as you know I own more than jest pokemon & yugioh for the ds if you have any of these games and wanna get on WiFi I will happily give you the friend code for any of these games (see below in blog post)
Yes,I have stepped out of retirement.With the new Pokemon game looming over our heads.It's time to gear up,knock the dust off our carts and start battling with pocket monsters once more! I will list all the people that are on my pad below
America's Cartoon Network has reportedly revealed at Georgia's Anime Weekend Atlanta convention this morning that it will end its Toonami programming block tonight after 11 years. The official announcement will be made during tonight's final run, with an "important message" during the 10:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.
LOS ANGELES Bill Cosby's path has taken him from pudding pops to hip hop.
The 70-year-old has recorded a hip-hop album set for release next month. "Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency" blends the comedian's concepts and stories with a hip-hop, pop and jazz soundtrack.
"I do not rap on any of these things," Cosby told The Associated Press on Monday. "I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words."
Cosby said the hip-hop music he hears is profane and degrading. His album is "the opposite of what I think is the profanity for no particular reason, the misogyny for no particular reason," he said. "It really looks at the frustration and the anger that a young man may have."
The album, assembled by Cosby's longtime musical collaborator Bill "Spaceman" Patterson, contains rhymes provided by guest rappers. The subject matter? "The value of an education. The value of respecting one's self and . . . giving [listeners] a chance to raise their self-esteem and confidence," Cosby said.
Patterson said he was surprised when Cosby first inquired about making a rap record -- until the comedian revealed he wouldn't be the one doing the rapping.
"People started speculating, is he going to rap about Jell-O Pudding Pops or what?" Patterson said. "But he's always been involved in music and he was there for the first generation of spoken word. . . . He has always understood rap's potential, but he was appalled by the foul language and the misogyny -- the way people used a medium that could be used to elevate people, to open their eyes and provoke thought."
Cosby made the album as a companion to his 2007 best-selling book, "Come on, People: On the Path From Victims to Victors."
Dattebayo listens to user feedback - switches to MKV starting immediately
2008/04/10
Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC is proud to announce that effective immediately, all future releases will be encoded using the superior MKV video container. After we have switched to H264 video compression, we have received countless suggestions from our fans to look into "MKV", a high quality free audio/video container which allowed HIGH DEFINITION video to be stored at a FRACTION of file size as compared to equally encoded and processed AVI file. Our video encoding staff immediately downloaded and evaluated the MKV compression tools and found them to be highly superior to our currently used beta of Windows Movie Maker 2.1, and as a result, we will be releasing all our products directly in MKV form. MKV will allow us to release ultra-high definition versions of both Bleach and Naruto (1920x1080p) with 7.1 channel surround sound while keeping the same reasonable file size of 170MiB. To give you a sample of what awaits you after the switch to MKV, we're releasing [DB] Bleach 166 HDTV. Starting next week, both Bleach and Naruto will be using this new amazing format.
We will no longer release episodes in inferior "AVI" format, and this weeks Bleach will be the last "AVI" encoded release. We will NOT release in both AVI and MKV, or any other format besides MKV.
We will not accept complaints from our users who are unable to play these releases at full resolution.
Here’s a gallery of a 59-feet-tall 1:1 Gundam robot, lying down in its base at Mount Fuji. I know the world is entranced by Transformers right now, but please excuse my enthusiasm when I say… “it’s full-scale Gundam! A REAL GUNDAM! Look at those pics! LOOK AT THAT DETAIL! OMFG!” OK, much better now. We told you about the project before, but as you can see now it is a reality. And you can even get inside the cockpit while you play in the interactive Gundam Crisis attraction that surrounds it.
Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC is issuing a recall on episodes of Bleach that could potentially explode when opened in a media player, says Dattebayo's Public Relations Liason, Impsyn.
Naruto, which is also provided by Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC, is not affected and should not be returned.
The episodes of Bleach involved in the recall were released between September 11, 2007 until February 29, 2008, and include regular, double episodes, and specials, as well as trolls.
