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07 Ghost
2009-04-10 09:03:00
07-Ghost is a fantasy manga written and illustrated by Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara. It is currently serialized in the monthly magazine Monthly Comic Zero Sum published by Ichijinsha. Seven compilation volumes have been released as of January 2009. A drama CD was also released in 2007, known as Kamisama ni Todoku Koibumi. The manga has been licensed by Go! Comi for release in North America. A highly anticipated anime adaption has been announced for 2009;it will premiere in April and is being produced by Studio DEEN(Fruits Basket, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Vampire Knight, Junjo Romantica being some of their popular titles). Most of the voice actors from the drama CDs will be returning with the same roles for the anime, and the official website has announced that the opening theme song is "Aka no Kakera" by Yuki Suzuki and the ending theme song is "Hitomi no Kotae" by Noria.

Beware: tall and short people
2007-05-17 17:32:00
Short people and tall people can receive seriousinjuries from air bags, a new study found.So if you are of a medium height, feel safe.
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Bigfoot evidence
2007-05-17 00:24:00
Enjoy:)
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A Zero-sum game.
2007-05-16 23:32:00
Robert Colvile argues that economic growth is not a zero-sum game, therefore developed nations do not need to fear the 'rise' of India & China.I argue that under western colonialism, economic growth was indeed a zero-sum game. Is it a wonder that most former non-white colonies are poorer nations as of the moment?Dinesh D'souza argues that the west did not get rich with the help of "oppression and exploitation". In fact, according to him, "they were the fruits of that success". He proclaims the trio of science, democracy and capitalism were the enablers of Western success.He also elaborates on his 'native country':The British ruled my native country of India for a couple of hundred years. But before the British came, India was invaded and occupied by the Persians, the Mongols, the Turks, the Afghans, and the Arabs. England was the seventh or eighth colonial power to establish itself on Indian soil.And I am indeed thankful to have been ruled by the English who gave us English...
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Aggrieved white men
2007-05-16 23:04:00
Joan Walsh narrates the sentiment of aggrieved white men: It's hard to be white these days. I mean, one morning Don Imus is the kingof the talk universe; the next thing you know he's lost his radio and televisionperch for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."Meanwhile, Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful moguls of media, is gettingaway with bragging to Howard University graduates on Saturday that she has "some really good white folks working for me."The reason Oprah is getting away with it is because it was her ancestors which brought to America as slaves and that gives her the right to be proud of the fact that she has white people working for him when her own grandmother worked as a maid to white people. Understandable. At least she is not throwing around the word 'nigger' and is using a inspirational personal anecdote to inspire other blacks as well (Howard is a black university).What Imus said was downright offensive to both women and African-A...
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Affluence & Religion
2007-05-16 21:36:00
From The New Yorker: If a propensity toward religious belief is “hard-wired” in the brain, as it is sometimes said to be, the wiring has evidently become frayed. This is especially true in rich countries, nearly all of which—Ireland and America are exceptions—have relatively high rates of unbelief.I would say the reason why affluence brings about irreligiousness is that when you have enough money to have 3 (or more) good meals a day, live in a proper house, have decent clothes to wear and possess a smorgasbord of other accessories without which modern living is incomplete, religion doesn't really need to come into the picture that often. There's no real reason for it to come into the picture. You can, simply put, afford to be rational about belief. Now let me clarify that I am not saying you can't be rich and religious. Some people are grateful that they are affluent and use religion to profess their generosity. Others think they just got that way; devoid of any reason. W...
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Warrior Culture
2007-05-16 21:29:00
LAPD has a warrior culture. And that carries negative connotations, apparently.But aren't all police forces supposed to have a warrior culture? Beats me!
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Eye Contact
2007-05-15 22:53:00
This made me laugh:What do you mean you cant make eye contact? What sort of person would feel so threatened by simple passer by eye contact that they would beat you just for that? Read this on a certain forum and the issue here is making eye contact in bad neighbourhoods.While I agree with the innocent poster in spirit, i.e. 'what sort of person would feel so threatened by simple passer by eye contact', I find the idealism grossly funny. In reality, you can easily get beaten up for making eye contact or even killed/vegetated if the beating goes horribly wrong.You really gotta watch where your eyes are, man. It's a big, bad world out there.
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Who are we on the Internet?
