Archive for January, 2007

Death Note Licensed

I only just noticed it today, but yesterday Viz announced it had licensed Death Note, and all fansub groups following it have since dropped the project. This would come as terribly disappointing news, as we were only on episode 12 of 37 but Viz has decided to release them over the internet as download-to-own or [...]

Daylight Saving Time Changes

This whole thing is new to me, but apparently there was this law passed in 2005: the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which does a multitude of things to combat growing energy consumption. One of these is a major change to daylight saving time. From the Wikipedia article:
Starting in 2007, clocks will be set ahead [...]

Bleach returns from teh suck!

Today the 110th episode of Bleach marked the end of the current running filler streak. The sub isn’t out yet, but be sure I’ll keep you posted as soon as it does. I added a link for bleach7 in my links page. Go there to download episodes for yourself. Hooray for manga story line. (I’ve [...]

Apple iPhone

Holy freaking bejeebus, they did it again. Today Steve Jobs released the details of over 3 years of work and I honestly think this could become as big as the iPod. I don’t know cell phone companies apart, like Sprint or Verizon, but Cingular may just be my plan of choice.
In a few hours the [...]

Ode to Ramen

Friday, a man passed away who has done a great service for the whole world. Ando was king of instant ramen, or so the article says. What I do know is that Ando Momofuku has been the hero of many the basement nerds and college students. He believed that peace would come to the world [...]