What do you say about a woman who energized an entire populace to overthrow a dictatorial regime? Her subsequent Presidency left much to be desired, but to Filipinos around the world she will always be ‘Tita Cory’. The People Power movement which toppled Marcos was probably the pinnacle of modern Filipino political history; Aquino, aided by senior members of the [...]

The live action Death Note film L, change the WorLd, is now on DVD – and VIZ are celebrating by hosting a special event at the VIZ Cinema in San Francisco. VIZ PICTURES RELEASES LIVE-ACTION DEATH NOTE: L, change the WorLd Riveting Unwritten Concluding Chapter Of Edgy DEATH NOTE Psychological Crime Drama Available on DVD San Francisco, CA, July 31, [...]

Whodathunkit? The Ultimate Fighting Championship, once regarded as boxing’s retarded inbred cousin, is now raking in boatloads of cash. “The first eight years of this thing were the hardest to get over the stigma that was attached to this thing at the beginning,” he said. “And the next eight years are going to be a lot easier.” The privately-held UFC [...]

Thuy Trang died eight years ago this September. Most people wouldn’t know that name, and who could blame them. Her career – such that it was – lasted a mere eight years, beginning with a role in the inaugural season of Fox’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and ending in a bit part in The Crow: City of Angels. Mighty Morphin’ [...]

In case you were worried that China might lose it’s top-spot on the ‘Most Executions’ list to someone like Saudi Arabia or Texas, fear not – anti-death-penalty group Hands off Cain claims that China killed 5,727 people in 2008. This is 124 fewer than 2007, but still enough to win them the coveted Gold Cup of Death. The report said China [...]

Okay, so now that we have robots that will do our jobs for us, the Japanese have invented one that will have our fun for us. Now if they would just design one that would have our sex for us, this whole thing will have come full-circle. Researchers at Tokyo University recently developed robots that look to replicate the pitching [...]

Japanese pop signer Kaori Kawamura, who rose to fame at age 17 with her single ZOO, died yesterday at the age of 38 after a five-year battle with breast cancer. Kawamura, also known as an anti-breast cancer activist, started her professional singing career in 1988 with her debut single ‘‘ZOO’’ at the age of 17. In 2004, she was diagnosed [...]

[rating:3] Okay, this is a wierd one. What we have here is a compilation of odds-and-ends Fullmetal Alchemist goodies culled from various sources, including the animated bits from a Japanese FMA-themed amusement park ride. While titled the ‘Premium OVA Collection’, these aren’t OVA’s in the traditional sense – meaning animated shorts intended for home-video release. Instead, these clips have been [...]

Here’s a swell gallery of cosplay from the 2009 ComicCon. (via MeFi)

The Wrath of Khan, opera style, as done by Robot Chicken. ‘Nuff said. (via MetaFilter)

So, if you’ve been paying attention (and I don’t know why you would be…actually, if you were, that’s kind of creepy and stalker-ish), I am one week out from my due date (and Gohan seems to be making his way toward the exit…very, very slowly). So if I disappear for several days, more than likely I am giving birth.  I [...]

Being a big dork, I’m very interested in cryptozoology, the science of animals that may or may not exist.  One of these maybe-maybe not creatures is the legendary Mongolian Death Worm, a hella ugly red worm that is two feet long and has a mouth like the sandworms in David Lynch’s Dune. Recently some crazy cryptozoologist guys ventured into Mongolia [...]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Why does anybody provide Michelle Malkin with a soapbox to air her venemous screeds? Seriously…to call out the Prez on his comments about the Gates arrest as ‘racial opportunism’ is absurd, to say the least. There is most definitely something fishy in the situation, and while I’m not [...]

Anime News Network reports that Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii will not be helming one of the shorts directly, but instead will act as ‘Creative Director’ – uhm, which is fine since that’s what he did for Jin-Roh…and that was farking amazing. Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) is the creative director of Production I.G’s two episodes in [...]

Project A-ko is one of the most unusual anime offerings of all time. Originally conceived as an episode of the hentai series Cream Lemon, it changed direction during production into a comedy that riffs on any number of anime conventions in general – giant robots, questing aliens, and schoolgirl heroines – and lampoons a number of specific titles to boot. [...]