Vesta's South Polar Region

A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.

Across Mars

Tiger & Bunny

Interesting how different the body language for supers is in Japanese cartoons from American. And that most of them have no hesitation to use tools to enhance their natural abilities.

Also interesting that the show's actual advertisers' logos are used in-show to show how advertisers have taken over the superhero business.

Does "flaming" have the same connotation in Japan as it does over here?

Given her costume, Blue Rose's "Cutie Escape" is a perfectly sensible combat manuever.

Is it so wrong

To want to see a Hatsune Miku cover of The Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"?

Or rather, a video in which what Miku is doing to the audience justifies having that particular song as its theme?

Two things I noticed at the SF Gateway

The first was

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Which in retrospect was completely predictable.

The second was ( Read more... )