August 2008
27 posts
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Futurese (JBR Precoglang) →
Neat article on what English might look like in the future.
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IGN: Killing Batman And The DC Universe →
Lengthy interview with Grant Morrison about Final Crisis and Batman RIP.
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Morrison's DC
I have to hand it to DC Comics for having the guts to publish the comics they’ve been putting out lately. In a summer where parent company Warner Bros. released a widely successful Batman movie, one would have expected them to try to parlay that success by publishing some watered down, accessible Batman comics. Instead they give Grant Morrison the keys to the kingdom and let him put out...
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Paul Levitz: DC Comics and the Sustainable... →
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TVs and PCs
Penny Arcade hums a few bars of refrain I often sing:
There are many things I find unacceptable in this universe,
I won’t provide an exhaustive list, but watching full
television programs on my monitor has a…”texture” I don’t
like. […] I don’t want to hook my PC into a television,
and I shouldn’t have to. All these machines are wired...
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Anthem Arrangements Raise A Red Flag Over... →
Funny to read about this. I don’t like the version of the Star-Spangled Banner they’re playing at the Olympics, either. Sucks that it’s a rip-off, though.
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MLB, umpires approve implementation of replay -... →
Because games don’t take long enough as it is.
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Focus on art: Dan Havel, Dean Ruck | David Airey »... →
Crazy art project that looks like a house being sucked into a wormhole.
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The vexed question of punctuation →
Includes rules for typesetting emoticons.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II - Rhino Diary 1 →
THQ, makers of the 40k game Dawn of War, are making a life-sized Space Marine Rhino to show off at a con and promote their game.
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise... →
“At the climax of Return of the Jedi, Death Star II explodes while orbiting a forested moon called Endor […] the sheer tonnage of debris its destruction […] must have rained death and nuclear winter onto the teddy-bear tribe.” It’s called “The Endor Holocaust”.
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I Beg You To Be A Little More Observant - The... →
Great, great piece about how DC Comics treated Superman’s creators early on. Read the linked articles at the top if you don’t know the background. Amazing how the mistreatment of these artists led to a resentment that’s still being played out in court 80 years later.
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Lego Olympics →
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Thoughts from the first week of the Beijing Olympics:
I really like the type treatment of “Beijing 2008” in the official logo.
I like the idea that the picture of the man in the emblem is based on the Chinese character for the “jing” in “Beijing”, but the picture itself doesn’t look that cool to me.
I can’t take volleyball seriously. Sorry. I...
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Condiment Gun →
Exactly what it sounds like. Why use a bottle when you can fire ketchup at your hot dog from a gun?
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Countries That Don't Use Metric →
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Mac 101: Pressing F5 in a text field - The... →
Good tip, via Daring Fireball.
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TuneCore: Get yourself on iTunes for $30: Page 1 →
Ars Technica review of a record label that accepts literally any band and publishes them to iTunes, AmazonMP3, and others.
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2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony - The Big Picture -... →
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Final Crisis #3 - “Know Evil” →
“Page 26 - “Hola!” is an ancient Amazonian battle cry; Wonder Woman is not saying “hello” in Spanish.” Good to know. I didn’t understand that panel *at all* without this.
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Final Crisis Annotations: Final Crisis #3 →
Ah ha! The building the Nazi character crashes through is a proposed World Trade Center replacement. Morrison’s DC Universe New York City is always filled with proposed but not built architecture like this.
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Total solar eclipse of 2008 - The Big Picture -... →
Check out that last shot.
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Calvin and Jobs →
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series -... →
Four-minute pilot of the cartoon that was never made. Might have been cool, but what was there that the live action show didn’t already do?
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Olympic Medal Count Map - Interactive Graphic -... →
Scroll back and forth through the years to see how the diversity of the countries competing in the games changed over time.