September 2008
26 posts
3 tags
Baltimore Comic-Con 2008
DrOct and I went to Baltimore on Saturday for the 9th Annual Baltimore Comic-Con. We decided not to get there too early, but didn’t foresee the need to buy tickets online ahead of time. There are only three people selling tickets at the door, so we had to wait in line for 45 minutes before getting in. Usually this would have given us a good opportunity to see people in costumes, but there...
4 tags
Sarah Palin Thinks Dinosaurs Lived at the Same...
The Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States of America actually believes that dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans.
There are many issues on which I respect that people have different opinions than I. This isn’t one of them. If you vote for John McCain, you’re endorsing the possibility that someone could be in the White House who doesn’t believe very...
2 tags
The two sites I’ve been reading most about the election, besides The Washington Post, are Electoral-Vote.com and Five Thirty Eight.
4 tags
Sign of the times: “chocolatey.” →
Hershey has stopped putting cocoa butter in some of its candy, so many products will no longer be “milk chocolate”.
3 tags
The World's Largest Wargaming Table →
4 tags
GeniusboyFiremelon: When Words Collide BONUS:... →
From a 1986 UK Superman Annual.
5 tags
Op-Ed Columnist - Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting... →
6 tags
Punctuating Comics: Dots and Dashes →
Todd Klein on why comics often use two hyphens instead of an em-dash.
2 tags
18 tags
Assorted Things that Never Became Posts
I’ve started to write a few posts over the past few weeks and have lost interest in all of them before coming to a version I wanted to publish. When Twitter lets me say it in 140 characters, why write a whole post?
So here are a few seeds that never grew to full posts, in no order whatsoever.
Politics: Sarah Pailin really worries me. I fear she’s like George Bush in not...
3 tags
IGN: The Top 10 Batman Toys →
For my money (literally), the Hush Batman that they rank #6 is the best Batman action figure I’ve found. I have no use for variant dolls like “Green Lantern Batman”.
2 tags
Mr. & Mrs. Darth Vader →
Love the cutouts on her chest console.
4 tags
Scifi SNL: Best SNL Scifi Sketches Of All Time →
Love that Astronaut Jones.
2 tags
Register to Vote
In Michigan, the Republican party intends to try to prevent people whose homes have been foreclosed from voting.
In Ohio, the McCain campaign sent out absentee ballot applications that included an unnecessary question that, if left blank, invalidated voters’ applications.
Until the Alaska legislature banned the practice, then Mayor Pailin charged rape victims for their own forensic...
1 tag
C|Net’s Tom Krazit, reporting on a rumor from a Daring Fireball article that Apple could release new laptops in October:
> If that date comes to pass, Apple will have officially missed the back-to-school shopping season, which is generally one of the best-selling quarters for the Mac. Even if it launched the new notebooks tomorrow it would have missed most of the college students who...
2 tags
Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed... →
Great writeup about the samples used in this album.
3 tags
Giz Explains: Why HD Video Downloads Aren't Very... →
Short answer: low bit rate.
4 tags
FM 100 Hue Test →
Cool color perception test. I scored a four (zero being best).
2 tags
World Names Profiler →
Check to see where your last name is the most popular, and what the most common given names are for it.
4 tags
Umbrelletiquette →
4 tags
YouTube - ryan vs. ventura →
Was looking around for baseball fights today. Watch Nolan Ryan bean and then beat up Robin Ventura.
2 tags
Ultimate For Better or for Worse →
The comic strip ended last Sunday with the marriage of daughter Elizabeth and notes telling what happened to each character. Now the strip will start over again with the characters as they were when it began, telling new stories.
2 tags
The US now leads developed nations in teen... →
5 tags
Jesus is my friend by "Sonseed" on Vimeo →
(via Charlie Park)
3 tags
Warhammer: First Warhammer Brawler Footage Looks... →
Warhammer has seen a nice crescendo as a property lately. I’m still waiting for a straight video game port of the tabletop game to complement the RTS.
3 tags
The Savage Critic(s): Obsolescence & Model Kits:... →
Good counterpoint to my love of Morrison’s recent crazy stories. For the record, I agree that his stories have become much less relateable and my enjoyment of them has been heightened by reading web pages telling me what I’ve missed. What I appreciate is simply that DC is letting him tell stories like this.