Household hints – Cleaner dishes

Here\’s a hint for anyone that has a dishwasher, put White Distilled Vingear in the liquid dispenser, in addition to any dish washer powder that you use…  It will help sanitize and seems to work as good as some of the off the shelf products that we have tried.

Word(s) of the Day – 12/11/2010

The English language can be an odd place, and obscure.  Some of these words go back to the 18th Century or earlier.  Please feel free to tell us your favorite \”odd\” word in the comments! A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie Abatude – Means money that\’s been clipped. In […]

How Anime is Made

In mid October 2010, the Culture Japan crew went along to the headquarters of Production IG to see what goes on behind the scenes of making hit anime titles such as Ghost in the Shell, East of Eden and recently Sengoku Basara. Today we get to take a look and try some of the processes […]

Transformers 3? The Dark side of the Moon?

Well, Michael Bay is still attached to this project… So I think we can safely say that there are explosions, a few more explosions, and maybe a heck of a lot of more \’plosions… We have a hint of a plot, that involves a cover up from the government regarding a transformers space craft that […]

Word of The Day – Chapatsu

This literally translates to \”brown hair\”. Chapatsu (チャパツ) is the once-rebellious, once-trendy style of bleaching and occasionally dyeing hair, found among Japanese teens. While the style itself began to show up in Tokyo streets during the early to mid-1990s, the word did not appear in Kōjien (one of Japans authoritative dictionaries) until 1998. The style first […]

Fun Tidbits about Doctor Who

Here\’s some little tidbits that you may or may not be aware of regarding Doctor Who. Please feel free to add your own facts, and tidbits, in the comments… The first episode of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell, was broadcast on November 23, 1963 Before the first show went out, Donald Baverstock, the chief of […]

Dirk Gently? Who\’s that?

Who\’s this Dirk Gently?  A Holistic Detective Agency?  Is that anything like a consulting detective? Well of course not….  But, the BBC has just announced that they are making Dirk Gently\’s Holistic Detective Agency for the TV!  Douglas Adam\’s fans rejoice!  Now, I suspect it won\’t be an adaption of the Book Series, but we […]