“We had you read over your statement, right?”
“Correct.”
“And we asked if you knew anything beyond that statement.”
“Correct.”
“We didn’t ask you to change it.”
“Yes, you did.”
— How not to cross-examine a witnessJuxtaposition...
A friend just called to tell me I might not want to start my drive home just yet, since there’s a big fire near Watsonville. Checking in with Google News, I see these headlines:
Fireworks sales OK in Watsonville despite fire danger
Watsonville Fire Grows To 1000 Acres
Blaze Closes 6-Mile Stretch of Highway 1
[Update: over a thousand acres burned, smoke you can smell from 101, and some nitwit down the street from me is setting off fireworks.]
Today at ANN...
…Sekirei trailers (Windows drm-laden-player only) and the announcement that the Mahoromatic manga artist’s current step-incest comedy, subtly titled kissXsis, will be animated soon.
Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,
I know, I thought there really wasn’t anything left to say about the horrible outfits you daily inflict on the girls of Tsunku’s army, but this is different. It’s a safety issue.
Useful information...
View from the wing provides a handy piece of information (via Marginal Revolution):
Regardless of what you pay and what fare class you’re booking in, your travel on United between San Francisco and Nagoya, Japan is going to have almost no effect whatsoever on United’s decision-making. They’ve got a very large contract with Toyota and they fill up their 747 with cargo and the flight goes out with very low load factors yet is still profitable for them to operate. That’s why the single easiest flight in the entire United system on which to score an international premium class award ticket on is San Francisco- Nagoya...
More Spore
I couldn’t resist linking to this one. Eeeeeevil.
Queen's Blade: The Solo Game
ANN says Queen’s Blade TV anime series. I expect well-rounded character designs with paper-thin personalities, bound together by fate in a by-the-numbers plot.
One in every crowd...
A short visit to Sporepedia.
The creator:
The artist:
The specialist:
One in every crowd:
Expect to see a lot of these...
Today was the public pre-release of the Spore Creature Creator. Lots of people are going to be making critters and posting pictures and videos of them.
Here’s my only contribution for the foreseeable future:
And here’s the video, which works in some video players, but not others. (Quicktime with assorted plugins, but not Quicktime as a browser plugin, for some reason; also, no VLC)
I like the way that the children are chibified.
[Update: the web site claims 71,860 creatures uploaded in the last 24 hours. Oh, yeah, you’ll be seeing a lot of these.]
