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Telepathic nurses?
November 6, 2007 – 1:10 am
So, this afternoon I spent some time sitting in a waiting room at Lahey Clinic, reading a book while waiting for my apppointment. It occurred to me that I started reading the book in the same waiting room, three weeks previous. I was a little chagrined that it was taking me so long to get [...]
A masterpiece in 150 words
November 1, 2007 – 2:35 pm
From Alan Moore, of course - who else?
THIS WARN YOU
Docs after in oldspeak. Untruth, make-ups only. Make-ups make THOUGHTCRIME. Careful. Supervisor rank or not read. This warn you. THOUGHTCRIME in docs after. SEXCRIME in docs after. Careful. If self excited, report. If other excited, report. Everything report. Withhold accurate report is INFOCRIME. This warn you. [...]
Happy friggin’ Halloween
October 31, 2007 – 4:33 pm
Archenemy GF does not enjoy answering the door for all the cute little kiddies on Halloween. It’s not that she doesn’t like the cute little kiddies - she does - but doesn’t like the prospect of repeated interruptions to her dinner, consumption of HGTV shows, and other oh-so-important things. And she particularly doesn’t enjoy [...]
It’s all science and shit. You wouldn’t understand.
September 26, 2007 – 8:45 am
American inventors.
Morrrr braaaainzzzzz….
September 19, 2007 – 11:16 am
Yeah, it’s not 2008 yet, but given that you can’t underestimate the irrationality of the American voter, it’s probably not too early to start buying razor wire and MREs.
A man after my own heart
September 12, 2007 – 12:12 am
Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the [...]
Pop!
August 23, 2007 – 12:36 pm
Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.:
It’s frothy out there in web round 2, assuming we’re in round 2, and all those bubbles really add to the effect. Each day, I see more than one new speech bubble logo. Am I the only one who thinks this has passed the point of group think, and entered the [...]
Knock knock / Who is it? / Uhhh… Candygram!
August 21, 2007 – 4:21 pm
This is cool:
The basic process for developing fingers and toes in land animals may have existed for more than 500 million years in shark genes, according to a new study.
Of course, it makes the uplift easier, and, in this case, much more frightening.
Efficiency
August 9, 2007 – 5:40 pm
How UPS got William Gibson’s Spook Country to me:
West Sacramento, CA -> Mather, CA -> Louisville, KY -> Poughkeepsie, NY -> Newark, NJ -> Philadelphia, PA -> Stratford, CT -> Windsor Locks, CT -> Watertown, MA -> Arlington, MA
(this took three days, instead of Amazon Prime’s promised two)
WTF, UPS? Time to lay off the sauce, [...]
Junk science looks so much better
August 8, 2007 – 12:25 am
…when you’ve got your own animation studio!
(Neal Adams was an extremely accomplished cartoonist and comic artist in the 60s and 70s, and he is, apparently, not at all fooled by your “plate tectonics” nonsense)
Sometimes you can just tell
August 1, 2007 – 1:20 pm
At Instapundit:
IT’S NATIONAL RASPBERRY CREAM PIE DAY: “You can probably thank the National Raspberry Council for that one. It certainly goes over better than National Raspberry Colonic Month, last practiced in 1924.”
You don’t even need to roll your cursor over the link to confirm that James Lileks wrote that. You just know.
Zing!
July 25, 2007 – 1:33 pm
Thoughts on Ward Churchill’s firing, from the former president of FIRE:
An under-qualified, arguably fake Native American with a long history of not just plagiarism and other forms of academic fraud, but also a disturbing tendency to threaten and intimidate his critics, it turned out that Churchill was the kind of person who could only exist [...]
More on comic conventions
July 24, 2007 – 2:00 pm
So, the other day I was talking to some folks who mentioned they didn’t particularly want to go to any comic conventions (I’m being deliberately vague here). For the life of me, I can’t understand why:
On Wednesday, the San Diego International Comic Con starts. Expect announcements of projects, exclusives, signing and deals all over the [...]
Major intelligence setback in GWOT
July 15, 2007 – 4:37 pm
Those clever Iranians are on to us:
According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders. He has declined to give any more details, but, reportedly, when asked about the confiscation [...]
Jah Wobble
July 14, 2007 – 2:56 pm
Trawling Wikipedia, I find:
Early post-PiL years
Soon after leaving PiL, Wobble started his solo career [...] However, his critical stance towards the commercialization of the music industry, compounded by heavy drinking led to his abandoning music for a short period in the mid eighties. By 1986 he was clean and sober. He then worked a variety [...]
The tears of sad hippies are measured (and doled out) in micrograms
July 13, 2007 – 12:26 pm
It’s always a good thing to know your chemist.
(Related personal anecdotes redacted.)
Tintin in England
July 12, 2007 – 8:03 pm
Racist imagery “found” in 1931 comic book!
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled a Tintin book racist and criticised a high street book chain for stocking the title.
The CRE says Tintin in the Congo makes black people “look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles”.
It has called on Borders to remove it from sale due to [...]
Blog noir
June 20, 2007 – 4:26 pm
iowahawk:
A few minutes later we arrived at the nondescript hall deep in the Blogosphere Bowery. We pushed through the filthy padded door and made our way to a smoky backroom. Huey was seated at a card table, around which sat a rogue’s gallery of sleazy online opinion slingers: Beantown Barney, the head of the Boston [...]