This is quite cool. I wish they had one that was blank with spaces to fill in stuff.
Make a paper CD case
Make a paper CD case
This site will create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. There’s an advanced form that allows you to add more tracks, and even graphics, and even let you add your creation to their cover database. Neat.
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One thing I am continually learning about anime is that I should never judge a show by its premise. It continually comes back to bite me. The first show that snuck up on me this way was Dual (which has since become a favorite of mine), and Vandread is the latest. From the back of the first DVD:
Women are Monsters! For generations, the men of the planet Tarak have waged a valiant war of survival against their fierce enemies of the planet Mejale – women!
Hibiki finds himself completely out of his depth first as a stowaway on a space battleship then as the prisoner of the women who hijack it! A strange missile send the hijackers into a remote corner of the galaxy where the women and their prisoners encounter a mysterious new enemy that may force them to join forces! Can men and women actually work together without killing each other?!
For some reason I just thought this would be one of those shows that just wouldn’t work for me. Boy was I wrong. I first watched it dubbed on Encore Action, since that seemed like a decent way to check it out. After the first three episodes I was hooked, the show was just plain fun. I’ve since seen the whole series, as well as Vandred: Second Stage (which I’ll comment on when I’m done rewatching it on DVD, subbed). One thing I will say is that the dub of this show was actually not bad. Watching them so soon after another has made it easy to compare and the english VAs really do a pretty good job.
The show ends up being a mix of comedy, action, harem, space opera, and a little bit of drama for flavor. The writers do an interesting job of throwing together this group of men and women and seeing how they interact with each other. Each having their own preconceptions about the other. Of course it doesn’t help that all the propaganda on the planet of men says that women want to capture them, chop them up, and serve them for dinner.
The show is from GONZO, and being one of their earlier shows doesn’t have quite the visual polish of their recent shows, but it’s still quite shiny and cool looking. You can really see how they have been evolving over the years with this.
Overall, I give this show two thumbs up.
Anyone else remember these scary specials about all the horrible things kids can get involved in? Now you can watch them again on DVD, and they even come in a Trapper Keeper-like case!
Afterschool Specials on DVD
Do you remember
My Other Mother
,
Beat the Turtle Drum
, and
Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea
? No? Honestly, I don’t either and I thought I would recognize all these old ABC Afterschool Specials, those maudlin preachy tales of unwed mothers, teenage prostitution, and the dangers of hitchhiking. They’re being released on DVD, in a Trapper Keeper notebook style case. Each volume has four installments on two DVDs with Volumes 1 and 2 arriving on October 12th.
Schoolboy Father
, starring Rob Lowe, Nancy McKeon, and Dana Plato won’t be out until Volume 4 arrives, probably later this fall. Oh, Rob did a ton of these, he’s also in
A Matter of Time
in Volume 5. [via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]
Just the text of this clip alone is bound to give me some good search traffic.
Japanese men’s sperm comes in 2 types
Japanese men’s sperm concentration changes seasonally and is categorized in two types according to the season when it becomes more concentrated, research jointly conducted by two universities revealed. [via Medical News Today]
I’ve been in an absolutely crappy mood all weekend. I dunno if it’s the phase of the moon or that time of the year or what. In an act of desperation I sent someone some songs anonymously, and got an absolutely wonderful response to the second one. I am now smiling. The End.
ps. please don’t kill me.
Buh, I was just trying to look up the GamesDomain review of Wario Ware for the GBA and I discovered that Yahoo! absorbed gamesdomain.com. And it looks like this happened a while ago. And on top of it, they’ve completely ruined it. This sucks. GamesDomain used to have an amazing database of reviews, most of which seem to be gone at this point. Thank you Yahoo for destroying something good.
Yay! It looks like there is a new version of Wario Ware in the works. That game drove me absolutely insane and I keep thinking about giving it a replay. [via Waxy.org Links]
After the season finale of Joan of Arcadia, I really wasn’t quite sure what they were going to do this season. So far, I think they’re off to a good start. No other real comments at this time to avoid spoilage.
Fred Allen
“I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.” [via Quotes of the Day]
Years ago when I was in college there were a few games for the Mac that were quite cool. One of them was Solarian II. It was kind of like Galaxian with really cool sounds. Thankfully, it’s now been ported to OS X and it’s just as frustratingly cool as it was back then. I think I may even cough up the $10 for it once I get done with the trial runs.
Now, we just need are new ports of Arashi, Crystal Quest, Shufflepuck Cafe (remember the opponent who’d get drunk as he lost?) and Airborn (Hopefully I can find links to old pages with pictures of these). Now that I think of it, there were a ton of really simple fun games for the Mac back then. I remember the little DA version of Tetris that I’d waste hours playing when I was working in the computer lab.
