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Hands down the Wii interface is better than the PS3's, thanks to
the
remote. I really enjoyed lounging on my couch with one arm
flicking
around pages. None of this mouse or joystick business. And finally
when
compared to using the PS3's controller the Wii is a breeze to type
with.
Granted it's no keyboard, but a welcome improvement.
But while flash videos played fine on nintendo.com, YouTube vids got
no
love. That's a sad thing, as its the number one website we'd like
to
watch away from the PC. And the PS3 excels at this. And more.
*/Edit/* I tried YouTube later today and for whatever reason
it's
working for me now. So there you go, YouTube+Wii=3
Now I know one of the more anticipated features was flash support.
I
found mixed results with this. At wii.com I found the flash videos
there
worked perfectly. However when I went over to Youtube it said
my
software was either incompatible or too old. So they have some work
to
do there. Again, this is beta.
Now onto what went wrong. First off, the Wii's lower res can't
handle
small text on web pages nearly as nicely as the PS3 running in 1080.
And
there is a thick black bar that goes around the top and sides of
the
screen, seemingly for no reason. Two, there isn't a permanent
address
bar. To type in a new website you have to go back to the start
page.
That is completely unnecessary, especially with this useless black
bar
taking up space.
Now I don't want you to get the idea in your head that the browser
was
poorly conceived, it wasn't. There are just a few things in the way
of
it going from good to great. Hopefully by March when the final
candidate
is released it will feel a little more polished.
When that happens, we'll drop our final verdict. For now, we pose
the
question. WTF are you doing browsing the web on a console? – Ben
Longo
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Xmas%20Tips.jpg Just cause you suck at photography doesn't mean
your
photos have to show it. The folks at Digital Photography School
have
listed 16 of their best tips to help you improve your snaps for
the
holidays. Best of all, you don't have to be a camera-head to
understand
the lingo. Feel free to add your own photo tips in the comments. –
Louis
Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
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Rating: 4 Version tested: 2.19c Description: Little Fighter 2 is
a
freeware beat-em-up game that can be loosely described as a
miniature
Street Fighter or Mortal Combat. It features one-to-one fights or
all
out battles with dozens of participants, with up to four human
players.
Here’s what you need to know about this game: The different modes
of
play are [...]
Dec 22, 2006 (17 hours ago)
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upluspen02.jpguPlusPen is the latest input device straight out of
Korea.
It is similar to a Wacom-style tablet, but there is no actual
tablet.
The pen can write on any surface and be transferred to the
computer.
This could be perfect for those on-the-go graphic designers who
don't
want to lug a tablet everywhere, or for someone who doesn't have
the
office-space for a giant tablet. No word on availability or
pricing.
/Image via Aving/ – Travis Hudson
Dec 22, 2006 (21 hours ago)
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1980s-style
shredding faces problematic paradox: "Very often, profoundly
exceptional
guitar playing is boring to listen to." YouTube, however,
changes those
stakes, because it offers us a new way to see the craft
at
hand.
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Dec 22, 2006 (21 hours ago)
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"The US is
insolvent. There is simply no way for our national bills to
be paid under
current levels of taxation and promised benefits. Our
federal deficits alone
now total more than 400% of GDP." "The future
will be defined by lowered
standards of living." Thanks, government.
Thanks a whole
bunch.
Dec 22, 2006 (22 hours ago)
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A great site
with what looks like around 300 of the best freeware games
I've ever seen. I
found a lot of great first person shooters, RPGs and
even a cool 3d pool
game.
Dec 22, 2006 (22 hours ago)
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"A source close
to the Wii Opera project", has given yours truly a
little bit of info on what
you'll be able to expect from the trial
version of the Opera browser that's
being made available Friday. Several
key features are expected to be nerfed
from the trial build. Most
notably, Javascript support. Flash may not work
correctly in all cases.
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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Industry rag
Gamasutra has published its Quantum Leap awards for 2006,
citing five video
games from the past year that excelled in "innovation
and advancing the state
of the art of the industry." You already know
number one. It's Wii Sports.
Gama editor Frank Cifaldi sums up nicely
why the tech demo pack-in nabbed the
top spot.
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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Now THIS would
be freakin' awesome!
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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A Chilean
engineering has created a new Windows GNU app today called the
"GOD/WOD
unscrambler" which allegedly reads raw data from the Wii disks
and dumps ISO
files to your PC for later mischevious use.
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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Create your
very own personalized and unattended Windows installation
CD, integrate your
favorite software and make it install automatically
during Windows setup. The
best 200 freeware programs are available so
that you can enjoy Firefox,
CCleaner, Skype, WMP11, Java 6, etc. since
the first boot of your operation
system. Video tutorials!
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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Most companies
employ proxy servers to filter unwanted sites so
employees won't waste
precious company resources surfing sites that the
companies deem
unproductive. If you are in such an environment, what can
you do about it?
One way is to use an anonymous proxy server. A much
more foolproof way is to
use Google (yes, you read right).
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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I say let's
break this down. We'll pit South American animals against
their nearest
African counterparts. South America will appear first in
each match so you
can tell which side they're representing.
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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“They’re always
after ‘me Open Source Secrets!” A favorite for more
geeks than sheiks,
delicious Linux Charms cereal features frosted oats
and colored marshmallows.
Flippin hilarious!
Dec 22, 2006 (23 hours ago)
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DAVID is a
freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a
PC, a camera
(e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which
projects a line onto
the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it
to scan objects without
high costs; this is the big advantage over
commercial solutions which are
rather expensive.
Dec 22, 2006 (yesterday)
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by
Graeme McMillan
Dec 22, 2006 (yesterday)
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by
Graeme McMillan
I’ve created this page as a resource for other beginning
and
up-and-coming comic creators because I always wish
there had been a
site like this for me when I was getting
started. The most etensive
feature is the directory of
submission guidelines. It’s intended as
a constant work in
progress, so if there’s something you’d like to
see or a
page you know about that I don’t, or if you discover a
broken link, then please let me know. I’m a writer, so my
categorization of these sites might be biased toward helping
the
writer, but most of the sites themselves are equally
useful for both
writers and artists.
It’s apparently been around for awhile, but you know this internet
-
it’s big and sometimes finding good things like this takes time. Go
and
visit.
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Zonk
VE3OGG writes "The RIAA, in an expected motion, has recently
dismissed
the case against Patti Santangelo, one of the most famous targets
of the
RIAA lawsuits. The Mother of five was described by the judge
presiding
as an 'internet-illiterate parent, who does not know Kazaa from
kazoo.'
While this is good news, the RIAA is still pursuing its case against
two
of Mrs. Santangelo's children. To make matters worse, the RIAA has
also
dismissed the case 'without prejudice', meaning that they could,
in
theory, take action against her again later on. The RIAA alleges
that
Santangelo's children downloaded and subsequently distributed more
than
1,000 songs. The damages they seek are presently unknown"
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Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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desktop-ac_large.jpgSince you never leave your desk anyways, there's
no
real point in air conditioning your entire house. I mean, why
waste
money on keeping all those rooms cool when you just need to keep
your
palmsweat from making you miss a frag in /Counter-Strike/?
Well, this Desktop Air Conditioner looks to be a solution, if kind of
a
half-assed one. It's tiny, and the fact that it doesn't connect to
the
outside air makes me question how much conditioning it's actually
doing
(it uses ice water, natch). But hey, for $24 maybe it'll at least
keep
you from ruining your favorite shirt with sweat stains. –Adam
Frucci
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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by
Kevin Melrose
If you’re a follower of independent comics, you might
have noticed
some familiar names on the list of artists
who are doing books for
Minx: Andi Watson (lotsa stuff for
SLG and Oni), Jim Rugg (/Street
Angel/), Aaron Alexovich
(/Serenity Rose/). There are other indie
comics folks, too
— Ross Campbell (/Wet Moon/), Derek Kirk Kim
(/Same
Difference and Other Stories/) and Josh Howard
(
/Dead@17/).
This is because, as Aaron put it at
the bulletin board The Engine,
“when [Minx editor] Shelly
[Bond] was building the line, she
specifically sought out
people who were doing work that ALREADY
appealed to
girls.” The result of this savvy head-hunting is sort of
a
mini-migration of promising young artists out of independent comics.
[snip]
This produces an unsettling feeling — in me, in any
case.
Independent publishers have taken the risks and done
the work
associated with introducing new talent, and in
the end that work has
amounted, in some cases, to us being
a feeder for the “Big Two.” The
consolation prize in all
of this is something I’ve heard a few times
already: If
the Minx line does well, it can only mean better sales
for
these artists’ other work, right? Well, we certainly hope
so,
but we’re not counting on it. Independent artists
working on DC or
Marvel’s superhero comics, in my
experience, almost never translates
into sales for their
indie work. There’s just no crossover audience
there.
However, the Minx line is targeted at teenage girls and in
that market there /is/ crossover appeal, just not with an
audience
particularly known for seeking out graphic novels
that aren’t
already stocked in the manga sections of big
bookstores. So even if
there are thousands of teenage
girls who would love /Serenity Rose/
or /Wet Moon/ or
/Street Angel /(and I’m sure there are), there is
still
the matter of reaching them.
More from de Guzman at the link. (She scores extra points for
The
Smiths-inspired column title.)
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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ReplaceIT looks through multiple ASCII files for a string and replace
it
with another string. It has features like recursive subdirectory
search,
case-sensitive/insensitive searches and the ability to log
the
operations carried out to a file.
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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Mouse-Only Keyboard (MOK) enables you to enter small pieces of
secret
text using only the mouse to defeat any hidden keyloggers. When you
run
it, it disables all clipboard viewers within the system. Use the
mouse
to enter the secret text, then hit "Copy" to send it to the
clipboard
before pasting it into the target application. Finally, shut down
MOK
and the clipboard will be automatically cleared. For the really
paranoid.
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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by
Meg
*Bear:* "...97, 98, 99, 100! Here I come! Ready or noooooot!"*
Hamster:*
[Paws up] giggles*
*
Kristen H. 3 3 3
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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by Lisa
Fortuner
If Comics are a reflection of the time they are created,
what would
the mode be for a dark skinned /Kryptonian/
crash-landed on the
third rock from the sun? Would he
still stand for */truth, justice/*
and the */American
Way/*? Would he fight for the rights of others
while
striving to integrate himself into the human race? Would
the
challenges faced by Blacks during that era force his
strengths and
will down another path? */What would
Superman do?/*
Dec 21, 2006 (2 days ago)
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Rating: 5 Version tested: Unknown (beta?) Description: Ballistic
is an
action-packed 3D puzzle game viewed sideways from a 2D perspective.
Your
objective is to negotiate the laws of physics in your quest to
navigate
a ball inside a maze-like virtual world and arrive at your target
before
the clock winds down. Imagine a solid, curvy world of slippery
mazes
that keeps [...]
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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A great site
that archives older version of software. Maybe you're
looking for a
pre-bloatware favorite application, or maybe you having
been able to get AIM
to work right on granny's Pentium II. This is the
place for
you.
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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How has the
geography of Religion evolved over the centuries? See 5,000
years of history
in 90 seconds...
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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I discovered a
URI called "data:" today which allows you to encode any
amount of file data
into a URL. This data could be an image, ascii text,
xml data, you name it.
You'll have to read the details, but you use it
like
this:data:image/jpeg;base64,base_64_encoded_jpeg_goes_here
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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In a letter to
constituents, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) warns "American
citizens" to "wake up"
or "there will likely be many more Muslims
elected to
office."
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
Often referred to as the "artist’s artist," Brian
Bolland has spent
the last quarter century producing some
of the most memorable and
inspiring illustrations the
comic industry has ever seen. This
handsome volume is a
retrospective of this astonishing artist’s
career and a
look at the man himself.
Dec 20, 2006 (3 days ago)
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editoonc
Wally\'s World: The Brillant Life and Tragic Death of Wally
Wood, the
World\'s 2nd Best Comic Book Artist
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ASIN=188759180X&tag=sandboxtheent-20&lcode=xm2&cID=2025&ccmID=165953&location=/o/ASIN/188759180X%3FSubscriptionId=1A7BR3B1QFHMF4643E02*Wally’s
World* opens Halloween night, 1981, in a seedy world of
pornographers and
addicts, with a death by .44 magnum gunshot… This is
no mystery club thriller
but the true, dramatic illustrated biography of
legendary cartoonist Wallace
Wood. But his death, in semi-squalid
surroundings and the wretched state of
his body belie the glory that
came before. Within the world of pop-art, Wood
was revered as a rebel
genius who inspired a generation, including
"underground" artists Robert
Crumb, Robert Williams and Pulitzer Prize winner
Art Spiegelman. Wood
rose to the pinnacle of pop-culture stardom as one of
America’s top
humorists at /MAD/ magazine. Surviving McCarthy-era politics,
Wood
excelled as a cutting-edge science-fiction illustrator and
mainstream
regular of daring superhero deeds. The award-winning artist was
sought
out to collaborate with pop-art maestro Peter Max; noted filmmaker
Ralph
Bakshi; Harry Harrison, the Nebula Award winning author of the
Charlton
Heston sci-fi thriller, /Soylent Green/; Marvel comics creators Stan
Lee
and Jack Kirby; and Pulitzer Prize winner Jules Feiffer. But the star
of
the illustrated page was haunted by demons that tore him from
his
creative peaks to die an early death on the outskirts of
Hollywood.
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Loop, Chicago.
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Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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cheapandeasy.jpgThe penny-pinching cheapoids at The Simple dollar
came
up with twenty five gadgets that actually save you money when you use
them.
Some may take longer to reach the break-even point than others—like
the
Toyota Prius and a residential windmill, for example—but a couple
of
them should see returns in a few weeks.
Some notable examples are the battery charger, the electricity
usage
monitor, an espresso machine, a coin sorter, and even a laptop.
Laptop?
Yes, if you're cheap enough that you take your laptop to the library
or
the book store to siphon off their electricity, you can indeed
save
money with a laptop. – Jason Chen
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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virtual.jpg
allgizwantsim.jpg As much as I love surround sound, I don't
have the
space in my living room to wire a 5.1 or 6.1 speaker set. So instead
I
rely on my Denon S301
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/style-over-substance-denon-s301-145227.php,
a
2.1 system that emulates a 5.1 setup. But as much as I love it, the
S301 (and
most virtual surround sound systems I've heard) still have a
few flaws. I
realize virtual surround sound (VSS) will never replace a
real surround sound
system, but there are a few improvements I'd like to
see...
1) A virtual surround sound system that does a good job at
emulating
rear speakers. Most of the systems I've heard do an outstanding
job
emulating front and side speakers, but none of them trick me
into
thinking I have a pair of satellites sitting behind me.
2) A system that doesn't limit me to sitting in a "sweet spot,"
which
usually ends up being directly in the middle or in front of the
speakers.
4) Many of the VSS systems I've seen have been demoed in majestic
hotel
rooms. If I lived in such a room, I'd just buy a proper surround
sound
set up to begin with. So I'd like to see a VSS system that works
with
any size/shape room (including my funky L-shaped living room). –
Louis
Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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Child standing in front of a christmas tree. Outside the
Hancock
Building, Chicago
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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smartclose.jpgWho says we're all Mac users here? We happy,
virus-free
and content PC users revel in the fact that there are tons more
software
applications for our platform, and here's another case in
point:
SmartClose, freeware that lets you exit all running applications
with
one button click. When it does the big shutdown, it takes a snapshot
of
all those apps so you can later open them all exactly as they were.
Neat
stuff. – Charlie White
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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by
Graeme McMillan
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
Hey folks,
here's a clip from a Christmas cartoon starring George Liquor, Sody
Pop
and Jimmy the Retarded Boy.
You can download the whole interactive cartoon here for a mere
buck!
Here is a clip from one of the first Flash cartoons we did. In
the
spirit of capitalist Christianity and giving, feel free to give me
some
cash and download the whole Christmas cartoon here!: I had
the
wonderfully talented Kristen McCormick update the animation to make
it
snazzier, slipperier and more MODERN!
It was originally drawn by me, inked by Shane Glines. Flashed by
Robyn
Byrd, Annmarie Ashkar, Tony Mora, Gabe?... voiced by Mike Pataki and
me
and Wendy Balomben.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and try not to kill anyone or give
too
many notes for the next couple weeks. We've had enough of that.
Sing lots of carols and roast a nice yuletide log for me!
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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Mark Frauenfelder
*Mark Frauenfelder*: Georgeliquor Xmas 2
This
terrific two-minute QuickTime cartoon by John Kricfalusi (creator
of Ren
& Stimpy), stars George Liquor, Jimmy the Idiot Boy, and an elf
girl on
Christmas morn. It's a Boing Boing Digital Emporium exclusive.
Buy for $1
http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=262486
(Shop for other goods
http://bbemporium.blogspot.com/ at
the Boing Boing Digital Emporium)
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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*Mark Frauenfelder*: Iowahawk scanned the April 3,
1959 issue of "Night
Life in Chicago," a convetioneers' guide to burlesque
joints. His
page-by-page commentary is excellent.
138 325265293 09E31Cf422Inside cover... wowie wow wow!
The L&L Cafe
on West Madison trumpets air conditioning
and the "WORLD'S MOST
GORGEOUS SHOWGIRLS," including a
lineup of enticing names like
'Xonia,' 'Roszika,' 'Deidre'
and 'Jackie Joy.' A little Googling
reveals that the
L&L was originally a swank,
wife/sweetheart-friendly
nightclub during WWII, but it is unclear
when it
transformed into a girl-ogling joint. More research shows
that one of the L's in 'L&L' was Chicago restaurateur Danny
Lardas,
which might explain the need for abbreviation; I
suppose "Lardas
Showgirls" might have been a difficult
sale. It's also unclear
whether the old L&L has any
relation to the current L&L Tavern on
North Clark - a
purported onetime hangout of John Wayne Gacy,
Jeffery
Daumer, and yours truly.
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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*Mark Frauenfelder*: The December 1950 issue of
/Modern Mechanix/
featured an amazing fully-automated house.
Picture 1-38 Step into the bedroom and Mathias flips a
wall switch.
The draperies close automatically over the
two windows. A surplus
bombsight motor in the basement
does the work. He throws another
switch and the windows
close. The radio in the living room can be
turned on and
off from the bedroom (and from the kitchen and
basement as
well). Extension speakers bring the sound to you
wherever
you are.
Clocks in the closet shut the radio off at 10 o’clock
each night and
turn it on at 6 a.m. On Saturdays and
Sundays, the radio stays on
until 11 and resumes at 8 in
the morning. A special switch cuts out
the shut-off clock,
if Mathias wants to listen to programs after the
usual
sign-off hour.
When Mrs. Mathias sits down at her dressing table she
doesn’t have
to fumble with the twin lamps to turn them
on. She merely pulls out
the center drawer a fraction of
an inch and the lights go on. A
microswitch in the drawer
does the trick.
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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"Relationship
experts report that too many couples fail to ask each
other critical
questions before marrying. Here are a few key ones that
couples should
consider asking"
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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site where
people can post pictures of people parking like assholes.
Check out the
asshole SUV taking up 3 spots!
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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IFILM posts
their top 10 worst movie trailers of 2006. Debate and
discuss!
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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(Jon Westfall)
It's sleek, it's Connected (with WiFi & 3G) and has a 2.0
Megapixel
camera. Now all it needs are Pocket PC Lovers in France to take
an
interest in it. Anyone else think it's amazing how many Pocket PC
Phones
there are out there now compared to two years ago??
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
*In the spirit of all-ages, globe-trotting adventure
comics like
TinTin and classic, serial newspaper strips,
Jonny Crossbones: Dead
Man at Devil’s Cove is a good,
old-fashioned, rip-roarin’ adventure
story, brought to us
by Eisner-nominated artist Les McClaine (The
Middleman,
Highway 13). Jonny is a young auto mechanic drifting
through a quiet life in his hometown of Rocky Hill, USA, until
a
chance meeting with his childhood hero, Doc Fiveash,
draws him into
a race against unscrupulous foes in search
of a long-lost pirate
treasure! Jonny teams up with the
Doc’s fetching niece, Gretchen
Fiveash, and they travel
across the world to find clues to the
treasure’s location.
Our two brave heroes are shot at, kidnapped and
entangled
in a dark plot as this engaging story brings the
craftsmanship and thrills of yesteryear’s cartoons to a
modern
audience. *
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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I always found the hare a sympathetically tragic character. He had
all
the talent, but just couldn't put it all together.
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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Dusk in Lincoln Square, Chicago
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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Tree in the 4th Presbyterian Church courtyard. Chicago
Dec 19, 2006 (4 days ago)
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From the Signature Lounge on the 95th floor of the Hancock Building.
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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cassette.jpgWe may be two formats removed from the cassette era with
CDs
and now MP3s, but some of those treasured cassettes are just too good
to
throw out (Journey, anyone?). Rick Broida of Lifehacker has a
nice,
simple write-up about how to digitize those cassettes. Why would
anyone
want to digitize a cassette? Well, cassettes have a lot of
sentimental
value (re: mix tapes from significant others) and if the tapes
are in
reasonable condition they will sound fine—no need to re-purchase
music
you already own. – Travis Hudson
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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by Harry
As in armchair quarterback, criticizing from the sidelines. The
Armchair
Designer is a new occasional post with observations on object design
in
general but also with an eye to the future. I’m not a trained
designer,
but I have...
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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brandoshaver.jpgA bit like the other USB Shaver
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/signs-of-the-apocalypse-usb-shaver-222600.php,
this
second horseman improves on the first in both price and
functionality.
Instead of being tethered to a USB port, this shaver is
battery powered and
rechargeable, which means you don't have to get
shavings all inside your
laptop because your USB cable is only 3 feet
long. Good news for the poor
Dell repairman who has to refurbish your
machine.
Other improvements: $22 instead of $30, straight-foil instead
of
dual-heads, and a light-up USB port so you know when it's plugged
in.
Not bad for a razor you're not afraid to accidentally leave behind
in
your hotel room. – Jason Chen
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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Kevin Melrose
from Batman/The Spirit #1 javascript:void(0);
from
Batman/The Spirit #1 javascript:void(0);
I don’t often link to reviews, but I’m not sure this is so much
a
“review” as a “blustery rant” in the vein of “You kids and your
rock
and/or roll.” In any case, the Portland Oregonian
http://steveduin.blogs.oregonlive.com/default.asp?item=392499’s
Steve
Duin doesn’t like /Batman/The Spirit /#1, and he’s not about to
suffer
in silence. Some highlights:
* “It’s a comic book, you remind yourself. It’s not
putting on airs.
It doesn’t aspire to poetry
or permanence. It feels no obligation
to honor
the icons that have allowed the art form to survive
for
more than 70 years.”
* “The credits for this loopy disaster include a ’special thanks
to
Denis Kitchen,’ presumably for the
proverbial sink.”
* “The storyline is asinine, the artwork
pedestrian, the page
layouts uninspired and
the dialogue juvenile. The mystery is why
I’m
surprised and disappointed. It’s a comic book. It
doesn’t
aspire to greatness. Isn’t that what
all the snobs and critics say?”
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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The Beat
Found on YouTube via The Comics Journal Message board
http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=948,
two cartoons from
Michael Kupperman which aired on Saturday Night Live as
part of the TV
Funhouse series. First up…the amazing Pablo Picasso!
Next…CAPTAIN MARGINAL, a dead on Shazam parody.
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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Believe it or
not by turning your camera upside down impacts how the
light from the flash
illuminates your subject. Most people have circles
under their eyes and when
you turn your camera upside down the flash
hits the skin at a different angle
and helps diminish the circles and
makes them look
younger.
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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What's the most
popular podcast in the Higher Education section of
iTunes? Ahead of all the
podcasts from Princeton, and all of those from
Yale, and ahead of the
Understanding Computers course from Harvard, and
even the pyschology course
from UC Berkeley, is an unexpected podcast
called Twelve Byzantine Rulers:
The History of the Byzantine Empire.
Dec 18, 2006 (5 days ago)
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From the makers
of Tickle Me Elmo and Tickle Me Elmo Extreme comes this
season's hottest must
have toy! It's Tickle me Emo! Very funny video.
Dec 17, 2006 (6 days ago)
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Gritty, vibrant, loud, lovely.
Love this city.
Dec 17, 2006 (6 days ago)
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VGSD-Front-Right.jpg22Moo has updated their VR glasses product line
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ipod/22moo-ipod-video-glasses-183615.phpwith
the VG-SD (also going by ZuneVG). Simulating a 35" 2M away, the
VG-SD
supports direct input from your video iPod or Zune, as well as SD
A/V inputs
from all of the latest gen videogame systems (well, really
anything with an
RCA output).
The 320x240 model runs $250. The glasses feature a
USB-rechargeable
lithium ion with an undisclosed runtime. I fully believe in
the
technology VR glasses, especially with the popularity of PMPs with
tiny
screens. If only they didn't make you look like a complete
tool,
blinding you to the peanut-throwing bullies on planes everywhere. –
Mark
Wilson
Dec 17, 2006 (6 days ago)
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Jeff
Today I picked up three of the four new TMNT movie figures at a
local
Meijer. (sadly no Raphael) I had seen pics posted online and wasn't
too
sure about them. The new designs look more like lizards than turtles
to
me. But standing there in the toy aisle, the figures were starting
to
look good. So I bought them. Here's the front and back of the
packaging:
Out of the package the figures are articulated very well. Knees,
elbows,
shoulders, etc. Much more so than their current predecessors of the
80's
revamp- now TMNT-Flash Forward. The figures are in perfect scale
with
Marvel Legends, albeit a little taller than usual.
I can get over the whole 'lizard look'. Back then, it was nice to get
an
updated version of the Turles from my youth, but they were only
slightly
better. Better sculpts yes, but still stiff and unposable. For
posting
funny toy comics to a blog- the more articulation a figure has the
better.
I dug up my old TMNT trades and found these sketches to justify
the
'lizard look'. See, it could have been much worse.
..and here they are all three (sigh) of them together:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/417/3716/1600/tmnt%20group.jpgMichaelangelo
is my least favorite (for head sculpts) The original toys
never had pupils.
It makes them look way too cartoony (yeah, I know-
they're NINJA TURTLES for
pete's sake) But, the figure looks either
stoned or psychotic. Oh well, at
least he came with a skateboard.
and now, the real reason I couldn't find Raph:
Dec 17, 2006 (6 days ago)
For the record, Mr. O'Brien is super 1337. He flies planes (the
ones
made of atoms), knows everything there is to know about space, pwns
in
games I suck at (there are many), and cruises through VPNs with
the
greatest of ease. Seriously, he is one of the
smartest
science/technology reporters I've ever met. I'm a huge fan, and so
not
worthy
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wayne's_World.
The show airs a bunch of times, here's the schedule (I think, but
check
local listings):
Saturday, December 16th: 6am, 3pm
Saturday, December 23rd: 7pm, 11pm
Sunday, December 24th: 2am, 6am, 2pm, 7pm, 11pm,
2am
Bruce is missing a key point in fingerprint reader
security: yes,
one can steal your fingerprint, but the
question is which one of the
10 fingers you are using? 9
of them can still give you access to the
database/open
doors / start your car / etc., but at the same time
could
trigger a silent alarm to the security center / 911 / etc
that
either someone has stolen your finger prints, or
they've cut your
fingers, or they are forcing you against
your will. So, in other
words, there's always more than
one way to approach a problem ;)
Dec 16, 2006 9:45 AM
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Xeni Jardin
*Xeni Jardin*: BB pal Bonnie
http://www.grrl.com of Lucasfilm says,
The work of several Star Wars veterans (including VFX
supervisor
John Knoll) is being showcased in a special
website just launched to
explore the mind-blowing visual
effects of this past summer's
"Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man's Chest." Interactive clips at
this new site
allow you to peel back layers of animation to see what
ILM
had to start with before transforming actors wearing
tracking
markers into astonishingly real characters.
Dec 16, 2006 9:39 AM
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Long before
CGI, there was Ray Harryhausen: Watch a compilation of every
creature he had
made using stop-motion animation....all in
Chronological
Order
Dec 16, 2006 1:20 AM
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Dec 15, 2006 5:11 PM
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Yugma is a free
web conferencing service that enables people to
instantly connect over the
Internet and to collaborate using any
application or software, using both
Windows and Mac. Online
collaboration is great solution for businesses that
need to share
information with their employees and clients, regardless where
they are
located..
Dec 15, 2006 5:11 PM
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2006 was
another wild and wacky year in software and web development.
Here it is
December and you know what that means: time for a
best-of-the-year list.
Check out my picks for best new software and web
applications that rocked our
world in 2006.
Dec 15, 2006 5:08 PM
Dec 15, 2006 5:04 PM
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netflixpreviews.jpgCould this be a hint of Netflix's plans for a
movie
download service
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/all-giz-wants-the-netflix-settop-box-221288.php?
This
week Netflix launched Netflix Previews, a service on the site that
allows
users to watch previews of movies Netflix thinks you'd like with
a nice easy
"add to queue" button underneath. On the surface it's a nice
if unexciting
new feature, but could Netflix be ramping up to start
allowing full movies to
be downloaded?
Just do it away from the computer, Netflix. I'm begging you. –Adam
Frucci
Dec 15, 2006 1:33 PM
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flybywire.jpgJust look at that picture! Fly By Wire has to be the
new
winner in the "most fun you can have with your clothes on"
department.
Imagine strapping yourself into a streamlined hyper-fan rocket
that's
suspended from high-tension wire strung between two mountain peaks
in
New Zealand.
