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Monday, June 16, 2003

Penny Dreadfull  Draws comics, wrote a theisis on it.  Included is the "Craft is the Enemy" letter by James Kochalka.

Ghost Hunters Online Manga   Some craft here.

Tuesday   Charming minimalist comics.

Genki Girl Girly.

"What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web."

Why does George W. Bush hate America?

A photo gallery of  DOGS IN CARS

Steal these buttons! Or make your own.

'The Matrix Reloaded' Is Banned in Egypt    "But in a statement the committee said it did like the high-tech effects, which they describe as "fabulous.""

"These are "real world" examples of how different digital cameras work in their macro & closeup modes. "

Canonical List of Answering Machine Messages   They really mean "canonical."

Fantasy Coffins from Ghana

When Dads Clean House, It Pays Off Big Time "UC Riverside Sociologists Say Men Likely to Have Better Behaved Children and Wives Who Find Them" More Sexually Attractive

'Everything is SO 5 minutes ago'   "The cool continuum — that twisty trajectory that traces pop culture from cultish to trendy to mainstream to so-over-it's-embarrassing to, finally, kitsch — is being compressed. What used to require years to migrate to the mall, MTV and, yes, USA TODAY now takes only a matter of months."  (via Eclectica )

Arms around the world  Visiting Indian guru wants to hug every person on the planet

An Exopolitical Perspective on the Preemptive War against Iraq   "This study will provide a radically different political analysis of the Bush administration's motivation for going war, and of the explanations offered by his critics. This study provides an exopolitical analysis of the policy dimensions of an historic extraterrestrial presence that is pertinent to Iraq and a US led preemptive attack."

A Virtual Path To Suicide   "Founded in 1990, the discussion group defines its philosophy as being "pro- choice" suicide. Participants view suicide as a civil right that anyone should be able to exercise, for whatever reason."

/// retrospectiv - take a low perspectiv   Group photo gallery of pic taken at a low angle.  Is slick and neat.  (But what is it with these numb-nut web heads with the misspellings, e. e. cummings puctuation and the non-alphabet, "][/.,/<**>," characters?  Don't get me started with full screen Flash only "experiences."  Fuck you and your second year Design classes, work on the CONTENT, you dipshits.)

Study suggests difference between female and male sexuality   "In contrast to men, both heterosexual and lesbian women tend to become sexually aroused by both male and female erotica, and, thus, have a bisexual arousal pattern."  (via MF )

answering the phones   From INTERNALMEMOS.COM   "Internet's largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication"

Buddhists 'really are happier'  "Scientists say they have evidence to show that Buddhists really are happier and calmer than other people"

"The Ticketstub project is a place where you can upload scanned images of your saved stubs, and tell a story about that night, that concert, that movie, what happened on that date; basically, ask youself why you saved the stub as a reminder."

Uber-Geek a la Duct Tape.

The Dancing Shatners   Kahn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednday, June 18, 2003.

Overcaffeinated Comic

Jerk City  Fipperygibbit.

Isometric Euclidian fun.

Return to Sender  She's famous!

Robot Stories Retail Hell with Robots.

How An Earlier "Patriot Act" Law Brought Down A President   "Although you won't learn much about it from reading the "Republican histories" of the Founders being published and promoted in the corporate media these days, the most notorious stain on the presidency of John Adams began in 1798 with the passage of a series of laws startlingly similar to the Patriot Act." (via Dr Disreputable)

Cute is the new ironic  An 11 page Comics Journal forum thread.  See, why can't my fourm be like this?

The new and improved NERD GYM.

Homeless serving as billboards "a Portland pizza-by-the-slice company has hired homeless people off downtown sidewalks to take part in a guerrilla marketing campaign. They are paid in pizza, soda and a few dollars." Here's my ad.

Last Exit To Springfield: For All Your Simpsons Needs.  Doh!

You Must Choose!  "Vote wisely on these choices, for when you die, you shall be judged by the choices you made here"

Drippy

The Trouble with Marvel  Article about Marvel, their new attempt at marketing comics to girls, and the emergence of bookstores and manga as the new mainstream.  Also a some reader responses.

