mukade <mukade@gaijin.co.jp> wrote:

> > http://www.in-duce.net/archives/shinbashi.swf 
> > http://www.angelfire.com/ex/dumpbin/chiba.swf
> > 
> > Where did these come from originally, and are there any more of them?
> > 
> Those characters inhabit the collective intelligence that is ni
> channeru.
> 
> www.2ch.net

Thought so, but I find that site almost impossible to navigate--how to
find more of such goodies? (Preferably ones that people with only a
couple of years of Japanese study can understand--the Shimbashi one
turned out to be ideal for that.)

> They evolved from ASCII art, but they now have developed their own
> consciousness. I have heard reports of them attacking people in Ueno
> park late at night.

Yeah.... I got ambushed by the Chiba one while on-line today....

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