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martes, septiembre 30, 2003
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linkydink Curse of the Banana Pirates, a collaborative comic drawn on July 19, 2003, at the Art Beat Festival in Somerville's Davis Square.
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linkydink I've just finished reading Neal Stephenson's new novel, Quicksilver. It might be easy enough to pass off my curt review as a product of the hour, but the fact is I just haven't developed the skill for it yet, so I'll settle for recommending. If you've read and liked Cryptonomicon, then I doubt it will disappoint. Fans of Snow Crash expecting more of the same will be sorely disappointed. Interesting to note that Mr. Stephenson has set up a web page where he and his readers can write annotations for his new books as part of Danny Hillis' MetaWeb project.
domingo, septiembre 28, 2003
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linkydink now that i'm working with computers again, i'm getting sucked back into the webcomics world. my most recent favorites are Demonology 101, The 10k Commotion, and Saturnalia. read 'em and wonder why you're not getting your work done. Cold also looks good, but i just started it. i'm a sucker for a well-drawn comic. oh, and j.to: i'm finally reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. you're right, it's good.
miércoles, septiembre 24, 2003
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linkydink "Imagine if it was the other way around: Ben and Jerry decide to give away ice cream every day except one. If their business was like the Web, there'd be tremendous breast-beating and heated arguments on how to solve the "problem," the problem being that hardly anybody comes in on the days they give away ice cream. Oh, my God! Near-total ice cream attrition!"
martes, septiembre 23, 2003
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linkydink "Love may hurt, but sometimes self-love hurts the most. We've combed through the medical journals to find the most horrific examples of masturbation mishaps. From misplaced household items to self-mutilation to accidental death, it's all here, and it's all true."
lunes, septiembre 22, 2003
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linkydink My apologies to my male friends on this blog but I just had to laugh when I read this little blurb in New York Magazine: "Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s latest fictional foray is so good it’s sickening. So far, 27 fans have passed out during readings of Palahniuk’s gruesome “masturbation-gone-wrong story,” which he says he originally heard from a crippled sexaholic. Two fans hit the floor at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on September 12 and two others were stricken at a reading at Columbia University the following Sunday. “Columbia was a nightmare,” the writer tells us. “After the first four pages, Someone starting shouting, ‘Stop! My friend isn’t okay!’ The friend fainted and was hauled away. Two pages later, a young man pitched forward, hitting the seat in front of him, where my editor’s wife was sitting. He fell to the floor and vomited.” Projectile-vomited, according to the writer’s publicist. “It kind of soured my view toward the event,” says one of Columbia’s organizers, Roxanne MacNeil. “But the crowd loved it.” The story will be released by Doubleday next year in a collection of Palahniuk’s work"
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linkydink Because I know at least one other person who reads this wants to know... According to Lonely Planet, Boston is approximately 48.4 square miles with a population of approximately 600,000 people while New York City is approximately 303 square miles with a population of approximately 18,000,000. Breaking those numbers down, New York City has approximately five times as many people per square mile than Boston. And... What exactly is tapioca?
domingo, septiembre 21, 2003
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linkydink "If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves." -- Orson Scott Card
viernes, septiembre 19, 2003
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linkydink In other words, the people complaining about all the internet "thieves" are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people's work. ... In fact, the entire music business absolutely depends on the social interaction of kids to make hits. You stop kids from sharing music, and you've shut down the hit-making machine. - Orson Scott Card By the way, have you all heard about Ender's Game becoming a movie? yup that's right. director is picked, script (at least a few drafts) is written, and it's in line to be made. the obsessive fans who have been keeping close tabs on it know more.
martes, septiembre 16, 2003
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linkydink I wake up and brush my teeth with water whose purity is inspected by government agencies. I pour some cereal and milk into a bowl. No creepy crawlers appear; both are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Federally mandated labels on the cereal box and milk container, moreover, list the ingredients contained inside.
viernes, septiembre 12, 2003
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linkydink howdy, strangers! a brief update on my life: 1. i have a job, albeit temporary, working at Smith. i'm doing IT grunt work - mostly licensing updates for faculty - but i'm liking it so far. 2. minicomic #5 is out. it's MUCH better than the others, art- and layout-wise. you know where to find me. 3. kangaroo, did you call me? i got a bizarre message from my roommates and couldn't figure it out. 4. breakcharmer, i found a bunch of Bjork CDs at my parents' house the other day which i think are yours. why they were at my parents' house and not in your posession i do not know. let me know, and i'll mail them to you. or better yet, we could hang out.
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