Edible Weiner Art. With photo instructions (via Alices's Dad)

Need etiquette advice? Check Emily Post for articles and tips. (via DFG, an outside agitator and dangerous instigator)

The Surface is a chronicle of observation and comment. A shop window for aspiring writers, poets, illustrators, photographers, journalists and essayists. We offer no fee.

The Secret Books

"Here are pictures of the most nuclear and thermonuclear atmospheric(or surface) explosions conducted in the period between 1945-1963. On August 5, 1963 limited test ban treaty signed, so all the consequent tests were underground, although there were some exceptions, e.g. China conducted atmospheric tests later."  ^^;;

Mexico City Slang   Dos Fish Tacos, please.  Two for a buck, right?  Oh and a small Diet Coke. I can refill, right?

Find the Black Dot!

"A beer fairy " Beer Chan " !?  It never look an adult, but actually is enough big to drink .
You will hear Beer chan drinking in big gulps and cheering anytime anywhere !!"  

*NSFW* The She-Hulk Shrine *NSFW*  You know that line,"If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right?"  Well he DON'T wanna be right. (via Ghastly, also NSFW)

Thursday, June 19, 2003.

The Matrix Reloaded: The Abridged Script™
KEANU REEVES: Why am I here?
THE EXPLAINER: Many years ago, shortly before the success of Speed, you sold your soul to the devil in exchange for a promise of notoriety that your piss-poor acting skills do not deserve. This series is the actualization of this promise.
KEANU REEVES: What was the Osiris? And who was that kid in Zion who kept pestering me?
THE EXPLAINER: You will find the answers to these questions by purchasing The Animatrix, a collection of nine animated shorts from some of Anime's top directors.

God's Country "Goebbels began a weekly newspaper called Das Reich in 1940. He generally wrote the lead article each week, in which he took special pride. This essay is dated 9 August 1942. It presents the standard Nazi view of the U.S. as a land with no culture."

-- Life & Times of the 341st Bomb Group --  China-Burma-India, Sep 1942 - Nov 1945 (midi)

Asshat The Official History "Once on the North American continent, there was no stopping it’s spread to the states.  In a June 2000 memo to US-Canadian Customs agents, they were warned to not let this word slip across the border.  At this point the word had such a Canadian backing that there was no way to stop it’s glorious spread.  And so, ‘asshat’ was first used in the US by an Inuit man named Pukkeenegak who slipped across the border in his kayak.  God bless the Inuit!"

Has Google run out? "The most popular creature in the virtual universe has space problems, or, more precisely, it could have them in the future. In fact, is seems that the most popular search engine in the world is about to reach the limit of its capacity of listed pages: 4,294,967,296. A numeric problem that is mainly due to a calculation error."

"Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan's first crime wave - murder, fraud, drug offences. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report from a country crash-landing in the 21st century."

Labour website hacked "On Monday morning the site's usual content of Labour Party news was replaced by an image of US President George Bush carrying his dog withTony Blair's head superimposed on it."

Hindu Hells Ronald McDonald's days are numbered.

Rumsfeld Declares His Penis A Weapon Of Mass Creation "I hope I am not being to forthcoming in saying this," Rumsfeld told a shocked audience at a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, "But my penis has long been known for bringing joy to this world. I would actually classify it as a weapon of mass creation."

Oolong the Blancing Bunny (is dead).

"The Ambient Orb is a device that slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or friend is on instant messenger."

We're All Gonna Die! A skeptical guide to Doomsday  "Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1969, Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott III used a statistical formula to predict that the barrier would last 2.66 to 24 more years. It lasted 20. Later, Gott applied the same equation to humanity and calculated, with 95 percent certainty, that it would last 205,000 to 8 million more years."

FHM's 100 "greatest" online games  Greatest?

† WHERE IS JESUS? †

Saga Swirl  One of them matching puzzle games, but with a twist, I mean, twirl.

