Sitting in my bookmarks since it was published on Chris’s Invincible Superblog (hey, what’s in a name?)…evidence that Jim Balent (former artist of the then gravity-defying-bra owner Catwoman) writes…interesting plot points. Yeahbuhwuh? And yes, this is from a real comic book.
I guess I am behind on the times. I try to keep up on licenses, like CC and the idealistic cl•sterf•ck that is the GPL v3. The SIL Open Font License snuck past me. It’s a wordy read, but the iconography saved me from my Sesame-Street attention span and a usually unavoidable tl;dr. Fonts offered under the OFL are not very exciting, and mostly focus on scholarly niches and recreating core commercial fonts. Sadly, there are no winners like Calibri, Constantia or the brilliant Corbel but the collection also doesn’t suffer from dafont disease so far.
This might be the most awesome series of anything on YouTube. Ever. Find the whole series here; below are two of my favorite episodes so far. (Via Gary at operation 9)
Moving from Chyrp to Wordpress is, well, not recommended unless you want to start from scratch.
After a tumultuous December month, and an aftermath that some might call January, I’m working hard to get my plates spinning again and to write some of the articles that I had to put on the back burner. Keep an eye on this spot — irrg! orrrrg! was just faking it. It ain’t dead.
Be seeing you, number 6. Patrick McGoohan w passes away. Related (and shown above): The Prisoner of Second Ave by Evan Dorkin.
Matt Smith is the next Doctor.
Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who – making him the youngest actor to take on the role. At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981. Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.
Happy new year, everybody. Let’s see if I can make this puppy entertaining enough to rise above 20 subscribers in 2009!
While I’m currently more on a minimalist than a retro kick, The Product Manual Archive is still a fun site to visit. Lacking in the Commodore and Sinclair/Timex computer department, but that’s what This site is for.
Not a hoax! Not a dream sequence! Just, in general, a really really bad idea. 1964 brought us many questionable things but the Go-go’s “Christmas with a Dalek” is probably the reigning champion of “fail in ‘64″.
I have been too out of touch with the world in the past month. Drastic things are happening in The Workplace, and they have taken a bit of a toll on irrg! orrrrg. However, I’m expecting to do a bit of a spurt between next Monday and the Monday after to push out some cool stuff and article ideas that have been sitting in my drafts folder for too long. Meanwhile, the fact that everyone is knee-deep in top whatevers for whatever subjective subcategorization the author feels the need to blog has lead me to running only one ‘top’ for 2008: The top none. Because I feel that there’s too many people that need to be told what to love. Here goes:
I think they clearly picked the best one, but I like that all of the designs were far outside of the box that is normal political graphic design.
Sam Brown of Exploding Dog fame does disturbingly fascinating 3 panel comics at Dog hates ME. Fuck yeah, we’re going to burn.
Kanedaaaaaaa! To be specific, Kaneda Washington Sawyer Finn Bush Cheney Pamela Anderson Lee. A Disneyfied re-envisioning of the classic Akira story into…well…yeah…something, that’s for sure.
Dr Horrible’s dripping diminutive dorky confederate’s origin is… odd and short. But mostly odd. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
A great article on the major studios’ logos and their evolution. Personally loving the Warner Brothers / Seven Arts logo, as well as the ‘72-’84 ‘Big W’. Also check out ClosingLogos wiki which is the source of most of the images shown.
While I am not the world’s biggest sci-fi fan (a lot of the medium, just like with fantasy, is completely lost on me), Mr. Ackerman’s passing is something that’s important enough to report on. Why? Because there would be no “science fiction” or “sci-fi” if he hadn’t coined the term. Not only that, but he was also the man who discovered Ray Bradbury, Ed Wood’s “illiterary” agent, and co-creator of comicdom’s Vampirella, so as far as I’m concerned, Mr. Ackerman wasn’t just One Of Us, he was one of nerddom’s kings.
Monster Cable has decided to sue Monster MiniGolf for trademark infringement. Monster MiniGolf is a family startup by Patrick & Christina Vitagliano glow-in-the-dark monster-themed minigolf franchise with 23 locations.
I like the suggestion someone makes in the comments. Every time you read about Monster and their screwed up product or legal department, tell five people about monoprice.com.
I’ll be playing a little catch-up with this blog from now until the end of the year. Also, a bit of direction adjustment and a few longer posts that I’ve been drafting. Stay tuned.
Actor, cartoonist, anti-nihilist, owner of rugs… Jeff Bridges created a photo book of his experience making Iron Man. Quite, quite cool.
Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all? Am I supposed to compare it to conventional horses? To a rhinoceros? Does its pre-existing mythology impact its actual value, or must it be examined inside a cultural vacuum, as if this creature is no more (or less) special than the remainder of the animal kingdom?
