If you don’t get it right the first time
A group from NASA’s Ames research center has proposed releasing octafluoropropane (I think they made that up) into the Martian atmosphere, so when we really run out of space here on Earth in a few hundred years things will be toasty warm for our arrival.
This raises some really cool possibilities when it comes to the study of evolution, which is otherwise pretty much impossible to study.
link via /.
It’s that time of the month again
If you are anywhere near the Worcester, MA area this Monday, Feb 7th; make sure to stop by S.P.Q.R. on Winter Street for the second monthly Networking Mixer. The last event was a great success, and I’m hoping the second will be that much better. If you have any stake at all in the Arts, Media or Entertainment industries and call Worcester your home, attending is not a option.
You can find more info here, here and here
No Ann, I think you’re wrong.
I’m sure everyone has seen this video of Ann Coulter getting schooled by Bob McKeown on Fifth Estate, but one more time can’t hurt.
fansubbers get snubbed
In some ways the fansubber world, is all that stands between the world of anime and the need to learn a second language. It’s essentially the practice of anime fanboys doing the subtitling for the animation houses in cases where exports are not planned.
In the past, fansubbing was the only way the American market was going to get hold of subtitled Japanese only releases and although the works are distributed for free on the net, they somehow believed that they were acting with the silent permission of the studios. Well the studios just spoke up, and said cut it out.
For years this “fansubbing” community has believed that Japanese animation studios tacitly condoned their online activities, at least as long as the shows hadn’t yet been released in the United States. But in early December, a studio called Media Factory began sending letters to a handful of big anime fan sites ordering them to stop distributing or linking to copies of its works online.