Check out this octet of astonishing action pics in our gallery:
flybywire_gallery.jpg
http://www.gizmodo.com/photogallery/fly-by-wire/You
control the throttle and steer the vehicle, but we can't imagine
there's a
whole lot of guidance involved. It's $96 for a 25-minute ride,
and then,
well, there's that plane ticket to New Zealand. – Charlie White
Dec 15, 2006 1:33 PM
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mvase1.jpgHere's a nice little piece of concept art that's
both
functional and pleasing to the eye, which is a bit of a rarity.
Dubbed
the Microwave Vase by designer Woo Seokmoon, it's a
combination
microwave and vase that's supposedly going to be all the rage
with those
young urban professionals out there. In its default setting,
the
Microwave Vase looks like nothing more than a regular vase; once food
is
placed inside and the top knob is adjusted for time, then it becomes
an
actual microwave, cooking your food in a heartbeat. When the food
is
finished, the little green leaf on top lights up to let you know
that
your meal is ready. Wasn't this an accessory in the The Sims?
(Hint:
Check inside to see what it looks like as just an everyday
vase.)
mvase2.jpg
I like it. My apartment is so tiny that it's difficult to
simultaneously
fit three fully grown adults inside it. Now I can save a
precious extra
six inches of space. Rock on, Woo, rock on. Now whether or not
it'll
actually see the light of day is another matter entirely. – Nicholas
Deleon
Dec 15, 2006 1:09 PM
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Img413 1541
Lots of car posts today... John writes -
/"Here are instructions (and pre-compiled PDF) for making an
automotive
message book. It fits in the glove box and has 14 standard
large-font
messages printed forward and reverse (for reading in mirrors) like
"Your
tire is flat", "Your high beams are on" or even, simply, "Sorry."
I've
wanted an in-car LCD for this purpose for years, but there's
something
appealing about a simple DIY analog solution to the problem./
Driv-E-Mocion
*Related:*
Dec 15, 2006 1:08 PM
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Numberandom writes -
Dec 15, 2006 1:08 PM
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Coke
Adam Savage (MythBuster) who did an awesome mold making article in
MAKE
08 chimed in on an Ask Mefi coke cooling question, here's how to
cool
down that soda, fast - he writes -
/"That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in
a
bucket of ice, that would halve that time. If you put water in that
ice,
it'd be cold (+- 5c) enough to drink in about 4-6 minutes, if you
put
salt in that water, you'd reduce the chill time to just over 2
minutes.
Agitating the can in the water, rolling it around, reduces the
chill
time even more./
The fastest possible way is to grab a CO2 fire extinguisher and
unload
that sucker on the can.
Whatever you do, do NOT bury the can in sand, pour gasoline on the
sand
and set the sand on fire. That won't do anything.
Dec 15, 2006 1:07 PM
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Custom Beach Bike
Peter writes -
*Related:*
Dec 15, 2006 1:03 PM
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James Rutz,
chairman of Megashift Ministries, claims soy makes kids gay:
"Soy is
feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the
penis, sexual
confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the
medical (not
socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality
must f¡ll upon the
rise in soy formula and other soy products.
Dec 15, 2006 1:02 PM
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This person
probably owns every game, console, and accessory in
existence. Lots more pics
after the jump.
Dec 15, 2006 1:01 PM
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Seinfeld recut
into a horror movie. This has to be the most amazing
editing job I've ever
seen for one of these spoofs, really well done
and
funny!
Dec 15, 2006 12:59 PM
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MiiTransfer is
a small application for reading and writing data to the
internal memory of
the Wiimote. Using this app you can easily transfer
Miis from your Wiimote to
your PC, and back to your Wii. This is
exciting, because now Wii hackers can
begin trading Mii's using sites
such as WiiModWii's Mii Transfer Station:
http://www.wiimodwii.com/miis
Dec 15, 2006 12:58 PM
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New web 2.0
editable encyclopedia for comics. Has covers to almost
everything in
existence and even has rankings to show which heros are
the strongest in
which power (like super strength - Hulk is no.
1
currently).
Dec 15, 2006 12:56 PM
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Morgan Stanley
analyst Rebecca F Runkle has "high conviction" that the
iPhone will launch in
the first half of 2007. In addition to this, she
cites unnamed sources to
provide some specs for the unreleased Apple phone.
Dec 15, 2006 12:53 PM
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Turn a regular
image into one that looks like an old-fashioned Polaroid.
Pretty
nifty.
Dec 15, 2006 12:51 PM
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We're happy to
welcome Wil Wheaton to the Netscape team!
Dec 15, 2006 12:49 PM
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Not sure where
you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet?
Wondering how far away
your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP
pipes? Look no further — just
use the Map of the Internet!
Dec 15, 2006 12:48 PM
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Tomorrow, Adobe
will release a beta of Photoshop CS3. Here is a little
on what ot expect.
(Pictures included)
Dec 15, 2006 12:46 PM
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Photo-enthusiast
blog Strobist shows you how to capture dazzling photos
of Christmas-light
displays. This tutorial isn't so much about the
method of nighttime shooting
as it is framing your shot well and
shooting your scene at the optimal time:
The problem with 98% of
Christmas-lights photos is that most people wait
until way too late...
Dec 15, 2006 12:46 PM
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When a criminal
plot is in place to take down the entire computer and
technological structure
that supports the economy of the United States
(and the world), it's up to a
decidedly "old school" hero, police
detective John McClane (Willis), to take
down the conspiracy, aided by a
young hacker
(Long).
Dec 15, 2006 12:45 PM
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Sarah Silverman
on Leno explaining her bikini wax experience to America.
Her parents are in
the audience and get brought on stage.
Dec 15, 2006 12:43 PM
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by JK
Parkin
Bluntman & Chronic javascript:void(0);
Bluntman &
Chronic javascript:void(0);
Admitting that “games is one field that i like to be
entertained,
rather than try to be entertaining,” Smith
asserted that he’d be
willing to write a back story for a
game if someone else could
handle everything else: “levels
and challenges and bosses and things
like that, I’m not so
good at coming up with that kind of stuff,” he
said.
Smith has two things going against him, though: his
films center
around dialogue and humor. And, as you may
know, good humor and
dialogue can spell certain disaster
for any video game (see:
Psychonauts). If Smith wants any
hope of success in this industry,
he had better base the
game off of Jay and Silent Bob’s alter-egos,
Bluntman and
Chronic. Drugs, babes, bad guys, guns, and excessive
violence are the only sure-fire way to make a profit in gaming.
Or
film, for that matter. Snoochie Boochies!
Dec 15, 2006 12:42 PM
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by JK
Parkin
Star Trek webtoon? javascript:void(0);
Star Trek webtoon?
javascript:void(0);
Star Trek may be set for a comeback into yet another
arena, this
time in the 2nd dimension. TrekMovie.com has
learned that there is a
new animated Trek project under
consideration at CBS, but it has yet
to get the green
light. The series would most likely be broadcast on
the
web and be made up of ‘Clone Wars’ like 6-minute mini episodes.
I don’t know how any of this is coming along, so don’t
ask me.
There’s no show yet, and I can’t hire you. I did
my bits back in the
summer. Scanning through the comments
you can see some folks enraged
that it might be anything
other than the talky yawnfests that have
brought the
franchise to it’s current state of stasis. I can vouch
for
Rossi’s love of the ST mythos though, and his ideas to create
a
show with a pulse sound very entertaining to me. And of
course all
that art is very preliminary and may not
resemble anything that ends
up happening. Carry on.
Dec 15, 2006 11:10 AM
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by
Graeme McMillan
“The comic fans already have a relationship with our
material and
how it’s presented,” says Marvelli. “But the
design challenge is to
use whatever tools and devices you
have at your disposal to help
draw people in from the mass
market. Visually, how do you get a
nontraditional comic
reader to pick up your product at a Barnes &
Noble or
a Borders? Those are the challenges we face, and it helps
to look around at the material the mass market is ‘comfortable’ with.
“As a designer you’re influenced by everything that you
see around
you, and I go into bookstores and see what
people are doing just
with the regular novels. You look at
designers like Chip Kidd, who’s
a well-respected designer
in the book industry, and he made a great
crossover into
doing the comic book-type stuff. Frank Miller is
working
with him a lot, and he just did his /Sin City/ material.
He’s done his /Dark Knight Returns/ stuff, and there’s a guy
who
made a crossover from doing literature to comic book
stuff. As a
designer he brought his style of ‘mainstream’
book design to the
comic market.”
Dec 15, 2006 11:04 AM
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by
undisclosed@thoughtsmedia.com
(Suhit Gupta)
Very nice real-time conferencing setup. But can you imagine
chatting
with family and friends this way. I mean, sitting down around the
table
for a family dinner will have a whole new meaning. Of course, at
$300K,
I don't know if that family dinner scenario is worth it. ...
Dec 14, 2006 10:08 PM
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by
Mark Frauenfelder
*Mark Frauenfelder*: 200612131317 Aldo says: "Check
out the floor at the
new defence intelligence HQ in Moscow." Even Putin does
a double-take.
Link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6177531.stm
Files Ridingsun-Batrussian Update:
Here's another photo of the logo. It's from the
/Glavnoye
Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie/ (GRU), or Main Intelligence
Directorate. I
badly need this on a T-shirt. In fact, the Russian government
could
probably pay off its deficit by selling clothing and accessories
with
this logo on it. The GRU could be the next Von Dutch! /(Via Riding
Sun
http://www.ridingsun.com/posts/1136444340.shtml)/
Dec 14, 2006 10:03 PM
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by
Xeni Jardin
*Xeni Jardin*:
http://www.google.com/patents
Link
http://www.google.com/patents to Google
Patent Search beta.
Instant favorite new timehole. Fascinating, and
infinitely better than
the USPTO website (all data comes from USPTO, and
results on Google do
include links to the USPTO entries). No foreign patents
for now, it
seems, just US. Doesn't work for me in Firefox 2.0 on Mac, but IE
and
Safari in many variations seem to work just fine, and Firefox on PC
or
earlier iterations of Firefox on Mac may as well. (/via Chris on
Wayne's
List/)
Dec 14, 2006 9:53 PM
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air_bb_gun.jpgNot that we recommend becoming an assassin or
anything,
but if you're looking for ultra-low-noise BB shooting with
pinpoint
accuracy, the UTG Model 700 FPS-325 Accurate Shot Competition
Master
Sniper airsoft gun is for you. It's a spring-loaded air gun that
shoots
.20g BBs, and it must be cocked every time you shoot it, but that can
be
done with just one finger. Its effective range is between 150 and
170
feet, perfect for some challenging target shooting.
Now we'd never shoot this anywhere near any human beings, but we've
seen
far too many garden-hungry varmint rabbits marauding around the
premises
here that could use a good plinking. Save the cheerleader, save
the
world and save the azaleas for $86.95. – Charlie White
Dec 14, 2006 9:29 AM
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Toy,
Collectible and Action Figure News From Across The
Globe
Dec 14, 2006 9:27 AM
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Uptown, Chicago
Dec 13, 2006 4:21 PM
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The last thing the audience will see and hear after laughing at one
my
internet cartoons is the sponsor's name and logo. This will leave
the
audience with a great feeling about the show and the people and
products
that made it possible.
/ * */
/ *The Huckleberry Hound Show* end credits sequence:/
/Huckleberry Hound and Cornelius Rooster drive around the circus
tent,
picking up other Kellogg's mascots..../
/...like Kellog's Rice Krispies mascots: Snap, Crackle and Pop.../
/... and Kellog's Smaxey the Seal, Tony the Tiger, Tony Jr., and
Sugar
Pops Pete.../
/ *Rocky and his Friends* end credits sequence:/
Dec 13, 2006 4:20 PM
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Toy,
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Globe
Dec 13, 2006 2:34 PM
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Rookery Building Chicago
Dec 13, 2006 1:38 PM
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Nightcrawler art by Dean Trippe
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Dec 13, 2006 1:34 PM
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sleepingConcertS.jpgA mattress company in Tel Aviv decided to fill up
a
concert hall with 144 beds complete with pillows and blankets,
giving
music lovers the most comfortable way possible to listen to a
classical
music concert.
But this could backfire. We were just at classical music concert
not
long ago where the audience was sitting in traditional
straight-back
seats, and this one guy was snoring so loudly they just about
had to
stop the show. And that was a really exciting concert with
spectacular
performances by world-class virtuosos.
What would happen if they played Mahler? This bed/classical concert
idea
could easily erupt into a snorefest, unless all those zzz's could
be
written into the music as some sort of
audience-participation
performance-art piece. – Charlie White
Dec 13, 2006 1:30 PM
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J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, Washington DC
Dec 13, 2006 10:36 AM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
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sky.jpg
More fun, however, is the Cover Tagger Game
http://www.coverbrowser.com/tagger
that harnesses the communal tagging
power of users to build a database of
descriptive tags for each cover in
the collection, but presents the whole
ordeal as a guessing game.
Dec 13, 2006 9:37 AM
Dec 13, 2006 9:36 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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Chords is a sheet music notation editor that is designed for guitars.
It
shows chord and scale diagrams, allows adding of chords/scales to
sheet
music, and supports multiple track playback via MIDI output.
Dec 12, 2006 4:25 PM
Dec 12, 2006 4:23 PM
from MAKE
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Woodscast1280
Removed1280
Daniel writes -
*Related:*
Img413 1536
*From the pages of MAKE:*
Dec 12, 2006 4:02 PM
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Slashdot
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by
Zonk
eldavojohn writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is going to be
giving
away free web hosting from his company's site Wikia. The
company
announced this 'free culture' movement at the current Le Web
3
conference in Paris. They somehow received a $4 million
dollar
investment package from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network
and
individual investors with no business model. Is this a dotcom
bubble
style mistake or just proof of Jimmy Wales' golden touch?" From
the
article: "Openserving will go further than Wikia's current services,
by
giving away hosting services and bandwidth, in addition to allowing
site
creators to keep the advertising revenue generated by the site. 'If
we
give away the bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of
the
advertising revenue, what's the business model? Well, I don't know
yet,'
Penchina said. The software acquired with ArmchairGM will
let
Openserving customers create collaborative publishing sites,
combining
elements of blogs and wikis."
Dec 12, 2006 4:00 PM
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“Turtles don’t
really die of old age,” Dr. Raxworthy said. In fact, if
turtles didn’t get
eaten, crushed by an automobile or fall prey to a
disease, he said, they
might just live indefinitely.
Dec 12, 2006 3:59 PM
Dec 12, 2006 3:58 PM
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Dec 12, 2006 2:05 PM
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Dec 12, 2006 2:05 PM
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Homestudiowide31.Jpg.W560H419
Bob sent in this great step by step on
making an $80 workstation for
recording equipment -
/"I have step by step by photos and (almost) completed instructions
on
my website on how to build a low-cost ($80) workstation for my
recording
equipment. This Recording Studio currently revolves around a
16-Track
Yamaha AW16G Digital Audio WorkStation, an Alesis Monitoring System,
a
small but growing collection of industry respected microphones and
a
slow but sure accumulation of other neat equipment. A list of most
of
the studio related equipment can be found on the "Equip. List" page."/
-
Link
http://mysite.verizon.net/homestudioguy/
& workstation.
http://mysite.verizon.net/homestudioguy/id18.html
*Related:*
Dec 12, 2006 2:00 PM
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JD on Scrubs
tries to describe how he got Kim (his girlfriend) pregnant.
Includes dirty
talk, friendly fire, and an air strike.
Dec 12, 2006 1:57 PM
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I am a Jew, and
every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does
not bother me even a
little bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
bejeweled trees Christmas
trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
discriminated against. That's
what they are: Christmas trees.
Dec 12, 2006 1:56 PM
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Nowadays, the
poor desert people of Tunisia are the inhabitants of the
futuristic houses
built by George Lucas and company. The Skywalker ranch
houses a few dozen
people; meanwhile, three hours away, "Troglodytes"
live in houses dug
vertically into the ground, a couple of stories deep,
complete with doors and
staircases, but no windows.
Dec 12, 2006 1:55 PM
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Dec 12, 2006 1:55 PM
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Andersonville, Chicago
Dec 12, 2006 5:47 AM
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Dec 11, 2006 11:33 PM
from
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by
ScuttleMonkey
prostoalex writes "Microsoft announced the release of
free XNA Game
Studio Express tools for developing C# games that run on both
Windows
and XBox. They're also selling XNA Creators Club subscriptions,
which,
similar to MSDN subscriptions, offer access to sample code
and
additional documentation. Also, Microsoft is explicitly aiming
towards
uniting the Windows and XBox development platforms: 'You will have
to
compile the game once for each platform. In this release simply create
a
separate project for each platform and then compile them both. Our
goal
is to allow as much code as possible to be shared between those
two
projects, allowing you to use the same source files in both
projects,
but platform-specific code will need to be
conditionally-compiled.'"
Dec 11, 2006 11:29 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
kdawson
h2g2bob writes "VideoLAN yesterday released a new version of
VLC media
player. A shout out goes to ffmpeg for many of the codec
improvements."
From the blurb: "Building on feedback from the 29 million
downloads of
VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many
bugfixes,
as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy.
Most
prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video.
Other
important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows
Unicode
support, a Fullscreen controller, and Apple Remote support for Mac OS
X."
Dec 11, 2006 6:50 PM
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cinema1.jpg We've seen plenty of pimped out beds with built-in LCDs
that
magically ascend from the base, but none of them can come close to
this
one. Looking like something you'd find in the Jetsons' household,
the
Ruf-Cinema multimedia bed has its own built-in projection screen
that
rises and descends with the push of a button. As if that weren't
enough,
the bed also has...
cinema3.jpg
Dec 11, 2006 4:53 PM
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The subscription also allows gamers to play other people's
creations,
which is likely what most people will be using this for. From what
we
hear, it's pretty easy to use as well. If you just want to try it
out,
there's also a 4 month version for $49. – Jason Chen
Dec 11, 2006 4:48 PM
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MSI, Chicago
Dec 11, 2006 2:14 PM
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by
Graeme McMillan
For those of you who don’t regularly listen to the Wordballoon
podcast
http://www.wordballoon.com/
by John Siuntres, you’re missing out. But
all is not lost, as you can
download John’s brand new interview with Dan
Didio and discover, as I did,
that DC is going to relaunch Bat Lash next
year with Sergio Aragones
co-writing (with a western novelist whose name
Dan couldn’t remember) and
John Severin illustrating.
Good news /can/ come from your iPod, you see.
Dec 11, 2006 2:13 PM
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My favourite sitcom mashed-up with my favourite Christmas
cartoon?
Somebody up there likes me!
Dec 11, 2006 2:10 PM
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tentcity.jpgAstana, the capital of Kazakhstan, will soon become one
of
the coolest cities in the world. Why, you ask? Because they're
planning
to build a 500-foot-high "tent" over the entire metropolis to keep
it
warm in the winter. It'll be made from a special material that
absorbs
sunlight to give the effect of summer year-round, allowing lucky
Kazaks
to play tennis and go swimming while the rest of Eastern Europe is
stuck
bundling up and trudging through snow.
This isn't just a pipe dream, either; UK architect Norman Foster
plans
to have the project completed in about a year. This is officially
the
coolest architectural project ever. All of the sudden Kazakhstan
just
jumped up from about #7,834 of places I want to visit to somewhere
in
the top 3.
Quoting Borat in the comments will, if not get you an execution, will
at
least earn you my scorn. Tread lightly. –Adam Frucci
Dec 11, 2006 12:09 PM
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Joe Rogan shows
how to silence a heckler... Completely owns this woman
and until she just has
nothing to say...
Dec 11, 2006 12:04 PM
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Brand new
Israeli startup BubblePLY has created an easy tool for adding
text or link
comic-book style bubbles to videos from popular video
sharing sites. Tell it
the link to a video on YouTube, Google Video,
Metacafe and others, and then
add your own content. The video is saved
and can be shared via a link or
embedding on a web page.
Dec 11, 2006 12:00 PM
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hugme_shirt.jpgIf absence makes the heart grow fonder, then the
Hug
Shirt adds a sensual experience to the equation, working with
Bluetooth
and special HugMe Java software to let you push buttons on
your
cellphone to hug your significant other miles away. As long as both
of
you are wearing this shirt that has sensors and actuators that
simulate
a hug, you can spread the love far and wide, transmitting data such
as
hug pressure, skin temperature, heart rate and hug duration.
Although it's just a design concept so far, it's yet another advance
in
the march toward total teledildonics, which we've been
relentlessly
tracking for you
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/teledildonics/
for a
while now. Check out the pics of this babe getting hugged all
over:
2hugs.jpg
3hugs.jpg
4hugs.jpg
5hugs.jpg
6hugs.jpg
This isn't
the first we've seen of this concept. A year ago, someone
thought of this
idea of hugs-over-SMS
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/tag/hugms-hugs-over-sms-37829.php
using
some sort of weird handheld device, but that just resulted in a
text
message on the other side. Now the touchy-feely extends to a shirt
that
actually tries to hug you. Where will it go next? – Charlie White
Dec 10, 2006 7:50 PM
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(Video) The
latest Zune ad from ad agency 72andsunny has a very “Tim
Burton/Film Board of
Czechoslovakia” feel to it, and I think it is VERY
well done. there IS sort
of a downtrodden, communist vibe to the Zune
ad, but still, kudos to
Microsoft for evoking a deep and genuine
response from this viewer, even if
it IS melancholy and confusing
Dec 10, 2006 6:46 PM
from THE
BEAT
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by
The Beat
TV Land has released a list of the top 100 TV Catch phrases, and
while
we think political speeches don’t quite qualify, it’s still a
useful
list, with several entries from nerd world, which we’ve
helpfully
highlighted in the below list. We note that “Hey, hey, hey!” is
credited
to both Dwayne from WHAT’S HAPPENING and Fat Albert…yes they
were
pronounced differently, but still…Anyway now that we have the
list,
let’s see how many we can use in conversation over the next week.
Courage.
/
100 Nip it! (Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith
Show)
99 Yeah, that’s the ticket. (Jon Lovitz, Saturday
Night Live)
98 I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl …
(Larry, Newhart)
97 God’ll get you for that. (Maude,
Maude)
96 I love it when a plan comes together. (Hannibal,
The A-Team)
95 This is the city … (Sgt. Joe Friday,
Dragnet)
94 Time to make the donuts. (Dunkin’
Donuts)
*93 Resistance is futile. (Picard as Borg, Star
Trek: The Next
Generation)
*92 Oh,
my nose! (Marcia Brady, The Brady Bunch)
91 Suit up!
(Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother)
90 Mom always
liked you best. (Tommy Smothers, The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour)
89 Here it is, your moment of Zen. (Jon
Stewart, The Daily Show)
88 I’m not a doctor, but I play
one on TV. (Vicks Formula 44)
87 Hey now! (Hank Kingsley,
The Larry Sanders Show)
86 That’s hot. (Paris Hilton, The
Simple Life)
85 Just one more thing … (Columbo,
Columbo)
*84 The truth is out there. (Fox Mulder, The
X-Files)
*83 Welcome to the O.C., bitch. (Luke, The
O.C.)
*82 You eeeediot! (Ren, Ren &
Stimpy)
*81 Now cut that out! (Jack Benny, The Jack Benny
Program)
80 The tribe has spoken. (Jeff Probst,
Survivor)
79 Holy crap! (Frank Barone, Everybody Loves
Raymond)
78 Bam! (Emeril Lagasse, Emeril
Live)
77 I’m Rick James, bitch! (Dave Chappelle as Rick
James, Chappelle’s
Show)
76 Denny
Crane. (Denny Crane, Boston Legal)
75 I know nothing!
(Sgt. Schultz, Hogan’s Heroes)
74 Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
(Jan Brady, The Brady Bunch)
73 Good night, John Boy. (The
Waltons)
72 Let’s be careful out there. (Sgt. Esterhaus,
Hill Street Blues)
71 Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.
(Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle)
70 Schwing! (Mike Myers and
Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth, Saturday
Night
Live)
69 Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon? (Grey
Poupon)
68 Tell me what you don’t like about yourself.
(Dr. McNamara & Dr.
Troy,
Nip/Tuck)
67 Up your nose with a rubber hose. (Vinnie
Barbarino, Welcome Back,
Kotter)
66
Heh heh … (Beavis & Butthead, Beavis and Butthead)
65
Making whoopie! (Bob Eubanks, The Newlywed Game)
64 Who
loves you, baby? (Kojak, Kojak)
63 Gee, Mrs. Cleaver …
(Eddie Haskell, Leave it to Beaver)
62 I can’t believe I
ate that whole thing. (Alka Seltzer)
61 Say good night,
Gracie. (George Burns, The Burns & Allen Show)
60
We’ve got a really big show! (Ed Sullivan, The Ed Sullivan
Show)
*59 Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids! (Trix
Cereal)
*58 Elizabeth, I’m coming! (Fred Sanford, Sanford
and Son)
57 Do you believe in miracles? (Al Michaels, 1980
Winter Olympics)
*56 Don’t make me angry … (David Banner,
The Incredible Hulk)
*55 Hey, hey, hey! (Dwayne Nelson,
What’s Happening!!)
54 Have you no sense of decency?
(Joseph Welch to Sen. McCarthy)
*53 Holy ______, Batman!
(Robin, Batman)
*52 What you see is what you get!
(Geraldine, The Flip Wilson Show)
51 Never assume … (Felix
Unger, The Odd Couple)
50 Tastes great! Less filling!
(Miller Lite Beer)
49 You rang? (Lurch, The Addams
Family)
*48 Danger, Will Robinson! (Robot, Lost in
Space)
*47 How you doin’? (Joey Tribbiani,
Friends)
46 Is that your final answer? (Regis Philbin, Who
Wants to be a
Millionaire)
45 Read
my lips: No new taxes! (George H.W. Bush)
44 Two thumbs
up! (Siskel & Ebert / Ebert & Roeper)
43 You look
mahvelous! (Billy Crystal as Fernando, Saturday Night
Live)
42 I want my MTV! (MTV)
41
Good night, and good luck. (Edward R. Murrow, See It Now)
40 Stifle! (Archie Bunker, All in the Family)
39 Would you
believe? (Maxwell Smart, Get Smart)
38 Sock it to me.
(Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
*37 … if it weren’t for
you meddling kids! (Various villains, Scooby
Doo, Where
Are You?)
*36 Well, isn’t that special? (Dana Carvey as
The Church Lady,
Saturday Night
Live)
*35 Oh my God! They killed Kenny! (Stan and Kyle,
South Park)*
34 You’ve got spunk … (Mr. Grant, Mary Tyler
Moore)
33 Homey don’t play that! (Homey the Clown, In
Living Color)
32 No soup for you! (Soup Nazi,
Seinfeld)
31 It keeps going and going and going …
(Energizer Batteries)
30 It takes a licking …
(Timex)
29 Norm! (Cheers)
28 How
sweet it is! (Jackie Gleason, The Jackie Gleason Show)
27
The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. (Jim McKay,
ABC’s
Wide World of Sports)
26
Smile, you’re on Candid Camera! (Candid Camera)
25
Whassup? (Budweiser)
24 De plane! De plane! (Tattoo,
Fantasy Island)
23 Jane, you ignorant slut. (Jane Curtin
and Dan Aykroyd, Saturday
Night
Live)
*22 Live long and prosper. (Spock, Star
Trek)
*21 And that’s the way it is. (Walter Cronkite, CBS
Evening News)
20 Come on down! (Johnny Olson, et al, The
Price is Right)
19 Let’s get ready to rumble! (Michael
Buffer, Various sporting events)
*18 Good grief. (Charlie
Brown, Peanuts Specials)
17 Hey, hey, hey! (Fat Albert,
Fat Albert) *
16 Yada, yada, yada …
(Seinfeld)
15 Book ‘em, Danno. (Steve McGarrett, Hawaii
Five-O)
*14 Space, the final frontier … (Capt. Kirk, Star
Trek)
*13 We are two wild and crazy guys! (Steve Martin
and Dan Aykroyd,
Saturday Night
Live)
12 Dynomite! (J.J., Good
Times)
11 Aaay! (Fonzie, Happy Days)
10 I’m not a crook. (Richard Nixon)
*9 Yabba dabba do!
(Fred Flintstone, The Flintstones)
*8 Whatchoo talkin’
’bout, Willis? (Arnold Drummond, Diff’rent Strokes)
7
Where’s the beef? (Wendy’s)
*6 D’oh! (Homer Simpson, The
Simpsons)
*5 Ask not what your country can do for you …
(John F. Kennedy)
4 Baby, you’re the greatest. (Ralph
Kramden, The Honeymooners)
3 You’re fired! (Donald Trump,
The Apprentice)
2 One small step for man … (Neil
Armstrong)
1 Here’s Johnny! (Ed McMahon, The Tonight Show)
/
Dec 10, 2006 6:40 PM
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BEAT
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by
The Beat
BTW, something we’ve noticed before but not mentioned is how nice it
is
to see Lynn Varley’s name in the credits, since much of the visual
look
is based on her work on the original. This really looks more
animated
than real.
Dec 10, 2006 6:40 PM
from THE
BEAT
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by
The Beat
Dec 10, 2006 6:37 PM
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From 2003/04,
but fitting for the season.
Dec 10, 2006 6:36 PM
from digg
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YouTubeShuffle
will generate a list of YouTube videos related to your
search term and play
them back to back for your lazy ass enjoyment!
Dec 10, 2006 6:34 PM
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Santa Claus
Conquers the Martians is considered to be one of the worst
movies ever made.
It is so bad, that it is actually fun to watch. The
filmmakers were probably
too embarrassed to renew the copyright, so it's
now in the public
domain.
Dec 10, 2006 10:20 AM
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Photos
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by
nobody@flickr.com (p2wy)
Chicago, IL
Dec 9, 2006 9:44 PM
from MAKE
Magazine
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Dec 9, 2006 9:42 PM
from p2wy's
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by
nobody@flickr.com (p2wy)
Andersonville, Chicago.