2007-05-14 21:57:00
Just who are we? Not in our real lives, but on the Intern et . After reading Robert W. Lucky's Reflections in this month's Spectrum magazine, I really wonder about that.He mentions how we leave an 'electronic slime' trail behind us as we browse through the net and how in the future employers may only need to Google us to find out more about ourselves than our resume can possibly tell.So what will be the criteria of employment then?Will my YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, Ficlets, MSN, Yahoo, Google accounts be searched for clues regarding my true identity? Will it be considered that while a certain person wants to work for company X, but really does like company Y? What if a blogger comments on how much he dislikes pets or children or old people and that is used as by an employer to judge him/her?Will people's political/religious opinions be used to discriminate against them?The plausible situations I mention above can very well be used in our present time to analyse...
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Fantastic Quote
2007-05-14 21:18:00
...[a] software is a mathematical algorithm and, as such, not patentable.Eben Moglen Amen to that!
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This is a fern leaf
2007-05-14 20:05:00
There's no rationale behind posting this. Just that it was the first time I saw a fern leaf in my life!
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Time gone Awaara
2007-05-14 19:19:00
As [Raj] Kapoor sees it, the torrents of guilt that flood across the screen arenot just the judge's but society's, for dividing India into brahmins andoutcasts.How brilliant an analysis. The film in question here is Awaara (1951), directed by Raj Kapoor. Prithviraj Kapoor's portryal of Judge Raghunath in the film features in Time magazine's list of Top 25 Greatest Villains; nevermind that Raghunath is spelled as Raghunat by them. I have seen Awaara at least 3 times. I have a DVD as well. I just saw it a week ago and the last thing I would interpret the movie to be is a saga of brahmin-outcast divide. Bullshit, another one of those Western interpretations of Indian social mechanisms. Awaara is clearly about one man's (Judge Raghunath) refusal to budge from his principals which dictate that: "Daku ka beta daku, sharif ka beta sharif" (A scoundrel's son will always be a scoundrel and a decent man's son always decent). He also frowns upon single mothers, as is evident in a scene....
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Crime, Grime
2007-05-14 18:40:00
Law & Order will return for an 18th season?!?Not that I mind. The criminal cases depicted inside are mostly so salacious, that they make C.S.I. look lame.On a sidenote: I fail to understand why squarejohns (me included) love cop/legal dramas so much when most of them wouldn't want any of the criminal cases depicted happening to them. Is it a strange obsession, a flirtatious relationship with dark crimes? Or merely a need to enjoy who-dunnits?For me, it's the latter.But most of these 'Crime Series', as they are popularly called, do not offer much of a who-dunnit these days; well certainly not as much as they offer sex-crimes with rock music playing in the background. Not to mention the usual bureaucratic nightmares and relationship troubles the protaganists face.C.S.I. was brilliant in its initial years but nowadays it is all about something involving sex. I mean yeah, it's Las Vegas but sex-crimes or crimes of passion get boring after a while. Moreover there's no real mystery ...
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Watch it, please
2007-05-14 18:38:00
Dear women: Watch out for your hair, please.
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Bicycle Helmets
2007-05-14 18:35:00
And here's the reason why I don't wear them.
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Go forth & assert
2007-05-13 12:02:00
I borrowed The Complete Idiot's guide to Assertiveness from the library.I realized my way of getting people to understand, respond and act on what I tell them is aggressive not assertive. At times, I am even passive because I just want to avoid communicating for the fear of invoking an offensive comeback or non-compliance; reactions to which I will respond with anger/lowered self-confidence. Often I am passive-aggresive, meaning I plan to teach a lesson to the other party in response to what they say. All that's wrong, because they do not offer a long term solution to the problem of getting people to pay attention/undertand/act on to what you say in an increasingly fast paced world.I realized that by being assertive:I can convey appropriate self interest - display a sense of determining what merits my time and attention.I maintain my integrity - i.e. I mean what I say.I uphold rights - maintaining my own rights while not trampling on others.Also, you feel good after being assertiv...
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Coke for a nickel
2007-05-12 19:49:00
No, I'm not peddlin' online.Slate magazine solves the mystery of the 5 cent CocaCola, and gives a primer on why prices must change.
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What I have been doing
2007-05-12 19:05:00
I read:The Big NowhereI watched:Fahrenheit 9/11Monty Python and The Holy GrailRashomonBiased Comments:The Big Nowhere was a satisfying read and the only grief I have with it is that Danny Upshaw and Mal Considine die. James Ellroy merged the two main subplots perfectly and the character development of the 3 main protagonists was detailed and effective. There were no heroes as such; but the 'heroes' did have a figment of humanity in them. Fahrenheit 9/11 felt like a Democrat Party promotional video. I bet some of the dirt on Bush must be true. But it seemed to me that Michael Moore badly wanted to say: Vote for Kerry. Plus, it seemed contradictory to me to show clips of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who listened to 'Let the Bodies hit the floor' before getting on with their bombing, citing the war to be a much worse version of a violent video game,, and ending the docu-film with a vindication of the soldiers and blaming Bush & co. for the horrors of the war. Rightly so, as well; the ille...
