Odds and ends, some of them involving animation, Japan or spandex.
Dr. Boli announces his magnum opus:
Distromachia. An epic poem in twenty-four books, describing in allegorical terms the battle between the various distributions of the Linux operating system. The triumphs, tragedies, humor, and pathos of open-source programming are thrown into sharp relief by casting the story in the Homeric mold. 8vo, 2 vol.
Also check the ads in his Celebrated Magazine.
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Via Fellini 8.5, a glimpse of the next project from the Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo team:
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Caninogenic climate change:
(Via Irish Elk.)
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(Via The Rat.)
Tired of Ali Project? Here’s some Puccini, also via The Rat.
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It’s not what you wear but how you wear it. A pretty girl with nice smile can redeem “… one of the most unflattering spandex /color combinations of any uniform ever conceived….”
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I think of Hatsune Miku as essentially a vocal synthesizer, albeit with a cute animated representation, so I’m a little surprised that there are videos featuring her in which she doesn’t sing. For instance, here’s Miku and her colleagues dancing to a Polysics number:
(Here’s the original video.)
And then there is this bit of senseless violence to a Touhou tune:
(Via Ken the Brickmuppet.)
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More music: let’s play a Tesla coil.
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Via Astro, an example of voices perfectly matched to their characters:
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Bonus nonsense: The best headline of the year so far: