Link Dump 4/7/05

• - Anti Japanese Propaganda posters. And people wonder why Western societies have problems with racism. World War II seems to have been such a massive nodal point - it altered the world in so many ways, it's hard to know where to begin.

• - "'Information-fetishism' is a central term for Yamazaki. The Otaku continue the same pattern of information aquisition and reproduction they have learned at school. Only the subject matter has changed: idols, cameras, or rock 'n' roll."

• - Underwater eruptions in the Pacific ocean.

• - I don't usually drink it, but damn, this beer looks good.

• - Melissa Joan Hart is pregnant. Wow. I can't believe she's 29 already. This makes me feel old.