{"id":1255,"date":"2009-04-01T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T23:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2009-04-01T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T23:26:50","slug":"miscellaneous-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/miscellaneous-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Odds and ends, some of them involving animation, Japan or spandex.<\/p>\n

Dr. Boli announces his magnum opus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Distromachia<\/em>. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also check the ads in his Celebrated Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Via Fellini 8.5<\/a>, a glimpse of the next project<\/a> from the Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo<\/em><\/strong> team:<\/p>\n

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Caninogenic climate change:<\/p>\n

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(Via Irish Elk<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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A tea house too high<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Via The Rat<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Tired of Ali Project? Here’s some Puccini, also via The Rat.<\/p>\n

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It’s not what you wear but how you wear it. A pretty girl with nice smile<\/a> can redeem “… one of the most unflattering spandex \/color combinations of any uniform ever conceived<\/a>….”<\/p>\n

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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:<\/p>\n

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(Here’s the original video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

And then there is this bit of senseless violence to a Touhou tune:<\/p>\n

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(Via Ken the Brickmuppet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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More music: let’s play a Tesla coil.<\/p>\n

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Via Astro<\/a>, an example of voices perfectly matched to their characters:<\/p>\n

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Bonus nonsense: The best headline of the year so far:<\/p>\n

North Korea Threatens War with Japan if Missile Is Shot Down, Japan Threatens to Unleash Godzilla if Kim Jong-il Doesn\u2019t Reconsider Haircut<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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