Dec 9, 2006 5:37 PM
from digg
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This is an
attempt to catalog everything Batman has ever pulled from his
suit or belt.
His utility belt is a wide, goldish yellow belt with a
dozen pockets
separated by hollow cylindric....
Dec 9, 2006 1:24 PM
from Boing
Boing
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Cory Doctorow
*Cory Doctorow*: An entrepreneur in KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa has
invented a "fold-away house" to be used as temporary shelter in
disasters.
The waterproof, 14 square metre dwelling comes with two
windows and
a wooden door and weighs little more than
800kg, providing the basic
requirements for emergency
shelter.
Made from galvanised metal, it is easily transportable,
being just
24 centimetres high when folded, and can be
erected by a handful of
people in under five
minutes.
The container-like, modular structures can also be
joined to provide
accommodation for large families, as
well as modified to include
insulation and heat
extractors.
Dec 9, 2006 1:21 PM
from digg
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This person
wasn't too happy with Verizon as an employer. "I'd rather
walk in on my best
friend sodomizing my brother rather than explaining
'Dell' isn't a version of
Windows."
Dec 9, 2006 1:21 PM
from digg
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From 007’s
jetpack in Thunderball to his iconic laser-equipped Omega
watch, the James
Bond movie franchise has always had its finger on the
pulse of its audience’s
gadget lust.
Dec 9, 2006 10:14 AM
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This is the
trailer for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that
will have a
darker tone like the original comics it is based on. It is
set to come out
March 23, 2007.
Dec 9, 2006 10:13 AM
from digg
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"Now Gmail can
check for the mail you receive at your other email
accounts. You can retrieve
your mail (new and old) from up to five other
email accounts and have them
all in Gmail." In limited release, but
coming soon. Looks
cool!
Dec 9, 2006 10:01 AM
Dec 9, 2006 9:59 AM
from ThinkGeek :: What's
New
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Tyson
Amazing T-Shirt features a real working clock and stopwatch in
glowing
numbers on the front.
Using the ThinkGeek Futureramatronscope we spied this amazing
new
T-Clock Shirt from the future. This shirt features a real
working
digital clock and stopwatch in glowing numerals on the
front.
Immediately we set our team of cyborg robotic monkeys to work
Price: *$39.99*
Dec 9, 2006 9:59 AM
from ThinkGeek :: What's
New
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John
Charge AA and AAA rechargable batteries using only your USB port
Now you can charge your AA and AAA rechargable batteries with the
power
from your Universal Serial Bus. USB is become a lot more versatile
not
only as a data transfer medium, but as a power source!
Price: *$11.99*
Dec 9, 2006 9:56 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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ABC Amber LIT Converter converts Microsoft Reader's LIT files to
a
variety of output formats (PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, DOC etc.)
The
software also supports a batch conversion and command line
parameters.
Note that some of the output formats have dependencies on
external
applications eg. CHM requires Microsoft HTML Help Workshop etc.,
but
others eg. PDF, HTML do not.
Dec 9, 2006 12:15 AM
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Honda gives
tribute to one of the first computer generated movies, TRON.
Makes me want to
battle Master Control....either that, or buy a Civic.
Dec 9, 2006 12:14 AM
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Daryl Cagle has
posted his answer to an age-old questions: “what kind of
pens, papers, inks
to you use to do your cartoons.” The surprising
answer is that he doesn’t ink
his drawings. After he does a his pencil
sketch he does
--
Dec 9, 2006 12:13 AM
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Forget those
huge multimillion dollar development teams, the Nintendo
Wii is so cost
effective to develop for one person can make a game for
the system. The
one-man computer game development company Nissimo
release a Wii launch
title.
Dec 9, 2006 12:12 AM
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Hakia, which is
a "meaning-based" search engine startup getting a bit of
buzz. It is a
venture-backed, multi-national team company headquartered
in New York - and
curiously has former US senator Bill Bradley as a
board member. It launched
its beta in early November this year, but
already ranks around 33K on Alexa -
which is impressive.
Dec 9, 2006 12:12 AM
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Many doctors
refrain from giving newborns pain relief during surgical
procedures in the
belief that they do not feel pain, but new research
shows this could be
wrong, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said
on
Thursday.
Dec 9, 2006 12:12 AM
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They took the
cocaine out of Coca-Cola because it was redundant. This is
a scary time line
of what actually happens to your body as you have a
coke and a
smile.
Dec 9, 2006 12:11 AM
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"Coca-Cola
plans to launch a new version of Diet Coke in 2007 fortified
with vitamins
and minerals, according to a report published Friday.
'Diet Coke Plus,'
slated for a spring launch, will be the first
nutrient-enhanced carbonated
soda to be offered by a major brand, said
Beverage
Digest."
Dec 9, 2006 12:11 AM
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"I absolutely
hate that they're doing this. Star Trek 2.0 takesthe
content of the show ...
and reduces it to a tiny afterthought on the
screen,while a whole bunch of
mindless crap scrolls by all around it.
... Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Is there
anything G4 can't completely ruin?"
Dec 9, 2006 12:10 AM
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For years,
however, Wi-Fi has been what some call a "heart" technology,
serving as the
fundamental technology around which a product, such as a
router or PC Card,
has been designed. With the approval of 802.11n,
however, Airgo chief
executive Greg Raleigh sees Wi-Fi losing
its
significance...
Dec 9, 2006 12:10 AM
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By the 2008
presidential election, voters around th¡ country are likely
to see sweeping
changes in how they cast their ballots and how those
ballots are counted,
including an end to the use of most electronic
voting machines without a
paper trail, federal voting officials and
legislators
say.
Dec 9, 2006 12:10 AM
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Two girls
decide to pass a banana around. WATCH the GUY'S FACE when his
girlfriend
takes her turn.
Dec 9, 2006 12:09 AM
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I've seen a lot
of nerdy crap in my time on this earth, but this one
just may be the ultimate
act of geekitude. Try to ignore the fat cat
trying to escape the nerd's lair,
and focus instead on the fact that
this guy has absolutely no life
whatsoever. How long until Nintendo sees
this and gives birth to the ultimate
Wii peripheral?
Dec 9, 2006 12:07 AM
from Cute
Overload
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by
Meg
Whose IDEA was this ANYWAY?
I mean, what is /the deal/ with this site?! [Seinfeld voice]
LOL! zzzzzzzzzzz [bunny snoringk]
Snuggles, Meghan B.
/EDIT -- she's 19, peeps. Getoverit./
Dec 9, 2006 12:07 AM
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Overload
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Meg
Dec 8, 2006 11:48 PM
from Gizmodo
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car-md-kit.jpgThat "Check Engine" light is on nasty son of a gun, and
if
you are anything like me you have a damn clue about anything under
the
hood. Before handing over a couple c-notes to a mechanic so he can
plug
in a fancy computer to figure out what is wrong and fix things
that
aren't broken—just do it yourself. The CarMD will plug into any
vehicle
made after 1996 thought the Data Link Connector. Once the CarMD does
all
of its fancy diagnostic work, you can plug it into your PC to
download
the diagnostics and maybe figure out what is wrong on your own. Only
you
can prevent a mechanic from screwing you. $90. – Travis Hudson
Dec 8, 2006 12:28 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Dec 8, 2006 12:25 PM
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SolarPort_camera_L.jpg Despite its somewhat chunky size, the
SolarPort
4.4 has good intentions. It can output 4.4 watts of juice (via USB)
to
keep as many as three of your favorite gadgets going when their
battery
has given up. It even comes with its own battery charger that
refreshes
your AA/AAA batteries. The SolarPort is big enough where you'd
probably
be better off by just packing backup batteries, but for true
tree
huggers, it'll set you back $119. – Louis Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
Dec 8, 2006 9:30 AM
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by JK
Parkin
Justin Hartley as Green Arrow javascript:void(0);
Justin
Hartley as Green Arrow javascript:void(0);
In an article on both the new Buffy comic and Smallville, TV.com
reports
rumors
http://www.tv.com/story/7469.html
of a live-action Justice
League show spinning out of Smallville:
Comics Continuum reports that the League, which is
featured in an
expensive upcoming episode of the CW
Superman series, will also be
appearing in a second
episode later in the season. Smallville
producer Al Gough
has denied that any League spin-off is in the
works, but
Continuum insists that a second episode featuring the
team
will act as a launching pad for a possible series.
Smallville spin-offs don’t always come together as
planned. After
Aquaman became a hit guest star with
Smallville viewers, an Aquaman
pilot was put into
production. As preseason hype built, Aquaman was
shelved
at the last minute for undisclosed reasons.
I haven’t been watching Smallville this season (too many
TiVo
conflicts!) but I understand that Justin Hartley’s Green Arrow is
pretty
popular with the kids.
Dec 8, 2006 9:29 AM
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by
Kevin Melrose
Gatchaman character sketch by Yoshitaka Amano
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Gatchaman character sketch by Yoshitaka Amano
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Dec 7, 2006 10:43 PM
from Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Mark
Frauenfelder)
*Mark Frauenfelder*: 200612071532 BLVD Gallery in Seattle has a
show
with The Art Army Guerilla Crew, including new sculpted figurines
by
Mike Leavitt, and new paintings By Kristian Olson, Colin Johnson,
and
Chris Huth. It opens December 8, 2006 and runs until January 6 ,
2007.
Dec 7, 2006 10:41 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
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from the
new 300 trailer javascript:void(0);
Dec 7, 2006 10:38 PM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and
removing
duplicate files. Duplicate files have exactly the same
contents
regardless of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy
is
able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the
same
file name. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want
to
find all of them and remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also
find
zero length files. These are files that have no content.
Dec 7, 2006 3:05 PM
from digg
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Article showing
how you can query Google for RSS, and extract
information on FLV, API, and
MP4 files to download. Use it to create
your own Google Video download
site.
Dec 7, 2006 3:04 PM
from digg
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You could be
headed to the theaters in the near future to see a remake
of Short Circuit!
Some of the previous cast may also be involved.
Dec 7, 2006 2:48 PM
from MAKE
Magazine
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Dec 7, 2006 2:41 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
from The Invincible Iron Man trailer
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from The Invincible Iron Man trailer
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¡
The website
http://www.invincibleironmandvd.com/index.html
for /The
Invincible Iron Man /animated movie has launched, with a trailer
and
screen shots. The direct-to-DVD feature is set for a Jan. 23
release.
Dec 7, 2006 2:36 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
Between a big project deadline and what feels like the
creeping
tentacles of the flu, I sort of lost a couple of days. So let’s
pretend
like today is Tuesday, and “Comics, Covered” /isn’t/ late.
*Obsession No. 1: /The Pirates of Coney Island/*
from The Pirates of Coney Island #1 javascript:void(0);
from The Pirates
of Coney Island #1 javascript:void(0);
Normally I write about cover art, but I’m going to make an exception
for
/The Pirates of Coney Island/. Oh, I like the covers well enough —
both
those by Vasilis Lolos
http://www.vasilislolos.com/, and the
variants
by Becky Cloonan
http://www.estrigious.com/becky/ —
but I’m
particularly taken with Lolos’ interior work. Specifically, his use
of
color.
The pure cyans and magentas and muted pinks and purples on those
covers
only hint at what is going on inside. Lolos bathes his pages in
color:
The opening of Issue 1 — a tense night episode
featuring
runaway-protagonist Patrick — is drenched in pink and purple,
with
flashes of yellow and blue occasionally fighting to break through in
the
form of the flame from a lighter or the color of a character’s
hair.
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Lolos carries the purple into the first few panels of the next
scene,
using color to ease the transition. Here, though, orange dominates as
a
bookie counts money in the office of a pizza parlor, the
hues
interrupted, at least initially, only by the green of the bills.
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Then purple creeps into the orange-tinted pizzeria, signaling
danger
and, ultimately, death. In a jarring page turn, tangerine gives way
to
red, the color of blood — I won’t blow the scene entirely —
before,
almost as abruptly, the scene leaps from dark and violent to light
and
joyous.
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The reds and purples of the blood-soaked pizza parlor disappear,
leaving
a sun-drenched boardwalk. The worries of Coney Island at night
are
replaced by happy screams from the roller coaster. Note, though,
that
red is carried through in the traffic light and on the sign, rails
and
cars of the Cyclone.
The first two issues of /The Pirates of Coney Island/ are like
this
throughout, with Lolos expertly, and quirkily, utilizing color to
move
the story. Here it’s not just decoration; it’s an integrated,
essential
element. It’s color as storytelling device.
In a post from July on his website
http://www.vasilislolos.com/,
Lolos
says he and writer Rick Spears are bringing on a colorist beginning
with
this month’s Issue 3. That makes me a /little /nervous, but I’m
hoping
the new addition will be as skillful and bold as Lolos.
*Obsession No. 2: /Phonogram/ covers*
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Of course, the woman on the Pulp cover didn’t have a trident
sticking
out of her back …
*Paul Pope is blogging*
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*Worthwhile reading*
Dec 7, 2006 2:20 PM
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SOCKS proxy, SFTP protocol, resumable FTP/HTTP download and
abortable
transfers.
Dec 7, 2006 2:09 PM
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If you ever wondered how important video and film editing is,
this
trailer will show you exactly how a bin full of innocuous footage can
be
skillfully turned into a frightening and powerful sequence. Just
add
talent. – Charlie White
Dec 7, 2006 1:50 PM
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1)Wear the wrist strap when using the Wii Remote
2)Do not let go of the remote during game play
3)Allow adequate room around you during game play
Dec 7, 2006 1:34 PM
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(Damion Chaplin)
"eHomeUpgrade reader Matt Heilman writes: “I ran across some
software
that lets you connect to IP cameras via Media Center or Windows XP
and
record video feeds to the hard drive. Just thought it was pretty
sweet
for the price they offer it at and I haven't seen anything like
this
before for home security.” Overall the app appears to be very
versatile
and integrates nicely with MCE."
I have a friend that owns a photo studio, and he's...
Dec 6, 2006 8:58 AM
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noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*: Here's a trailer of Mary Poppins re-cut as a
horror
film calleed "Scary Mary." Oh. My. God. This is so freaking AMAZING I
am
about to explode. Who knew that Julie Andrews could be so
goddamned
scary? I mean, REALLY REALLY SCARY. Like I actually got a little
scared
just watching it. There are lots of remix trailers floating around
out
there, but this is my all time favorite. Link
http://www.thedisneyblog.com/tdb/2006/12/mary_poppins_re.html
Dec 6, 2006 8:42 AM
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elisa.jpg
Take a break from the all the cold outside and warm up with
the
delightful illustrations of Elisa Chavarri
http://www.elisachavarri.com/. Unlike
most of the artists that I post
on Drawn, I actually had the pleasure of
knowing Elisa back from my days
in the 2D Animation department in college.
She was super talented back
then but I have really been blown away by her
recent work. Though she
does work digitally on occasion, the vast majority of
her illustration
work is done traditionally with acrylic paints (such was the
case with
the mermaid up top). Visit her website
http://www.elisachavarri.com/and
blog
http://www.xanga.com/echavarri
to see more of her work and be
sure to add her a Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elisachavarri/contact.
Dec 6, 2006 8:41 AM
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In one of his very few published interviews, Picasso
calls his
pictures “a sum of destructions.” Even from
decades beyond the
grave, this prolific
painter-sculptor-printmaker telegraphs to us
the
startling, singular image of artist-as-destroyer. Every
cheerful
demolitionist, loving his job, knows that in
order to create you
must first create space. It’s only
logical. You must remove what was
there before — you must
destroy it — you must destroy the blankness
of the white
canvas or the white page as the demolitionist destroys
the
old building or carpark, consume it with colors and lines
and
forms as the cheerful demolitionist consumes his with
dynamite,
nitro, and implosion-physics. You must swallow
the thing with work
in order to build something new in its
place. Picasso’s destructions
led to Cubism.
One must destroy in order to create. This is a poetic
notion and
perhaps not properly a philosophy, however the
idea suggests to me
what I take to be an elemental truth
of our world– Life exists by
eating other life. This sad
observation is my credo. Life itself is
an ignited
consumption, a violence, a continuing energy exchange,
sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious, beginning with birth
and
ending in death, consumption, and destruction. Man is
born unto
trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go blog about my new shoes.
*EDIT (Dec 6, 2006): I also just found Paul’s Flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ernestborg9/
which you might want to
bookmark as well. RAD! (Do the kids still say “Rad?”
Is it still cool?
Do the kids still say “cool?”)*
Dec 6, 2006 8:40 AM
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Dec 6, 2006 8:32 AM
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JkDefrag is a low overhead disk defragmentator with support for
two
optimization strategies. Besides your usual fixed disks, it is also
able
to defragment floppies and removable USB storage devices.
Dec 5, 2006 5:30 PM
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dragonflynew.jpgGet out of the way, because here comes the Dragonfly,
a
next-generation radio-controlled flyer that beats its wings just
like
the real thing. Its wing-flapping flight is stabilized by a tiny
tail
rotor, but no need to worry about constant crashes—it has a
simplified
Beginner Mode for the fumble-fingered flyer. Then when you earn
your
wings, flip it over to Expert Mode for some aerial derring-do.
The palm-sized Dragonfly plugs directly into the remote for
charging,
its bulbous eyes glowing as the juice is applied. The wee
flying
machine, created by Robosapien manufacturer
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-robosapien-roundup-147166.phpWow
Wee, just received FCC approval, but no pricing or availability
information
was forthcoming. Too bad; it's probably too late for
Christmas. – Charlie
White
Dec 5, 2006 4:58 PM
Dec 5, 2006 4:51 PM
Dec 5, 2006 4:50 PM
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it's
that time of year again!
time to put out the christmas...decoration.
we won't be putting up our tiny tree this year for one very
simple
reason... indy (our lovely puppy) will EAT IT. glass bulbs, lights and
all.
...but you are mad jealous of our vader building a snow-death star?
right?
starwars.com sold out of those puppies faster than you could BLINK.
he's
a fantastic piece of nerdery.
also, nolan and ipod are very much in the spirit of the season:
but only because of photoshop.
Dec 5, 2006 10:22 AM
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wiiDSCF7149.jpgThis crazy Japanese Wii safety manual is pretty
much
indicative of Japanese people's general insanity. Our theory: a
secret
battle between Godzilla and several Gundams in the early 1980s
bombarded
the whole of Japan with cosmic G-rays, which allowed then-youths to
grow
up and draw these weird-ass manuals.
First, hitting your husband in the face with a Wiimote is not
acceptable
even if you're pregnant. Do not blame it on your hormones.
Lots more after the jump.
wiiDSCF7152.jpgDo not pour half a bottle of orange-flavored tea
onto
your Wii. Anything less than half is fine.
wiiDSCF7150.jpgThe Wii is not a tie. (I actually did this when I
was
playing Zelda.)
wiiDSCF7154.jpgDo not attempt to control your heart with the Wiimote.
wiiDSCF7155.jpgDo not imitate that clip of the "smoking woman" with
your
Wii.
wiiDSCF7156.jpgWhen the Wii catches a cold, use a hypo-allergenic
blanket.
wiiDSCF7160.jpgDo not remove the four leaf clover from your Wii. It
is
Nintendo's secret to motion sensing.
wiiDSCF7161.jpgDo not unwrap the Wii over your head.
wiiDSCF7162.jpgDo not attempt to produce your own twist-ties for
the
sensor bar. One is provided for you.
wiiDSCF7165.jpgTest have shown limited success with playing the Wii
with
your feet. However, you will produce lightning.
wiiDSCF7166.jpgBlu-ray discs will not work in the Wii.
wiiDSCF7168.jpgDo not lay out a Wii for homeless Japanese citizens.
They
should clean themselves up and get a job like an honorable
salaryman.
wiiDSCF7169.jpgDo not forcibly remove Wii discs. There is an
ejection
mechanism. Jerk.
wiiDSCF7173.jpgDo not attempt to wake up the Wii when it is napping.
wiiDSCF7175.jpgDo not attempt to plug the nunchuk attachment into
your
foot. Again, lightning.
– Jason Chen
Dec 5, 2006 10:17 AM
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by
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Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*:
Indie comix creator Tara Tallan's site
Girlamataic Webcomics publishes
an RSS feed of half-a-dozen free indie comic
serials created by women,
including her own long-running serial Galaxion.
Tara and I worked
together at Bakka
http://www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/,
Toronto's science
fiction bookstore, and she turned me on to many wonderful
funnybooks,
most notably Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan
http://www.boingboing.net/2002/08/18/i_come_to_praise_tra.html.
Update: Stacie sez, "Certainly Tara makes great comics, but she
doesn't
own Girlamatic. Girlamatic has been around for a few years now, and
is
currently edited by Lisa Jonte, and was previously edited by
Lea
Hernandez." -- my mistake! I found out about it through Tara and
assumed
she'd started it...
Dec 5, 2006 10:15 AM
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Dec 5, 2006 10:14 AM
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XAMPP is an integrated server package that contains Apache, MySQL,
PHP,
Perl etc. A smaller version called XAMPP-Lite is also available that
has
fewer components but takes up less disk space.
Dec 5, 2006 10:14 AM
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10 Second exposure at night. Fire Escape in the West Loop, Chicago
Dec 5, 2006 10:13 AM
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Marc Chagall mural. Chase Plaza, Chicago
Dec 4, 2006 7:49 PM
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lil'
bettie page drawing:
9"x12" marker on bristol.
Dec 4, 2006 7:46 PM
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U.S. Copyright
Office has issued new rules, effective November 26,
enabling public access to
commercially unavailable software, AKA
abandonware. Meaning, your use of
classic science fiction games for DOS,
such as Dune and Elite, from sites
such as Abandonia is officially
decriminalized!
Dec 4, 2006 1:24 PM
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by JK
Parkin
‘Tis the season for merrymaking, the decking of halls, lighting
the
menorah and, of course, figuring out what to buy your friends
and
family. To help give you some ideas, we checked in with a few of
our
buddies to see:
1. What comic-related gift or gifts would they recommend giving
this
year, and why?
2. What gift (comic or otherwise) is at the top of
their personal wish
list, and why?
So pour a round of eggnog, throw another log on the fire and read on
…
*Scott Kurtz*
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1. This is going to be a little shameless, but I recommend
a
subscription to /PvP: The Animated Series/
http://secure.blindferret.com/PvP/.
The comic geek on your Christmas
list will get a brand-new, fully animated
PvP short every month all
through 2007. It’s the gift that keeps on giving
all year long. You can
buy a subscription for your friend right off our
website
http://secure.blindferret.com/PvP/.
Just enter in your buddy’s email
address and a holiday greeting, and Santa
will deliver his subscription
ID and password right to his mailbox.
2. At the top of my list is the new super-mega /Invincible/
hardcover
book. It’s a giant brick of the best superhero comic book on the
market.
You would think that my friend Robert would just set me up with one,
but
no. I gotta ask for it for Christmas.
*Brian Wood*
1. For dads and brothers, a full set of the /Punisher/ MAX trades to
date.
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For anyone else, any of the following graphic novels: /Fun
Home/,
/Persepolis/, /Sloth/ or old /Tintin/ reprints.
2. My Amazon list’s full of Criterion releases (including
/Harlan
County, USA/) and reference books I need for my upcoming
/Northlanders/
series for Vertigo.
/Brian Wood is a graphic designer, new father and writer of such
titles
as *DMZ*, *Supermarket*, *Demo*, *Local *and the
upcoming
*Northlanders*. Learn more about Brian and all his current projects
over
at his website
http://www.brianwood.com/./
*Ed Brubaker*
1. The new EC deluxe color hardbacks, because nothing says
Christmas
like an injury to the eye motif! And seriously, some of the
best-looking
archive editions of some of the best comics ever printed in
America.
ShockSuspenstories volume one just came out, and I couldn’t
recommend it
more. I have some of the old hardback boxed sets in black and
white, and
I’ll probably be rebuying them in color now, because the new
editions
look that good.
2. My personal wish list? A vacation that had nothing to do with
work.
/Ed Brubaker is the writer of *Daredevil*, *Captain America*,
*X-Men*
and *Criminal*, and is co-writing the *Immortal Iron Fist* along
with
Matt Fraction. Visit his website
http://www.edbrubaker.com/./
*Don MacPherson*
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1. Given what a splash I think the upcoming (March 2007) film is
going
to make, I think the hardcover edition of Frank Miller’s /300/
would
make a good gift for movie buffs. My local comic shop reports strong
and
steady sales of this item, and I’m guessing it’s only going to
increase
as the movie’s release date nears.
2. I don’t really have a personal wish list for Christmas gifts.
In
terms of comic-related gifts, I’m impossible to buy for. Any
mass-market
item (e.g., /Justice League Unlimited/ on DVD) is acquired long
before
gift-giving occasions, and there’s no one among my friends and
family
informed enough about comics to know what to buy me in terms of
more
specialized items (e.g., original comic art).
My girlfriend is such a great gift giver, I know I’ll be
thrilled
Christmas morning. I’m always surprised – in part by how much I
like
gifts to which I’d never given any thought.
*Larry Young*
1. Me, I’m a big fan of original art. I was before I became a
publisher,
and looking at boards from the likes of comic book superstars
like
Charlie Adlard, Kieron Dwyer and Fabio Moon all day, I really had
an
original art jones. I limited myself to only one page per artist, and
if
I found a piece by, say, Howard Chaykin that I really liked, I
wouldn’t
buy it unless I liked it more than my original splash from
/Cody
Starbuck #1/.
And since that was the first piece I ever bought, back in 1984, I’d
have
to like that new Chaykin quite a bit to give up the cornerstone.
I also like screen-used and replica props from sci-fi movies.
Basically,
if you want to get somebody a gift, talk to them for ten minutes,
find
out what they like, and hit eBay. You could probably get all
your
shopping done in 10 or 15 clicks. Of course, that leads to the demise
of
the American economy by driving brick-and-mortar stores out of
business
and by crippling individual worth by usurious credit card fees.
Forget I
said anything. Plant a tree or something. Happy Holidays. Heh.
/Comic writer & publisher Larry Young heads up AiT/PlanetLar
http://www.ait-planetlar.com/. His
previous works include *Planet of
the Capes*, *Astronauts in Trouble* and
*Proof of Concept*. /
*James Patrick*
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1. Let’s go with a few fun items that cost a bit more, but are worth
it.
Who wants to give or get things we buy all the time, right? Spend
some
money, dammit!
/Marvel Zombies Premium Hardcover/ is an excellent choice for all
the
Marvel/Horror fans out there. What’s better than seeing your
favorite
Marvel heroes as zombies? Okay, maybe seeing all your favorite
Marvel
heroines as strippers, but this is a close second.
/Absolute New Frontier/. An amazing look at the DC Universe through
the
eyes and images of Darwin Cooke. It’s pretty much the ultimate book
to
give this year to DC fans. Hell, to anyone. Give it to a stripper.
Put
it in their g-string.
2. Money in the form of singles.
*Tim Leong*
1. *Clothes Call:* Me? I’m a nerd at heart and I don’t mind showing
it.
That’s why my dresser is full of comics-related clothes. With so
many
options, here are a few that will fit you best:
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I realize that just because you’re a girl it doesn’t mean you
love
Wonder Woman, but this hoodie is just too hip to resist. It
features
distressed printing and is even stylish by having a trail of stars
on
the back. And with most comic gear relegated to T-shirts, having
a
hoodie raises the it factor *this* much. Invisible jet sold
separately.
Tired of going to parties, dressed in your hippest comic attire, only
to
realize that someone else is wearing the very same Xavier
Academy
T-shirt you’ve got on? How embarrassing indeed. If you want to
stand
out, grab this Green Lantern tee. The prestige is in the printing —
it’s
made via a sublimation print that runs over the collar and inside of
the
shirt. And with creases and folds in the fabric where the image
didn’t
print, each shirt is unique. Now at the next party you can impress
the
cool girl wearing the Wonder Woman hoodie.
Taking from the /X-Men Legends/ format, /Ultimate Alliance/ uses
the
team format and lets you build your own foursome. But this game
throws
in way more bells and whistles than any of its Marvel video
game
predecessors. You can interact with more than 140 different
characters.
Who needs to wait five months for the next issue of /Civil War/
when you
can just make your own?
After realizing Marvel was killing them in the video game dept.,
DC
wised up and put out a decent game. You can play as any of the
Justice
Leaguers, obviously, and face off some of the most infamous villains
of
the DCU. There’s even neat little bonus features like different
costume
options for the characters, including Zatanna. But, ick, don’t buy
it
for that reason alone.
They’re both decent options. If you want a straight-up fighting game,
go
with the Justice League. If you’re looking for a little more depth
withe
the story and game play, make yours Marvel.
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2. *Absolute Sandman Vol. 1*: The worst thing about getting into
comics
late is that you’ve missed out on all the good stuff that’s already
come
out. One of the biggest offenders on my, “Oh my god, you haven’t
read
that yet” list is The Sandman. One of the biggest books of the
’90s,
written by New York Times bestseller Neil Gaiman…and I haven’t read
a
single issue. And besides it being reprinted in a very
delicious
Absolute edition, it’s (supposed to be) a great book. And after
flipping
through the latest Wizard, I’m ready for some quality reading.
/Tim Leong is the editor of the Comics Foundry
http://www.comicfoundry.com/, the former
online magazine that will
soon find its way to newsstands everywhere. He also
works for Complex
Magazine. /
Dec 4, 2006 12:12 PM
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It seems the
WiiMote driver for PC really works!
