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I had lots to talk about tonight. I managed to survive another World Rock Paper Scissors Championship. Google managed to settle the lawsuit with the Author’s Guild over their book scanning project – paying out a hefty sum, but securing themselves some interesting rights in the process (fodder for a future post, I’m sure, once […]

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There’s a lot of people who assume that the line in my bio about being an international-class pro Rock Paper Scissors referee is a witty bon mot. But last time I checked, wry web-irony didn’t come with one’s own trading card. My favourite weeked of the year is here as it’s once again time for […]

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I love Banksy, you love Banksy, we all love Banksy… so I was very saddened to learn he’s put down his spray-can and gotten out of the art game to open a pet store in New York. On the other hand, the store he’s opened is the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill – so […]

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A commenter over at Mike Sterling’s Something Or Other hipped me to the candy gab of Jerry on the Job, a delightful essay by James Lileks (of Gallery of Regrettable Food fame). Such wonders you will see therein! Thrill to Lileks short stack of thick thought on this forgotten master of the comic-strip flip-take. PEOPLE […]

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I promise not to become a tech or gadget blog – but this is one of those rare situations where I want to make sure a solution I’ve found makes it’s way onto the Google-index since I know lots of others are in the same boat. Indulge me. While I’ve been pretty happy since I […]

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Just a little web-comic pimpage – Kris Straub (who writes something like forty seven thousand and eight different webcomics) has started a story-within-a-story plotline over at Starslip Crisis that I’m completely in love with. The concept is that in the 34th Century “Concrete Universe” is a popular historical police procedural broadcast show which is set […]

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(Dolemite Theatrical Trailer – 1975… NSFW) Others will write about how Rudy Ray Moore in many ways laid the groundwork for the African American comedy, music, and rap explosion of the late 70s and early 80s. How the “party record” circuit in many ways showed for the first time there was a voracious market of […]

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This website makes me feel much better about the current market woes hammering my pitiful RRSP. (Via the bird-shirted one himself) Continuing in a similar vein, on a scale from one to awesome, how much fun is it to read really nutty right wing US political websites these days? (Let alone the mere thought that […]

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