22-07-07 21.00 – Cool Websites(#9)

Unique material today. 101 of the strangest ice cream flavours on the planet, including tomato, potato and eel flavours. From that specialism to this image of the ‘universe in one picture’.

These are mammatus clouds.

Incredible Meteorite

I bet these guys weren’t expecting this!

 

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19-07-07 08.21 – Top Anime (#3)

We ended last time with the newest Ghibli Film so we’ll start this time with one of the oldest called ‘Panda Kopanda’. The original episode was made in 1972 and a second part followed the next year. It was made to celebrate pandas coming to Japan from China. Although Miyazaki wrote the story it was directed by Isao Takahata, who later went to on direct the excellent anime ‘Grave of the Fireflies’.

All anti-war animes are measured against the impressive and exacting standard of Barefoot Gen. Keiji Nakazawa told his eyewitness account of the destruction at Hiroshima through ten mangas of which the first four are available today. Three liveaction films and two animes were produced from these books. The anime skilfully blends viewpoints from both American and Japanese perspectives through a very youthful, vibrant art style. It showcases true realism in day-to-day family life and the devastating effect the community suffered. AMV coming up next.

19-07-07 02.31 – Nintendo Videos (#3)

This is what it’s about. Treasure Island Z in an excellent looking game for the Wii.

Tianaman Square

In 1989 one man defied the tanks.

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18-07-07 18.45 – Cool Websites(#8)

I like the idea of writing whatever text you want in a magic eightball. Meanwhile here is a very tall giraffe.

Tuzki are the latest craze in cute animated GIFs in China. Here’s a selection. Americans heavy handed with the Canadians? Surely not!

Which people are standing up in this picture?

18-07-07 02.03 Films (#3)

Let’s take a look at some excellent British films that I believe to be worthy of note. The first film is an excellent film called ‘Pure’ starring Keira Knightley and Molly Parker. It tells the tale of a young boy having to deal with his mother’s heroin addiction. Like Trainspotting but more gritty, less arty. Here’s a fan trailer.

Bizarre French Animation

I found this pretty randomly, very dystopian.

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17-07-07 18.21 – Good Music (#6)

Today we’ll look at a range of different trip-hop bands… here’s Massive Attack with their classic song Teardrop.

17-07-07 09.00- Cool Websites(#7) x2

Today we have a Bumper Edition of this feature and feature 20 of the very best websites, images, animation and video.

One certainly has to feel a sense of pity for Mr. Fagot. YuppiePunk lists 9 more unfortunately named people. We also have a more refreshing, laidback view on war by nature of some funny military hand signals. Fancy the fastest internet on the planet? For some reason they’ve given it to a 75 year old Swedish woman. No doubt she’ll take full advantage of being able to stream 1500 channels simultaneously in full High Definition!