Not so typical Barbies!  Like Margie Simpsone Barbie,  Hellrasier Ken & Barbie, and of course, Neo-Nazi Barbie!

Hilary's Best Seller, an Onion infographic.

CATPRIN - Tailor for Cats  That "wacky" dressing up your cat site is now in English

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Saturday, June 21, 2003.

When humans faced extinction  "The study suggests that at one point there may have been only 2,000 individuals alive as our species teetered on the brink."

Huge mob "Catch Neo" Matrix cosplay  You know, that's so much more fun than actually watching the damn thing. The offical (?) page Matrix in Shibuya.  (via Asobi)

Why "Nice Guys" are often such LOSERS "What's wrong with Nice Guys? The biggest problem is that most Nice Guys (tm) are hideously insecure. They are so anxious to be liked and loved that they do things for other people to gain acceptance and attention, rather than for the simply pleasure of giving."

Web Exhibits  Neato Science and Art exhibitions.

Paper Robots  PDF files, download, print and creat your Mecha masterpiece!  Or you can just mod it. (via Boing^2)

THE SELLING OF THE IRAQ WAR. The First Casualty "Yet there was no consensus within the American intelligence community that Saddam represented such a grave and imminent threat. Rather, interviews with current and former intelligence officials and other experts reveal that the Bush administration culled from U.S. intelligence those assessments that supported its position and omitted those that did not."

I Love Comics, I Hate Comics "Comics as a medium is so intensely frustrating. They take an incredibly long time to do: the writer part of you blazes deliriously through a script (for a page or the whole piece), busy playing screenwriter and jumbling up mental images presto-presto."

"He may not have cleaned his poo from the ground, but he did from his pants, underroos, and leg(s). He may never admit to pooing in public, but he did in some random girls' camp, in his pants, and in his drunken stupor. He may not remember this happened, but we will in this forum, in my stories, in our memory of Chilifest 2003"

Sunday, June 22, 2003

Automatic Flatter! (Javascript pop up, but a very complementar one)

Digital neurosis: Are you a victim of PPMT? "People's anxieties and fears over email etiquette and the inescapable phenomenon of digital blunders has given rise to a new term - pre and post mail tension."  I don't I don't even answer mine anymore.  (Well, when I have time, but I don't let it get to me.  Anybody e-mailed me, hasn't got a reply, and want one?  Just mail me again until I do.  (via Eclectica))

Down with Whitey!  Do your part in the Revolution, fight Whitey and their leader, The Man!

Suu Kyi held in 'notorious' jail  "Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in a notorious jail on the outskirts of Rangoon, according to the UK Government"  Read about who Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is.

The cutest Agent Smith I've ever seen.

Is your neighbor a terrorist?  take the Snitch test, keep America free!

Is It Over Yet?

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19 Arrrgh! (via... I forget.  Well, thanks, who eva' you wuz.)

Rearview mirrow for your PC "The imate computer mirror makes your work environment user friendly. Don't be stuck in a corner again! With the imate's wide-angle view, you can see everything around you - your work-mates, your visitors, the view behind you... even the boss!"

*COUGH* pr0n *COUGH*

Robert [the famed underground cartoonist and the main reason so many alt/indy comics are about fucked up cartoonists and their sexual hang ups] Crumb Museum

Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet "The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or "blogs"), must offer a "right of reply" to those who have been criticized by a person or organization."

Japander :n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use.

Batgirl logo. (via Coolio)

Wigger Dress Up

13 monitor/ 7 PC flight simulator setup.

The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary  "There are a near-infinite number of slang words which are still only in hypothetical usage among the youth of today and tomorrow - this service attempts to pre-emptively catalogue them, for the benefit of baby namers, dot-com registrars and other dangerously bored people."

"Truck Nutz™ are a high-quality, novelty, automotive accessory that hang from any bumper and let folks show the world their Nutz."

PAPER CRAFT Impressive line up of foldable creatures and things.

55 Fiction The winning entries in our 16th annual mini short story contest.

Boys...