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naranai is in full on alpha release mode (most people would call it beta, I guess? But I’m not an asshole.). SO HEY! Why bother with fluff! If you don’t know what naranai is visit this post.

Download: [download id="2"] (0.10.2a)
Bugs: http://bugs.dasaku.net/

CHANGE LOG:
Update 2009-05-22: Fixed a bug in install.php that was causing some issues. If you didn’t correct it yourself, grab this release and run install.php.

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Well, it’s a bit early yet, but I am planning to do a dasaku Network Meetup at Anime Expo 2009. If you’re planning to be there, drop a line at some point and something something something? I’ll probably just do something like a Saturday thing, we’ll get lunch, it’ll be a good time, maybe. Haha. I’ll likely do another post closer to the time to nail down specifics, and I might get in touch with a few blogger friends and see if we can’t compile a giant thing. I just wanted to shoot a post out because I know you crazy fuckers like to schedule your itineraries all early and so on, so maybe just keep in mind that you might do our little blogger meetup thing.

Hopefully some of my SoCal-based hostees will show up as well. Like I said, I’ll nail down specifics later. Just wanted to do an initial post now.

Who doesn’t love reading my bullshit? If you said “no one” then I couldn’t hear you because this is a blog post. But I did do a guest blog for my tit-covered friend Gia to help bolster her street cred and so on and so forth. Feel free to read it, although if you regularly read OCnE, the content will come as no great surprise to you.

UPDATE: As it turns out, I was censored by a certain goofy bitch. “The slight squeak that guy let out as the other guy ran up inside his choco-tube?” was replaced with some pussified version. There might even be other things. Last time I guest blog for someone. Especially someone who told she’d let me know about edits. Good job.

Your Mom and La Blue Girl = BFF?

Do enjoy. Later this week, we’ll be having a new Onii-chan Radio where we’ll be discussing the Handley manga obscenity trial and I will give you all of the ammunition necessary to prove to other people that they’re idiots.

GO WATCH IT! FUCK SAKE!

http://www.oniichannoecchi.com/2009/05/03/onii-chan-theatre-a-horse-is-a-horse/

Delicious, delicious porn recommendations this time around.

http://www.oniichannoecchi.com/2009/04/25/onii-chan-radio-purely-for-safe-keeping/

Enjoy that motherfucker. DO IT NOW!

Wow. Just wow. Getting this thing recorded was maybe one of the most harrowing experiences since elephants charged down mountains all those years ago. Did it come out well? … Eh. We had to do it three times, the recording software did a questionable job.

Is it funny? I like to think so. A bit funny, a bit insightful. Please do enjoy it. And if you have an idea for the name of this fucking thing, go for it.

 

 The Maiden Voyage of the S.S. Disappointment [80:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well, first things first. The Pirate Bay verdict is in. I’ll save you the link click, they’re guilty and they owe a ridiculous amount of money to people who are already rich. Likewise, Sweden has joined the shitpile and helped perpetuate a copyright system that has become as corrupt and flawed as the people who are using it to send kids to jail. Good work, guys.

I have an idea for how to fix the copyright system, but I doubt anyone wants to hear it.

IN HAPPIER NEWS: Inaugural episode of Onii-chan Theatre is up. Please do check it out and let me know what you think.

Hey, a motherfucker has to cross promote, right? Check out my new Onii-chan Radio episode.

Onii-chan Radio: Lun Lun Logic

And in case you’re brain dead, my site about porn is entirely safe for work.

Right, so I almost spaced on this since I’ve been so busy trying to get my shit together.

Very few of you likely remember this, but I did an interview a good while ago for ikimashou with a man who is easily the most talented translator working today (I am an authority on such things). His name is David Ury and I’m always happy to do what I can to help out such a talented guy (or I could do like on TV and call him a friend of the site. Yeaaah, not too creepy or presumptuous if he ends up reading this. Alright.), or in this case, his twin brother Ken Tanaka.

Ken’s going to be having an art exhibit in my neck of the woods pretty soon. Being the lover of fine art that I am and having seen some of Ken’s art, I had to let you guys know. You have to see Hopey the Hopeful Giraffe. It’s… it’s maybe the best thing painted this decade. Possibly this century.

Right, so here are some links and information so you guys can get yourselves acquainted with who Ken Tanaka is and his story and all that jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awiW8UC3CWY – This is Ken’s intro video, explaining what’s up. (Short version: He was adopted and raised in Japan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CnhnnGI5uM – Ken goes in search of his birth father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO5FSDHIleA – Ken finds David, who needs a shave. Really I’m just jealous he can grow a better looking beard than me.

And that’s about it for explaining who he is. There’s some fantastic material on there (and oh man is Remi February a pretty lady.) I recommend checking out the Japanese language lessons.

Anyway, let’s get down to the art show. Firstly, it’s FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. That’s important for jobless fucks like me.

It’s going to be at the Billy Shire Gallery, which is in Culver City, California. Specifically:

Billy Shire Fine Arts
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
Exhibition: April 11, 2009 – May 2, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 7-10 pm
(Google Maps)

Ken Tanaka’s work will be on display along with some other amazing artists. NAMELY: David Mack (creator of Kabuki, done some fucking amazing work on Daredevil), Mari Araki (she’s working on a graphic novel called Tina’s Mouth), Kozyndan (who has done some wonderful indie album covers), and I believe Remi February will have some art there as well. She has some lovely ink on paper stuff, but I’m not sure if that’ll be on display or her digital stuff or photography… or all of it.

Anyway, I am planning to go for sure and hang around and check out the installation. Anyone who’s in southern California, I hope you take the opportunity to go there and check out some great artwork.

Ok, so I was coding some stuff for naranai and I was thinking to myself that it’d be cool if I could automatically detect a few dominant colors in a picture and use it to make them searchable. To start off honestly, there aren’t many people doing too many things with PHP and color detection in images. I found a spiffy little class that gets me half-way where I want to be. That’s where the problem comes in! The color extract class gets me to a nice solid color, and it does rounding so I don’t get back 500 results.

So I get the sweet hex back and now I want a relative hue. You know? Brown, red, penis. So I start trying to look around for a list of rough hues and the RGB values relative to them.  I didn’t have much luck, but lucky for me, someone had already done the legwork. The only minor issue was that it was JavaScript. SO WHAT DID I DO?!

I FIXED IT UP! Oh, as I side note, there are some color names I don’t necessarily agree with and I’ll fix them up over time. If there are any that you don’t agree with, add a comment. Yes this will be open source.

Download: [download id="1"]
Github: http://github.com/digiwombat/color-to-name/tree/master

Update: I changed the code over so it uses an array rather than JSON stuff. Doesn’t see much faster, but apparently some idiots don’t install JSON support for PHP.