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Fireproof
August 31, 2007 – 8:37 am
I see this seal in rooms. Update: Itojun, who worked on the Worldcon, says it’s a certificate for fire resistant materials in the room.
Ruby and Cafe Scifi+tique
August 31, 2007 – 3:00 am
You wouldn’t be surprised to meet Ruby enthusiasts at a Japanese science fiction convention. Shimura’s got embedded Ruby running in Illustrator. Press a button, and that evals to ’7′. The back story: Shimura’s part of Cafe Scifi+tique, a performance event put together by Japanese science fiction fans to invert and parody the creepy ‘maid cafe’ [...]
Nausica’s Glider
August 30, 2007 – 4:22 pm
Some people write fan fiction. Others do fan engineering.
A Pun and Some Japanese Fanish History
August 30, 2007 – 6:27 am
Dai means big, as in the Daibutsu. Con is short for “convention,” as in science fiction conventions. That’s why the gentleman in the photo has a giant radish on the back of his tunic. In 1983, at Daicon 4, a group of animators premiered a fan video. The over the top sequence introduced several visual [...]
@boom?
August 29, 2007 – 1:11 am
Fuji TV and Adobe are doing something in conjunction with the Nippon 2007 WorldCon. I don’t know the details, but their site launches on Thursday the 30th (Japan Time.)