Google throws off ~$3 billion in profit (!) a quarter (!). I don't think this a lack of interest in protecting their trademarks in many different languages is the reason for it being in English.
It has nothing to do with that, it's branding. Check Google France, Spain, China, Russia...they all have localized versions of "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons. The Japanese and Koreans are English-crazy, so they kept it in English to look hip.
Japan is already very familiar with the english word "Lucky" and "I'm Feeling" is probably also not difficult. English words are cool and trendy and very commonly peppered around in Japan.
Some context, for those who, like myself, didn't recognise it: It's celebrating the 107th anniversary of the publication of an American comic strip. It ran between 1905 and 1927.
As the wikipedia article notes, this is based off the movie, and not the comic.
The comic didn't evolve a storyline per se for quite some time; there's very little continuity between pages. It is also, do note, a full-page comic. The artwork is fantastic and beautiful, with a particular excellence in linework and architecture. There is somewhat of a homage in Gaiman's Sandman series at various times, notably in The Doll's House.
One curious element is the highly racist (to modern sensibilities) depiction of an african child, one of Nemo's companions. For some reason he didn't make the film.
Little Nemo ran under two or three different headings and had a hiatus in publishing concurrent with a switch of publications. In my opinion the quality went downhill towards the later years. On the whole, the comic has a compelling and uniquely unreal quality to it; I recommend it highly. As they were originally published about 100 years ago, the copyright should be expired: I believe at any rate that the comic is available on the torrent network of your choice.
The film was a decent bit of animation, and the story largely dispenses with the plot of the comic. That is actually to the good; a more literal translation I feel would have been impossible. The only flaw I might single out would be the relative weakness of its musical numbers: if Disney had not made it necessary for any animated film to have songs, it is doubtful that anyone would have thought to add them. On the whole, while it is quite excellent on its own merits, it falls somewhat short of Windsor McKay's mastery of sequential art.
How does someone make something like this? I see there are bunch of images and they are using css sprite technic but is there a tool that helps you generate an animation like this? Or is it manually done the hard way.
Is there a mechanism in HN that auto-deadlinks certain domains? I submitted google.com.sg a couple of hours ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4653135, submitted before I saw this post), and it was deadlinked by the time the page refreshed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo
The comic didn't evolve a storyline per se for quite some time; there's very little continuity between pages. It is also, do note, a full-page comic. The artwork is fantastic and beautiful, with a particular excellence in linework and architecture. There is somewhat of a homage in Gaiman's Sandman series at various times, notably in The Doll's House.
One curious element is the highly racist (to modern sensibilities) depiction of an african child, one of Nemo's companions. For some reason he didn't make the film.
Little Nemo ran under two or three different headings and had a hiatus in publishing concurrent with a switch of publications. In my opinion the quality went downhill towards the later years. On the whole, the comic has a compelling and uniquely unreal quality to it; I recommend it highly. As they were originally published about 100 years ago, the copyright should be expired: I believe at any rate that the comic is available on the torrent network of your choice.
The film was a decent bit of animation, and the story largely dispenses with the plot of the comic. That is actually to the good; a more literal translation I feel would have been impossible. The only flaw I might single out would be the relative weakness of its musical numbers: if Disney had not made it necessary for any animated film to have songs, it is doubtful that anyone would have thought to add them. On the whole, while it is quite excellent on its own merits, it falls somewhat short of Windsor McKay's mastery of sequential art.
The film seems to be available on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/257552
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Is there a mechanism in HN that auto-deadlinks certain domains? I submitted google.com.sg a couple of hours ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4653135, submitted before I saw this post), and it was deadlinked by the time the page refreshed.
(As far as I can tell I'm not hellbanned.)
http://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay
(Little Nemo ran on to 1927, but later strips are still in copyright)
There's also a full run of his Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: http://archive.org/details/DreamOfTheRarebitFiendByWinsorMcc...