Finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Actually found myself laughing, shocked, frowning at every turn of the characters' lives. Hard to be someone who's CDP -- jumping through time could even get one killed.

Damn unique, and I'll not be surprised if some fanfics would sprout out of this.

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It was downright hilarious, but for that girl Kana... let's just say the experience blew her away. xD

From
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=11526

...in the case of sarahtales, she never thought that one day someone from Japan would give her something far-out awesome.

Such as having someone like Hiromu Arakawa -- of Full Metal Alchemist fame -- do the book cover for one of her stories for the Japanese market.

Two thumbs up for Sarah Rees Brennan!

--from Japanator

Reading this page of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons left me snickering:

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The Manga Guide to StatisticsIn a world in which most young people are of the TL;DR variety, listen to pop music, and the last thing they want are more numbers, this book (and others in that site) might help make things easier. This is how to define "edutainment". xD ( Read more... )

After reading Gibson's Idoru (part two of the "San Francisco Trilogy"), I remember the total oddball who tried to gather signatures in a petition to lawfully allow citizens -- oddballs like him -- to marry 2-dimensional fictional characters like one of the KyoAni girls ( Read more... )

* Bought a copy of Stephen Coonts' Fortunes of War. It's a decade old, where in this alternate universe the United States, Japan and Russia are thrown into war over Siberia, yet it's also a coincidence that the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 -- with the same combatants -- is out now ( Read more... )

While I await for the next client willing to pay for several Bratz-themed birthday invitations (fashion-wise, the lively Super Gals! would've put those goldfish-like gaijin oddballs to shame in Shibuya, IMHO xD) and give-away stickers... this is today's Website Spotlight:

Baka-Tsuki is a light novel fan translation community (as opposed to group, ( Read more... )

The other night, before leaving the shop for home, I've took down a very tough piece of French malware -- a Virtumonde variant to be precise -- residing in the server that even NOD32 couldn't root it out. All it required was to boot into DOS using the XPSP2 boot disc and try to access the hard disk to delete the offending files ( Read more... )

This guy's going this far to provide the full voice cast of each anime series dubbed by Filipinos ( Read more... )