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Random thought
2007-05-09 23:29:00
Solving a problem is not simply about finding a solution; it is about finding the best soultion.
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Dick in Iraq
2007-05-09 23:15:00
Cheney is pulling off a publicity stunt by visiting Iraq .He was there to 'press Iraq's feuding political factions to pull together urgently on such divisive issues as oil revenues, political militias, provincial elections, the division of power in the future Iraqi state and the rehabilitation of thousands of former Saddam Hussein-era officials.'Iraq's a mess. The minute American troops pull out, the Shias, Sunnis and Kurds will be at each other's throats. Division of power? Blah.
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A movie, two pictures and clarifications
2007-05-09 22:18:00
Just watched American History X. Edward Norton and Edward Furlong's performances as Derek and Danny Vinyard are simply amazing. Especially Norton. Mind numbing, thought provoking. An analysis would really kill the movie. You have to watch it, feel it and interpret it for yourself.If you have ever hated or have been hated because of things which are not in your control, i.e. race, color, ethnicity, culture etc., you will relate to this movie. Do not expect it to entertain you or watch it to have a good time. Watch it only if you wonder why it's so hard to be rational in this irrational world. And why hate generates more hate and the cycle goes on forever.If there's one thing which can be learnt from this movie, that would be forgiveness. Which is so fuckin' hard a thing to do. Also, I realized that no matter what, some labels can never be removed/overlooked.Anyway, here's something: Now you see the swastika. Now you don't.Censorship.I am a Brahmin and the Swastika happens to be...
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Insight
2007-05-08 19:38:00
Read this great insight:"Meritocracy works only as well as the situation you are born in."How very true.
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Tee hee
2007-05-08 14:59:00
I got a stocktaking part-time job which pays peanuts. 6 days of (combos of night shifts + day shifts) working at the airport and at a warehouse.In it for the experience not the money, which is a pittance anyway. Let's see how it goes. To appreciate the big, one must experience the small.

"She gave me a look only a mother could give a child"
2007-05-08 14:37:00
That's what George 'Dubya' Bush said after mixing up the year of U.S. of A.'s bicentennial (from 1976 to 1776) while he welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to the White House.Cute, ain't he?Full report here.
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In luck
2007-05-07 20:02:00
I spotted American History X at the local video rental. Perhaps this week I'll borrow it along with some other titles.
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WW II
2007-05-06 18:26:00
Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist) writes:Winning WWII was the ultimate joint effort. But if you go to school in America, you graduate with the impression that the United States was 90% of that victory.Our version paints Great Britain as a plucky and resourceful holdout against Hitler, on the verge of falling. Russia is portrayed as a bunch of hobos with flintlock rifles who got lucky because the Nazis didn’t have warm coats. The French are presented as beret-wearing cheese-eaters taking German lessons.I think the same way! Possibly because most of my knowledge regarding WWII comes from American authors and their books. Interesting.Catch up with the entire discussion here.

Perverse
2007-05-06 17:31:00
The most sickening and saddening news I have heard in recent times:A 17 year old Kurdish girl was stoned, kicked, beaten, stripped, bludgeoned to death in Mosul, Iraq for loving a Sunni boy. To top it off, some of them motherfuckers recorded the perversion on a cameraphone. Using 21st sentury technology with Stone Age attitude- how anachronistic.Moreover, she had been convinced by her deceitful folks themselves that she had been forgiven and was asked to return to her hometown from the town where she was hiding. On the way awaited a mob of nearly 1000 men to lynch her. To even call them men is an insult to mankind; a real man would have died trying to save a woman's life.Mindless, medieval fucks.Honor killing? How does a brutal murder at the hands of strangers bring back a family's honor?Culture? It isn't necessary that whatever is institutionalized as 'culture' has to be right.Such a family and society can go to hell. I hope they get gassed.No wonder Saddam was cruel; to rule ...
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
2007-05-06 13:37:00
It's funny how certain girl-women label themselves as:Cam-whores, Party-whores and what not.So much for respecting women.

Evidence
2007-05-06 13:32:00
This is funny:If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.Amen to that!
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Light, Light baby
2007-05-06 13:03:00
Image from here.The original blog post calls this advertisement 'sickening'. However, lets not shoot the messenger now. The advertisement just brings to light (pun intended) the inherent (South)Asian preference for fairer skin. Especially among men, as (South)Asian men, no matter how dark themselves, dig fairer skin on their rasmalai women. Women are not far behind.How discriminatory! Pfft. I should better go and buy this.
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