Dec 4, 2006 11:49 AM
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klever_kutter.jpgNext time you consider breaking out the high
explosives
to open one of those impenetrable plastic clamshell packages, use
the
Klever Kutter instead. Even though it's packing ultra-sharp
razor
blades, there are no exposed cutting surfaces and it's guaranteed not
to
cut you or that valuable gadgetry/snack food on the other side of
that
bulletproof plastic shit in which it's entombed. Not a bad deal for
less
than two bucks. – Charlie White
Dec 4, 2006 9:40 AM
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by JK
Parkin
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Sci Fi’s highest-rated original scripted series has
struggled during
the first half of its third season, which
began Oct. 6 and ends Dec.
15. Through Nov. 17, the show’s
premiere installments averaged a 1.4
household rating and
1.8 million viewers, well below the 2.1 rating
and 2.4
million viewers the show attracted during the 10-episode
first half of its sophomore season from July to September 2005,
and
the 1.9/2.1 million during its 10-installment second
half from
January to March 2006.
But Howe said the program’s performance is skewed
because of heavy
digital video recorder action — a quarter
of its viewing is
time-shifted, according to Howe.
With DVR viewing factored in, the show has averaged a
1.8 household
rating and 2.25 million viewers through Nov.
10 and has recorded a
2% gain to 1.4 million of Sci Fi’s
target audience of adults 18 to
49, compared with the
show’s full second season.
Heavy DVR usage among younger viewers aside, Battlestar
has also
taken some hits from a pair of broadcast shows
that touch the genre.
“Friday has become much more competitive,” Howe said.
“There are
more original and scripted shows that have been
scheduled against us
like [CBS] Ghost Whisperer which is
very close to us in terms of
genre and Numbers which is
very close to us in demo. That has
affected us more that
we would have liked.”
It’s too bad to hear it lost a few viewers, as the third season
has
probably been the strongest to date.
Dec 4, 2006 4:52 AM
Dec 4, 2006 4:45 AM
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fbr353.jpg
Though, I have a sneaking suspicion Mignola didn’t draw the
accompanying
promo…
UPDATE: I listened to a couple of other cool interviews tonight
which
beg to be mentioned.
Dec 4, 2006 4:44 AM
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Wikihow shows you how to make this great 3D paper
snowflake -
*Related:*
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Dec 4, 2006 4:30 AM
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MetaFilter
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CCBC
(to the tune of ?My Country ?Tis of Thee?) My country used to be/
Sweet
land of liberty/ That once was true/ Until the FCC/ Chose what we
hear
and see/ On radio and on TV/ FCC FU
http://www.fccfu.com/!
Choral and heavy
metal versions also available for download.
Dec 4, 2006 4:29 AM
Dec 4, 2006 3:41 AM
from THE
BEAT
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by
The Beat
Dear god, how have we missed this all this time???
Twin
illustrator/cartoonists Tomer and Asaf Hanuka have a blog.
http://tropicaltoxic.blogspot.com/
With process shots. Click for
larger versions.
Dec 4, 2006 3:35 AM
from 43
Folders
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by
Merlin Mann
A few links that have been pretty popular on other sites, which I’d
be
remiss not to mention in passing here:
chronosync
http://www.43folders.com/topics/chronosync/,
connoisseur
http://www.43folders.com/topics/connoisseur/,
email
http://www.43folders.com/topics/email/,
garagesale
http://www.43folders.com/topics/garagesale/,
indexcards
http://www.43folders.com/topics/indexcards/,
ipod
http://www.43folders.com/topics/ipod/,
ipodbatterylife
http://www.43folders.com/topics/ipodbatterylife/,
links
http://www.43folders.com/topics/links/,
productivity
http://www.43folders.com/topics/productivity/,
productivitytips
http://www.43folders.com/topics/productivitytips/,
tips
http://www.43folders.com/topics/tips/------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 4, 2006 3:35 AM
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Folders
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by
Merlin Mann
As promised, here’s the single-file compilation of the /Productive
Talk/
podcast interviews I did with David Allen, the author of /Getting
Things
Done/
http://gtdbook.43folders.com/. The
final version’s eight
episodes clock in at a considerable /one hour and
twenty-six minutes/,
so this should give you plenty to listen to while you’re
in line at the DMV.
Some editing misadventures stole the time I’d set aside to write up
my
final comments on the series, but those will be coming along soon,
I
promise. In the mean time, as I said in the podcast ep., I want
to
sincerely thank David
http://www.davidco.com/, Rick Kantor,
Robert
Peake
http://www.robertpeake.com/, and Zircon
Skye Studios
http://www.zirconskye.com/ for their
participation and help with the
/Productive Talk/ series. David in particular
was unbelievably generous
with his time, and I’m very grateful to have had
this opportunity to
interview him.
Hope you all enjoy hearing the whole series, in order, all in one
place.
There’s some nuggets of GTD gold in there, if I do say so
myself.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Update 2006-11-28 16:27:27*: Apologies to all who’ve had
trouble
downloading the podcast compilation. Odeo has been dead like Stalin
for
much of the day, and when it has been up, the download speed has
been
dog slow. Odeo support tells me they’re working on it, but I realize
how
irksome this is for people. I’ll update with any news, but you
might
want to just give it another shot tomorrow/Wednesday morning, or
(if
you’re AAC-friendly), you can just grab the enhanced m4a version
http://www.43folders.com/files/Productive_Talk_Compilation_-_AAC_Enhanced.zipright
now.
Again, so sorry! I owe you a Coke.
43folders
http://www.43folders.com/topics/43folders/,
action based
http://www.43folders.com/topics/action-based/,
bestpractices
http://www.43folders.com/topics/bestpractices/,
business
http://www.43folders.com/topics/business/,
davidallen
http://www.43folders.com/topics/davidallen/,
gtd
http://www.43folders.com/topics/gtd/,
implementation
http://www.43folders.com/topics/implementation/,
interviews
http://www.43folders.com/topics/interviews/,
life hacks
http://www.43folders.com/topics/life-hacks/,
podcasts
http://www.43folders.com/topics/podcasts/,
productivetalk
http://www.43folders.com/topics/productivetalk/,
productivity
http://www.43folders.com/topics/productivity/,
recaps
http://www.43folders.com/topics/recaps/------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 4, 2006 3:33 AM
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Check out this cool origami Jedi in Phillip
West's Star Wars Origami
photo set!
Dec 4, 2006 3:33 AM
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BobbyMike writes -
/"Why buy your kids a cheap, soon to break toy when you can make them
a
great hardwood sword that will be durable, fun to play with, and
even
look good?/
This should not be considered the only way to make a nice wooden
sword,
but it definitely makes a nicer one than you can usually find. Most
of
the work can be done with hand or power tools. The blade itself
requires
the use of a tablesaw." - Link.
http://www.instructables.com/id/EBVCAA3HYAEV2Z4MUC/?ALLSTEPS
*Related:*
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Dec 3, 2006 10:03 PM
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This web comic
really hits it on the dot when it comes to people whose
Wiimotes fly out of
their hands.
Dec 3, 2006 10:01 PM
from digg
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So coo! Check
out more of his work
in
here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/phillipwest/sets/1428895/
Dec 3, 2006 9:59 PM
from digg
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What a great
way to advertise the 'simcity' series, all of them, not just
4.
Dec 3, 2006 4:22 PM
Iron birdseed, anvils, fake holes, and more for years The ACME
Company
has been the sole purveyor of the fine products used by Looney
Tunes
characters. Chronicle Books is proud to present an exclusive
catalog
featuring ACME’s must-have, best-selling line of items, each
guaranteed
to promote a happy* life provided that they are used
properly.**
Including ACME classics and entirely new and untested items, the
/ACME
Catalog/ showcases 100 products untarnished by government
regulations.
There’s something here for everyone. An extruder that doubles as
a pasta
maker for Grandma. A roof-mounted catapult for Dad. And what about
a
little jet-powered pogo stick for yourself? Each item is matched with
a
thorough product description, the price, and the shipping cost.
As
always, the ACME Company brings corporate identity sans responsabilit
to
everything sold with its label. Please note that the ACME Company has
no
retail outlets or web site. In other words, this catalog is the only
way
for consumers to access this highly sought-after ACME
line.
Dec 3, 2006 4:22 PM
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Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Shoppers and tourists everywhere, of course.
Dec 3, 2006 4:22 PM
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Chicago
Dec 3, 2006 5:47 AM
from digg
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NBC is mulling
broadcasting Friday night rehearsal sessions of "Saturday
Night Live" on the
Internet
Dec 3, 2006 5:35 AM
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This is too
damn funny if you are a LOTR or Star Wars geek.
Dec 3, 2006 4:46 AM
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It was the
shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that
riveted the
nation. A young McDonald's employee humiliated, forced to
strip and then to
perform a sexual act in the back office, during her
work
day.
Dec 3, 2006 12:03 AM
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SANDBOX
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by
editoonc
I have a soft spot for Snoopy, and this video game is calling me. Do
not
worry, this game comes for your PC also. The kids will have hours of
fun
with this little game. Look out Red Baron.
Enjoy your favorite characters - Play as WWI Flying Ace
Snoopy in an
adventure that includes cameo appearances
from 12 beloved
characters, including Charlie Brown,
Woodstock, Linus, Lucy, Marcie
and Sally
Track your enemy - Barnstorm your way across six vividly
rendered
worlds and collect clues to reveal the
whereabouts of the Red
Baron’s top secret hideout
Pilot Snoopy’s famous Sopwith Camel and other unique
aircraft in
perilous sky-high dogfights, no-holds-barred
air races and
heart-pounding missions behind enemy
lines
Upgrade your craft with a comical collection of weapons
and gadgets,
including the lightning fast, player-guided
Woodstock missile, The
Stinger and The Potato Gun
Fight your way through over 20 missions in a heroic
attempt to foil
the plans of the Red Baron
Dec 3, 2006 12:03 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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FastStone Photo Resizer is a batch image converter/resizer that
enables
users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth,
add
text and watermarks to many images at one go.
Dec 2, 2006 3:38 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
Zonk
netbuzz writes "Dilbert's Scott Adams kicked off the idea in
his
November 19th blog post, saying there isn't anything wrong with
this
country that President Bill Gates couldn't cure in less time than
it
takes to get a new operating system out the door. Today, the idea
is
moving forward with a brand-new 'Bill Gates for President' Web
site.
Adams is also back on the campaign trail, flogging the site and
Gates'
candidacy." A blog post at Network World includes a lot of
eye-rolling
about this idea, but neither Adams nor the folks at the 'Gates
for
President' website seem to be taking this lightly.
Dec 2, 2006 3:36 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
Cliff
SharkJumper writes "Looks like this question has been asked
before, but
might be due for an update. I'm a self-employed programmer who is
about
to become a father. Previously, my family's insurance has come
through
my wife's employer, but she is eagerly looking forward to being
a
stay-at-home mom. We must look for that elusive low-cost insurance
in
order to enable her to do this. Losing her insurance is not a huge
loss
as, due to failed negotiations, the hospital in our city (3rd
largest
city in the state), along with most of the doctors that refer to it,
is
dumping the network (largest in the state) that our insurance uses.
On
the individual coverage plan front, my research shows story after
story
of deception, fraud, and general run-around or obfuscation by most
of
the major players and nearly all the minors. With all of the
bad
experiences out there, I've yet to see a good review of an
insurance
company. What does the Slashdot crowd use and recommend? Company
and
plan-type? PPO? HMO? HDHP + HSA (High Deductible Health Plan +
Health
Savings Account)?"
Dec 2, 2006 3:33 PM
Dec 2, 2006 3:05 PM
Update: Brad sez, "The Kids in the Hall perform a hilarious sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ASm7MbgcM
that covers some of the
same ground as the 'Sexual Consent' video, albeit
before the proposed
date even happens. Best line: 'That's panty-peeler and
you know it!'"
Dec 2, 2006 3:02 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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I haven’t listened to the podcast yet (I’m supposed to be
“working”),
but knowing Johnny, it’s probably full of foul language and NSFW
… well,
actually, here’s what’s on the show:
a. John’s Background…
b. DRAWN what is it?
c. Influences for
DRAWN…
d. How did DRAWN begin?
e. Attack of the Show….
f. A Good Art
Blog is?
g. Challenges….
h. TIME Magazine, 50 coolest websites….
i. The
DRAWN Army…..
j. A source of inspiration…
Including lots of audience questions. Oh, and there’s another one next
week.
Dec 2, 2006 3:02 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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Dec 2, 2006 3:01 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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mixtape.jpg
Toby Keller kept a sketchbook
http://www.burnblue.com/trip/sketchbook/throughout
a trip around the world. While very few of the images in the
sketchbook seem
location-specific (unfortunately) it’s still a fun book
to flip
through.
Dec 2, 2006 3:01 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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nathanfox.jpg
Not only does Nathan Fox
http://www.foxnathan.com/ have some
truly
killer work, but his website is presented in THREE DIMENSIONS! Luckily
I
always have a spare of red/blue 3D glasses hanging around, and while
the
3D element to the site is more of a general aesthetic than a
practical
effect, there’s no denying that a lot of thought and effort went
into
this website design.
Dec 2, 2006 3:01 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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davorbakara.jpg
Illustrator Davor Bakara
http://www.davorbakara.com showcases
several
different styles on his website, but it’s the series of
these
squiggly-line characters that really stand out.
Dec 2, 2006 3:00 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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im8.jpg
Adam Nickels
http://www.tomaytotomahto.com/ creates
illustrations with
3D software, that with just the right lighting and texture
look
surprisingly like small toys and models. It’s beautiful stuff, and
I
wish there was more.
Dec 2, 2006 1:57 PM
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*From the pages of MAKE:*
Dec 2, 2006 1:53 PM
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woodblock100 writes -
/"I needed a teleprompter to help me make better looking videos for
my
website on //woodblock printmaking
http://woodblock.com/front.html//,
so
I built this one, using nothing but a few pieces of scrap wood and
glass, and
only free software./
When recording videos, I discovered that I'm not much of an actor
...
namely, I can't remember my lines! I tried to get around this
by
printing out a large-type 'script' and hanging it up next to the
camera,
but when I looked at the resulting video, it was obvious that I
was
reading something, and not looking directly into the camera. There
was
only one solution ... build a teleprompter!
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Dec 1, 2006 10:22 PM
from ThinkGeek :: What's
New
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Scott
Nice watch with a great display!
This wristwatch plays videos in full color on 128x128 pixel 1.5"
screen.
Impressive crisp, bright display. Also, handles MP3/WMA playback
and
recording using a built-in microphone. Nice!
Price: *$99.99 - $129.99*
Dec 1, 2006 10:23 AM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
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"You!
Are! Murderflies!" javascript:void(0);
“Far from being as inactive as I’ve appeared, there is Plenty Going On
—
but not much I can talk about yet,” Publick writes. “Big Plans
being
discussed in dark places. Idle machinery being oiled and slowly
creaking
back to life, etc. etc.”
Dec 1, 2006 10:20 AM
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nobody@flickr.com (p2wy)
Porsche, from the archives. Taken on a day where it wasn't
snowing,
sleeting and lightning all at the same time.
Dec 1, 2006 10:20 AM
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Near Bodega Bay, CA
Dec 1, 2006 7:55 AM
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Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago
Nov 30, 2006 8:19 PM
from Gizmodo
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NYT%20Power.jpg This may seem like a given to most of us with
laptops,
but the New York Times makes a good point in saying there's not
nearly
enough power outlets in today's supposedly high-tech airports.
I'll
second that and say that the epidemic isn't limited to just
airports,
but everywhere. The New York Public Library has gone so far
as
prohibiting people from plugging their laptops into available outlets
in
its "Wi-Fi" room. (I should know, I got scolded for trying to
connect).
The reason? "Security." Free Wi-Fi is good, yes, but what's it to
me if
I don't have a power outlet to connect to. Anyone else
experience
similar frustrations? – Louis Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
Nov 30, 2006 8:18 PM
from Gizmodo
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120LR.JPGThe QuikPod is an extendable handheld monopod that is ideal
for
taking pictures of yourself without the needing someone else to do
it.
It is also good for taking pictures from different angles
or
perspectives because it can extend 18 inches.
QuikPod is offering a $5 coupon on the QuikPod exclusively for
Gizmodo
readers, bringing the price down to $24.95, and they are throwing in
the
leg accessories that turn the QuikPod into a traditional tripod
for
free. To get this deal, follow the link below and navigate to
the
shopping page. Simply type Gizmodo into the search box and the
special
deal will be available for purchase. – Travis Hudson
Nov 30, 2006 8:17 PM
from Gizmodo
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Needing just 15 minutes of charging for a 5-to-7-minute flight, it
might
be a bit more difficult to control than that Micro Mosquito, but
it
costs $20 less—it's $50, available December 8. – Charlie White
Nov 30, 2006 8:12 PM
from Gizmodo
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smallwonder.jpgThe EZ105 is RCA's latest attempt at
miniaturizing
consumer electronics. This "Small Wonder" is a camcorder that
can record
up to 60 minutes of video or 30 minutes of "high quality" video on
its
integrated memory. Don't expect HD level quality, but good
enough
quality to pull off that voyeur movie that you have always wanted.
The
palm sized camcorder also includes a 1.5-inch LCD screen on the back
for
viewing.
The EZ105 Small Wonder is for the simple types who just want to
record
video without any big fancy tape-loading camcorder and it retails for
a
very nice $129. The domain name for the camcorder
(mysmallwonder.com)
could use some work, though. – Travis Hudson
Nov 30, 2006 8:11 PM
from Gizmodo
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We like putting our gadgets through torture tests and what better way
to
test something out than the grimey, concrete streets of New York.
We
took our mini chopper
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/palmsize-micro-copter-looks-like-a-bell-jet-ranger-218308.phpfor
a joyride to see how it'd perform outdoors. The chopper not only
impressed
us, but it got the attention of pretty much every passerby.
Moving the
chopper from side to side, however, was nearly impossible (it
seemed to have
a mind of its own), but we easily got it to ascend for
about 50-feet before
the frequency cut off and the mini copter made a
nosedive for the concrete.
Still, despite a bunch of crashes, the little
chopper kept taking off. It may
be cheaper than the Micro Mosquito, but
it can still take a beating.
Nov 30, 2006 10:03 AM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
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Talent and variety. I love getting a new vision every
five pages,
even when the material is uneven. When all the
talent is great, then
seeing a new vision every five pages
is absolutely exhilarating.
I’d love to see an anthology that had straight science
fiction,
super heroes, horror, art house, and humor
material together. In my
world those forms are not in
competition with one another, they may
be in the real
marketplace, but not in my library. Not to get all
Disney
on you, but I think /Iron Man/ and /Acme Novelty/ and
/Flaming Carrot/ are part of the same tapestry, not
disparate
threads pulling away from one another. It would
do a D&Q reader good
to see a really kick-ass
barbarian story, just as it would do a
/Witchblade/ reader
good to see James Kochalka work his magic. I’m
dreaming.
There’s more good stuff at the link.
Nov 30, 2006 10:03 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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RockXP lets you retrieve the product key for Windows XP as well
as
various other Microsoft products. It also lets you
recover
usernames/passwords in your Windows Protected Storage as well as
Remote
Access Settings. Finally, it has a password generator for
producing
random, secure passwords.
Nov 30, 2006 10:02 AM
from
Slashdot
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by
kdawson
Robotech_Master writes, "Long-time Slashdot veterans will
remember Jon
Katz, the editorial writer whose Slashdot articles invariably
generated
heated controversy. It appears he may have the last laugh; how many
of
the Slashdot posters who ridiculed him went on to be played by
Jeff
Bridges in a movie? From the article: 'In his new book, "A Good Dog:
The
Story of Orson," Katz chronicles the life and death of the lovable
but
troubled border collie that transformed his life. It continues the
story
begun in Katz's last book, "A Dog Year," now being made into a
movie
starring Jeff Bridges as Katz.' Katz critics may get a chuckle out
of
the plot synopsis for the film: 'A man having a mid-life crisis has
his
life turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than
he
is.'" The film should be released in late 2007.
Nov 30, 2006 10:00 AM
from
Slashdot
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by
CmdrTaco
harajukboy writes "Businessweek.com shows us how the famous
LEGO bricks
are made. Among the new facts I picked up was that LEGO is the
largest
tire manufacturer in the world, and that the process is so air
tight
that only 18 of 1 million pieces are considered defective." I knew I
was
getting old when I first realized that these kids today with
their
modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom
pieces.
Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build
stuff.
Nov 30, 2006 9:46 AM
from
Slashdot
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by
samzenpus
raffe writes "Here is a Q&A with Ron Hovsepian CEO of
Novell. He
describes 'a love-hate thing' between the two companies." From
the
article: "This past May, I picked up the phone and called Kevin
Turner,
the COO at Microsoft. I knew Kevin when he was the CIO at Wal-Mart.
I
said, "Kevin, I'd like to have a conversation about what the
customer
needs. If you could put back on your old hat as a customer, if I
came in
and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and
this
Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about
virtualization
on Windows, what would you say to us?""
Nov 30, 2006 9:42 AM
from Cute
Overload
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by
Meg
This little guy is hot stuff!
Rock n' roll Paul Lam, rock n' ROLL!
Nov 30, 2006 8:05 AM
from THE
BEAT
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by
The Beat
A whole range of upper- and mid-level sellers in DC Comics’
mainstream
superhero line line were missing in October: New issues of
/All-Star
Batman/, /Justice League of America/, /Batman/, /Teen
Titans/,
/Supergirl/, /Superman/, /Blue Beetle/ and /Aquaman/ were scheduled
for
an October release but failed to ship, while /Superman/Batman/,
/Wonder
Woman/ and /Green Lantern/ were on hiatus. For the third
consecutive
month, the entire set of the weekly “event” title /52/ made the
Top 10,
meanwhile. Grant Morrison and Jim Lee’s /Wildcats/ #1 made its
debut
after a six-week delay, accompanied by the relaunches of
/The
Authority/, /Gen13/ and /Deathblow/. And co-writers Geoff Johns
and
Richard Donner and artist Adam Kubert took over /Action Comics/.
Other notable October releases from DC Comics: the introduction of a
new
creative team in /Nightwing/ #125; the debuts of /Tales of
the
Unexpected/, /The Omega Men/, Vertigo’s Vietnam War story /The
Other
Side/ and WildStorm’s horror film adaptation /Nightmare on Elm
Street/;
the first /Superman/Batman Annual/; the return of Warren
Ellis’
/Desolation Jones/ with a new artist; the long-awaited conclusions
to
both Grant Morrison’s /Seven Soldiers/ and Warren Ellis and
John
Cassaday’s /Planetary/; and, as a footnote, the original
Vertigo
hardcover /Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall/, which led the
“Graphic
Novel” chart with better sales than most of Vertigo’s monthly titles
can
manage right now.
*2/3/4/6 - 52*
05/2006: 52 Week 1 —
140,971 [143,611]
05/2006: 52 Week 2 — 128,393 (- 8.9%) [130,704]
05/2006: 52 Week 3 — 123,982 (- 3.4%) [126,913]
05/2006: 52 Week 4 — 121,440 (- 2.1%) [125,297]
06/2006: 52 Week 5 — 111,895 (- 7.9%)
06/2006: 52 Week 6 — 110,028 (- 1.7%) [111,732]
06/2006: 52 Week 7 — 110,188 (+ 0.2%) [112,618]
06/2006: 52 Week 8 — 105,107 (- 4.6%) [108,775]
07/2006: 52 Week 9 — 102,142 (- 2.8%)
07/2006: 52 Week 10 — 100,779 (- 1.3%)
07/2006: 52 Week 11 — 122,016 (+21.1%) [123,724]
07/2006: 52 Week 12 — 98,667 (-19.1%) [102,362]
08/2006: 52 Week 13 — 119,507 (+21.1%)
08/2006: 52 Week 14 — 118,259 (- 1.4%)
08/2006: 52 Week 15 — 119,411 (+ 1.0%)
08/2006: 52 Week 16 — 117,472 (- 1.6%) [118,624]
08/2006: 52 Week 17 — 116,637 (- 0.7%) [118,775]
09/2006: 52 Week 18 — 111,830 (- 4.1%)
09/2006: 52 Week 19 — 111,611 (- 0.2%)
09/2006: 52 Week 20 — 111,099 (- 0.5%)
09/2006: 52 Week 21 — 110,350 (- 0.7%) [111,986]
10/2006: 52 Week 22 — 108,624 (- 1.6%)
10/2006: 52 Week 23 — 107,962 (- 0.6%)
10/2006: 52 Week 24 — 107,413 (- 0.5%)
10/2006: 52 Week 25 — 106,332 (- 1.0%)
The weekly assembly line “event” series continues to be a
tremendous
success. /52/ so far in numbers: five months, 25 issues, and
an
estimated total of 2,871,985 copies sold in the North American
direct
market. Reportedly, a weekly follow-up series is already in
the
pipeline, so it seems that DC are viewing the book’s frequency as
a
major factor in its success.
*8 - JUSTICE*
10/2005: Justice #2 of 12 — 125,115 (-34.3%)
[143,781]
11/2005: –
12/2005: Justice #3 of 12 — 113,369 (- 9.4%)
[120,943]
01/2006: –
02/2006: Justice #4 of 12 — 110,488 (- 2.5%)
[125,006]
03/2006: –
04/2006: Justice #5 of 12 — 110,157 (- 0.3%)
[126,706]
05/2006: –
06/2006: Justice #6 of 12 — 110,188 (+
0.0%)
07/2006: –
08/2006: Justice #7 of 12 — 106,866 (- 3.0%)
[108,821]
09/2006: –
10/2006: Justice #8 of 12 — 103,829 (-
2.8%)
—————-
6 months: - 5.8%
1 year : -17.0%
Sales of the bi-monthly limited series are gently declining, but
remain
perfectly good.
*14 - WILDCATS (WildStorm)*
10/2003: Wildcats 3.0 #15 —
14,445
10/2004: –
———————————-
10/2005: Nemesis #2 of 9 — 16,829 (-
14.4%)
11/2005: Nemesis #3 of 9 — 16,154 (- 4.0%)
12/2005: Nemesis
#4 of 9 — 15,428 (- 4.5%)
01/2006: Nemesis #5 of 9 — 14,983 (-
2.9%)
02/2006: Nemesis #6 of 9 — 14,572 (- 2.7%)
03/2006: Nemesis #7
of 9 — 14,533 (- 0.3%)
04/2006: Nemesis #8 of 9 — 14,410 (-
0.9%)
05/2006: Nemesis #9 of 9 — 14,123 (- 2.0%)
06/2006:
–
07/2006: –
08/2006: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Wildcats
#1 — 82,528 (+484.4%)
—————–
6 months:
+472.7%
1 year : +390.4%
2 years : n.a.
The relaunch of the WildStorm Universe flagship title by the
creative
team of writer Grant Morrison and artist Jim Lee finally showed up
on
October 18, having missed its initial shipping date on September 6.
It’s
the highest-selling WildStorm issue by a wide margin since
ICv2.com
launched their current system of estimates back in March 2003,
and
probably then some. (So far, the record was held by /The League
of
Extraordinary Gentlemen/ Vol. 2 #6 from September 2003, which sold
an
estimated 56,948 units in its first month.)
That the resulting boost to /Wildcats/ sales is enormous compared to
the
book’s other recent incarnations doesn’t come as a great
surprise.
Morrison and Lee’s “superstar” status in the industry aside,
the
creators and the publisher made it plain that the new title was going
to
take its cue from the book’s colorful and commercially highly
successful
early-nineties roots as /WildC.A.T.s/ rather than from the
more
experimental tone of /Wildcats Volume 2/ and /Wildcats Version 3.0/.
The
intention behind the revamp, evidently, is to pull out all the stops
and
restore the flagging WildStorm line to commercial health.
While sales in excess of 80K are certainly a solid foundation to
that
end, it should be pointed out that a limited variant edition scheme
was
attached to /Wildcats/ #1, so as to motivate retailers to order the
book
more generously than they might have done otherwise. This practice
can
currently be relied upon to yield higher numbers early on, but
it
usually also means that the sales of subsequent issues — no matter
if
supported by further variant cover editions or not — decline all
the
more sharply. /Wetworks/, for instance, which debuted last month and
was
supported with the same gimmick, saw a rather drastic second-issue
drop
in October (see below).
Further, it’s emphatically unclear at present whether /Wildcats/
will
come out with any regularity. Morrison, who is one of the architects
of
the logistically daunting weekly title /52/, recently had some
trouble
finishing /Seven Soldiers/, resulting in a six-month delay for the
final
issue. And Lee is already hopelessly and embarrassingly behind on
his
other current assignment, /All-Star Batman/, the most recent issue
of
which shipped in May 2006. /Wildcats/ #2, initially scheduled
for
November 2006, was recently resolicited for a March 2007 release.
Now,
according to Lee, that’s merely a hypothetical date resulting
from
Diamond’s solicitation deadlines, which allowed for no
earlier
placement: The book will actually come out earlier than that, Lee
says.
But, really, I’m not tempted to hold my breath.
/Wildcats/ is off to a strong start, but there’s ample reason to
be
skeptical about its future.
*15 - SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL*
10/2006: Superman/Batman Annual #1 —
81,928
The mother title, /Superman/Batman/, still fails to come out
monthly,
despite the recent creative team changes, so DC did the reasonable
thing
and scheduled a break for October.
/Superman/Batman Annual/ #1, by writer Joe Kelly and artists
Ed
McGuinness and Ryan Ottley, is here to pick up the slack, meanwhile,
and
ends up selling about 9,000 units less than the most recent issue of
the
mother title. Given that it’s a filler story not produced by the
book’s
regular creators, that’s a very good number.
