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About Blender Fox

Recreational road-runner, blender/CG rookie, linux user (LE-1, LPIC-1, SUSE CLA 11, SUSE 11 Tech Spec), programmer, avid tinkerer (I'm always breaking things), self-confessed anime & manga otaku & japanophile

Reboot

There seems to be an unhealthy appetite for rebooting films (Hulk, Evil Dead, Django etc.), but until now, I didn’t think it affected anime that much. Then came Evangelion’s movie, OVA and (sort of) reboot, and now, I find Sailor Moon is going to get rebooted.

http://www.fandompost.com/2013/04/29/new-sailor-moon-anime-delay-confirmed/

Dead or Alive 5’s Newest Project Unveiled for PS3/Xbox 360 – Interest – Anime News Network

Something for you DOA fans:

Dead or Alive 5’s Newest Project Unveiled for PS3/Xbox 360 – Interest – Anime News Network.

Dentist

Interesting fact I found out on Saturday. Even though I’m into my fourth decade, a visit to my local dentist for a checkup revealed that I still had two wisdom teeth that hadn’t come through, and based on the angle of them, if they do come out, they will cause problems with my other teeth.

And here I was, thinking all my teeth had come through already….

AKB48 – Earworm

I’ve been watching a new anime – AKB0048, which has numerous songs by the J-Pop group AKB48 and now I’ve got their songs ringing in my head.

I did hear their tracks before watching the anime, and I have a thing for group J-Pop songs, which are pretty common during Anime, but with AKB0048, ALL of the songs were group songs, with the occasional solo in the middle of the songs.

It’s disappointing J-Pop tracks aren’t made available in the West on places like Google Play or Spotify. And even if they are, they are usually far behind.

Tails – Privacy for anyone anywhere

In case you haven’t seen this, Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) is a live incognito DVD/USB which you can use to boot off any machine that supports USB boot (and for those which don’t boot of USB, you can use PLOP).

All connections go through Tor and since its a live disk, nothing is left on the hard disk (unless you choose to save something off the Internet, I guess).

I’ve been tinkering with Tor and managed to get my DNS routed through Tor, with my normal DNS as a backup, although routing traffic is a bit tricker, since not applications like to play with the Tor network properly. Some applications such as Vuze provide SOCKS capability, which allows routing of traffic through the Tor network via proxy. Others, like Chrome/Chromium don’t offer this as well, and you have to fudge it.