Anime soldiers at war

Totoro and other anime heroes go to war in this sculpture spotted here. At the same site, disturbing giant finger and spider legs sculptures.

*Previously: How to make Totoro cream puffs.

*Buy Totoro toys at eBay.

What Goes Around Comes Around anti-war images

The four images in the clever "What goes around comes around" campaign by Big Ant International for Global Coalition for Peace are designed to wrap around poles.

*Previously: North Korean anti-America propaganda posters.

*Buy propaganda poster collections at Amazon.

Katamari Damacy plus Shadow of the Colossus equals... (link roundup)

Katamari Damacy/Shadow of the Colossus mashup. Via this collection of weird Katamari art.

And a few more links:

1. News to me: "H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds was an allegory about the injustice of European imperial rule of Africa, China and India."

2. Good article about soldiers ambushed in Afghanistan:

The Americans, seasoned by years of war here and in Iraq, would seek to create an intricately violent response, designed to undo the odds, save the pinned soldiers and kill the insurgents who, for a moment, had shown themselves.

3. Pranksters installed swings on San Francisco's BART.

4. Quality commentary on the Supreme Court upholding the FCC's indecency fines:

I propose this deal: the baby boomers can continue their astonishing string of selling out every single principle they ever claimed to have (R.I.P George Carlin) and keep their precious network television. Meanwhile, Gen X and the Millennials can have the internet. Oh, we're already doing that? Cool.

*Previously: Lego Shadow of the Colossus.

*Buy Shadow of the Colossus toys at eBay.

Walt Disney Goes To War

The Hollywood Animation Archive has posted an article from Life Magazine about Disney's efforts to help America during World War II. Pictured, you can see helpful tips for where to hide if you want to shoot Hitler's tank, and also the dangers of weather for pilots. Head over here to see high res versions of the entire article.

*Previously: Michael Phelps and Julianne Moore as Mermaids.

*Buy "Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World" at Amazon.

Interesting discussion about how to wear down Russian forces in Georgia

Actually, this discussion by Stuart Koehl is most interesting because it seems to describe the exact tactics used against Russia twenty-one years ago in Tom Clancy's excellent Red Storm Rising.

*Find more posts on Russia and Georgia here.

Slate reporter finds out how easy it would be to help Russia's cyber attack against Georgia

Hearing reports that many crucial Georgian websites were knocked out by cyber attacks, Evgeny Morozov became curious as to whether those attacks were necessarily part of a sophisticated, organized, government assault. The answer: No. In just one hour, Morozov (not a sophisticated hacker) acquired multiple software programs for launching denial of service attacks, instructions for using the programs, and websites directing him to useful targets. You can read about his investigation here. Via.

All in all, Russia did the US and the world a favor in launching this attack. It's a good reminder for everyone as to what countries are a danger to the world.

Most interesting blog post I've seen yet regarding Russia's invasion of Georgia

From Little Green Footballs:

In the past few hours, I’ve discovered and blocked at least six web crawlers trying to go through the site and download everything as quickly as possible, in violation of the rules in our robots.txt file. Two of them seemed to be focusing on the posts related to the Georgia crisis.

Pretty unusual activity for a Wednesday afternoon.

Link.

Also, regarding Russia and Georgia, Popular Mechanics has a roundup of which tactics worked against the Russians, and which didn't.