Or modern ones, anyway.

This picture really does look pretty cool. There's a pretty plausible technological explanation for it, but I'm sure it's gonna end up in some "ancient mysteries" web site without that explanation Real Soon Now.

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To this.

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Ubu has posted his Top Ten Worst of 2011 and his Top Ten (dis)Honorable Mentions.

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J is back from his trip to Japan and is making posts about it.

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James needs help identifying a rifle in some anime fanart. Click on the picture to see it larger.

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A reader just informed me that this year's SaiMoe winner is Railgun, Misaka Mikoto Onee-sama.

I just noticed a couple of days ago that Railgun's Saten-san has the same seiyuu as AsoIku's Eris -- and I sure didn't suspect. The voices don't sound at all alike to me.

Anyone interested in Russian guns? James says they're a bargain. And they aren't necessarily garbage, either.

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It's time to flood the Duck's comment section. I already offered my opinion. (I'm not as familiar with German and British aircraft as I am with American and Japanese.)

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There's a site I've been following where the owner buys a figurine and then does a pretty comprehensive photo shoot of it. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted any new ones since last June, and I suspect he's given up.

There was another such site I knew about a few years ago but lost, which had a far more comprehensive collection of photos. And just this evening, while digging through some old files, I found it again!

They have so many photo shoots that they've divided them up into five different index pages: one two three four five

Some of them are NSFW. So beware.

They're divided by series, and you probably won't be surprised to learn that the single biggest group is from Evangelion.

Fate/TYPE-MOON is the second biggest and Ikki Tousen looks to be third. The Queen's Blade section is pretty big, too. But there are a lot of series which got figurines which I never knew about (the figurines) and some where I wonder what they were thinking.

For instance: why (oh why) would anyone want figurines of the girls from Higurashi?

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1 That was pretty......interesting. There were some really gorgeous ones but, geez! must everything be in a bikini?

Posted by: Jaked at October 31, 2011 10:48 PM (rsbGf)

2 Higurashi was pretty popular a few years ago. Didn't stick, but for a while it was the mind-screw du jour.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 31, 2011 11:02 PM (GJQTS)

3

...must everything be in a bikini?

No. Some of them are out of their bikinis.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 31, 2011 11:03 PM (+rSRq)

4 Great find, though. Not quite as nice as foobarbaz was, but awesome variety.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 31, 2011 11:08 PM (GJQTS)

5 What gets me was the School Days figs.  WTH??

Posted by: atomic_fungus at November 01, 2011 01:56 PM (mhelx)

6 Higurashi is getting a new series this season. As to why figurines of the girls, probably because they're really cute.

Posted by: muon at November 01, 2011 11:27 PM (JXm2R)

7 That site... posted pics of a gashapon-size Desco. Yay!

If only I could read the text to find out if it's a one-off hand-crafted job or something you can buy...

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at November 02, 2011 01:41 AM (GJQTS)

8 While I was in Melbourne the weekend before last I found a store selling Strike Witches plushies, and I thought of you.

Didn't buy any, but I picked up a Lina Inverse keychain and a Yoko (from Gurren Lagann) cell phone charm.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 02, 2011 08:59 AM (PiXy!)

9 I think I've seen pictures of those. They were unreasonably cute.

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As predicted, she hates it.

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APOD shows us a galaxy with a cloud of loose stars around it.

And when I look at it, I imagine what it would be like if one of those stars in the cloud above the galactic disk had an inhabited planet. That amazing spiral galaxy would fill the entire sky some nights. What would people on that planet think? Would they worship it? What would they name it?

(How did we English speakers end up with such an unromantic name for our own galaxy? "The Milky Way"? You must be kidding me. That was the best we could come up with?)

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