The recall ONLY affects you if you did NOT download Bleach directly from Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC. If you downloaded Bleach from a direct download site (such as NarutoFan, BleachPortal, or any other non-Dattebayo affiliated organization), you must immediately place the affected Bleach episodes in the Recycle Bin, then right-click and select 'Empty Recycle Bin' from the context menu. This is especially important if the Bleach episode looks over-sized, is less than 170MiB, or crashes your explorer.exe.
Once you have disposed of the potentially dangerous episodes of Bleach, you may re-download them directly from Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC, by visiting http://www.dattebayo.com/t/. Please do not attempt to re-download Bleach from direct download sites or non-authorized torrent distribution centers such as Mininova, PirateBay, etc. In the event of the Recycle Bin being too full to contain all affected episodes of Bleach, you may temporarily move them to an external storage medium, such as HDD, DVD-R or Blu-Ray disk. Once you have re-downloaded the torrent from Dattebayo you must immediately recycle the episodes on removable storage media.
If you are unable to use BitTorrent in 2008, the safest course of action would be to permanently cease viewing Bleach as well as Naruto episodes until further notice.
Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC.
Update: If you're getting "unauthorized torrent" on Bleach 163, re-download it. [UPDATED]
The Kansas Board of Education has approved a ban on all Pokémon trading cards, video games, and anything related that has the name Pokémon on it because of the belief that it promotes kids to believing in evolution. Teachers now must search their students daily to make sure they aren't carrying anything with the name on it. Anything found will be permanently confiscated, that means you don't get your game back Jack. On top of all of this, if you dare do something as evil as bring a Pokémon video game to school they have the right to suspend you or even expel you if you repeat this crime. At first, churches around the area were handing out pamphlets to other parents warning them of the dangers of Pokémon. From there, they started protesting and sending letters to the big wigs in charge of the school system. These people meant business! They even had several Pokémon merchandise burnings at church events!
Date:To Be Announced 2008 Director:Chris Nahon Writer(s):Chris Chow, Kenji Kamiyama, Ronny Yu Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Masiela Lusha, JJ Feild, Koyuki Staring:EDKO Film Genre:Horror Official website:Not Available Rating:None On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base's general that Saya learns of her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection...
As a number of you have noticed (and promptly voiced your valuable opinion in feedback), the quality of Bleach episode 158 was not as optimal as it could have been. This was due to various unexpected circumstances, but mostly due to laziness and failure on the part of our unpaid Tokyo staff.
The failure has since been somewhat resolved, and we're releasing a new version for those who archive our work (gasp, people do that?), want to re-watch it again (who does?), or speak Spanish and were offended by "mistranslation" of that particular line in v1.
At this time, if you have further questions, we would like to direct you to FAQ entry #12, which we will repeat here for your convenience:
OMG WTF WHY DID YOU RELEASE A v2 AND WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN IT?
* IF YOU WERE HAPPY WITH THE V1, DON'T GET THE V2. * IF YOU ARE DOWNLOADING FOR THE FIRST TIME, GET THE V2. * IF YOU LIKE TO ARCHIVE OUR WORK, DOWNLOAD THE V2.
We'd also like to mention, that the "Staff opening in Tokyo region" is still available, and we encourage serious applicants to contact us if you wish to apply.
Dattebayo, transferring 17.3 petabytes over the internets for the last 3.54 years.
NEW DELHI - For millions of people in the developing world, Tata Motor's new $2,500 four-door subcompact — the world's cheapest car — may yield a transportation revolution with as great an impact as Henry Ford's Model T, which rolled off an assembly line one century ago.
The potential impact of Tata's Nano has given environmentalists nightmares, with visions of the tiny cars clogging India's already-choked roads and collectively spewing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air.
Industry analysts, however, say the car may soon deliver to India and the rest of the developing world unprecedented mobility.
