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rafstone··on Loituma Girl (April 2006)
Loituma Girl (also known as "Leekspin") is a Flash animation set to a scat singing section of the traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka," sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma on their 1995 debut album Things of Beauty. It appeared on the Internet in late April 2006 and quickly became popular. The animation consists of four frames showing the Bleach anime character Orihime Inoue twirling a Welsh onion or leek, set to a 27-second loop from the song.

The animation of Loituma Girl is taken from episode two of the Bleach anime series, between the twelfth and fourteenth minute (depending on the version). In the clip, Orihime is twirling a leek while talking to Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki. The scene is an instance of a recurring joke surrounding her character, in which she wants to cook something so unusual that it seems almost inedible.

rafstone··on Map of battles fought since 2500 B.C
Africa, and Asia are missing quite a few data points...
rafstone··on Ask HN: How to run anonymous services?
Try instituting an expiration policy on your logs. Have addresses expire after some set amount of time. It might be a few hours, days, or weeks - whatever you determine to be the necessary time to prevent abuse.
rafstone··on Show HN: We're simplifying personal cloud storage for apps
When do you expect we can get an invite?
rafstone··on Show HN: We're simplifying personal cloud storage for apps
This could prove to be very useful tool.