There are a lot of lies, misconceptions, half truths, and completely WRONG statements out there to make people think many different things about the anime industry. Thanks to your self labeled Weeaboo, Otaku, Fanboys, Moe Fans, whatever you want to call them, information tends to get passed on ear to ear, and much like a badly played phone game, th

Web 2.0 is pretty cool - so cool in fact that it's got its own buzzwords and lingo that not everybody knows.

I–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 5 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm:

Researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects such as ants.

NEW DELHI: The petrol stock in the capital will be over by Friday evening, the head of the Federation of All India Petroleum Traders said late onFriday morning. Sixty to seventy percent of petrol pumps have gone dry already as employees of public sector oil firms continue their strike.

An effective palette of fonts not only makes a design attractive, but also contributes to the readability and usability of the content. In this collection, you’ll find a variety of sites that showcase creative and functional uses of typography.

Palm, which essentially invented the smartphone category, is a shadow of its former self. Sales have plunged and Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry have stolen market share.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey ruled Wednesday that aliens have no constitutional right to challenge the outcome of their deportation hearings based on their lawyers' mistakes.

The United Nations suspended all activities in the Gaza Strip Thursday, accusing Israeli soldiers of firing on a marked UN vehicle during a three-hour humanitarian cease-fire initiated by Israel.

A short film by Steve Smith.

A 72-year-old California woman recently found a rare baseball card of the first professional team in the United States in her home. And if it weren't for the intervention of a friend, she would have sold the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings card on eBay for $10. The card has since been authenticated by PSA. The team photo is relatively unscathed.

Interactive infographic showing which states have the highest/lowest smoking populations, along with correlations to the restrictions that are in place such as restaurant bans.

Expansion of the International Space Station continues. Use the arrows below to follow the construction history of the ISS before the installation of Harmony, and see its planned growth over the next few years.

Beards have had their moment, now it’s time for mustaches to get their 10 minutes of fame.

It happened to H. Beatty Chadwick who has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged. Businessman Manuel Osete spent nearly three years in an Arizona jail without ever receiving a criminal charge. And investment manager Martin Armstrong faced a similar situation when he was held for more than six years in a Manhattan jail.

Some guy builds a home made water slide from the roof of his 2 story house with a 60 foot drop and a 16 foot jump... into a Kiddie pool!

By now, we've seen everything we're going to see, and here is the cream of the crop, at least of products you'll hopefully be able to buy this year—here's the best of CES: Recession edition.

The first British baby genetically selected to be free of breast cancer to avoid developing the disease in later life has been born. Doctors said the child was 'doing very well'.

For the first time anywhere, the "Watchmen" producers have their say on the lawsuit that threatens to derail the movie.

ZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone.

At CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. PC World has been running evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to Microsoft's much-derided Vista for some time now, and we just couldn't wait to take the new version for a spin. Here's one editors take on the latest Windows 7 user experience

Against this unforgiving backdrop, the prospects of one young black man, Berry Gordy Jr., were less than stellar. Gordy had given up boxing (too violent), quit his Ford factory job (too boring) and failed as a record store owner. Fifteen years later, Motown Records had become the largest African-American-owned business in the United States.

The so-called morning-after pill is advertising on MTV.com. Emergency contraceptive Plan B has been controversial from the moment it was approved in 2006 as an over-the-counter drug available without a prescription to women 18 and older. Now, the brand's choice of ad placement is stoking debate about where --and at what age

The Associated Press has reported that assuming there is no complications when he resumes a full practice routine, Woods likely will make his 2009 debut at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz., during the last week in February.

Legendary Status is something very few skateboarders will ever achieve, and it’s fitting that the calm, cool, and carefree Tom Penny did it without really trying. Hailing from Dorchester, England, when Tom began popping up in skateboard videos and magazines he did tricks with such style that people instantly took notice.

In a historic vote, the Illinois House has impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich, directing the Senate to put the state's 40th chief executive on trial with the goal of removing him from office.

Handheld gaming wasn't always so luxurious. Tiger Electronics was once the king of LCD gaming crap, and here's 5 horrific examples why.

Tim DeChristopher, the student who won over 22,000 acres of land at a Bureau of Land Management Auction, is on his way to purchasing the land, which was originally intended for sale to oil companies.

We'd like to think they made it worth it to lose everything.

The gOS (”good OS”) project has issued an SP1 release of gOS 3.1 Gadgets. This latest gOS release implements numerous package updates, bug fixes, and configuration enhancements, and continues gOS’s strong dependence on Google’s web-based applications.

Arguing that Bernard L. Madoff’s bail should be revoked, prosecutors cited more evidence that he was hiding assets.

"What might be called a modern unicorn has been produced by Dr. W. F. Dove, University of Maine biologist. From a day-old bull calf, Dr. Dove removed the two small knots of tissue which normally develop into horns. These horn buds he transplanted in the center of the bull’s forehead, thereby inducing the growth of a single massive horn."

The Florida Gators have defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS national championship game 24-14. With the win, Florida pretty much secures the top spot when the AP rankings come out.

Following in footsteps of Sudoku, Kakuro & other number-logic puzzles, Slitherlink is a group of popular loop-forming puzzles originated in Japan & played internationally under variety of names (from Slitherlink to Takegaki, Loopy, Fences, many others).

While most people were messing around in college, getting with as many people as they could and drinking as much as possible, there were a select few who actually made something of themselves. The initial ideas for some of the most promising companies today originated in college.

Rachel Maddow was on The Daily Show last night, and she said she doesn't own a TV, which is crazy, even perhaps Un-American. I mean, how does she fulfill her civic duty of casually flipping around looking for something to kill half-an-hour and then accidentally watching seven hours of a Brooke Knows Best marathon?

The Timothy Plan, warns for parents planning to get games for their kids with a list of the 30 "most offensive" games on the market.

A new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options. The surprise result was not so much that Google's corporate services come out ahead, but rather how large a lead it has on every other option.

The mother and brother of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face charges after they cut her open and removed her fetus without sedation, it has been reported.