"It is a potentially gigantic development if it delivers what has been promised," said John Casesa, managing partner for the Casesa Shapiro Group, a New York-based auto industry financial advisory firm.
"I think there is immense unmet demand for a vehicle of this type, because it effectively eliminates the great leap currently required to go from a two-wheel to a four-wheel vehicle," Casesa said. "They are creating something that has never existed before, the utility of a car with the affordability of a motorcycle."
The basic model, expected to roll of assembly lines later this year, will sell for 100,000 rupees, or about $2,500, but analysts estimate customers could pay 20 percent to 30 percent more to cover taxes, delivery and other charges.
Company chairman Ratan Tata, who introduced the new car at India's main auto show, has long promised a $2,500 "People's Car" for India — a country of some 1.1 billion where only seven of every 1,000 people own a car. That vow has been much-derided by the global industry which said it would be impossible without sacrificing safety and quality.
"A promise is a promise," Tata told the crowd after driving onstage stage in a white, luxury edition Nano, his head nearly touching the roof. Four company executives emerged from another. Tata says the Nano can sit five.
The company will not say how the price was kept so low on the basic version and won't say how much the luxury Nano will cost until it hits showrooms toward the end of this year. The company also refused to let reporters sit in the car, let alone drive it.
But the basic version is austere: there's no radio, passenger-side mirror, central locking or power steering and only one windshield wiper. Air conditioning that would spare motorists the brutal Indian summer is available only in deluxe models.
The little car, with its snub nose, sloping roof, and slightly bulbous rear, makes it look like another Indian icon — the mango.
The Nano's appeal, though, is not its pedigree but its price — targeting people moving up from the lower ends of India's transportation spectrum, where two-wheeled scooters selling for as little as $900 are often crammed with entire families.
The Nano's closest competitor is the Maruti 800, a four-door selling for nearly twice as much.
In terms of performance it doesn't offer much more than the Model T. The Nano has a two-cylinder 0.6 liter gasoline engine with 33 horsepower, giving it a top speed of about 60 mph, according to Tata. It gets 50 miles per gallon.
The Model T cost $850 in 1908, comparable to about $19,000 in 2006, according to an aggregate of Consumer Price Index figures. And the Nano bests the Model T's 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine, which topped out at 45 mph. Ford's car got between 13 and 21 miles per gallon, which is still better than a Hummer.
Analysts believe the Nano could transform the auto industry, forcing manufacturers to lower prices, and perhaps find cheaper ways to sell cars than in sprawling showrooms. French auto maker Renault SA and its Japanese partner, Nissan Motor Co., are trying to find ways to sell a compact car for less than $3,000.
"Most of the other carmakers are watching this development very closely," said S. Ramnath, an auto analyst at Mumbai-based brokerage firm SSK Securities Ltd.
For now, the car will be sold only in India, but Tata said it hopes to export it to developing nations across Asia, Latin America and Africa in two or three years.
Tata initially plans to manufacture some 250,000 Nanos per year. That would be about a quarter of all cars sold in India last year.
The emergence of the Nano has fueled a host of concerns.
With developing countries like India and China putting more and more cars on the roads, it has created a greater demand for fuel, contributing to sky-high global oil prices. India consumed nearly 120 million tons of petroleum products in 2006-2007, according to the Petroleum Ministry, up from 113 million tons the previous year.
And the idea of such a low-cost vehicle has environmentalists petrified, conjuring images of traffic jams at midnight, hours-long commutes and rolling clouds of pollution.
Chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said last month "I am having nightmares" about the car.
"Dr. Pachauri need not have nightmares," Tata said at the unveiling, promising the Nano met all current Indian emission standards.
Girish Wagh, who headed the design team, said the car has an oxidation catalytic convertor that emits 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.
Tata's promises have not reassured everybody.
"If you're talking about urban environment, it will cause serious problems," said Jamie Leather, a transport specialist with the Asian Development Bank. "The cheaper and cheaper vehicles become, the quicker those pollution levels will increase."
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