*19 - ACTION COMICS*
10/2003: Action Comics #808 — 30,978
10/2004:
Action Comics #820 — 41,114
————————————-
10/2005: Action Comics #832 —
47,968 (-13.2%)
11/2005: Action Comics #833 — 44,613 (- 7.0%)
12/2005:
Action Comics #834 — 42,425 (- 4.9%)
01/2006: Action Comics #835 — 41,114 (-
3.1%)
02/2006: Action Comics #836 — 51,722 (+25.8%) [55,331]
03/2006:
Action Comics #837 — 55,816 (+ 7.9%) [69,652]
04/2006: –
05/2006: Action
Comics #838 — 62,702 (+12.3%)
05/2006: Action Comics #839 — 61,898 (- 1.3%)
[64,278]
06/2006: Action Comics #840 — 61,786 (- 0.2%) [63,676]
07/2006:
Action Comics #841 — 58,657 (- 5.1%)
08/2006: Action Comics #842 — 57,964 (-
1.2%)
09/2006: Action Comics #843 — 56,084 (- 3.2%)
10/2006: Action Comics
#844 — 78,869 (+40.6%)
—————-
6 months: n.a.
1 year :
+64.4%
2 years : +91.8%
The widely publicized debut of the high-profile creative team of
writers
Geoff Johns and Richard Donner and artist Adam Kubert results in a
solid
increase, but falls somewhat short of expectations. In fairness,
it’s
worth mentioning that /Action Comics/ #844 didn’t come with
any
additional sales-boosting gimmicks.
Quite possibly, the underwhelming response may be due to the fact
that
DC, in a rather puzzling move, didn’t release any information on
the
issue’s creators or content until some time after the solicitations
for
their other October-shipping titles were sent out. Initially,
retailers
had to place their orders based on a placeholder reassuring them
that
more details on /Action Comics/ #844 would be made available in
due
time. Consequently, the currently available numbers may still
represent
the cautious reaction to the incomplete initial solicitation
information.
For what it’s worth, DC recently announced a second printing,
complete
with a newly colored cover and a variant edition scheme. While
these
“sell-out” notifications rarely say anything more meaningful than
that
the company simply didn’t print more copies than were ordered in
the
first place, I’m inclined to give it a little more credit in this
case.
Either way, we’re going to find out in the next couple of months.
*23 - DETECTIVE COMICS*
10/2003: Detective Comics #787 —
37,878
10/2004: Detective Comics #799 — 48,228
—————————————-
10/2005:
Detective Comics #812 — 39,270 (+ 1.3%)
11/2005: Detective Comics #813 —
38,338 (- 2.4%)
12/2005: Detective Comics #814 — 37,145 (- 3.1%)
01/2006:
Detective Comics #815 — 35,569 (- 4.2%)
02/2006: Detective Comics #816 —
35,410 (- 0.5%)
03/2006: Detective Comics #817 — 62,245 (+75.8%)
[70,241]
04/2006: Detective Comics #818 — 60,440 (- 2.9%)
[68,189]
05/2006: Detective Comics #819 — 65,800 (+ 8.9%)
06/2006:
Detective Comics #820 — 65,988 (+ 0.3%)
07/2006: Detective Comics #821 —
67,345 (+ 2.1%)
08/2006: Detective Comics #822 — 66,372 (- 1.5%)
09/2006:
Detective Comics #823 — 64,215 (- 3.3%)
10/2006: Detective Comics #824 —
62,431 (- 2.8%)
—————-
6 months: + 3.3%
1 year : +59.0%
2
years : +29.5%
The numbers are still slowly declining, but remain considerably
above
the level /Detective Comics/ sold at prior to March’s “One Year
Later”
stunt. There’s no reason to be unhappy with the book’s sales.
*24 - FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE*
10/2003: Flash
#203 — 35,467
10/2004: Flash
#215 — 44,024
———————————-
10/2005: Flash
#227 — 46,666 (+ 3.1%)
11/2005: Flash
#228 — 45,861 (- 1.7%)
12/2005: Flash
#229 — 41,459 (- 9.6%)
01/2006: Flash
#230 — 40,571 (- 2.1%) [42,392]
02/2006:
–
03/2006: –
04/2006: –
05/2006: –
06/2006: Flash: FMA #1 —
120,404 (+196.8%) [126,741]
07/2006: Flash: FMA #2 — 77,487 (-
35.6%) [ 82,501]
08/2006: Flash: FMA #3 — 70,633 (- 8.9%) [
72,067]
09/2006: Flash: FMA #4 — 66,663 (-
5.6%)
10/2006: Flash: FMA #5 — 61,576 (-
7.6%)
—————-
6 months: n.a.
1 year : +32.0%
2 years :
+39.9%
/Flash/ keeps shedding units at an alarming rate, and online
reactions
to the book seem mixed at best. The current writers will be
replaced in
February’s issue #9, so DC probably concur. At this stage,
though, it’s
quite possible that the sales boost from June’s relaunch will
have
largely disappeared by then.
*27 - THE AUTHORITY (WildStorm)*
10/2003: Authority Vol. 2 #6 —
27,415
10/2004: Revolution #1 of 12 — 26,527
10/2005: Revolution #12
of 12 — 18,256
—————————————
10/2006: The Authority
#1 — 58,136 (+218.5%)
—————–
1 year :
+218.5%
2 years : +119.2%
Writer Grant Morrison and artist Gene Ha are in charge of the
latest
attempt to relaunch /The Authority/. While the book easily outsells
/The
Authority: Revolution/, however, a comparison with /The Authority/
Vol.
2 #1 from May 2003 looks rather more depressing: Back then,
writer
Robbie Morrison and artist Dwayne Turner managed to shift an
estimated
44,351 units — and without the benefit of variant editions or
line-wide
revamps, mind you.
Now, 58,136 is more than that, obviously. But considering that
the
current creative team are plainly in a different league in terms
of
their popularity and the fact that two variant cover editions of the
new
issue #1 were made available to retailers who ordered a certain
quantity
of copies of the standard edition (ten were required for an edition
with
a “standard” variant cover, 50 for one with a “sketch” cover),
it
doesn’t seem like such a great achievement all of a sudden.
The
commercial failure of the book’s two previous volumes strongly
suggested
that the concept is way past its prime, and the latest numbers
don’t
really dispel the notion.
In addition to the disparaging sales drops new titles boosted
with
gimmicks such as variant covers tend to suffer from, the first issue
of
/The Authority/ has received mixed reviews for Morrison’s
experimental
take. So, all told, this is another new WildStorm title with
decent
initial sales, but dubious prospects.
*34 - GEN13 (WildStorm)*
10/2003: Gen13 #14 — 13,584
10/2004:
—
—————————-
10/2006: Gen13 #1 — 47,535
Enter another new attempt to sell an old WildStorm property, this
time
by writer Gail Simone and artist Talent Caldwell.
It’s a very good start, compared with the previous volume. But,
once
again, the now familiar disclaimers regarding mixed reception and
the
implications of variant cover schemes apply.
*37 - GREEN LANTERN CORPS*
10/2005: GLC: Recharge #2 of 5 —
68,925 (-14.6%) [71,414]
11/2005: –
12/2005: GLC: Recharge #3 of
5 — 64,490 (- 6.4%) [65,669]
01/2006: GLC: Recharge #4 of
5 — 59,952 (- 7.0%) [61,540]
02/2006: –
03/2006: GLC: Recharge
#5 of 5 — 60,123 (+ 0.3%)
04/2006: –
05/2006: –
06/2006:
Green Lantern Corps #1 — 76,686 (+27.6%)
07/2006: Green Lantern Corps
#2 — 56,886 (-25.8%)
08/2006: Green Lantern Corps #3 — 51,485 (-
9.5%)
09/2006: Green Lantern Corps #4 — 46,619 (- 9.5%)
10/2006:
Green Lantern Corps #5 — 43,546 (- 6.6%)
—————-
6 months:
n.a.
1 year : -36.8%
Writer Dave Gibbons stepped in and provided the artwork as well
for
issue #5, but sales keep declining at an unhealthy pace.
*39 - SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES*
10/2003: Legion
#25 —
27,954
10/2004: –
—————————————
10/2005: Legion of SH
#11 — 34,113 (- 2.1%)
11/2005: Legion of SH
#12 — 33,541 (- 1.7%)
12/2005: –
01/2006:
Legion of SH #13 — 32,730 (- 2.4%)
02/2006:
Legion of SH #14 — 32,513 (- 0.7%)
02/2006:
Legion of SH #15 — 31,649 (- 2.7%)
03/2006:
Supergirl & LoSH #16 — 47,426 (+ 49.9%) [54,788]
04/2006: Supergirl &
LoSH #17 — 44,827 (- 5.5%) [47,724]
05/2006: Supergirl & LoSH #18 —
45,520 (+ 1.6%)
06/2006: Supergirl & LoSH #19 — 43,918 (-
3.5%)
07/2006: Supergirl & LoSH #20 — 41,679 (- 5.1%)
08/2006:
Supergirl & LoSH #21 — 39,852 (- 4.4%)
09/2006: Supergirl &
LoSH #22 — 36,735 (- 7.8%)
10/2006: Supergirl & LoSH #23 — 41,554
(+ 13.1%)
—————-
6 months: - 7.3%
1 year : +21.8%
2 years
: n.a.
The sudden increase is due to a variant cover edition, one copy of
which
could be ordered by retailers for, you guessed it, every ten copies
of
the standard comic. It’s a nice increase, certainly, but it’s
unlikely
to have any beneficial effects on the performance of subsequent
issues.
*40 - SEVEN SOLDIERS*
02/2005: Seven Soldiers #0 —
53,217
————————————
10/2006: Seven Soldiers #1 — 41,354 (-22.3%)
Originally scheduled for April, the conclusion to Grant
Morrison’s
30-issue crossover project finally appeared in October. Given that
15
months have passed since issue #0, this is a respectable number.
The
seven individual limited series sold between 43,647 (/Seven
Soldiers:
Zatanna/ #1) and 27,873 (/Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein/ #4) units,
for
the sake of comparison.
*44 - ION*
04/2006: Ion #1 of 12 —
66,453
[74,727]
05/2006: Ion #2 of 12 — 55,532 (-16.4%) [57,415]
06/2006:
Ion #3 of 12 — 51,739 (- 6.8%)
07/2006: Ion #4 of 12 — 49,981 (-
3.4%)
08/2006: Ion #5 of 12 — 45,764 (- 8.4%)
09/2006: Ion #6
of 12 — 41,832 (- 8.6%)
10/2006: Ion #7 of 12 — 38,795 (-
7.3%)
—————-
6 months: -41.6%
The numbers are still declining too fast for comfort.
*45 - NIGHTWING*
10/2003: Nightwing #86 — 29,579
10/2004:
Nightwing #98 — 43,618
———————————
10/2005: Nightwing #113 — 39,837
(+ 9.9%)
11/2005: Nightwing #114 — 36,421 (- 8.6%)
12/2005: Nightwing #115
— 35,674 (- 2.1%)
01/2006: Nightwing #116 — 35,113 (- 1.6%)
[37,851]
02/2006: Nightwing #117 — 35,489 (+ 1.1%)
03/2006: Nightwing #118
— 42,525 (+19.8%) [51,775]
04/2006: Nightwing #119 — 46,336 (+
9.0%)
05/2006: Nightwing #120 — 46,076 (- 0.6%)
06/2006: Nightwing #121 —
44,974 (- 2.4%)
07/2006: Nightwing #122 — 42,542 (- 5.4%)
08/2006:
Nightwing #123 — 40,111 (- 5.7%)
09/2006: Nightwing #124 — 38,251 (-
4.6%)
10/2006: Nightwing #125 — 38,470 (+ 0.6%)
—————-
6 months:
-17.0%
1 year : - 3.4%
2 years : -11.8%
Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Dan Jurgens take over, but all
they
manage is to arrest the book’s decline for the time being. It
doesn’t
look like retailers had a great deal of confidence in the creative
team
change.
*46 - TRIALS OF SHAZAM*
08/2006: Trials of Shazam #1 of 12 —
50,621
[53,471]
09/2006: Trials of Shazam #2 of 12 — 41,156 (-18.7%)
[43,853]
10/2006: Trials of Shazam #3 of 12 — 38,395 (- 6.7%)
Sales are bottoming out alright, and issue #2 sold another 2,697
units
in October. In contrast to the five other titles promoted in
DC’s
low-priced 80-page one-shot /DCU: Brave New World/, /Trials of
Shazam/
is performing decently so far.
*47 - OUTSIDERS*
10/2003: Outsiders #5 — 48,900
10/2004:
Outsiders #17 — 41,814
——————————–
10/2005: Outsiders #29 — 47,611 (+
7.7%)
11/2005: Outsiders #30 — 44,682 (- 6.2%)
12/2005: Outsiders #31 —
46,555 (+ 4.2%)
01/2006: Outsiders #32 — 44,027 (- 5.4%)
02/2006:
Outsiders #33 — 43,270 (- 1.7%)
03/2006: Outsiders #34 — 47,286 (+ 9.3%)
[51,527]
04/2006: Outsiders #35 — 45,774 (- 3.2%)
05/2006: Outsiders #36 —
45,705 (- 0.2%)
06/2006: Outsiders #37 — 44,109 (- 3.5%)
07/2006:
Outsiders #38 — 41,974 (- 4.8%)
08/2006: Outsiders #39 — 40,524 (-
3.5%)
09/2006: Outsiders #40 — 38,626 (- 4.7%)
10/2006: Outsiders #41 —
36,672 (- 5.1%)
—————-
6 months: -19.9%
1 year : -23.0%
2
years : -12.3%
The book’s sales decline accelerates. Over the last several
months,
something seems to be going horribly wrong with /Outsiders/. The
book
used to be one of DC’s most consistent performers since its launch
in
2003, but now it has shedded almost 10,000 units in a period of six
months.
*48 - SECRET SIX*
05/2006: Secret Six #1 of 6 —
54,961
[57,425]
06/2006: –
07/2006: Secret Six #2 of 6 — 47,346
(-13.9%)
08/2006: Secret Six #3 of 6 — 44,507 (- 6.0%)
09/2006: Secret Six
#4 of 6 — 40,782 (- 8.4%)
10/2006: Secret Six #5 of 6 — 36,628 (-10.2%)
Another title declining at a worrying rate. /Secret Six/ started
out
with promising numbers, but it seems to have dropped off the radar
since.
*49 - TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED*
10/2006: Tales of the Unexpected #1 of 8
— 35,486
This is a weird one. Nominally, /Tales of the Unexpected/ is the
revamp
of an old 1950s mystery/fantasy title. What it boils down to
in
practice, though, is a Spectre limited series by the unlikely
creative
team of writer David Lapham and artist Eric Battle, following up
on
/Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre/ and starring a character from
/Gotham
Central/.
The justification for reusing the old title comes from the
back-up
stories by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Cliff Chiang, which
feature
forgotten concepts from DC’s repertoire with names like Genius
Jones,
Primate Patrol or Tracie 13.
It’s an odd package, but it’s doing quite well so far, even if
another
variant cover edition scheme is likely to have distorted the
numbers.
*51 - DEATHBLOW*
10/2006: Deathblow #1 — 34,056
The final new WildStorm Universe launch for October comes from
writer
Brian Azzarello and artist Carlos D’Anda. /Deathblow/’s is
the
lowest-selling of the “WorldStorm” debuts so far, but then again,
it’s
/Deathblow/, so that doesn’t come as a great surprise.
Like the other new WildStorm Universe titles, the book is
being
supported with variant cover edition schemes which inflate its
numbers.
On balance, it appears to be doing perfectly fine at this stage, but
you
know the drill: We’ll find out whether these sales give a
realistic
impression of the market’s interest in the book soon enough.
*55 - ROBIN*
10/2003: Robin #119 — 22,130
10/2004: Robin #131 —
44,570
—————————–
10/2005: Robin #143 — 34,141 (+18.5%)
11/2005: Robin
#144 — 32,314 (- 5.4%)
12/2005: Robin #145 — 28,532 (-11.7%)
01/2006:
Robin #146 — 29,499 (+ 3.4%) [31,851]
02/2006: Robin #147 — 32,120 (+
8.9%)
03/2006: Robin #148 — 36,717 (+14.3%) [42,442]
04/2006: Robin #149 —
37,173 (+ 1.2%)
05/2006: Robin #150 — 41,417 (+11.4%)
06/2006: Robin #151
— 38,921 (- 6.0%)
07/2006: Robin #152 — 37,466 (- 3.7%)
08/2006: Robin
#153 — 36,608 (- 2.3%)
09/2006: Robin #154 — 34,387 (- 6.1%)
10/2006:
Robin #155 — 32,951 (- 4.2%)
—————-
6 months: -11.4%
1 year : -
3.5%
2 years : -26.1%
Sales keep declining and are now back where they were prior to
March’s
“One Year Later” issue.
In fairness, /Robin/ numbers have been very erratic over the last
three
years due to a deluge of stunts and crossovers, and the book is
still
well within its usual range.
*56 - GREEN ARROW*
10/2003: Green Arrow #31 — 39,525
10/2004: Green
Arrow #43 — 32,133
———————————-
10/2005: Green Arrow #55 — 32,804 (-
4.5%)
11/2005: Green Arrow #56 — 32,670 (- 0.4%)
12/2005: Green Arrow #57
— 31,778 (- 2.7%)
01/2006: Green Arrow #58 — 30,990 (- 2.5%)
02/2006:
Green Arrow #59 — 31,250 (+ 0.8%)
03/2006: Green Arrow #60 — 37,946 (+21.4%)
[43,045]
04/2006: Green Arrow #61 — 35,993 (- 5.2%) [40,621]
05/2006:
Green Arrow #62 — 39,185 (+ 8.9%)
06/2006: Green Arrow #63 — 37,803 (-
3.5%)
07/2006: Green Arrow #64 — 36,148 (- 4.4%)
08/2006: Green Arrow #65
— 35,705 (- 1.2%)
09/2006: Green Arrow #66 — 33,793 (- 5.4%)
10/2006:
Green Arrow #67 — 32,583 (- 3.6%)
—————-
6 months: - 9.5%
1 year
: - 0.7%
2 years : + 1.4%
See /Robin/: The decline continues, but the numbers remain within
the
book’s established spectrum.
*57 - PLANETARY (WildStorm)*
10/2003: Planetary #17 — 34,939
10/2004:
Planetary #21 — 32,266
———————————
10/2005: –
11/2005: –
12/2005:
–
01/2006: Planetary #24 — 31,844 (+1.4%)
02/2006: –
03/2006:
–
04/2006: Planetary #25 — 32,836 (+3.1%)
05/2006: –
06/2006:
–
07/2006: –
08/2006: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Planetary #26 — 32,283
(-1.7%)
—————
6 months: -1.7%
1 year : n.a.
2 years :
+0.1%
The final issue, more than seven years after /Planetary/ #1 went
on
sale. Since the book returned from a long hiatus in 2003, the
numbers
have been thoroughly consistent.
*60 - BIRDS OF PREY*
10/2003: Birds of Prey #60 —
30,515
10/2004: Birds of Prey #75 — 32,091
————————————-
10/2005:
Birds of Prey #87 — 32,084 (+ 2.6%)
11/2005: Birds of Prey #88 —
32,823 (+ 2.3%)
12/2005: Birds of Prey #89 — 30,653 (-
6.6%)
01/2006: Birds of Prey #90 — 30,460 (- 0.6%)
02/2006: Birds of
Prey #91 — 29,835 (- 2.1%)
03/2006: Birds of Prey #92 — 36,808
(+23.4%)
04/2006: Birds of Prey #93 — 34,404 (- 6.5%)
05/2006: Birds
of Prey #94 — 34,905 (+ 1.5%)
06/2006: Birds of Prey #95 — 33,954
(- 2.7%)
07/2006: Birds of Prey #96 — 32,219 (- 5.1%)
08/2006: Birds
of Prey #97 — 31,578 (- 2.0%)
09/2006: Birds of Prey #98 — 32,715
(+ 3.6%)
10/2006: Birds of Prey #99 — 30,385 (- 7.1%)
—————-
6
months: -11.7%
1 year : - 5.3%
2 years : - 5.3%
The prelude to the book’s makeover with issue #100 sees an
unusually
large drop for /Birds of Prey/.
*63 - MARTIAN MANHUNTER*
08/2006: Martian Manhunter #1 of 8 —
41,263
09/2006: Martian Manhunter #2 of 8 — 32,624 (-20.9%)
10/2006:
Martian Manhunter #3 of 8 — 29,286 (-10.2%)
The numbers are still dropping way too fast.
*65 - MYSTERY IN SPACE*
09/2006: Mystery in Space #1 of 8 —
46,610
10/2006: Mystery in Space #2 of 8 — 28,781 (-38.3%)
Issue #1 came with a variant cover scheme, granted, but
this
second-issue drop is still not charming by any standard.
*66 - THE ALL-NEW ATOM*
07/2006: The All-New Atom #1 —
49,969
08/2006: The All-New Atom #2 — 38,239 (-23.5%)
09/2006: The
All-New Atom #3 — 33,254 (-13.0%)
10/2006: The All-New Atom #4 —
28,450 (-14.5%)
This was the first issue without John Byrne providing the artwork,
but
it’s hard to tell whether that had any effect on sales, at this
stage.
/The All-New Atom/ keeps shedding units like there’s no
tomorrow.
*68 - WETWORKS (WildStorm)*
09/2006: Wetworks #1 —
43,824
10/2006: Wetworks #2 — 28,181 (-35.7%)
Both issues of the inaugural “WorldStorm” title came with
sales-boosting
variant cover schemes, but, not unusually, it didn’t prevent
the numbers
from crashing.
/Wetworks/ is still selling at a comparatively high level for
a
WildStorm book, mind you, but unless the decline slows down
considerably
soon, that won’t be the case for long.
*69 - SHADOWPACT*
05/2006: Shadowpact #1 — 50,279
06/2006:
Shadowpact #2 — 39,969 (-20.5%)
07/2006: Shadowpact #3 — 36,341
(- 9.1%)
08/2006: Shadowpact #4 — 33,383 (- 8.1%)
09/2006:
Shadowpact #5 — 29,983 (-10.2%)
09/2006: Shadowpact #6 — 27,276
(- 9.0%)
Dropping way too fast.
*74 - WORLDSTORM (WildStorm)*
10/2006: WorldStorm #1 (of 1) —
27,033
This is a ones-shot special including two short stories promoting
the
upcoming new WildStorm Universe books /Tranquility/ and
/StormWatch:
Post-Human Division/, along with a bunch of adverts. The numbers
are
perfectly good for this sort of thing.
*75 - Y: THE LAST MAN (Vertigo)*
10/2003: Y: The Last Man #15 —
27,319
10/2004: Y: The Last Man #27 — 26,929
————————————–
10/2005: Y:
The Last Man #38 — 26,535 (-0.4%)
11/2005: Y: The Last Man #39 — 26,395
(-0.5%)
12/2005: Y: The Last Man #40 — 26,006 (-1.5%)
01/2006: Y: The Last
Man #41 — 25,931 (-0.3%)
02/2006: Y: The Last Man #42 — 25,775
(-0.6%)
03/2006: Y: The Last Man #43 — 25,877 (+0.4%)
04/2006: Y: The Last
Man #44 — 25,985 (+0.4%)
05/2006: Y: The Last Man #45 — 25,866
(-0.5%)
06/2006: Y: The Last Man #46 — 25,881 (+0.1%)
07/2006: Y: The Last
Man #47 — 25,791 (-0.4%)
08/2006: Y: The Last Man #48 — 25,829
(+0.2%)
09/2006: Y: The Last Man #49 — 25,690 (-0.5%)
10/2006: Y: The Last
Man #50 — 26,802 (+4.3%)
—————
6 months: +3.1%
1 year :
+1.0%
2 years : -0.5%
It’s the fiftieth issue, so there’s an obligatory increase. Overall,
/Y:
The Last Man/ remains one of DC’s most consistent sellers in its final
year.
*76 - JSA: CLASSIFIED*
10/2005: JSA: Classified #4 — 55,903 (+
1.8%) [63,579]
11/2005: JSA: Classified #5 — 47,380
(-15.3%)
12/2005: JSA: Classified #6 — 45,317 (- 4.4%)
01/2006: JSA:
Classified #7 — 42,857 (- 5.4%)
02/2006: JSA: Classified #8 —
39,656 (- 7.5%)
02/2006: JSA: Classified #9 — 39,104 (-
1.4%)
03/2006: JSA: Classified #10 — 41,332 (+ 5.7%)
04/2006: JSA:
Classified #11 — 37,815 (- 8.5%)
05/2006: JSA: Classified #12 — 37,446 (-
1.0%)
06/2006: JSA: Classified #13 — 36,066 (- 3.7%)
07/2006: JSA:
Classified #14 — 33,832 (- 6.2%)
08/2006: JSA: Classified #15 — 32,308 (-
4.5%)
08/2006: JSA: Classified #16 — 32,173 (- 0.4%)
09/2006: JSA:
Classified #17 — 30,340 (- 5.7%)
10/2006: JSA: Classified #18 — 26,783
(-11.7%)
—————-
6 months: -29.2%
1 year : -52.1%
That’s a harsh drop, even by the book’s usual standard — especially
in
the middle of a two-part storyline.
*77 - OMAC*
07/2006: OMAC #1 of 8 — 54,092
08/2006: OMAC #2 of 8 —
42,011 (-22.3%)
09/2006: OMAC #3 of 8 — 32,578 (-22.5%)
10/2006: OMAC #4
of 8 — 26,745 (-17.9%)
Awful numbers.
*79 - UNCLE SAM & THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS*
07/2006: Uncle Sam & FF
#1 of 8 — 40,736
08/2006: Uncle Sam & FF #2 of 8 — 31,616 (-22.4%)
[32,758]
09/2006: Uncle Sam & FF #3 of 8 — 28,430 (-10.1%)
10/2006:
Uncle Sam & FF #4 of 8 — 26,527 (- 6.7%)
Sales are bottoming out, slowly but surely.
*80/90 - THE BOYS (WildStorm)*
08/2006: The Boys #1 —
31,636
[36,173]
08/2006: The Boys #2 — 26,165 (-17.3%) [32,075]
09/2006:
–
10/2006: The Boys #3 — 26,415 (+ 1.0%)
10/2006: The Boys #4
— 24,848 (- 5.9%)
The book is finding its level quickly, evidently. Additionally,
the
first two issues each sold around 2,000 more units in October.
These are both promising signs for /The Boys/.
*81 - CHECKMATE*
04/2006: Checkmate #1 —
49,156
[55,375]
05/2006: Checkmate #2 — 41,773 (-15.5%)
06/2006: Checkmate
#3 — 37,551 (-10.1%)
07/2006: Checkmate #4 — 34,661 (-
7.7%)
08/2006: Checkmate #5 — 31,252 (- 9.8%)
09/2006: Checkmate
#6 — 28,887 (- 7.6%)
10/2006: Checkmate #7 — 26,302 (-
9.0%)
—————-
6 months: -46.5%
Another problem child. The glut of /Infinite Crisis/ spin-offs is
taking
its toll: There’s plainly more material out there than the
target
audience is willing to absorb.
*84 - JLA: CLASSIFIED*
10/2005: JLA: Classified #13 — 43,832 (+
0.3%)
11/2005: JLA: Classified #14 — 43,469 (- 0.8%)
12/2005: JLA:
Classified #15 — 41,951 (- 3.5%)
01/2006: JLA: Classified #16 — 39,336 (-
6.2%)
02/2006: JLA: Classified #17 — 38,014 (- 3.4%)
03/2006: JLA:
Classified #18 — 35,873 (- 5.6%)
03/2006: JLA: Classified #19 — 35,300 (-
1.6%)
04/2006: JLA: Classified #20 — 34,039 (- 3.6%)
05/2006: JLA:
Classified #21 — 33,800 (- 0.7%)
06/2006: JLA: Classified #22 — 34,023 (+
0.7%)
06/2006: JLA: Classified #23 — 33,564 (- 1.4%)
07/2006: JLA:
Classified #24 — 31,697 (- 5.6%)
07/2006: JLA: Classified #25 — 30,709 (-
3.1%)
08/2006: JLA: Classified #26 — 27,816 (- 9.4%)
09/2006: JLA:
Classified #27 — 27,754 (- 0.2%)
10/2006: JLA: Classified #28 — 26,003 (-
6.3%)
—————-
6 months: -23.6%
1 year : -40.7%
The book is continuing to shed readers.
*88 - FABLES (Vertigo)*
10/2003: Fables #18 — 26,350
10/2004: Fables
#30 — 25,390
—————————–
10/2005: Fables #42 — 24,953 (-0.2%)
11/2005:
Fables #43 — 24,659 (-1.2%)
12/2005: Fables #44 — 24,515 (-0.6%)
01/2006:
Fables #45 — 24,297 (-0.9%)
02/2006: Fables #46 — 24,134 (-0.7%)
03/2006:
Fables #47 — 24,278 (+0.6%)
04/2006: Fables #48 — 24,476 (+0.8%)
05/2006:
Fables #49 — 24,444 (-0.1%)
06/2006: Fables #50 — 26,210 (+7.2%)
07/2006:
Fables #51 — 25,087 (-4.3%)
08/2006: Fables #52 — 25,378 (+1.2%)
09/2006:
Fables #53 — 25,388 (+0.0%)
10/2006: Fables #54 — 25,534
(+0.6%)
—————
6 months: +4.3%
1 year : +2.3%
2 years :
+0.6%
Fables performs remarkably well, keeping up a slow climb.
Its latest spin-off, the original hardcover /Fables: 1001 Nights
of
Snowfall/, leads October’s “Graphic Novel” chart with an
estimated
15,289 units — which means it outsells the majority of monthly
Vertigo
titles.
