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He means this http://jajatom.moo.jp/E-top/Egunnm/Egunnm%20top.ht ml
(That's the artist's page, expect some engrish).

I love both series, and I don't believe a lot of ripping off happened, if at all. The "baddies" are diametrically different and DA's storyline had potentially (grr) more depth. Still, kudos to the DA team for giving us tridimensional antagonists. I loved Lydecker in so many ways ;)

Maybe it's only the tools that are to blame (only this one time, hehe). Might something like Teddy http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/tedd y.htm be better suited to you? You only have to draw the outline, and the shapes are assumed to be round; You can then cut them as you want.

I've heard Shade (a popular modeller in Japan; Gunnm's author uses it http://jajatom.moo.jp/E-top/Egunnm/3DCG01/cg%20gal lery%20top.html) had a module reminiscent of Teddy in one of its newer versions. Of course, Shade seems to be impossible to find outside Planet Japan, so i'm not sure how much that helps, apart from letting you know that there are alternatives...

I love the RSS Reader plugin for Firefox. Very slick! Yes, it works with 0.9.1.

I love the RSS Reader Panel plugin for Firefox. Simple, powerful, and only one keystroke away...

I also realized that default firefox is MUCH more responsive under win2k than on linux - noticable especially from v0.5 (or 0.4?) onwards. But I just installed this simple theme (here)on my linux firefox and it performs now much better - even better than the default theme! I'm running all this on my PIII 450MHz.

The toolbars are a lot thinner and the icons are smaller which is something i've really been looking for for a long time. (the default 'theme' has its toobars quite a bit thicker than the default 'theme' in windows)...

I second the RSS Reader Panel -- I don't see any point in getting a separate aggregator application when so many RSS feeds force you to visit the site for the full article.

As for Slashdot, I use Slashzilla -- it only shows the headlines and topic icons, but that's usually enough to decide whether an article will be interesting.

No guarantee that this will work for anybody else, but it DID just work for me.

No guarantee that this will work for anybody else, but it DID just work for me.

Cool. I also found this extension for Firefox.

And the ending, as strange as it is, pulls on the fact that her name is the name of a flower.

And you're assuming Kishiro always intended to end the series this way. In fact, he originally intended to continue the series with Gunnm travelling into space. But for personal reasons he decided to cut the series short. Now he's changed his mind again and has already published a new story line that pretends the confrontation with Melchizidek never happened. There were plans for an English translation, but these seem to be on hold for some reason.

I have to pick a nit with the premise of the series. Much of the action in this series takes place in The Scrapyard, a place that lives on the garbage that falls from the mysterious floating city Tiphares (Salem in the Japanese original). Now, as the story progresses, it's revealed that The Scrapyard is somewhere in the middle of North America (Missouri, I think -- it's been a while) and that Tiphares/Salem floats because it's dangling from an orbital ring.

Except the only place you can have a geosynchronous orbital ring is over the equator! Oh well.