Last year, someone mentioned JManga to me, as they were going to be releasing the full School Rumble translated into English (whereas the official paperback release only reaches volume 16).

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After a week of seeing news video footage and newspaper photos of people with masks on so they don’t catch the “swine flu”, I feel I have to let out a little secret known to those who work in or alongside the medical field.

That mask isn’t going to keep the flu out. It’s meant to keep a sick person from spreading things when they cough or sneeze. If you’re not sick, you can still catch the flu while wearing one of these.

Let the unnecessary pandemonium resume.

In the world of free(dom) and open source software, there’s one type of application that’s missing. Well, technically there’s a lot, but there’s one that I’ve oft wondered why there is no open source software for: making comics.

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I wasn’t expecting to have another rant up so soon after the first, but something happened actually the same day as I posted the prior one, and I decided to write about it. I call these rants because they aren’t meant to be commentary on something, or well-thought out thoughts and ideas. They’re just rants, and the word “rant” alone in the title of the post can let anyone who doesn’t want to read a rant know to skip it.

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