Writer Bill Willingham’s brainchild has become Vertigo’s most
successful
franchise, where new content is concerned.
*91 - BATMAN: THE MAD MONK*
11/2005: Batman: Monster Men #1 of 6 —
36,177
12/2005: Batman: Monster Men #2 of 6 — 29,138 (-19.5%)
01/2006:
Batman: Monster Men #3 of 6 — 27,135 (- 6.9%)
02/2006: Batman: Monster Men #4
of 6 — 26,320 (- 3.0%)
03/2006: Batman: Monster Men #5 of 6 — 25,960 (-
1.4%)
04/2006: Batman: Monster Men #6 of 6 — 25,650 (- 1.2%)
05/2006:
–
06/2006: –
07/2006: –
08/2006: Batman: Mad Monk #1 of
6 — 29,169 (+13.7%)
09/2006: Batman: Mad Monk #2 of
6 — 25,516 (-12.5%)
10/2006: Batman: Mad Monk #3 of
6 — 24,298 (- 4.8%)
—————-
6 months: - 5.3%
Bottoming out nicely.
*92 - BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT*
10/2003: Batman: LotDK #172 —
25,553
10/2004: Batman: LotDK #184 — 41,170
————————————-
10/2005:
Batman: LotDK #196 — 24,932 (- 1.1%)
11/2005: Batman: LotDK #197 — 24,478 (-
1.8%)
12/2005: Batman: LotDK #198 — 24,010 (- 1.9%)
01/2006: Batman: LotDK
#199 — 23,461 (- 2.3%)
02/2006: Batman: LotDK #200 — 28,984
(+23.5%)
03/2006: Batman: LotDK #201 — 24,516 (-15.4%)
03/2006: Batman:
LotDK #202 — 23,810 (- 2.9%)
04/2006: Batman: LotDK #203 — 24,775 (+
4.1%)
04/2006: Batman: LotDK #204 — 24,155 (- 2.5%)
05/2006: Batman: LotDK
#205 — 24,421 (+ 1.1%)
05/2006: Batman: LotDK #206 — 24,228 (-
0.8%)
06/2006: Batman: LotDK #207 — 24,457 (+ 1.0%)
07/2006: Batman: LotDK
#208 — 23,974 (- 2.0%)
08/2006: Batman: LotDK #209 — 24,101 (+
0.5%)
09/2006: Batman: LotDK #210 — 24,182 (+ 0.3%)
10/2006: Batman: LotDK
#211 — 24,236 (+ 0.2%)
—————-
6 months: - 0.9%
1 year : -
2.8%
2 years : -41.1%
Continuing a slow climb. Writer Bruce Jones and artist Ariel
Olivetti
must be doing something right. Nonetheless, /Legends of the Dark
Knight/
will be canceled in January to make room for the new
/Batman:
Confidential/ title.
*94 - CATWOMAN*
10/2003: Catwoman #24 — 23,164
10/2004: Catwoman #36
— 37,554
——————————-
10/2005: Catwoman #48 — 21,104 (+ 2.0%)
11/2005:
Catwoman #49 — 21,257 (+ 0.7%)
12/2005: Catwoman #50 — 24,136 (+13.5%)
[26,170]
01/2006: Catwoman #51 — 22,681 (- 6.0%)
02/2006: Catwoman #52 —
21,954 (- 3.2%)
03/2006: Catwoman #53 — 28,473 (+29.7%) [34,428]
04/2006:
Catwoman #54 — 28,922 (+ 1.6%)
05/2006: Catwoman #55 — 30,184 (+
4.4%)
06/2006: Catwoman #56 — 28,942 (- 4.1%)
07/2006: Catwoman #57 —
27,302 (- 5.7%)
08/2006: Catwoman #58 — 26,568 (- 1.0%)
09/2006: Catwoman
#59 — 25,324 (- 4.7%)
10/2006: Catwoman #60 — 24,117 (- 4.8%)
—————-
6
months: -16.6%
1 year : +14.3%
2 years : -35.8%
Declining, but still within the usual range.
*96 - OMEGA MEN*
10/2006: Omega Men #1 of 6 — 23,536
Writer Andersen Gabrych and artist Henry Flint revamp an old
C-list
concept. According to the advertising copy, /The Omega Men/ is
a
“controversial and head-spinning science-fiction odyssey
that
synthesizes intolerant zealotry, quantum mechanics, and all-out
action.”
Sales are surprisingly good for this sort of thing, actually. Given
that
many comics in the North American direct market feature
head-spinning
science fiction, quantum mechanics and all-out action and fail
anyway,
perhaps intolerant zealotry will be the new thing to watch.
*101 - JACK OF FABLES (Vertigo)*
07/2006: Jack of Fables #1 —
27,097
08/2006: Jack of Fables #2 — 23,554 (-13.1%)
09/2006: Jack of
Fables #3 — 22,373 (- 5.0%)
10/2006: Jack of Fables #4 — 21,614
(- 3.4%)
The second ongoing /Fables/ series is finding its level quickly.
These
are perfectly good numbers so far.
*102 - THE CREEPER*
08/2006: The Creeper #1 of
6 — 31,530
09/2006: The Creeper #2
of 6 — 24,274 (-23.0%)
10/2006: The
Creeper #3 of 6 — 21,133
(-12.9%)
That’s another steep drop, particularly for a limited series.
*106 - HAWKGIRL*
10/2003: Hawkman #20 — 28,007
10/2004: Hawkman
#33 — 22,704
——————————-
10/2005: Hawkman #45 — 23,379 (+
3.6%)
11/2005: Hawkman #46 — 25,329 (+ 8.3%)
12/2005: Hawkman
#47 — 24,736 (- 2.3%)
01/2006: Hawkman #48 — 24,259 (-
1.9%)
02/2006: Hawkman #49 — 25,031 (+ 3.2%)
03/2006: Hawkgirl #50 —
34,728 (+38.7%) [38,135]
04/2006: Hawkgirl #51 — 30,657 (-11.7%)
05/2006:
Hawkgirl #52 — 29,898 (- 2.5%)
06/2006: Hawkgirl #53 — 27,786 (-
7.1%)
07/2006: Hawkgirl #54 — 25,201 (- 9.3%)
08/2006: Hawkgirl #55 —
23,880 (- 5.2%)
09/2006: Hawkgirl #56 — 21,560 (- 9.7%)
10/2006: Hawkgirl
#57 — 19,909 (- 7.7%)
—————-
6 months: -35.1%
1 year :
-14.8%
2 years : -12.3%
Sales keep spiraling downwards.
*112 - NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (WildStorm)*
10/2006: Nightmare on Elm
Street #1 — 18,736
When they solicited this book, interestingly, DC evidently
hadn’t
decided on a penciler yet, which suggests that a certain degree of
haste
may have been involved in its production. The numbers are
respectable
for a B-movie adaptation, at any rate, although there was,
inevitably, a
variant cover edition scheme.
*113 - JONAH HEX*
11/2005: Jonah Hex #1 — 33,771
12/2005: Jonah
Hex #2 — 26,227 (-22.3%)
01/2006: Jonah Hex #3 — 24,671 (-
5.9%)
02/2006: Jonah Hex #4 — 23,569 (- 4.5%)
03/2006: Jonah Hex
#5 — 23,496 (- 0.3%)
04/2006: Jonah Hex #6 — 22,763 (-
3.1%)
05/2006: Jonah Hex #7 — 21,910 (- 3.8%)
06/2006: Jonah Hex
#8 — 21,006 (- 4.1%)
07/2006: Jonah Hex #9 — 20,385 (-
3.0%)
08/2006: Jonah Hex #10 — 19,772 (- 3.0%)
09/2006: Jonah Hex #11 —
18,957 (- 4.1%)
10/2006: Jonah Hex #12 — 18,299 (- 3.5%)
—————-
6
months: -19.6%
Declining.
*119 - FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN*
10/2004: Firestorm
#6 — 28,034
————————————
10/2005: Firestorm
#18 — 23,246 (+ 3.1%)
11/2005: Firestorm
#19 — 22,979 (- 1.2%)
12/2005: Firestorm
#20 — 23,473 (+ 2.2%)
01/2006: Firestorm
#21 — 22,500 (- 4.2%)
02/2006: Firestorm
#22 — 21,104 (- 6.2%)
03/2006: Firestorm: NM #23 —
25,109 (+19.0%)
04/2006: Firestorm: NM #24 — 23,704 (- 5.6%)
05/2006:
Firestorm: NM #25 — 23,301 (- 1.7%)
06/2006: Firestorm: NM #26 — 21,833 (-
6.3%)
07/2006: Firestorm: NM #27 — 19,772 (- 9.4%)
08/2006: Firestorm: NM
#28 — 18,716 (- 5.3%)
09/2006: Firestorm: NM #29 — 17,449 (-
6.8%)
10/2006: Firestorm: NM #30 — 16,494 (- 5.5%)
—————-
6 months:
-30.4%
1 year : -29.1%
2 years : -41.2%
Sales are in terminal decline. The book goes on hiatus after
the
December issue and returns in February with a new creative team.
*120 - DESOLATION JONES (WildStorm)*
10/2005: –
11/2005: Desolation
Jones #4 — 17,611 (+ 1.4%)
12/2005: –
01/2006: Desolation Jones
#5 — 17,160 (- 2.6%)
02/2006: –
03/2006: –
04/2006: Desolation
Jones #6 — 17,369 (+ 1.2%)
05/2006: –
06/2006: –
07/2006:
–
08/2006: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Desolation Jones #7 — 16,245 (-
6.5%)
—————-
6 months: - 6.5%
1 year : n.a.
Danijel Zezelj replaces J.H. Williams III as the book’s artist,
leading
to a larger than usual sales drop for /Desolation Jones/.
*121 - NEIL GAIMAN’S NEVERWHERE (Vertigo)*
10/2005: –
11/2005:
Neverwhere #5 of 9 — 19,514 (- 9.8%)
12/2005: –
01/2006: –
02/2006:
Neverwhere #6 of 9 — 18,406 (- 5.7%)
03/2005: –
04/2006: –
05/2006:
Neverwhere #7 of 9 — 17,568 (- 4.6%)
06/2006: –
07/2006: Neverwhere #8 of
9 — 16,952 (- 3.5%)
08/2005: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Neverwhere #9 of 9 —
16,070 (- 5.2%)
—————-
6 months: n.a.
1 year :
n.a.
Finishing with decent numbers.
*123 - DMZ (Vertigo)*
11/2005: DMZ #1 — 18,705
12/2005: DMZ
#2 — 14,840 (-20.7%)
01/2006: DMZ #3 — 14,503 (-
2.3%)
02/2006: DMZ #4 — 14,778 (+ 1.9%)
03/2006: DMZ #5 —
14,952 (+ 1.2%)
04/2006: DMZ #6 — 15,212 (+ 1.7%)
05/2006: DMZ
#7 — 15,026 (- 1.2%)
06/2006: DMZ #8 — 14,999 (-
0.2%)
07/2006: DMZ #9 — 14,786 (- 1.4%)
08/2006: DMZ #10 — 14,704 (-
0.6%)
09/2006: DMZ #11 — 14,562 (- 1.0%)
10/2006: DMZ #12 — 14,640 (+
0.5%)
—————
6 months: -3.8%
Rock-solid sales. /DMZ/ has been orbiting the 15K mark since issue
#2.
*128 - HELLBLAZER (Vertigo)*
10/2003: Hellblazer #189 —
15,898
10/2004: Hellblazer #201 — 15,262
———————————-
10/2005:
Hellblazer #213 — 14,688 (- 0.2%)
11/2005: Hellblazer #214 — 14,766 (+
0.5%)
12/2005: Hellblazer #215 — 14,405 (- 2.5%)
01/2006: Hellblazer #216
— 14,590 (+ 1.3%)
02/2006: Hellblazer #217 — 14,306 (- 2.0%)
03/2006:
Hellblazer #218 — 14,129 (- 1.2%)
04/2006: Hellblazer #219 — 14,206 (+
0.6%)
05/2006: Hellblazer #220 — 14,161 (- 0.3%)
06/2006: Hellblazer #221
— 13,973 (- 1.3%)
07/2006: Hellblazer #222 — 13,912 (- 0.4%)
08/2006:
Hellblazer #223 — 13,956 (+ 0.3%)
09/2006: Hellblazer #224 — 13,704 (-
1.8%)
10/2006: Hellblazer #225 — 13,629 (- 0.6%)
—————-
6 months: -
4.1%
1 year : - 7.2%
2 years : -10.7%
Standard attrition.
*131 - 100 BULLETS (Vertigo)*
10/2003: 100 Bullets #47 —
17,308
10/2004: 100 Bullets #54 — 16,276
———————————-
10/2005: 100
Bullets #65 — 14,744 (+ 0.3%)
11/2005: 100 Bullets #66 — 14,425 (-
2.2%)
12/2005: 100 Bullets #67 — 14,165 (- 1.8%)
01/2006: 100 Bullets #68
— 13,879 (- 2.0%)
02/2006: 100 Bullets #69 — 13,708 (- 1.2%)
03/2006: 100
Bullets #70 — 13,591 (- 0.9%)
04/2006: 100 Bullets #71 — 13,514 (-
0.6%)
05/2006: 100 Bullets #72 — 13,489 (- 0.2%)
06/2006: 100 Bullets #73
— 13,407 (- 0.6%)
07/2006: 100 Bullets #74 — 13,265 (- 1.1%)
08/2006: 100
Bullets #75 — 13,322 (+ 0.4%)
09/2006: 100 Bullets #76 — 13,082 (-
1.8%)
10/2006: 100 Bullets #77 — 13,054 (- 0.2%)
—————-
6 months: -
3.4%
1 year : -11.5%
2 years : -19.8%
Standard attrition.
*132 - DEADMAN (Vertigo)*
08/2006: Deadman #1 — 21,980
09/2006:
Deadman #2 — 15,494 (-29.5%)
10/2006: Deadman #3 — 12,936
(-16.5%)
Declining faster than it should.
*134 - LOVELESS (Vertigo)*
10/2005: Loveless #1 —
22,483
11/2005: Loveless #2 — 17,667 (-21.4%)
12/2005: Loveless
#3 — 16,280 (- 7.9%) [17,584]
01/2006: –
02/2006: Loveless #4
— 16,765 (+ 3.0%)
03/2006: Loveless #5 — 16,704 (- 0.4%)
04/2006:
Loveless #6 — 16,823 (+ 0.7%)
05/2006: Loveless #7 — 15,961 (-
5.1%)
06/2006: Loveless #8 — 14,915 (- 6.6%)
07/2006: Loveless
#9 — 14,434 (- 3.2%)
08/2006: Loveless #10 — 13,860 (-
4.0%)
09/2006: Loveless #11 — 13,256 (- 4.4%)
10/2006: Loveless #12 —
12,617 (- 4.8%)
—————-
6 months: -25.0%
1 year : -43.9%
The decline keeps accelerating. Not encouraging.
*137 - THE OTHER SIDE (Vertigo)*
10/2006: The Other Side #1 of 5 —
12,336
No high-profile creators, no superheroes, and virtually no
promotion:
The Vietnam War drama by writer Jason Aaron and artist Cameron
Stewart
debuts with predictably mediocre sales.
*141 - WARLORD*
02/2006: Warlord #1 — 27,443
03/2006: Warlord
#2 — 21,570 (-21.4%)
04/2006: Warlord #3 — 19,993 (-
7.3%)
05/2006: Warlord #4 — 18,480 (- 7.6%)
06/2006: Warlord
#5 — 16,070 (-13.0%)
07/2006: Warlord #6 — 14,786 (-
8.0%)
08/2006: Warlord #7 — 13,553 (- 8.3%)
09/2006: Warlord
#8 — 12,361 (- 8.8%)
10/2006: Warlord #9 — 11,244 (-
9.0%)
—————-
6 months: -43.8%
Canceled with issue #10.
*144 - TEEN TITANS GO (Johnny DC)*
10/2004: Teen Titans Go #12 —
14,968
————————————-
10/2005: Teen Titans Go #24 — 12,994 (+
0.5%)
11/2005: Teen Titans Go #25 — 12,598 (- 3.1%)
12/2005: Teen Titans
Go #26 — 11,790 (- 6.4%)
01/2006: Teen Titans Go #27 — 11,609 (-
1.5%)
02/2006: Teen Titans Go #28 — 11,568 (- 0.4%)
03/2006: Teen Titans
Go #29 — 11,260 (- 2.7%)
04/2006: Teen Titans Go #30 — 11,225 (-
0.3%)
05/2006: Teen Titans Go #31 — 11,140 (- 0.8%)
06/2006: Teen Titans
Go #32 — 10,736 (- 3.6%)
07/2006: Teen Titans Go #33 — 10,516 (-
2.1%)
08/2006: Teen Titans Go #34 — 10,328 (- 1.8%)
09/2006: Teen Titans
Go #35 — 9,940 (- 3.8%)
10/2006: Teen Titans Go #36 — 10,214 (+
2.8%)
—————-
6 months: - 9.0%
1 year : -21.4%
2 years :
-31.8%
A Johnny DC title. See disclaimers.
*146 - THE EXTERMINATORS (Vertigo)*
01/2006: The Exterminators #1
— 16,187
02/2006: The Exterminators #2 — 12,459 (-23.0%)
03/2006:
The Exterminators #3 — 11,678 (- 6.3%)
04/2006: The Exterminators
#4 — 11,342 (- 2.9%)
05/2006: The Exterminators #5 — 10,978 (-
3.2%)
06/2006: The Exterminators #6 — 11,004 (+ 0.2%)
07/2006: The
Exterminators #7 — 10,743 (- 2.4%)
08/2006: The Exterminators #8
— 10,299 (- 4.1%)
09/2006: The Exterminators #9 — 10,177 (-
1.2%)
10/2006: The Exterminators #10 — 9,970 (- 2.0%)
—————-
6
months: -12.1%
Sales are in a slow downward trend.
*149 - JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED (Johnny DC)*
10/2003: JL Adventures #24
— 13,283
10/2004: JL Unlimited #2 —
16,598
————————————
10/2005: JL Unlimited #14 — 10,706 (-
1.9%)
11/2005: JL Unlimited #15 — 10,625 (- 0.8%)
12/2005: JL
Unlimited #16 — 10,774 (+ 1.4%)
01/2006: JL Unlimited #17 —
10,199 (- 5.3%)
02/2006: JL Unlimited #18 — 10,206 (+ 0.1%)
03/2006:
JL Unlimited #19 — 10,534 (+ 3.2%)
04/2006: JL Unlimited #20 —
10,620 (+ 0.8%)
05/2006: JL Unlimited #21 — 10,430 (- 1.8%)
06/2006:
JL Unlimited #22 — 10,430 ( n.a.)
07/2006: JL Unlimited #23
— 10,255 (- 1.7%)
08/2006: JL Unlimited #24 — 10,117 (-
1.4%)
09/2006: JL Unlimited #25 — 9,985 (- 1.3%)
10/2006: JL
Unlimited #26 — 9,696 (- 2.9%)
—————-
6 months: - 8.7%
1
year : - 9.4%
2 years : -41.6%
Another Johnny DC title.
*151 - BATTLER BRITTON (WildStorm)*
07/2006: Battler Britton #1 of 5 —
14,843
08/2006: Battler Britton #2 of 5 — 12,631 (-14.9%)
09/2006: Battler
Britton #3 of 5 — 9,985 (-21.0%)
10/2006: Battler Britton #4 of 5
— 9,234 (- 7.5%)
Dropping off the map.
*152 - AMERICAN SPLENDOR (Vertigo)*
09/2006: American Splendor #1 of 4 —
11,529
10/2006: American Splendor #2 of 4 — 9,202 (-20.2%)
A harsh drop, but not unexpected in the direct market.
*153 - TESTAMENT (Vertigo)*
12/2005: Testament #1 —
16,893
[18,166]
01/2006: Testament #2 — 13,518 (-20.0%)
02/2006: Testament
#3 — 12,831 (- 5.1%)
03/2006: Testament #4 — 13,074 (+
1.9%)
04/2006: Testament #5 — 12,770 (- 2.3%)
05/2006: Testament
#6 — 12,361 (- 3.2%)
06/2006: Testament #7 — 11,770 (-
4.8%)
07/2006: Testament #8 — 11,073 (- 5.9%)
08/2006: Testament
#9 — 10,462 (- 5.5%)
09/2006: Testament #10 — 9,629 (-
8.0%)
10/2006: Testament #11 — 9,059 (- 5.9%)
—————-
6 months:
-29.1%
Declining.
*160 - THE NEXT*
07/2006: The Next #1 of 6 — 22,713
08/2006: The Next
#2 of 6 — 15,875 (-30.1%)
09/2006: The Next #3 of 6 — 10,570
(-33.4%)
10/2006: The Next #4 of 6 — 8,054 (-23.8%)
Horrible sales. At this point, you have to wonder who on earth
ordered
those 22,713 copies of issue #1, and what they were thinking.
*167 - SKYE RUNNER (WildStorm)*
04/2006: Skye Runner #1 of 6 —
14,600
05/2006: Skye Runner #2 of 6 — 9,464 (-35.2%)
06/2006:
–
07/2006: Skye Runner #3 of 6 — 8,165 (-13.7%)
08/2006:
–
09/2006: Skye Runner #4 of 6 — 8,652 (+ 6.0%)
10/2006: Skye Runner
#5 of 6 — 7,691 (-11.1%)
—————-
6 months: -47.3%
Contrary to what the solicitation copy says, there were no variant
cover
editions of /Skye Runner/ #5.
*169 - BATMAN STRIKES! (Johnny DC)*
10/2003: Batman Adventures #7
— 13,788
10/2004: Batman Strikes! #2 —
16,941
—————————————-
10/2005: Batman Strikes! #14 —
8,950 (- 3.6%)
11/2005: Batman Strikes! #15 — 8,840 (-
1.2%)
12/2005: Batman Strikes! #16 — 8,462 (-
4.3%)
01/2006: Batman Strikes! #17 — 8,172 (-
3.4%)
02/2006: Batman Strikes! #18 — 8,626 (+
5.6%)
03/2006: Batman Strikes! #19 — 8,244 (-
4.4%)
04/2006: Batman Strikes! #20 — 8,331 (+
1.1%)
05/2006: Batman Strikes! #21 — 8,467 (+
1.6%)
06/2006: Batman Strikes! #22 — 8,104 (-
4.3%)
07/2006: Batman Strikes! #23 — 8,154 (+
0.6%)
08/2006: Batman Strikes! #24 — 8,139 (-
0.2%)
09/2006: Batman Strikes! #25 — 7,765 (-
4.6%)
10/2006: Batman Strikes! #26 — 7,560 (-
2.6%)
—————-
6 months: - 9.3%
1 year : -15.5%
2 years :
-55.4%
*175 - KRYPTO THE SUPERDOG (Johnny DC)*
09/2006: Krypto the Superdog #1
of 6 — 10,369
10/2006: Krypto the Superdog #2 of 6 — 7,023
(-32.3%)
Two more Johnny DC titles.
*177 - CLAW THE UNCONQUERED (WildStorm)*
06/2006: Claw the Unconquered
#1 — 14,785
07/2006: Claw the Unconquered #2 — 11,470 (-22.4%)
08/2006:
Claw the Unconquered #3 — 9,320 (-18.8%)
09/2006: Claw the Unconquered
#4 — 7,628 (-18.2%)
10/2006: Claw the Unconquered #5 — 6,643
(-12.9%)
Canceled with issue #6.
*180 - WINTER MEN (WildStorm)*
10/2005: –
11/2005: Winter Men #3 of 8
— 8,324 (- 6.1%)
12/2005: –
01/2006: –
02/2006: –
03/2006:
–
04/2006: Winter Men #4 of 8 — 7,129 (-14.4%)
05/2006:
–
06/2006: –
07/2006: –
08/2006: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Winter Men
#5 of 8 — 6,480 (- 9.1%)
—————
6 months: -9.1%
1 year
: n.a.
Out of sight, out of mind.
*181 - ROKKIN (WildStorm)*
07/2006: Rokkin #1 — 10,846
08/2006:
Rokkin #2 — 8,389 (-22.7%)
09/2006: Rokkin #3 — 6,852
(-18.3%)
10/2006: Rokkin #4 — 6,449 (- 5.9%)
*197 - MANIFEST ETERNITY (WildStorm)*
06/2006: Manifest Eternity #1 —
11,387
07/2006: Manifest Eternity #2 — 8,415 (-26.1%)
08/2006:
Manifest Eternity #3 — 6,690 (-20.5%)
09/2006: Manifest Eternity #4
— 5,655 (-15.5%)
10/2006: Manifest Eternity #5 — 5,213 (-
7.8%)
Both canceled with issue #6.
*215 - SCOOBY DOO (Johnny DC)*
10/2003: Scooby Doo #77 —
6,017
10/2004: Scooby Doo #89 — 5,449
———————————
10/2005: Scooby
Doo #101 — 4,604 (-12.1%)
11/2005: Scooby Doo #102 — 4,587 (-
0.4%)
12/2005: Scooby Doo #103 — 4,490 (- 2.1%)
01/2006: Scooby Doo #104 —
4,454 (- 0.8%)
02/2006: Scooby Doo #105 — 4,326 (- 2.9%)
03/2006: Scooby
Doo #106 — 4,419 (+ 2.2%)
04/2006: Scooby Doo #107 — 4,359 (-
1.4%)
05/2006: Scooby Doo #108 — 4,496 (+ 3.1%)
06/2006: Scooby Doo #109 —
4,423 (- 1.6%)
07/2006: Scooby Doo #110 — 4,781 (+ 8.1%)
08/2006: Scooby
Doo #111 — 4,492 (- 6.1%)
09/2006: Scooby Doo #112 — 4,385 (-
2.4%)
10/2006: Scooby Doo #113 — 4,339 (- 1.1%)
—————-
6 months: -
0.5%
1 year : - 5.8%
2 years : -20.4%
*242 - LOONEY TUNES (Johnny DC)*
10/2003: Looney Tunes #107 —
3,595
10/2004: Looney Tunes #119 — 3,218
———————————–
10/2005: Looney
Tunes #131 — 2,673 (+ 0.5%)
11/2005: Looney Tunes #132 — 2,747 (+
2.8%)
12/2005: Looney Tunes #133 — 2,633 (- 4.2%)
01/2006: Looney Tunes
#134 — 2,601 (- 1.2%)
02/2006: Looney Tunes #135 — 2,631 (+ 1.2%)
03/2006:
Looney Tunes #136 — 2,792 (+ 6.1%)
04/2006: Looney Tunes #137 — 2,558 (-
8.4%)
05/2006: Looney Tunes #138 — 2,774 (+ 8.4%)
06/2006: Looney Tunes
#139 — 2,694 (- 2.9%)
07/2006: Looney Tunes #140 — 2,680 (- 0.5%)
08/2006:
Looney Tunes #141 — 2,783 (+ 3.8%)
09/2006: Looney Tunes #142 — 2,695 (-
3.2%)
10/2006: Looney Tunes #143 — 2,741 (+ 1.7%)
—————-
6 months: +
7.2%
1 year : + 2.5%
2 years : -14.8%
*274 - CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY (Johnny DC)*
10/2003: Cartoon
Cartoons #23 — 2,702
10/2004: CN Block Party #2 —
3,043
————————————–
10/2005: CN Block Party #14 — 1,805 (-
4.4%)
11/2005: CN Block Party #15 — 1,757 (- 2.7%)
12/2005: CN
Block Party #16 — 1,781 (+ 1.4%)
01/2006: CN Block Party
#17 — 1,797 (+ 0.9%)
02/2006: CN Block Party #18 —
1,728 (- 3.8%)
03/2006: CN Block Party #19 — ?????
04/2006: CN
Block Party #20 — 2,055
05/2006: CN Block Party #21 —
?????
06/2006: CN Block Party #22 — 1,913
07/2006: CN Block
Party #23 — 1,976 (+ 3.3%)
08/2006: CN Block Party
#24 — 1,920 (- 2.8%)
09/2006: CN Block Party #25 —
1,918 (- 0.1%)
10/2006: CN Block Party #26 — 1,879 (-
2.0%)
—————-
6 months: - 8.6%
1 year : + 4.1%
2 years :
-38.3%
*282 - CARTOON NETWORK ACTION PACK (Johnny DC)*
05/2006: CN Action Pack
#1 — ?????
06/2006: CN Action Pack #2 — 1,844
07/2006: CN Action Pack #3 —
1,908 (+3.5%)
08/2006: CN Action Pack #4 — ?????
09/2006: CN Action Pack
#5 — 1,644
10/2006: CN Action Pack #6 — 1,704 (+3.7%)
And four more Johnny DC books.
