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Saturday, August 20, 2005
Waxy pointed toward the latest Dick Tracy storyline, where Dick is taking on DVD piracy (""You're coming down to Headquarters while we check out your DVDs!") Check it out for yourself--it looks like the story starts here, and you can run forward to the present.
Notice the cadre of Tracy involved in the storyline--CD, Burner, Broadband, Download, Digit, and Laptop, led by a cel-phone wielding crime boss. Listen, I'm not going to argue on behalf of pirates, but the tar is being applied with a pretty broad brush if all those concept-personae are lined up on the side of evil. What happened to the days when Dick and his two-way wrist radio were paragon symbols of technology used for good?
UPDATE: Today's strip confirms that the boss is indeed named Cellphone.
Friday, August 19, 2005
Some photos and nearly comprehesible stories from the Japanese urban racing circuit (via Octopus Dropkick.)
There's a new service that scans the closed captioning feeds of TV channels and will email you when your chosen keywords appear.
For admittedly inexplicable reasons, I'm a closed captioning junkie. It's running on my television right now, though I can hear the audio perfectly fine. It probably has something to do with being addicted to the printed word (as well as preparing for the coming of our ear-eating overlords.)
But even I don't feel any need to know if I missed anything.
Via Boing Boing, the brilliant This Spartan Life, a talk show filmed live inside an open Halo2 server. Not only fun to watch, but reasonably interesting as well.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
I've wanted to do this for years with some of my favorite runs: comics bound together into custom hardcovers, some complete with foil stamping on the cover. Very nice.
The They Fight Crime engine returns with a brilliant new variant by the Legomancer and friends:
The PCs are pistol-packing everyday Joes in bikinis who, with a psychedelically-painted van, fight a giant mechanical spider for Snausages, in Spanish.
The PCs are pulp-era rabbis in the Mirror Universe (where everything is the opposite of normal) who, with charts and graphs, fight orcs (except they're not called orcs) for a studio audience during choir practice.
The PCs are microscopic geniuses trapped in a walk-in freezer who, with large wrenches, fight petty battles for money...or so they think.
Get your own random RPG high concept at In This RPG...
Revisit the age old story of Beast against Late Night Talk Show Host in Conan vs. Bear (via Memepool.)"A Real Estate Agent’s Tour Of Hannigan’s Cove: Fictional Town For Rent Or Sale To Aspiring Novelists." (via Bookslut.)
I've been linked by Boing Boing. Pretty cool!Important side note: credit for creating the stickers goes to my friends JP and Karla, also the founders of Fistomas and the Kit Fisto Fan Page, possibly one of the best fan-page parodies ever ("200 Hits fan art!")
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
If, like me, you purchased the sixth-season Simpsons set this week despite the fact that the packaging was a) unlike the previous five sets and b) stupid--or, if you didn't purchase the set for either of those reasons--Fox would like to solve your problem, sarcastically.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Very cool: you can now post to Blogger from Microsoft Word. Check out the announcement over on Googleblog, then learn more about it and download it. I'm grabbing it now; I'll let you know how it goes.
The amazing Cabbage Converter!
(You might want to have a friend handy to use the Cabbage Anti-Converter.)
(via Trabbold)
Monday, August 15, 2005
Reason #9267 that I love the web: over on the SA Forums, a request for the recipe for Green Arrow's chili turns up, within ten minutes, the recipe for Green Arrow's chili.
Everyone's been talking about Roger Ebert's brilliant slice-and-dice of Rob Schneider in his review of the new Deuce Bigalow movie. Yet leave it to the discussion of the review over at Making Light to turn up a review of Sphere that is quite possibly even better (if NSFW.)
Via Adland, download free music courtesy of a beer promotion. The interface is a little awkward, and you have to get the final files through an annoying download manager (and I'd reccommend using a good spyware scrubber afterward, though I can't find any clear sign that it drops any), but it is free music.
My college buddy Jason, creator of a great Lovecraftian gangster strip called Big Fishes in the college paper, is now climbing his way up the indy comics ladder with his new book Frontier. Check it out, read the online archive, and think about ordering a copy of Issue Zero.
Excellent: NPR will be podcasting more content soon. Now Says You and BOOK need to throw off those Audible chains...
Sunday, August 14, 2005
I'm a big fan of viral online games, but not if it comes at the cost of diluting the usefulness of the Wikipedia.
Hey, you! On the waterskis!
On Monday, August 29th, the 25th Anniversary edition of The Blues Brothers will be screening in 100 theaters across the U.S.--including one a few blocks from my place.
So if you're my stalker and want to know where I'll be that night, there you go.
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