I’ve avoided angry rants on this blog till now, but I have to rant about this:
Today Facebook made a change to how Applications interact with your wall. In an attempt to compete with Twitter they gave enabled wall-posting permissions for most applications, notably Twitter and Friendfeed.
The permissions added by Facebook appear to override the settings that end-users have added themselves. For instance, if you have these applications and they are set to “never publish”… guess what? They’re publishing.
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If you were an anime or manga fan in Adelaide during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s it was hard to find anything related to the fandom. A handful of comic book stores had some graphic novels, and there was a smattering of VHS tapes around, but if you weren’t interested in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sailor Moon, or Dragonball, you couldn’t find it in Adelaide.
If you were lucky you might find some toys at collectible stores, but more often than not you had to order everything through the Internet. There was nowhere to borrow anime or manga from, so you needed to buy series—usually from overseas or interstate. It was an expensive hobby.
Early file sharing networks offered one way to preview a series—if you were desperate—and it took days/weeks to download a single (grainy) episode.
Thankfully all this has changed, and anime fans in Adelaide now have lots of options available to them.
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Sometimes it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot going on in Adelaide, after all, it’s got a reputation for being a quiet, boring town.
Of course, it’s not really boring here. There’s plenty to do in Adelaide if you know where to look—and one place to look is Sighmon’s Home Slice.
Home Slice is a semi-regular email list / website published by @sighmon (and friends) with the scoop on the unusual, the quirky, and the surprising things going on hidden away in Adelaide. Sighmon and his crack team of…er… “ladyboys with fantastic hair”… will keep you up to date on what’s hot in Adelaide shopping, the arts, music, and more.
Some of the great things I’ve found through Home Slice include the Adelaide Roller Derby, the Format Collective (and their Zine Shop in Peel Street… although I keep forgetting their opening hours), and the Projectorbitions project which lit up the side of a building with cool art! Sweet!
So if you want the skinny on what’s going on in Adelaide (especially the arts), check out Home Slice.
