than others. This time it is the BBC reporting about iTunes. Maybe I’m just reading it wrong, but they seem to keep equating the Apple music store with the ability of iTunes to share out music to other computers. They’re two separate things. They were just part of the same release and people seem to keep getting them confused with each other.

Robert Bloch: “I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.” [Quotes of the Day]

Damn you Lyn, for getting me stuck on another Manga. Bleach rules. Hopefully someone will license it here (since I am not sure if it will ever show up in US Jump).