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Also, REV's Diary did a little bit on the English Blog scene. They called Shingo's Heisei Democracy "a news aggregator or something." I giggled at the title, but was otherwise sad to not be important enough to show up. Haha.--http://ikimashou.net/2006/09/11/weekend-rollup-september-8-10/

海外の日本フェスティバルでキモノを着る人達。コスプレでないけどコスプレ風味。

Here’s a group of anime fans at the 2006 Japanese Festival that Rachel and I met. There’s posed in front of the lily pond at the Missouri Botanical Garden.--http://theanimeblog.com/2006/09/12/anime-fans-at-the-japanese-festival-2006/

Pedophilia and Star Trek

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-ladowsky/pedophilia-and-star-trek_b_5857.html

The LA Times recently ran a story about the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit, which contained a mind-boggling statistic: of the more than 100 offenders the unit has arrested over the last four years, "all but one" has been "a hard-core Trekkie." Blogger Ernest Miller thought this claim was improbable.--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-ladowsky/pedophilia-and-star-trek_b_5857.html