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Friday, July 17, 2009

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A man who was charged a staggering $23 quadrillion for a packet of cigarettes has fortunately managed to avoid paying the bill.

The New Hampshire resident bought a packet of cigarettes at a Mobil petrol station using his Visa credit card, but when he returned home he discovered he had been charged rather more than he expected.

Eventually he managed to clear up the matter with the issuing Bank of America, and was naturally relieved not to have to pay the bill.

Visa downplayed the blunder, described as an “inaccuracy”:

“A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services, caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts.

The technical glitch, which impacted fewer than 13,000 Visa prepaid transactions, has been corrected and erroneous postings have been removed.

Importantly, this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders.

Visa regrets any inconvenience to our customers and has taken immediate steps to ensure this error doesn’t occur again.”

Via Itai News.

The US GDP is only $14 trillion, so by not making this man pay an opportunity to increase the US GDP by 16,200% has been lost; such are the wonders of national income accounting…

Nendoroid rendition of Touhou Project miko heroine Hakurei Reimu will be released at Comiket 76 in August 2009.

Mika-tan of Goodsmile Company updated her blog yesterday with more photos of the figurine in action. Nendoroid Reimu will come with interchangeable face part, hand parts, and props that let her banish youkai or enjoy tea. Her stand platform is modeled after her yin-yang orbs.

Perhaps it makes the efforts of earlier fanmade Touhou Nendoroids for naught? Not that fans will complain, assuming they can obtain one…

For those who can’t make it to C76, Mika-tan mentioned that other methods for procuring Nendoroid Reimu will be announced on July 23rd – this will include online ordering, though international availability is not clear.

More photos can be found on Mika-tan’s blog.

Long running classic Inuyasha is set to be given a new series dealing with the as yet unanimated portions of the manga (which itself finally concluded after a marathon run some time ago).

The new series will see volumes 36 to 56 of the manga animated, so it looks set to be a long running production (the original anime ran for four years).

The anime is set for an autumn broadcast, by which time much additional information will doubtless have been made available.

The previous anime continuation made nary a ripple, but doubtless this will be a different matter…
And once more, i am interrupted......Good night..

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