Real Sumo: Why Tickets Cost So Much

Everyone has heard of Sumo wrestling. The sport of two fat dudes in thongs playing grab ass till someone falls out of the ring or to the floor. Well that is what Japan wants you to think, mainly due to the fact that the truth is too dangerous to let out [...]

Tokyo Anime Fair 2008 Photo Tour

The guys over at the always awesome Akihabara News took a trip over to the Tokyo Anime Fair and provided a great gallery of photos. The fair brings in many Japanese TV channel or Studios that are there to promote the next year’s big items such as the new Macross series which will start airing [...]

Play Catan & Carcassonne Online Free

If you have been to my place you would realize that the latest craze to break out is non-stop play of Settlers of Catan. What is Catan you ask?
Settlers was the first German-style board game to achieve popularity outside Europe, and has been called the “killer app” of designer board games. Over 11 million games [...]

Great Movie Scenes a la Typography

Just watch the video above which takes the great scene in David Fincher’s Fight Club and blurs it with typography art. This form of representation really brings forth the weight that these words convey. This was one of those movies every 16 year old went to see because it was “cool”. [...]

It Has Been ‘Shopped

We have all tried our hand at photoshop at some point. Some might have ventured over to the Something Awful Friday contest. But when you think that when your job is to be a photoshop dude, that you hopefully would not make a mistake and do something like, say, leave a phantom hand in the [...]

A Year in Review

Most people don’t realize (actually I didn’t realize) but MaoChan is over 1 year old, 14 months to be exact. While the first two months were definitely growing pains with only 71 hits the first month, it has grown to 300+ a day and averaging about 10,000 a month now. I want to say thanks [...]

What The Hell am I Going to Read Now?

When I read, I find an author I like and then I go through and try and read everything that someone has written. Arthur C. Clarke was one of those, as he was one of if not the greatest hard sci-fi writers to ever have lived. He is in the pantheon with Asimov (I, Robot) [...]

Buddhist Mummies

Japundit is running a great article that everyone should read on just how hardcore some Monk sects are. Some were, it is no longer allowed, to the point that their search for unenlightened would lead to becoming mummified.
Now there is one thing I want to straighten out as the article does not cover it and [...]

How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Beer

So let me ask you this, how many times have you been sitting there and thought to yourself, “Man the head of this beer just won’t go down fast enough. Let me see what I can stick in it to make it go quicker.” And after trying a spoon, your finger, [...]

Papercraft: Ceiling Cat

The very cutesy site, Tubby Paws (a great cat name btw), is running one of the best papercraft projects around. It is Ceiling Cat! Now you too can have ceiling cat. Now get building.
Meow, I see you.