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		<title>Happy Nyan Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/01/happy-nyan-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope your New Year is a great one, and to start off on a happy note:

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		<title>Oh, oh, oh! Otamatone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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Oh, Japan, please don&#8217;t ever change! Without you, we&#8217;d all be less confused, less puzzled, and far less freaked out, so just keep doing what you&#8217;re doing!

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		<title>AnimeUSA 2011 Last day pics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pictures from the third and last day of AnimeUSA 2011.  Kind of a shame, there has been an anime convention in Crystal City since at least 1997, and this will be the last one for the foreseeable future. I went to my first one, Katsucon 4 I think it was, in 1998, and had only missed a couple there after that.  Ah, well, the price of growth, they just got too big to be handled in the Hyatt.  I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll have as much problem next year, since it looked like this year&#8217;s attendance was down.  Not as much disposable income lately&#8230;
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		<title>AnimeUSA Day 2, More pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/11/295/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, look, it&#8217;s more pictures!  These are from Day 2 of AnimeUSA 2011, taken Saturday the 19th.  More pictures than Friday, but then again there were more things and people to take pictures of! Even pictures of people taking pictures! 
If you see yourself in one of them, please leave a comment!
NOTE: click an icon for a picture, and click a picture for a larger version!
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		<title>Pictures from AnimeUSA 2011 Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here are some pictures from Day 1 of the AnimeUSA convention 2011, held in Crystal City.  Enjoy, and if you see yourself in one of them, please leave a comment!
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		<title>Hatsune Miku, computer-generated singer (from Japan, of course)</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/10/hatsune-miku-computer-generated-singer-from-japan-of-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a company in Japan that has written a fantastic piece of software that allows even non-musicians to write music and songs for a &#8220;virtual singer&#8221; to perform.  The software creates &#8220;vocaloids&#8221;, or virtual singers, each with a distinctive (to some ears) voice and vocal mannerisms.  The most famous one of these has been named &#8220;Hatsune Miku&#8221; by the software creators.  When someone writes a song, they draw out the syllables of the song at different notes on a graph, and the vocaloid software simulates a singer hitting that note while speaking that syllable.
Because it&#8217;s based on syllables, a vocaloid can sing in any language, although not as easily in English as in Japanese, because the set of programmed syllables is based on Japanese.  The software designers allow the software to be implemented on various computers, and the software can be incorporated into animation software, ...]]></description>
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		<title>CATDAT-41 latest report on the Great East Japan Quake</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/10/catdat-41-latest-report-on-the-great-east-japan-quake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 20,000 dead or missing, 60,000 still living in &#8220;temporary&#8221; shelters, and over 1500 children who lost parents or guardians.
The CATDAT-41 report by the Earthquake Report website spells out many details about the dead, the missing, the costs in money of the destruction, and the effects on Japan.
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		<title>Beautifully choreographed synchronized gymnastics</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/10/beautifully-choreographed-synchronized-gymnastics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely beautiful, I don&#8217;t know where this competition was held, but hopefully this Japanese team made it into the finals at the very least.  More like watching a ballet than a gymnastics exhibition, the athletes coordinated almost flawlessly.
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		<title>Boy&#8217;s love for Morning Glories lives on long after his passing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/09/boys-love-for-morning-glories-lives-on-long-after-his-passing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a nice story about a boy&#8217;s love of Morning Glories, and his mother&#8217;s love for him, which she spreads to the tsunami survivors through seeds from the flowers he grew just before he died, and which he never lived to see bloom.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ2011092612223
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		<title>Background music from a game called &#8220;Touhou&#8221;:  &#8220;Bad Apple!!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/08/background-music-from-a-game-called-touhou-bad-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve never heard of this game, but then I&#8217;m not a gamer, but this is really neat traditional-style Japanese music, played with authentic instruments on a traditional stage.
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