*RE-ORDERS:*
142 - 10,944 — Justice League of America #1
163 -
7,916 — Justice League of America #2
205 - 4,770 — Batman #657
244
- 2,697 — Trials of Shazam #2
259 - 2,210 — The Boys #2
270
- 1,979 — The Boys #1
290 - 1,636 — 52 Week 21
*Average Sales per Title*
(not counting reprints, re-orders shipping
after the initial month of
release, Johnny DC titles and magazines)
*DC COMICS*
10/2003: 28,677
10/2004: 30,125
—————
10/2005:
36,627 (+ 4.7%)
11/2005: 32,971 (-10.0%)
12/2005: 36,147 (+
9.6%)
01/2006: 33,019 (- 8.7%)
02/2006: 32,292 (- 2.2%)
03/2006: 36,077
(+11.7%)
04/2006: 33,566 (- 7.0%)
05/2006: 42,860 (+27.7%)
06/2006:
40,778 (- 4.9%)
07/2006: 39,915 (- 2.1%)
08/2006: 42,497 (+
6.5%)
09/2006: 34,920 (-17.8%)
10/2006: 33,406 (- 4.3%)
—————-
6
months: - 0.5%
1 year : - 8.8%
2 years : +10.9%
3 years :
+16.5%
*DC UNIVERSE*
10/2003: 34,572
10/2004: 35,481
—————
10/2005:
47,021 (+ 4.9%)
11/2005: 42,342 (-10.0%)
12/2005: 44,993 (+
6.3%)
01/2006: 40,118 (-10.3%)
02/2006: 40,823 (+ 1.8%)
03/2006: 44,854
(+ 9.9%)
04/2006: 45,129 (+ 0.6%)
05/2006: 56,982 (+26.3%)
06/2006:
51,088 (-10.3%)
07/2006: 49,638 (- 2.8%)
08/2006: 54,382
(+10.0%)
09/2006: 46,329 (-14.8%)
10/2006: 42,581 (- 8.1%)
—————-
6
months: - 5.7%
1 year : - 9.4%
2 years : +20.0%
3 years :
+23.2%
With many of the publisher’s top-sellers failing to ship in
October,
it’s not surprising that sales of the average DC Universe title
went
down again.
This time, however, the company wasn’t as dependent on its DC
Universe
line as usual. Due to the relaunch of their major WildStorm
Universe
properties, the drop-off isn’t as drastic as it might have
been.
*VERTIGO*
10/2003: 18,326
10/2004: 17,102
—————
10/2005: 16,009
(+12.1%)
11/2005: 15,730 (- 1.7%)
12/2005: 16,320 (+ 3.8%)
01/2006:
15,036 (- 7.9%)
02/2006: 15,026 (- 0.1%)
03/2006: 15,812 (+
5.2%)
04/2006: 15,473 (- 2.1%)
05/2006: 15,266 (- 1.3%)
06/2006: 14,965
(- 2.0%)
07/2006: 16,684 (+11.5%)
08/2006: 16,107 (- 3.5%)
09/2006:
15,399 (- 4.4%)
10/2006: 15,189 (- 1.4%)
—————-
6 months: - 1.8%
1
year : - 5.1%
2 years : -11.2%
3 years : -17.1%
With no major new launches in terms of monthly issues, average
Vertigo
sales continued to decrease in October.
*WILDSTORM*
10/2003: 17,857
10/2004: 20,052
—————
10/2005:
17,215 (+25.6%)
11/2005: 16,255 (- 5.6%)
12/2005: 15,068 (-
7.3%)
01/2006: 17,505 (+16.2%)
02/2006: 13,610 (-22.3%)
03/2006: 14,210
(+ 4.4%)
04/2006: 16,036 (+12.9%)
05/2006: 12,737 (-20.6%)
06/2006:
15,056 (+18.2%)
07/2006: 12,778 (-15.1%)
08/2006: 14,741
(+15.4%)
09/2006: 13,285 (- 9.9%)
10/2006: 25,747 (+93.8%)
—————-
6
months: +60.6%
1 year : +49.6%
2 years : +28.4%
3 years :
+44.2%
The WildStorm Universe revamp and /Planetary/ almost double
the
imprint’s average numbers. It’s unlikely that sales will remain at
this
level, certainly, but if they can manage to keep them closer to
20,000
units than to 10,000 in the long run, I imagine it would help a
lot.
*6-MONTH COMPARISONS*
+472.7%: Wildcats
+ 7.2%: Looney
Tunes
+ 4.3%: Fables
+ 3.3%: Detective Comics
+ 3.1%:
Y: The Last Man
- 0.5%: Scooby-Doo
- 0.9%: Batman:
LotDK
- 1.7%: Planetary
- 3.4%: 100 Bullets
- 3.8%:
DMZ
- 4.1%: Hellblazer
- 5.3%: Batman: The Mad Monk
-
5.5%: Firestorm
- 5.8%: Justice
- 6.5%: Desolation
Jones
- 7.3%: Supergirl and the LoSH
- 8.6%: CN Block
Party
- 8.7%: JL Unlimited
- 9.0%: Teen Titans Go
-
9.1%: Winter Men
- 9.3%: Batman Strikes!
- 9.5%: Green
Arrow
- 11.4%: Robin
- 11.7%: Birds of Prey
- 12.1%: The
Exterminators
- 16.6%: Catwoman
- 17.0%: Nightwing
- 19.6%: Jonah
Hex
- 19.9%: Outsiders
- 23.6%: JLA: Classified
- 25.0%: Loveless
-
29.1%: Testament
- 29.2%: JSA: Classified
- 35.1%: Hawkgirl
- 41.6%:
Ion
- 43.8%: Warlord
- 46.5%: Checkmate
- 47.3%: Skye Runner
*1-YEAR COMPARISONS*
+390.4%: Wildcats
+218.5%: The Authority
+
64.4%: Action Comics
+ 59.0%: Detective Comics
+ 32.0%: Flash
+ 21.8%:
Supergirl and the LoSH
+ 14.3%: Catwoman
+ 4.1%: CN Block
Party
+ 2.5%: Looney Tunes
+ 2.3%: Fables
+ 1.0%: Y:
The Last Man
- 0.7%: Green Arrow
- 2.8%: Batman:
LotDK
- 3.4%: Nightwing
- 3.5%: Robin
- 5.3%: Birds
of Prey
- 5.8%: Scooby-Doo
- 7.2%: Hellblazer
- 9.4%:
JL Unlimited
- 11.5%: 100 Bullets
- 14.8%: Hawkgirl
- 15.5%: Batman
Strikes!
- 17.0%: Justice
- 21.4%: Teen Titans Go
- 23.0%:
Outsiders
- 29.1%: Firestorm
- 36.8%: Green Lantern Corps
- 40.7%: JLA:
Classified
- 43.9%: Loveless
- 52.1%: JSA: Classified
*2-YEAR COMPARISONS*
+119.2%: The Authority
+ 91.8%: Action
Comics
+ 39.9%: Flash
+ 29.5%: Detective Comics
+ 1.4%: Green
Arrow
+ 0.6%: Fables
+ 0.1%: Planetary
- 0.5%: Y: The
Last Man
- 5.3%: Birds of Prey
- 10.7%: Hellblazer
- 11.8%:
Nightwing
- 12.3%: Hawkgirl
- 12.3%: Outsiders
- 14.8%: Looney
Tunes
- 19.8%: 100 Bullets
- 20.4%: Scooby-Doo
- 26.1%: Robin
-
31.8%: Teen Titans Go
- 35.8%: Catwoman
- 38.3%: CN Block Party
-
41.1%: Batman: LotDK
- 41.2%: Firestorm
- 41.6%: JL Unlimited
- 55.4%:
Batman Strikes!
*OTHER PUBLISHERS*
*50 - STAR WARS: LEGACY (Dark Horse)*
06/2006: Star Wars: Legacy #1 —
34,758 [36,375]
07/2006: Star
Wars: Legacy #2 — 33,298 (-4.2%)
08/2006: –
09/2006: Star Wars: Legacy #3
— 34,268 (+2.9%)
09/2006: Star Wars: Legacy #4 — 34,362 (+0.3%)
*93 - STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC (Dark Horse)*
01/2006: Star
Wars: KotOR #1 — 23,486
[25,140]
02/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #2 — 21,203 (-9.7%)
03/2006: Star Wars:
KotOR #3 — 21,346 (+0.7%)
04/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #4 — 22,581
(+5.8%)
05/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #5 — 23,223 (+2.8%)
06/2006: Star Wars:
KotOR #6 — 23,424 (+0.9%)
07/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #7 — 23,531
(+0.5%)
08/2006: –
09/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #8 — 24,374
(+3.6%)
10/2006: Star Wars: KotOR #9 — 24,229 (-0.6%)
—————-
6 months:
+ 7.3%
The Star Wars franchise continues to do perfectly well for Dark
Horse.
There has been virtually no drop-off for /Star Wars: Legacy/ since
the
first issue, and /Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic/ #9
actually
outsells issue #1. Cover count: one for each.
*82 - BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Dynamite)*
08/2006: Battlestar Galactica #1
— 38,095
[39,237]
09/2006: –
10/2006: Battlestar Galactica #2 — 26,134
(-31.4%)
That’s a stiff drop-off, on the other hand. Cover count: seven.
*64 - CONAN (Dark Horse)*
10/2004: Conan #9 —
44,633
—————————-
10/2005: Conan #21 — 34,232 (- 1.9%)
11/2005: Conan
#22 — 33,653 (- 1.7%)
12/2005: Conan #23 — 32,592 (- 3.2%)
01/2006: Conan
#24 — 31,907 (- 2.1%)
02/2006: Conan #25 — 31,675 (- 0.7%)
03/2006: Conan
#26 — 31,573 (- 0.3%)
04/2006: Conan #27 — 31,710 (+ 0.4%)
05/2006: Conan
#28 — 31,675 (- 0.1%)
06/2006: Conan #29 — 32,049 (+ 1.2%)
07/2006: Conan
#30 — 31,095 (- 3.0%)
08/2006: Conan #31 — 30,887 (- 0.7%)
09/2006: Conan
#32 — 29,070 (- 5.9%)
10/2006: Conan #33 — 29,137 (+ 0.2%)
—————-
6
months: - 8.1%
1 year : -14.9%
2 years : -34.7%
The arrival of new regular writer Timothy Truman puts a halt to
the
book’s decline for the time being, if nothing else. Cover count:
one.
*86 - SPAWN (Image/TMP)*
10/2003: Spawn #129 — 38,211
10/2004: Spawn
#139 — 30,552
—————————–
10/2005: Spawn #150 — 40,152 (+49.9%)
[42,529]
11/2005: –
12/2005: Spawn #151 — 28,860 (-28.1%)
01/2006:
Spawn #152 — 27,247 (- 5.6%)
02/2006: Spawn #153 — 26,884 (-
1.3%)
03/2006: Spawn #154 — 26,966 (+ 0.3%)
04/2006: Spawn #155 — 26,728
(- 0.9%)
05/2006: Spawn #156 — 27,017 (+ 1.1%)
06/2006: Spawn #157 —
26,325 (- 2.6%)
07/2006: Spawn #158 — 26,875 (+ 2.1%)
08/2006: Spawn #159
— 26,232 (- 2.4%)
09/2006: Spawn #160 — 25,580 (- 2.5%)
10/2006: Spawn
#161 — 25,840 (+ 1.0%)
—————-
6 months: - 3.3%
1 year :
-35.7%
2 years : -15.4%
Sticking to the orbit around 26K. Cover count: one.
*89 - RED SONJA (Dynamite)*
10/2005: –
11/2005: Red Sonja #3 —
41,866 (-24.1%)
12/2005: –
01/2006: Red Sonja #4 — 41,856 (-
0.0%)
02/2006: Red Sonja #5 — 38,798 (- 7.3%)
02/2006: Red Sonja
#6 — 35,031 (- 9.7%)
03/2006: Red Sonja #7 — 34,560 (-
1.5%)
03/2006: Red Sonja #8 — 34,700 (+ 0.4%)
04/2006: Red Sonja
#9 — 32,334 (- 6.8%)
05/2006: Red Sonja #10 — 32,479 (+
0.5%)
06/2006: Red Sonja #11 — 31,176 (- 4.0%)
07/2006: Red Sonja #12 —
33,252 (+ 6.7%)
08/2006: Red Sonja #13 — 28,996 (-12.8%)
09/2006: Red
Sonja #14 — 25,891 (-10.7%)
10/2006: Red Sonja #15 — 25,303 (-
2.3%)
—————-
6 months: -21.8%
1 year : n.a.
Are the numbers finally beginning to stablize this time? It’s
possible,
but you can never tell. Cover count: six.
*100 - HUNTER-KILLER (Image/Top Cow)*
10/2005: –
11/2005:
–
12/2005: Hunter-Killer #5 — 23,877 (- 8.9%)
01/2005: –
02/2005:
–
03/2005: –
04/2005: –
05/2005: –
06/2005: –
07/2005:
–
08/2005: Hunter-Killer #6 — 21,922 (- 8.2%)
09/2005: Hunter-Killer #7 —
24,173 (+10.3%)
10/2005: Hunter-Killer #8 — 21,770 (- 9.9%)
—————-
6
months: n.a.
1 year : n.a.
Resuming its swift decline as last month’s variant cover artist Jim
Lee
is replaced with John Cassady. Cover count: two.
*125 - JOHN WOO’S SEVEN BROTHERS (Virgin)*
10/2006: John Woo’s Seven
Brothers #1 — 14,546
*182 - DEVI (Virgin)*
07/2006: Devi #1 —
5,917 [8,413]
08/2006:
Devi #2 — 5,529 (- 6.6%)
09/2006: Devi #3 — 6,103 (+10.4%)
09/2006: Devi
#4 — 6,393 (+ 4.8%)
*190 - SNAKEWOMAN (Virgin)*
07/2006: Snakewoman #1 — 6,360
08/2006:
–
09/2006: Snakewoman #2 — 5,079 (-20.1%)
09/2006: Snakewoman #3 — 4,760
(- 6.3%)
10/2006: Snakewoman #4 — 5,694 (+19.6%)
*220 - RAMAYAN 3392 AD (Virgin)*
09/2006: Ramayan 3392 AD #1 —
6,358
10/2006: Ramayan 3392 AD #2 — 3,952 (-37.8%)
The interest in Virgin’s books keeps increasing. /John Woo’s
Seven
Brothers/ does amazingly well with its first issue, even accounting
for
the involvement of writer Garth Ennis and multiple variant
covers.
/Ramayan 3392 AD/ sees a harsh drop-off, meanwhile, but based on
the
performance of /Devi/ and /Snakewoman/, both of which have begun
to
climb the charts after initial drops, that may yet change.
Cover count: four for /John Woo’s Seven Brothers/, one each for
/Devi/,
/Snakewoman/ and /Ramayan 3392 AD/.
*136 - THE ESCAPISTS (Dark Horse)*
07/2006: The Escapists #1 of 6 —
21,748
08/2006: The Escapists #2 of 6 — 12,862 (-40.9%)
09/2006: The
Escapists #3 of 6 — 12,543 (- 2.5%)
10/2006: The Escapists #4 of 6 — 12,436
(- 0.9%)
We recall: Issue #1 came with a $ 1.00 cover price, hence the
big
drop-off for #2. The decline is grinding to a halt now, however, and
the
book is selling at a decent level.
*163 - FALLEN ANGEL (IDW)*
10/2003: Fallen Angel #4 —
15,091
10/2004: Fallen Angel #16 — 10,401
———————————–
12/2005: Fallen
Angel #1 — 12,176 (+18.4%)
01/2006: Fallen Angel #2 — 9,588
(-21.3%)
02/2006: –
03/2006: Fallen Angel #3 — 9,570 (-
0.2%)
03/2006: Fallen Angel #4 — 9,110 (- 4.8%)
04/2006:
–
05/2006: Fallen Angel #5 — 9,155 (+ 0.5%)
06/2006: Fallen
Angel #6 — 8,043 (-12.2%)
07/2006: –
08/2006: Fallen Angel
#7 — 8,475 (+ 5.4%)
08/2006: Fallen Angel #8 — 8,168
(- 3.6%)
09/2006: –
10/2006: Fallen Angel #9 — 7,954 (-
2.5%)
—————-
6 months: n.a.
2 years : -34.7%
Sales are back in decline.
*173 - SAVAGE DRAGON (Image)*
10/2003: Savage Dragon #111 —
10,409
10/2004: Savage Dragon #118 — 8,806
————————————-
10/2005:
–
11/2005: –
12/2005: –
01/2006: Savage Dragon #122 —
7,180
02/2006: Savage Dragon #123 — 7,103 (- 1.1%)
03/2006: Savage
Dragon #124 — 6,778 (- 4.6%)
04/2006: Savage Dragon #125 — 6,990
(+ 3.1%)
05/2006: Savage Dragon #126 — 6,891 (- 1.4%)
06/2006:
Savage Dragon #127 — 6,880 (- 0.2%)
07/2006: –
08/2006:
–
09/2006: Savage Dragon #128 — 10,150 (+47.5%)
10/2006: Savage Dragon
#129 — 7,242 (-28.7%)
—————-
6 months: + 3.6%
1 year
: n.a.
2 years : -17.8%
Issue #128 was a crossover with Mark Millar’s /Wanted/, complete with
a
variant cover edition by /Wanted/ artist J.G. Jones, explaining
the
considerable increase in September. With the subsequent issue,
the
numbers are pretty much back to normal, although they remain
slightly
higher than they’d been for the rest of the year.
*187 - CASANOVA (Image)*
06/2006: Casanova #1 — 9,749
07/2006:
Casanova #2 — 6,337 (-35.0%)
08/2006: Casanova #3 — 5,874 (-
7.3%)
09/2006: Casanova #4 — 5,984 (+ 1.9%)
09/2006: Casanova #5 — 5,900
(- 1.4%)
Standard attrition.
*214 - GODLAND (Image)*
10/2005: Godland #4 — 4,129 (+
4.5%)
11/2005: Godland #5 — 4,323 (+ 4.7%)
12/2005: –
01/2006:
Godland #6 — 4,522 (+ 4.6%)
01/2006: Godland #7 — 4,435 (-
1.9%)
02/2006: Godland #8 — 4,732 (+ 6.7%)
02/2006: Godland #9
— 4,356 (- 8.0%)
03/2006: —
04/2006: Godland #10 — 4,147 (-
4.8%)
05/2006: Godland #11 — 4,473 (+ 7.9%)
06/2006: –
07/2006: Godland
#12 — 4,611 (+ 3.1%)
08/2006: –
09/2006: –
10/2006: Godland #13 — 4,364
(- 5.4%)
—————-
6 months: + 5.2%
1 year : + 5.7%
Sales remain within the usual range as the book returns from its
hiatus.
/Godland/ #16 is going to be a 60-cent promotional issue, so the
book’s
numbers will be interesting to watch over the next few months.
*216 - WASTELAND (Oni)*
07/2006: Wasteland #1 — 4,952
08/2006:
Wasteland #2 — 3,974 (-19.8%)
09/2006: Wasteland #3 — 4,367 (+
9.9%)
10/2006: Wasteland #4 — 4,252 (- 2.6%)
Back in a slight decline.
—–
*Disclaimers*
The numbers below are estimates for comic book sales to retailers in
the
North American direct market, as calculated by ICv2.com
http://www.icv2.com/ according to the chart and
index information
provided by Diamond Comic Distributors
http://www.diamondcomics.com/.
ICv2.com’s
estimates are traditionally known to be somewhat lower than
the actual
numbers, but they are consistent from month to month, so the
trends they show
should be accurate.
If additional copies of an issue appeared on the chart after the
issue’s
initial month of release, you can see the total number of copies sold
in
parenthesis behind those issues (e.g. “[36,599]”). Should more than
one
issue have shipped in a month which is relevant for one of the
long-term
comparisons, the average will be used.
The titles released under the Johnny DC imprint and magazines, such
as
/Mad/, mostly sell through channels other than the direct market,
so
direct market sales don’t tell us much about their performance.
—–
Nov 30, 2006 6:44 AM
from Gizmodo
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xrayclothes.jpgLook for applications for airport security guards
to
skyrocket in the near future: a new technology will allow the
wand
wavers to see through people's clothes. It's to let them see if
anyone
is carrying a nuclear bomb in their pants, I guess.
The process, called passive millimeter-wave technology,
currently
provides "somewhat fuzzy" grayscale images, but the researchers
are
working to get the quality up so you can really see those nipples
stand
out. –Adam Frucci
Nov 30, 2006 6:43 AM
from Gizmodo
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mp3doorbell.jpgThe humble doorbell has just made the leap into the
21st
century. DoorLinX by Netstreams can play an MP3 of your choice
whenever
someone presses your doorbell button, and that MP3 is easily placed
on
the slim wall-mounted slab via WiFi.
Imagine that, now you can play Captain Picard's doorbell sound
http://www.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/11/Doorbell.wav
through
the DoorLinX's 4-watt speaker, and even hook up a door latch
activation
relay to its TouchLynx touchscreens. We've been looking all over
for a
doorbell like this, and finally it's here. Now if Netstreams could
just
set its price and availability and then bring it to market, we'll
be
first in line. – Charlie White
Nov 30, 2006 6:40 AM
from Gizmodo
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NYT%20Power.jpg This may seem like a given to most of us with
laptops,
but the New York Times makes a good point in saying there's not
nearly
enough power outlets in today's supposedly high-tech airports.
I'll
second that and say that the epidemic isn't limited to just
airports,
but everywhere. The New York Public Library has gone so far
as
prohibiting people from plugging their laptops into available outlets
in
its "Wi-Fi" room. (I should know, I got scolded for trying to
connect).
The reason? "Security." Free Wi-Fi is good, yes, but what's it to
me if
I don't have a power outlet to connect to. Anyone else
experience
similar frustrations? – Louis Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
Nov 30, 2006 6:38 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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i.Disk scans your hard disk and displays the total space used by
each
folder graphically. You can drill down into the folders to
understand
how disk space is being used, and there are some handy tools
available
if you want to clean up your hard disk.
Nov 29, 2006 2:56 PM
from digg
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This was the
very first sketch on the very first episode of HBO's "Chris
Rock Show" from
about ten years ago. Some of the jokes are out of date
but watch to the end
and you'll see this was ahead of its time.
Nov 29, 2006 2:27 PM
from digg
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Scott Kurtz
announced that he will be working with Blind Ferret Studios
to release 4-6
minute animated shorts starting in February under a
subscription based
program. They have a preview up and it looks
really
great!
Nov 29, 2006 2:26 PM
from digg
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As you become
comfortable with using the new and innovative Wii Remote,
we would like for
you to take a few minutes to review some important
safety information which,
when followed, will help ensure a fun playing
experience for
all.
Nov 29, 2006 2:23 PM
from digg
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Footage from
Iraq shows how YouTube is giving a much better view of
thereality in Iraq
than the traditional news media.Combat attacks are
seen - from both sides -
and towards the bottom there's some surprising
Iraqi "action" of another
sort.
Nov 29, 2006 1:27 PM
from
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by JK
Parkin
Scott McCloud javascript:void(0);
Scott McCloud
javascript:void(0);
Nov 29, 2006 7:55 AM
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/InkiMinahBird01.jpgTheone
big experiment he did in character styling was The Dover Boys-1942.
But I
heard Leon Schlesinger hated the cartoon and told him never to do
anything
like that again. John Hubley at Columbia cartoons saw it and
was hugely
influenced by it and copied the characters and styling for
his own cartoons,
Professer Tall and Mr. Small. He later carried the
idea of experimental
design even further and helped found UPA.
He might have thought thatLeon didn't pay attention to the BGs and
so
wouldn't notice how radical the changes and experiments were. I
don't
really know, but it is odd to see graphic BGs behind rounded
flowing
characters.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/InkiMinahBirdLion.jpgIwas
always fascinated by these early Jones cartoons and hugely impressed
at how
many ideas were created so fast, whereas today it takes a whole
decade at
least to notice any discernible changes in cartoon styling and
it's usually
accidental and for the worse.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/InkiMinahBirdSpear.jpgPeople
ask me about the Ren and Stimpy or the Spumco "style" and I
always say there
isn't one. Jones and others instilled in me the idea to
constantly try new
things and experiment and always be restless and
never satisfied with
anything. I might be the last person on earth who
remembers the concept of
"progress" as a positive thing, a concept that
just a few decades ago was the
American philosophy that made the country
the greatest, most influential and
fastest moving nation in history.
What is known as the "Spumco style" is really the style of my
imitators
who carry on all the mistakes in my cartoons and turn them into
cliches.
The real John K/ Spumco style is the combination of whichever
artists
worked on which cartoon and what we were thinking about at the
time.
Almost every Ren and Stimpy is a different style -until Nickelodeon
took
it over and even then it took awhile to become a formula. The
barreling
momentum of constant change started on Bakshi's Mighty Mouse and
carried
on in Ren and Stimpy took awhile to brake.
It finally did and now has gone quite a bit in reverse in the
cable
cartoon network studios.
Nov 28, 2006 10:56 PM
from Pocket PC
Thoughts
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by
undisclosed@thoughtsmedia.com
(Jon Westfall)
/"If you look at the history of portable recorded music, you
can see a
clear trend: first we had cassette tapes, then CDs. The
pre-recorded
music gave way to custom-burned CDs with the music the person
wanted on
it. Then came portable digital media players. The allure of
digital
audio players was simple: being able to carry more a lot of music in
a
single device. Since the first digital audio players made their
début,
we've seen a steady march toward higher and higher capacity
storage.
Today, the largest devices have a staggering 100+ GB worth of
storage.
Most people don't have that much music to fill the player, but
throwing
more storage at the problem can only work for so long - and
ultimately
you're still limited to the music that's on the player. What if
you
eliminate the local storage factor, and instead stream the music to
a
wireless device? Suddenly having a lot of space for your music no
longer
matters. What if you allow the portable device to access a huge
variety
of music? That's a game-changing idea, and it's exactly what Mercora
is
looking to deliver."/
The Two Inch View has a nice write-up about Mercora, a new way to
stream
music to your device and thus free up users from requiring large
amounts
of storage space just to have a good music selection on their
Windows
Mobile Devices. While it may be slightly ahead of it's time, it's
still
a pretty neat idea.
Nov 28, 2006 9:42 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
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weirdaljibjab.jpg
Nov 28, 2006 9:28 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
Minx javascript:void(0);
Minx
javascript:void(0);
DC Comics has released the full 2007 lineup for its new Minx imprint
of
graphic novels for teen girls.
Nov 28, 2006 9:25 PM
from Gizmodo
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siemans_monstermonitor.jpgHow big is too big? No such thing when
you're
talking about computer monitors. Siemens lashed together eight
LCDs,
making this gigantic display about which precious little information
is
available. All we know is, we want one. – Charlie White
Here's Jason's take on it. Because Jason was too stupid to
realize
Charlie already covered this, and wrote it up anyway.
siemensmonitor.jpgUsed only for monitoring nuclear power plants and
a
prop for my weekend "Learn to Point" learning annex class, this
Seimens
LCD is the craziest monitor this side of Leibermann's photoshop
files
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/liebermann/.
Actually made out of eight separate, Voltron-esque LCDs, this monitor
is
undoubtedly out of everyone save for the richest Bond villains. But
just
imagine playing /Gears of War/ on this baby. Duck and roll baby.
Duck
and roll! – Jason Chen
Nov 28, 2006 8:17 PM
from
SANDBOX
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by
editoonc
Kids reading ads, get out of town. Remember those old comic
book ads.
They were so outlandish, the stuff of dreams. I love taking a trip
down
memory lane and looking at those ads. If you don’t have older
comics
here are a few sites to look at.
Nov 28, 2006 8:16 PM
from p2wy's
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Nov 28, 2006 8:15 PM
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Door County, WI
Nov 27, 2006 9:54 PM
from Gizmodo
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linutop_polol.jpg It doesn't get any simpler than this. The Linutop is
a
small form factor PC that comes pre-installed with Linux, and,
well,
that's about it. The PC has no hard drive, video card, or
other
components as it's meant specifically for Web surfing only and
comes
with just enough ports/connections for all the essential peripherals.
A
number of other pre-installed apps (Firefox being one of them) are
also
included. Cost and availability are still unknown, but if you're
looking
for a cheap, bare bones PC, I can't picture anyone topping this. –
Louis
Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
Nov 27, 2006 5:15 PM
from digg
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Penn and Teller
make the argument that the war on drugs is plain and
simple worthless
bullshit. Very interesting to see the arguments from
both sides. I totally
agree that at the very least marijuana should be
made legal, considering it's
actually less harmful than alcohol and
tobacco. Heck, even George Washington
grew cannabis crops and smoked it!
Nov 27, 2006 5:15 PM
from digg
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CNN's Carol Lin
sits down and interviews ask a ninja's creators
Nov 27, 2006 5:14 PM
from digg
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Kevin Smith was
recently asked to make his celebrity iTunes playlist.
"My contact (at Apple)
said he’s never had this problem before. He said
yours is the best they’ve
ever received and he wishes they could make it
work." They couldn't make it
work. So here's Kevin's unpublished
playlist, complete with his customary
comedic commentary.
Nov 27, 2006 2:31 PM
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The masters of
the plastic universe are baffled. From their
imaginations, their computers,
from their calloused fingers, magnificent
kingdoms have sprung. They can
re-create the Seven Wonders of the World
in a literal snap. But now they
huddle in their model shop of Legoland
California and contemplate the
seemingly impossible ...
Nov 27, 2006 2:26 PM
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JohnK
Opposing poses and lines of action will take your cartoon
characters
away from being mechanical puppets whose only function is to
recite
verbal nonsense that cartoon "writers" could tell you themselves
in
person without ever spending a nickel on a cartoon.
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4525/2278/1600/238768/stimpys_pregnant_1f.jpgA
subtle example of action causing reaction
Ren is not directly talking or
causing a reaction from Stimpy. He is not
even aware of Stimpy in this moment
- but Stimpy is aware of him.
Ren is thinking about the evil fun he could
have if they have a baby.
Stimpy has done his best to try to convince him and
he is waiting with
baited breath to see if Ren decides yes.
His body pose
shows him slightly leaning towards Ren, but not so much as
to risk making him
mad and deciding against the baby. The pose shows his
eager hesitation.
On
top of the clear body poses are very specific expressions also
helping to
tell the story.
