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Japan: Top 10 Things To Do In Japan [National Geographic] One thing that struck me about this list was that it was so inane. Isn't NG the magazine responsible for all those Long Exposure Photography Of The Stars Over A Mountain Range pictures? I love those. Anyway this list recommends you go Kyoto and Asakusa, try out a hot spring, stay in ( Read more... )

This is really just for my own use (and J, if he thinks it will help in the slightest). But if you want to know the story behind it, I'm entering a Magic: The Gathering tournament tomorrow ( Read more... )

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Movies: Promo shots of Tim Burton's Dark Shadows Never heard of either the original or this remake up until now, but I do like Tim Burton's eye for colour and composition. Regarding the genre, a "gothic soap opera" sounds awesome, but maybe that's why I'm an anime fan -- that kind of genre is commonplace for us.
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Random: Suicide By Rollercoaster It's about a man who has set out to design a deadly rollercoaster, not about someone who actually did it...
Typhoon Roke: Powerful Typhoon Roke hits Japan (BBC)
Typhoon Roke: Typhoon Roke Makes Landfall in Japan (Bloomberg)So, that typhoon has now passed over our house as a "category one hurricane" (you know ( Read more... )

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LGBT: Teen Titans Has A Gay Member
Random: US UFO Sightings Spike In August, Presumably Due To Movie Releases
Redheads: Sperm Bank Turns Down Red-Head Donors Schuldig is a sad panda.
UK: UK Government Announces Plans For Marriage Equality And in the US, DADT is finished too ( Read more... )

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Hurricane Irene: Hurricane Tracker
Science: Rainbow Cloud
Tiger&Bunny: Gen Doujinshi
Tokyo: 40 Facts About Tokyo

I didn't manage to get tickets for the Tiger&Bunny final episode event in the pre-order sale, but maybe I can get something in the regular sale? Edit: Here's why! 60,000 people applied for 400 seats ( Read more... )

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Film: Another Hellraiser movie made just to cling on to the rights. Clive Barker has some interesting comments about that.
Film: Paradise Lost really does seem to be happening.
Tiger&Bunny: "Arigatou! Soshite, Arigatou!" All-Night Event Posting this again -- lottery ticket results and regular ticket sale coming up soon.

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Film: Captain America/Thor Fight Scene Really interesting to see the choreography from above. I've done stuff like this!
Meme: Socially Awkward Penguin
Photography: One Day in New York in One Photograph
Waaambulance Callout: Nationalists Protest FujiTV CRY MOAH

Improv: Bus Stop Scene as Film Noir [Video] Videos are suddenly not embedding ( Read more... )