“The California High-Speed Rail Authority has five separate layers of consultants and contractors on the bridge. Any one of them could have identified a long series of errors, but it appears no one did so.”
— No-Speed Rail pays (someone) offDear 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.]
This is wrong tour
Never use this.
Step 1: Take the train to Akihabara on a Sunday. Step 2: Pay an American cosplayer $50 for a tour. Step 3: Profit?
At least they advertise it correctly: anyone on this tour will indeed be called “otaku” by the natives…
Ooma goes retail!
We’ve been taking it slow, but we’ve finally got a retail trial running. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, you can finally see our product before buying one, at Best Buy.
"Now throw the switch and let us begin the battle for the planet."
--- The Brain
