Karakuri Babble is a daily column by the editors of i360.com, usually on topics tangentially related to anime and cosplay.

In the past we have endorsed many things; in the future we shall support many others.

As an occasional sysadmin, I naturally leaped at the chance to read a comic about Ubuntu. Leaped! Frolicked! (Much as I wish that was sarcasm, it really wasn't.) Doubly so when I got a link to an English translation.

The translation's incredibly awkward, but it comes with the blessings of the author, and we are encouraged to improve it in the best open-source tradition. (For example, as the blog post notes, some people have taken it on themselves to produce a non-flipped version.) Go on, go read it. It's cute in the way that it completely captures the spirit that Ubuntu projects -- friendly, but a little ditzy. It also succeeds in the same way that the Manga Guide to Databases does: Simple characters, but I want to find out more about them.

Definite moe element there, actually.

words from chris, 2009-04-16 02:24:16, los angeles