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Current TV shows I’m following via BitTorrent:

  • Lost: It should really be called Misdirection because the writers keep resorting to that. The series turned out be a character-based drama with each survivor growing as an individual and learning meaningful lessons about life, the universe and everything whereas I keep hoping it would be about the monster growing as an individual mainly by chomping on the survivors.
  • Amazing Race: Season 6 features some annoying, nasty characters who are currently rampaging around Scandinavia.
  • Justice League Unlimited: The last few episodes have been a bit too contrived as well as blah, but I’m sticking around in the hopes they’ll come up with a few more gems like “For the Man Who Has Everything” and “The Greatest Story Never Told.”
  • The Daily Show: Funny as hell. “Robosapien is the hot toy this year. He’s a mechanised robot that performs a variety of simple tasks not the least of which is depriving you of hard-earned money.”
  • Arrested Development: Intricate scenarios with interweaving story threads featuring a fantastic ensemble cast.
  • Dekaranger: Cheesy fun.
  • Kamen Rider Blade: Still unfortunately bland — why do they keep killing off all the charismatic folk? — but it might pick up before the end.
  • Gundam SEED Destiny: It’s difficult to get past the teenybopper-geared visuals (e.g. the pink explosions) but it’s got hot mecha (and capital ship) action going for it.

You can get the torrents for those shows from the following sources:

  • BTEFnet: This is my favourite TV torrent site at the moment as it doesn’t require registration, cookies or a signed affidavit. The downside is that it doesn’t have much of an animated section.
  • Suprnova.org: This seems to be the most convenient place to get the latest episodes of Justice League Unlimited.
  • TV-Nihon: For subbed tokusatsu shows.
  • Anarion: For the latest unsubbed tokusatsu episodes.

Posted in TV.


Nix pix schticks

Not everyone wants to be famous for 15 minutes.

From Times Online:

By wearing a specially designed electronic badge that jams electronic cameras, they will be able to prevent photographers from taking unwanted pictures.

The “privacy protection system” being developed by Hewlett-Packard will allow the publicity-shy to transmit an infrared signal to any nearby compatible camera. Once activated, the camera’s software will automatically blur beyond recognition the face of anybody wearing the badge, New Scientist magazine reports.

(Sites like this would be one reason why such a feature would be desirable.)

And just to cover all bases, HP is also developing technology that will allow you to take a picture without being detected.

(Link obtained from kottke.org.)

Posted in Pix.


Law and order

Police procedure (Dekaranger-style):

  • Confront the suspect.
  • Announce the mission statement.
  • Shoot any videocameras in the vicinity to prevent Rodney King-type scenarios.
  • Introduce yourselves individually (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and pose as a group.
  • Intimidate the suspect by activating helmet-mounted sirens and setting off pre-planted explosives. (Civilian casualties resulting from the latter action can be ignored since there isn’t going to be any video evidence.)

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Ah, so

From a previous entry:

If the character’s named Goro and is referred to repeatedly as “Goro-chan,” what would possess the subbers to refer to him as “Inagaki”?

Answer: Apparently one of the subbers is a SMAP fan. Inagaki Goro (who’s also known as “Goro-chan”) happens to be a member of the J-pop outfit so that answers “Where did ‘Inagaki’ come from?”

It’s still stupid, though.

Posted in General.


Occupations

What the hell is a striptease aerobics instructor?

Posted in General.