Hibiki’s Rider no. 3: Todoroki.
The opening theme, Kagayaki, will undoubtedly be guitar-heavy when he debuts.

GaoGaiGar Final: Grand Glorious Gathering. [via]
With new scenes and dialogue, this will be a nice promotion for Takara’s upcoming GGG merchandise.

WordPress.org’s dodgy fund-raising.
There are better (and more upfront) ways to raise funds.

Words that sound dirty but aren’t. [via]
“Windfucker”? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with ornithologists? On a related note, someone ought to make a list of words that are innocuous in one language but sound dirty in another. For instance, the name of Garfield’s teddy bear would elicit giggles in Malaysia while the line “by the hair of my chinny chin chin” would probably crack someone up in Japan.

The Death of AcroPhantom.
Another Microman bites the dust. Superarticulation is nice but figures need to be durable as well. While it must be pointed out these snap, crack and pop problems aren’t common, this is scant consolation when it happens to one of your figures.

Thai-Toku’s Hyper Hobby 3/05 scans.
The Microman MagneForce design is compared to its Micro Action Series predecessor.

Keep the beat, keep your … B’tx.
The episode 10 preview depicts Hibiki commandeering Ibuki’s Honda Shadow 400 but the demon rider will apparently get a DiskAnimal that transforms into a bike.

Lego Doraemon. [via]
Looks like it’s 1:1 scale.

Sh15uya fansub out.
Hero Legend’s tracker hasn’t disabled NAT checking so the download/upload rates ought to be excellent even for those behind a transparent web proxy.

Re: Adobe Photoshop.
Zinger!

“This looks like a fraternal twin of the December 26 earthquake …”
“Monday’s event marked the first time in recorded seismic history — nearly a century — that two quakes of such size have happened so close together…”

8.7 quake devastates Indonesian island.
“Indonesia’s disaster relief center said at least 1,000 people were killed on Nias, a desolate island famous among surfers worldwide for its fabled right-hand break. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said up to 2,000 may have died.”