Origin: Spirits of the Past (aka Gin-iro no Kami no Agito) anime dvd review

Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
Genre: Anime, Action

In Origin: Spirits of the Past, the forest reclaims earth in catastrophic fashion and leaves human civilization devastated when an experiment in growing plants on the moon goes awry and the plants destroy the moon and extend to earth, tearing through everything in their path. In this post-apocalyptic world, [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [He-Said She-Said] . Sunshine

HE SAID
There haven’t been too many science fiction films focusing on the death of the sun. It’s a bit odd, given the sun is directly responsible for the abundance of life we enjoy on this planet. Really, the only film I am aware of to even remotely tackle this subject is Japan’s Sayonara Jupiter, though [...]

The buzz on mysterious honey bee deaths

Honeybees are dying and noone knows why. Beekeepers are baffled and scientists are speculating, but there is no solution in sight. Even with UCSF molecular biologist who isolated the SARS virus Joe DeRisi on the job. Recent tests have almost ruled out pesticides. The cause could be a parasite, virus, bacteria. [...]

No North Pole? Earth melts right before our eyes

Global warming was supposed to be at its worst in 2050. That seemed like an alarmingly short time away, but studies now show that the Arctic ice cap (aka: the North Pole) is melting 30 years ahead of predictions, which means unbearable temperatures are just a little over a decade away. That means [...]

Knut is dead! Thursday midday.

“Knut is dead! Thursday midday.” That’s what an anonymous handwritten fax threatened today at the Berlin Zoo. What made it even worse is that the target is completely oblivious to any danger; he just kept rolling around in the dirt in his cage and chewed on his friend’s fingers. Knut is a [...]

Vrooming on voltage

If the idea of a mass produced electric car is in fact “dead” (according to the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? referring to the discontinued GM EV1), GM is busting out the defibrillator, adrenaline push and administering CPR. “Clear!” *bzzzap!*
A couple of months ago, GM announced that they plan to be the first [...]

BMW goes green

Bimmers bug me, mostly due to the fact that the 3-series are gamut with the “new rich” who apparently don’t know how to use their turn signals and are prone to cut you off like a Subaru, but if I were given a free one, I would probably choose a 7-series (I admit to coveting [...]

MOVIE REVIEW . Stereo Future

If there’s one thing Hiroyuki Nakano has demonstrated over the course of his five films, it is an absolute love for life in all its forms. His keen visual style, vibrant use of color (and high contrast black and white), carefully chosen music, and unguarded enthusiasm infuse his films with an undeniable fun and pep [...]

Freaky Forecast: Snow and Hail hit HI

Here in the Bay Area we were recently “treated” to some unconventional hail and frost and ice and with it, slippery car accidents and many many cellphone photos. But what if I told you that just last week the same thing happened in an even more unconventional area: Hawai’i! Yes, it happened on [...]

Californians hate trees

What exactly is it with Californians cutting down trees? It seems every time I turn around there’s another tree in the neighborhood wrapped in caution tape, a notice of pending removal tacked to its trunk. These people get annoyed with their trees in the springtime because the foliage tends to block their views of the [...]

Oh, look at the mess we’re in now!

Okay, malicious tsunamis, hurricanes, record heat waves, now New Hampshire flooding, Pakistan earthquakes, a Guatemalan landslide and Brazilian drought.. do we need any more proof that Mother Nature is pissed off? Why won’t we heed her warnings?
Why won’t people admit that Global Warming is a reality and humans are to blame for [...]

Recent Storms Linked to Global Warming…Well, duh!

The New York Times is reporting that a new report released Friday links global warming and the increasingly strong storms we’ve been seeing the past few years.

Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP) - Storms with the power of Hurricane Katrina are becoming more common, in part because of global [...]