AAK at NeoGAF collected all you have to know about Tekken Tag Tournament 2. There may be nothing new for the hardcore Tekken players, however, the amount of work AAK put in is still impressive. If you want to introduce TTT2 to your friends, the best place would be…

• NeoGAF – Tekken Official Thread

NOTE: There are more Tekken products covered in the thread than TTT2.

More than one in ten Americans now own e-readers. Here, we take a look at what that means for the state of reading in America.

Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Nvidia CEO sees tenfold growth in mobile-processor business  — Nvidia, best known for its high-end graphics chips, will generate a vast majority of its revenue from its now burgeoning mobile-processor business, according to outspoken Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang.

This past July, the SB48 bill, also known as the Fair Education Act, was officially passed. This bill would require public schools to recognize and include the contributions of the LGBTQ in textbooks and classrooms. Just like many of the nondiscrimination laws that have passed over the years to include the LGBTQ community, this bill caused a lot of controversy. Notably, Korean churches have voiced their opinions and spoken out against this new bill.

Last week, members of the National Council of Korean Churches and the U.S. offices of the Christian Council of Korea in Southern California congregated and discussed their plans to overturn the bill. New America Media reports that the head of the U.S. offices of the Christian Council of Korea, Pastor Jeong-myung Song, is rallying for 65,000 signatures of those who oppose the bill, saying: “If we get the signatures we need, then we can put a referendum on the table to have the law thrown out.”

This is not the first time Korean churches have acted against embracing the LGBTQ community, in July Korean Presbyterian churches were opposed to a new amendment that would allow potential gay/lesiban ordination.

[Photo: Christian Council of Korea]

Last.fm Heatmap Calendars (fullscreen slideshow available here) [flickr.com] by Martin Dittus is a collection of static visualizations showing the individual listening habits activity of around 70 different last.fm users, encompassing over 8.7 million individual songs played.

Each visualization is a structured heatmap that reveals the periodicity of music listening, such as years, months, day of week, hour of day. A year of data is arranged in a row, grouped into 12 horizontal blocks, one for each month. In turn, each month is organized by an inner grid: 7 columns for the days of week and 24 rows for the hours of day. The color coding shows the measure of relative intensity, ranging from grey over green over yellow towards red. A light grey strip highlights the most active hours of the day across the entire period.

This visualization is able to reveal lunch breaks, dinner, commutes, new jobs, busy weekends, holidays, … as long as it happens regularly and somehow interferes with one’s music listening. They become particularly interesting when cross-referenced with the actual user’s perception, such as for user David Singleton, who described his personal interpretation of his last.fm diagram on his weblog.

UPDATE
More testimonies from last.fm users can be found here.

Slate places cartoon characters from past and present within the frame of a color wheel.

Why are the Smurfs blue? Why is Doug’s Beebe Bluff purple? Our aim is not to answer these existential questions. When asked why the Simpsons are yellow, Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa) explained only that Matt Groening “thought that it would be really funny if, when people watched The Simpsons, they thought that maybe the color on their TV was off.”

Totally ridiculous. And that’s what makes it fun.

[Thanks, Dean]

Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Google’s search by drawing feature  — This is kind of amazing…you draw a graph and Google Correlate finds query terms whose popularity matches the drawn curve.  I drew a bell curve, a very rough one peaking in 2007, and it matches a bunch of searches for “myspace”.

Note: Artists redesign characters to give them new look, but also to give them a new story. Concept artist David Tran recently dreamt up a team of X-Men lead by Magneto that’s striking in both the character design and the intrigue of the story behind it. – Chris A.

Note: Tran explains this character as the former Scarlet Spider Ben Reilly in a new identity.

Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Akamai thrives in the spirit of its lost founder  — After its founder was killed on Sept. 11 and its business damaged in the aftermath, Akamai slid to the edge of failure.  What it still had were Daniel Lewin’s technology and vision.  — At about 9 a.m. on what would be a very bad day …