Your poses and careful drawings can tell the audience way
more
information that a pile of script pages can.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/Composition26.jpgHarvey
is most famous for creating Mad Comics and Mad Magazine and the
talented
artists he developed- Wally Wood, Jack Davis and many others
did their best
work for him. Harvey did rough layouts or compositions
for many of their
comics and it made their work read better and have a
lot more life than much
of the work they did for others or even themselves.
Harvey didn't like his
own drawings and it's too bad because I think he
was the best of the bunch
and wish he had drawn a lot more comics himself.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/Composition27.jpgHere
is an example of what happens so often in the crazy inefficient,
wasteful
animation production system we have today. There are so many
steps in the
animation production process, where about 5 different
artists all work on the
same scene and each one in succession has to
draw the same pose that the
previous artist drew, and each time the
scene gets watered down, until the
final scene is completely stiff and
lifeless and has lots its original
purpose and meaning.
Here's the basic process:
A storyboard artist (if he is a good one)
draws rough scenes but with
some life and poses that are recognizable as
poses-with lines of action
and specific expressions and sillos and maybe some
suggestion of
composition.
A BG artist takes the storyboard and draws the BGs with no regard
to
what actions and poses the characters have to perform in the scene.
He
never leaves room for the pose artist to actually move his
characters
around. If there is a composition in the scene or interesting BG
ideas,
he disregards them and pastes in drawings from the background model
pack
that are filled with distracting non-descriptive details.
This storyboard and BG then goes to a layout artist who has
been
brainwashed to draw everything "on-model". He swears under his breath
at
the storyboard artist for drawing off-model, swears harder at the
BG
artists who gave him no room to pose the characters in the scene.
Then he tones down all the poses and takes out the expressions
that
aren't on the model sheet.
A Prop artist (usually someone who was a security guard a couple
weeks
earlier) designs a separate "prop-model-pack" that's 6 feet high full
of
every imaginable hammer, fly, rubber chicken, blade of grass
and
ridiculous details-but draws them poorly and too big and wonky
to
actually fit into the poses and compositions that the storyboard
artist
and layout artist drew.
The storyboard and layouts and BGs and prop packages are then given
to
foreign animators who then trace all the poses from the layouts
(without
looking at the storyboard to see if they have been toned down)
and
proceed to lose another generation of life.
Then the animation drawings go to the assistant animator who traces
the
animators watered down drawings of the watered down layouts and
waters
them down again.
As if this isn't enough, after all the animation and assistant
animation
is done, all the scenes then go to the "on-model" department for
one
last check to make sure that no drawings in the cartoon stand out
from
each other, that nothing at all looks interesting or amusing or
tells
the story effectively.
The final cartoon eventually comes back to "civilization" and
everyone
who worked on it hates it and blames everyone in every other
department.
It's no wonder artists get ¡aded so fast in this business. It's hard
to
care about your work, once you see that it never reaches the screen
the
way you meant it. You have to really dumb-down your expectations
in
order to survive.
Here is an example of the first stage of watering down, from
storyboard
to layout. Now imagine this happening 4 more times in 4 more
departments
farther and farther away from you.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4525/2278/1600/Composition28.jpgI've
spent 20 years designing and honing a system that tries to fight
this natural
watering down tendency and encourages creativity and
punching-up in each
successive department in the studio. Other studios
like Nick and CN adopt my
system and then year by year throw more monkey
wrenches into it, and undo it
until the time comes when they still use
all the terminology and superficial
play acting of pretending to make
"creator-driven" cartoons, when in reality
they've almost reverted to
the Filmation/ Hanna Barbera factory system of the
1980s, but now all
the execs and front-runners act all retro and have big
wacky pitch
meetings, then send the storyboards overseas -DON'T EVEN DO
LAYOUTS- and
use "voice-directors" and "story-editors" to make sure no
director or
creator has any control over the characters he created and make
everyone
draw "on-model" and keep all the creative people in each
important
creative department from communicating with each other.
This costs a heck of a lot more than having a small crew that
works
together under a director who is in charge of all creative aspects
of
his cartoons, by the way, although they will tell you otherwise
because
they don't count their own salaries and the salaries of all
the
department heads and story editors and the years of wasted
"development"
and market testing that went on before anyone drew a single
frame of film.
If you want to see this principle in action from a real sitcom
check
this out. Even without the sound you can see how great the acting
and
reacting is:
Buy the best sitcom of all time and laugh your guts
out!
Nov 27, 2006 2:25 PM
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by
Graeme McMillan
I’m not quite the last person in the world you’d expect
to start a
blog, so there are still a few left for those
of you who may have
been thinking about getting one.
Nov 27, 2006 9:57 AM
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Toy,
Collectible and Action Figure News From Across The
Globe
Nov 27, 2006 9:47 AM
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Magazine
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Got others manifesto items to add? Post'em up in the comments!
Nov 26, 2006 7:34 AM
Nov 26, 2006 7:33 AM
Nov 26, 2006 7:31 AM
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Title says it
all.
Nov 26, 2006 7:25 AM
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Slashdot
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by
Zonk
jonerik writes "The Japan Times has four articles covering the
events
surrounding this year's 40th anniversary celebration of the
Japanese
superhero Ultraman — along with Astro Boy probably the most
iconic
Japanese hero of the post-war era. The Ultraman...Forever
article
follows the history and development of the series over the last
40
years, and its appeal not only to the original generation of fans,
but
to the current generation, who are now the children or
even
grandchildren of the series' original audience. The Ultrabonding
article
explores this in further depth, crediting the series for
strengthening
the bonds between fathers and sons, both of whom grew up — or
are
growing up — watching the series. The Ultracollecting article looks
at
the toy collector side of things, and Ultrasuccess in Print
interviews
Tatsuya Miyanishi, the author of a series of Ultraman books —
including
1996's 'Daddy is Ultraman' — which have proven popular with both
young
and old fans alike."
Nov 25, 2006 10:31 PM
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A deep,
philosophical discussion of personal politics and how they apply
to the
destruction of the 2nd Deathstar in Return of the Jedi. Greatest
discussion
of Star Wars ever!
Nov 25, 2006 12:24 PM
Nov 25, 2006 12:24 PM
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Nov 25, 2006 10:01 AM
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A bunch of
scenes from an episode of the Office. Nearly long enough for
it's own
episode.
Nov 24, 2006 10:29 PM
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An interview
excerpt with Barbara Walters with him saying that it's
acceptable for a man
to slap a woman from time to time. Or rather, "shlap".
Nov 24, 2006 1:58 PM
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A cool flash
applet which can make any figure that you sketch dance,
automatically! Tons
of pre-drawn examples.
Nov 24, 2006 1:44 PM
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by
Graeme McMillan
Nov 24, 2006 1:43 PM
Happy Thanksgiving folks!
Kali, Mike and Marlo are coming over for Thanksgiving Sausages
and
Chili, a Canadian tradition. I'll take pictures and share them with
you
tonight. Hopefully Jesus will make an appearance to light the
sacred
barbecue and argue about evolution with us.
Nov 24, 2006 11:16 AM
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Australian
filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his
doorbell early in
the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and
tries to convert Mormons
to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were
not
pleased.
Nov 24, 2006 11:15 AM
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Meg
OK, tonight is a serious cacklefest. Jonelle T. sent this in,
wondering
if it's real or photoshop...
Oh, this one goes our to all the evil uncles out there who
pull
innertubing girls too fast on speedboats. They grow up and
start
photoblogs ABOUT PETS FOR GOD'S SAKE
Nov 24, 2006 11:04 AM
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A simple method
to colorize any picture you want! That is the final
image from
this
tutorial:http://www.swedesignz.com/tuts/color/beforeafter.jpg
Nov 24, 2006 11:03 AM
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Director
Greenhalgh: "War infects all our lives; recently it feels that
this has
increasingly become 'our way of life'. It is rare to be given
the opportunity
to shoot a video that is deemed controversial. All I
tried to do was make
people think about the everyday life we live in our
comfortable existences,
and the contrast to that through war."
Nov 24, 2006 10:07 AM
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Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*:
I read Greg Ruth's graphic novel Sudden Gravity
this week on a plane and
I'm still reeling from it. It's a deeply surreal
story about the
apocalypse coming to a giant, grim hospital modelled on
Jeremy Bentham's
Panopticon. The storyline is un-summarizable in the way
that, say, Twin
Peaks was. And as with Twin Peaks, the thing that makes this
book work
is the spooky, overarching /feel/, something that comes from the
writing
and especially from the stupendous, stark, haunting
black-and-white
artwork. I was given this book by Shawna Gore, an editor at
Dark Horse,
who declared Greg Ruth to be her favorite artist working in the
field,
and I'm inclined to agree. There is so much to set your skin a-crawl
and
keep you turning the pages in Ruth's illustration. It's a fast read --
I
put it away in less than an hour -- but it's a slow burn. I
keep
returning to those illustrations in my mind. Link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593075650/downandoutint-20
Nov 24, 2006 10:06 AM
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by Tom
Bondurant
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Thanksgiving is gratitude expressed in food. Today, that seems to
have
evolved into a celebration of “comfort food.” Everyone has a
favorite
Thanksgiving dish — my mom’s corn pudding, for example — and, in
the
same way, I think everyone has a favorite “comfort book.”
So, since I’ve got the Thursday feature, I asked my colleagues
to
contribute to a comics-flavored Thanksgiving potluck. They’d list
some
favorite side dishes and favorite comics, and I’d provide the main
course.
* * *
From Chris Hunter:
Thanksgiving does seem to be that one time of the year where it’s
the
only time that you get to eat certain items. My favorite dishes
at
Thanksgiving would have to be my wife’s Blueberry Dream Pie and
Deviled
Eggs. I don’t get these any time of the year except for
Thanksgiving.
Oh, sure, I could ask for them at any time, but I kind of like
to just
wait until Thanksgiving to have them and I guess that’s what makes
it
even more special to me.
Along with these special dishes, there are a few books I like to
kick
back, relax, and read for a little bit and they’re books that I can
read
over and over again. The first of such books that comes to mind is
*/The
Authority /*by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch. I swear, I could
reread
those books over and over and over. A newer addition to the “over
and
over again” books is */We3 /*by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.
This
is simply one of the best stories that I have ever read and it
continues
to enthrall me every time I sit down and read it. The last of
these
“over and over again” books is */MK:4 /Vol 1*. I can look at
Steve
McNiven’s artwork forever. This work by him is better than even
his
current /Civil War /work. Those are what I consider my “comfort”
books
and since I haven’t read them in a long time, I have to say that
I
really can’t wait for Wednesday because that’s when Thanksgiving
starts
for me.
* * *
From Graeme McMillan:
Not being American and all, this whole ‘Thanksgiving’ thing still
seems
somewhat unusual and awkward to me. Not only do I still feel that
part
of the original thanks that were given had some kind of
subconcious
“Thank you for getting out of Britain” thing, but the
traditional
Thanksgiving meal is what I grew up eating at Christmas.
Something
that’s definitely stayed consistent in the celebratory meals has
been
the use of brussel sprouts; my mother loved them when I was growing
up,
but because no-one else in the family did, she only managed to get
away
with serving them for Christmas dinner every year. They’re still
nowhere
near my favorite food, nor even my favorite vegetable, but
there’s
something about the taste and smell of them that makes me feel as
if
it’s a special occasion, sitting around the table with people that
I
love and care about.
Another strange Thanksgiving tradition for me has become the
annual
re-read of some of *Jack Kirby’s Fourth World *books. There’s no
real
reason why, and it’s not like I think that Kirby subliminally
planted
turkey day messages behind the scenes or anything. It’s simply that
it
was the day after one of my first Thanksgivings that I found the
old
black and white reprints of the books in a used bookstore and bought
the
lot, despite never having read them (or that much Kirby, really)
before.
Sure, the dialogue is so old school as to end every sentence with
an
exclamation point (As well as wonderfully overwritten - If Kirby
had
been writing this, it probably would’ve gone something
like
“/Thanksgiving!!!/ A time where friends and family gather — to
celebrate
times /past/ and times /yet to come/! And celebrate they do —
with
/brussel sprouts/!”) and, yes, the story was truncated by
the
cancellation of the entire line, but still. There’s something about
the
enthusiasm of the writing and art, the imagination and sense of
wonder
and the scale of the whole thing, that just seems to sum up an ideal
of
what superhero comics should aspire to.
So, yeah: I spend my Thanksgiving with my brussel spout-loving wife
Kate
and reading old comics about gods at war. You know, like the
original
thanksgivers intended.
* * *
Tom again; and I’m going to contribute a side dish too, before we get
to
the bird. Mine, as mentioned above, is corn pudding, a
succulent
concoction held together with milk and eggs and designed as
a
near-perfect corn delivery system. Not quite a liquid, not quite
solid,
and probably not as good for you as you’d hope, it’s the vegetable
that
feels like a dessert — or is that the other way around?
My good-for-you/no-it’s-not comics equivalent is *the Batman work
of
Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin*, both in their
’70s
run on /Detective Comics/ and in last year’s sequel, /Dark Detective/.
The /Detective/ run, too short at 6-8 issues (depending on how you
count
it), still featured instant classics involving Hugo Strange,
Deadshot,
and the Joker, and unforgettable new characters Rupert Thorne and
Silver
St. Cloud. Englehart also sought to explore Batman’s
psyche,
foreshadowing decades of debate over just exactly which “mask”
was
real. /Dark Detective/ wasn’t quite as groundbreaking, but it
did
provide a fun (and completely appropriate) team-up involving
Two-Face
and Doctor Double X, as well as Englehart’s apt comparison of
Bruce
Wayne and an obscure actor named Archie Leach. Throughout it
all,
Englehart’s dialogue was excitable and his narration florid;
while
Rogers and Austin infused these larger-than-life characters with
a
certain sense of realism. I still can’t decide whether their Batman
was
just an excellent example of creators at the top of their game, or
a
true classic of fantastic literature — but just like that corn
pudding,
it goes down smooth and leaves me wanting more.
Finally, we’ve come to the turkey. I usually try to watch my
portions,
but it seems like I can never get enough. The best turkey is
not too
juicy, but not too dry; and it still tastes good well into the
third
quarter of the second football game, after spending a minute in
the
microwave.
To me, the main course of this particular “meal” had to be
equally
tasty. It had to have something for everyone (like white meat
and dark
meat), it had to be packed with “stuffing,” and it had to be
juicy
enough to put you into a happy stupor. Most of all, it had to be
a good
example of my own favorite comfort book.
Therefore, weighing in at four issues plus a whole slew of tie-ins
(200
pages in the paperback), and baked in the oven for about a month,
my
comfort book is */DC One Million/*, Grant Morrison’s valentine to
the
Justice League of America disguised as a big company crossover. It
has
tragedy (the destruction of Montevideo, a Justice
Legionnaire’s
betrayal), wit, and a conceit that takes full advantage of
DC’s
one-Earth generational strategy. One million months from June,
1938
(i.e., /Action Comics/ #1) will be November, 85271 — and there
will
still be a Superman, a Batman, a Wonder Woman, and a JLA, traveling
back
into deep time to honor the Prime Superman and his
legendary
colleagues. Like the classic Justice League/Justice Society
team-ups,
it’s a crossover based around a celebration that goes horribly
wrong.
The stuffing is in the details, particularly an interlude that
traces
the Superman dynasty through the centuries. The villains are
Vandal
Savage and Solaris, the Tyrant Sun; and their respective
comeuppances
are mouth-watering moments to savor. Other great bits
abound, from
Superman-1M’s punching his way through time (eat your heart
out,
Superboy!) to the Huntress’ unorthodox tactics (not to mention the
rest
of the “B-team” vs. Justice Legion A), to Green Lantern containing
an
exploding star by sheer force of will. Essentially, it’s a
family
reunion, and what could be more Thanksgiving-y?
Thanks, Chris and Graeme; and Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Nov 23, 2006 1:21 PM
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If you have not heard, there is a new show on CW. An import
from Italy,
not since Diabolik has Italy showcased such an original
international
offering like this. Imagine for a second Monsters Inc. and
Scooby-Doo
mixed into one. This cocktail would result as Monster
Allergy.
http://www.monsterallergy.com/index_en.php
Monster Allergy is a comic
and an animated cartoon from Disney Italy
published from Buena Vista
Comics and Rainbow S.p.a..
/Monster Allergy/ is a fun romp for children of all
ages. Due to his
allergies, 12-year-old Zick discovers he
has the exceptional ability
to see what no other kids his
age can: the invisible supernatural
monsters that live
among us. Teamed up with his next-door neighbor,
Elena,
and mentored by his talking cat, Timothy, Zick learns to
harness his powers in hopes of one day achieving his destiny
of
following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a
Monster Tamer.
Nov 23, 2006 1:19 PM
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Nov 22, 2006 10:24 PM
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by
Merlin Mann
Summary
In this episode, Merlin asks David one of the most
popular questions
about GTD; if he could write the book
all over again today, what
would he do differently? David
addresses how people’s understanding
of GTD evolves on
repeated exposures, as well hinting at future
plans for
making GTD easier for people to start and maintain. He
makes some great points on learning to pay attention to your
“higher
altitudes,” and wraps up by underscoring the
importance of not
having to rethink every task throughout
the day. (13:11)
Merlin’s comments
If you bend David Allen’s ear for more than 30 seconds about GTD,
you’ll
hear some variation of a phrase that I heard /a lot/ over the
couple
days we hung out in Ojai: “/It’s all in the book!/“
Say what you will about The David, but he is not a man who suffers
from
/The George Lucas Complex/. Much to the consternation of his
publishers,
his fans, and — one suspects — even some of his colleagues, David
feels
like he has already written the complete and definitive work on
the
Getting Things Done system
http://gtdbook.43folders.com/. And he
very
clearly has no desire to futz with that basic system without a
good
reason; it’s sound and complete, as is, and there you go. Next
subject.
And, I have to say, in a lot of ways, I’ve come to really admire
this.
For one thing, it was immediately clear to me that, although David
heads
up a smart and growing company that enjoys a ravenous fanbase,
his
interest in the strictly pecuniary aspects of his work sometimes
seems
hilariously modest. While he long ago could have flipped DavidCo into
a
Shake-and-Bake franchise of ghost-written paperbacks (an idea
I
apparently once thought was a pretty great idea
http://www.43folders.com/2004/12/31/a-year-of-getting-things-done-part-3-the-future-of-gtd/myself),
David and his staff usually have more interesting things in
mind. And while I
can’t say that I think every idea is a guaranteed
winner from my own
perspective, I really respect the fact that DavidCo
seems unwilling to
sacrifice the quality of their product and their
message for a fast buck. Not
something you see every day.
I’ll admit that there’s still a part of me that thinks both David,
the
fans, and /the system itself/ could benefit greatly from more
examples
of and options for sane GTD implementation and maintenance (and how
to
narrow the options to /what’s best for my particular hang-up/).
Funny
thing, though: in talking to David, it became clear to me that, on
some
level, that dearth of “official” material on implementation options
was
an undeniable factor in the early success of 43 Folders. So,
in
retrospect, I probably shouldn’t complain too much.
In many ways, though, David’s right; it /is/ all in the book, even
if
you aren’t yet at a place to understand how it potentially fits
together
in your world. So, in this episode, I really like how he highlights
the
way repeated readings and exposures to GTD inevitably lead to
“getting”
some part of the system that used to seem corny, pointless,
or
hand-wavey (God knows that’s been true for me). So, I guess I do
see
part of the challenge from David’s point of view; how do you
get
somebody quickly ramped-up into a system that may not reveal its
best
stuff to you for two or more years? Definitely tricky business.
But for those of you out there already doing GTD and feeling like
you
sometimes miss the “there,” I think this particular ep provides
some
very sound insight into how these pieces down on “the runway”
are
inextricably and necessarily tied to “the higher altitudes.”
Last planned episode….but wait…
Although this eighth episode of /Productive Talk/ is our last in
this
series (yep, we’re already talking about doing it again), I do
encourage
you to stop back by next week.
In addition to offering my own thoughts on the series and what
/I/
learned from it (hint: a lot), I’ll also be sharing the (very
*very*
highly requested) /single file download/ of all 8 episodes. Yes, it
will
have iTunes chapters. No, it won’t have bonus footage or
director’s
commentary. But it will make it a bit easier to take Productive
Talk
with you and listen to the whole series at a sitting. Subscribe
via
iTunes
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receive the last last episode as soon as it goes live.
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Listen to Episode #08 of /Productive
Talk/
Nov 22, 2006 10:20 PM
from
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by
Melissa Krause
This is “Point/Counterpoint in the Blogosphere…” where we take a look
at
what has YOU talking. Twice a week, I’ll be showcasing two
related
discussion points about a particular topic, to help you keep up
with
some of the hot topics in comic fandom.
*Point:*
Excerpt:
In fact all of these points expect point two — do not
immediately
assume they are a moron — I mostly disagree
with. I don’t think
they’re morons. I think they’re often
just full of themselves.
Critics, take your lumps, just
like we do. You cannot post a review
to a blog with a
comments section turned on or your e-mail made
public
without expecting to hear from the author if they disagree
with you. Your review is not any more immune from recrimination
than
an author’s books are.
*Counterpoint:*
Excerpt:
I find it interesting that Simons seems to think that
the only
motivation anyone ever has to write a negative
review is to allow
the reviewer to demonstrate their
superiority to the artist with
their cutting put downs, as
if the working principle is “Those who
can’t belittle
those who do.” instead of a desire to discuss their
enjoyment of pop culture in more detail than “That series is
the
greatest!”
It’s an interesting discussion, go check it out!
Nov 22, 2006 10:16 PM
from digg
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Nintendo's
wonderful little game sports an innovative input device, but
game designers
have yet to truly tap its possibilities.
Nov 22, 2006 10:15 PM
from digg
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Adobe is
unhappy about Microsoft's new XML Paper Specification,
especially after
Microsoft decided to submit it to a standards-setting
body after Adobe cried
"foul" to the European Commission.
Nov 22, 2006 10:09 PM
from digg
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Looks like Sci
Fi is finally getting some sense and moving Battlestar
Galactica to a night
when people are actually home watching TV. Starting
January 21, Galactica
will air Sundays at 10pm
Nov 22, 2006 9:51 PM
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A small
compilation of Wii menu tips/tricks users have discovered in the
past few
days.
Nov 22, 2006 9:50 PM
from digg
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Today, in
several Star Trek related websites we can see the look & feel
of the
ship's computers, named LCARS (Library Computer Access and
Retrieval System).
But in all of them the interfaces were developed in
flash or HTML. Searching
on the internet I can't find components for
another
platforms.
Nov 22, 2006 6:55 PM
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by
nobody@flickr.com (p2wy)
I can tell this isn't going to be a good holiday weekend. Yesterday
was
already rough and I know I won't have the right approach to
today
either. and the weekend, i don't even want to think about the
weekend
right now....but i am.
Nov 22, 2006 4:39 PM
The plans for each toy are included in various issues of
the ACME
Novelty Library, as well as other publications.
(If you don’t want
to cut up them funnybooks, just scan,
print, and paste them onto
thicker paper, like I did.) To
be honest, making them takes a bit of
time, but just
follow the directions and you’ll be alright!
Nov 22, 2006 5:30 AM
from
SANDBOX
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by
editoonc
Steve Rude
http://www.steverude.com/live/index.php
is at once again
with the revival of his two famous properties, Nexus and the
Moth. The
Moth is a personal favorite of mine, it is very campy like the
Batman tv
series and with the early fun of the Deadman comic series from
DC
Comics. If you are an Alex Toth fan, then Steve Rude is for
you.
Steve Rude announced today the formation of Rude Dude
Productions,
LLC. Rude Dude will publish Nexus and the
Moth. The ground-breaking,
award-winning Nexus first
appeared on Capital Comics in 1981. The
story of a cosmic
avenger driven by dreams of mass murder captured
the
imagination of the comic-reading public throughout the
eighties.
Dark Horse recently released hard-bound volumes
of the first
twenty-four issues in their prestigious
"Archives" editions. Mike
Baron will script, Steve Rude
will draw and Gary Martin will ink.
The Moth, a more-traditional super hero comic, was
created by Rude
and is written and inked by Gary Martin.
The Moth follows the
adventures of circus strong man Jack
Mahoney and has been compared
to the early work of Steve
Ditko and Jack Kirby.
Baron described the new Nexus as "the most intense thing
I have ever
written" and promises far-ranging
repercussions for Horatio Hellpop
and his world. Nexus has
garnered numerous industry awards including
three
Eisners.
Nov 21, 2006 1:48 PM
from digg
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From the Land
Ironclad (from the prophetic short story by HG Wells), to
multiple airships
models and even hangers and mooring masts! There’s
even an airship that was
designed, but never built, in 1919 - the
Vickers
Transoceanic.
Nov 21, 2006 1:48 PM
from digg
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Rogue copying
software lets users clone anything or anyone they want in
the virtual world.
By letting its community respond, Linden Labs sets
the stage for a bold
experiment in alternatives to U.S.-style copyright.
Nov 21, 2006 1:36 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
from Darick Robertson's video javascript:void(0);
from
Darick Robertson's video javascript:void(0);
(By the way, my brother had that same Superman doll action figure
when
we were kids.)
Nov 20, 2006 4:51 PM
from Apartment Therapy -
Chicago
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Dear
AT, I need to put a cat door into my kitchen, which goes out to an
unheated
back stairwell. I'd like it to look better than one of the mass
market
(cheap, plastic) cat doors, but I need it...
Nov 20, 2006 2:08 PM
from Gizmodo
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instantvideo_to_go.jpgADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty
little
$79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into
that
oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first
hardware-based
H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a
video transfer
accelerator that lets you convert any video into that
butta-smooth
format specifically for playback on an iPod or PSP, and lets
you
accomplish that feat five times faster than real time.
So what this means is you can take a DVD's worth of video and crunch
it
down for 320x240 playback on your iPod or PSP in 20 minutes,
something
that can take five hours to do with software encoding. And this
baby can
do that with a slew of media formats, too, including MP4, MP3, AVI,
WMV,
MOV, RM, JPG, and TIFF. Yeah, ADS. This we gotta try. – Charlie
White
Nov 20, 2006 10:35 AM
Nov 20, 2006 10:23 AM
Nov 20, 2006 7:46 AM
from digg
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One of the
great thinkers of our times, Milton Friedman, explains all
about why
government creates more problems than it solves. It is
fascinating, and since
he recently passed away at the age of 94, an
interesting look back to around
the time he won the Nobel Prize.
Nov 17, 2006 3:50 PM
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Nov 17, 2006 10:05 AM
from MAKE
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Nov 16, 2006 11:13 AM
The IT Crowd's first six episodes ran last year on Channel 4, and
was
widely shared online, resulting in major commercial success,
critical
acclaim, and a renewed contract for another season of the
show.
I was privileged to consult a little on the show, and I was able
to
connect Graham with uber-geek Yoz Grahame
http://cheerleader.yoz.com/,
who
suggested that the disc carry subtitles in leet (or 1337), the
letter/number
substitution code used by gamers, hackers and other
net-dwellers.
Update: Yoz sez, "The L33T subtitles aren't just a straight
translation
into leetspeak - they feature tons of geek references including
Zork,
Counter-Strike, B3TA, MC Frontalot and lots more. They were cooked up
by
five of us - Tim Browse, Sean Solle, Jim Lynn, Shimon Young and me.
The
superb retrographics on the DVD, however, were put together by
the
geniuses at Framestore CFC."
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from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
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wangflight.jpg
Jen Wang has posted a lovely set of drawings
http://mao.livejournal.com/219815.html
depicting the elegant dance
that is the routine of flight attendants
demonstrating pre-flight safety
procedures.
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santatmacys.jpg
Now that the day is nearing, Dan is also hoping some of our New
York
readers might be able to take pictures of the poster in the wild
for
him. You can contact him through his blog
http://dantat.typepad.com/.
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Nov 15, 2006 2:17 PM
from MAKE
Magazine
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Fpsglases400
Fps Hau 3 400
Artist Aram Bartholl has an excellent pair
of first person shooter
glasses you can make for that always on DOOM
feeling... - /"First Person
Shooter is the definition for a computer game
genre which is played in
the first person view while shooting is the main
action of the game. A
typical element of the game is the virtual arm of the
player. Pointing
with a weapon to the center of the screen this arm stays in
the
foreground all the time. The Object First Person Shooter is a card and
a
do it yourself set. The result of cutting and glueing all parts of
FPS
is a pair of glasses with the arm and weapon visible from out-
and
inside."/ [via
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2006/11/fps_emulation_glasses_for_real_w_1.html]
-
Link.
http://www.datenform.de/fpseng.html
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Nov 15, 2006 1:31 PM
I'm starting to wonder whether all this free knowledge is going
to
anyone any good, least of all me.
It didn't do any good when I actually paid people money to read
and
apply it, so why should anyone benefit from learning something without
a
gun to their head in an age when knowledge and skill is completely
out
of fashion?
The reason I put all this information and advice up here, is
partly
because I'm generous and willing to save people the decades of time
I've
spent uncovering secrets of the past and learning from trial and
error,
but also in the hopes that in a couple or a few years I might have
a
small army ready to help me make the kinds of cartoons I can direct
with
skilled and willing cartoonists.
I sure envy the days when Clampett, Avery or Jones could just walk
in
the next room and have a whole staff of already highly skilled
crafstmen
and all in a progressive mind set to outdo themselves and everyone
else
every time they sit down to make a new cartoon.
I'm stuck having to reinvent the wheel over and over again and at my
own
expense, only to have the jackal-like Network studios snap up all
the
benefits of my training and advancement of techniques and technology
and
then I have to watch them use it all for evil purposes with no
thought
of rewarding me for the tools and resources they so freely
abuse.
If any of you out there are young and really have some actual raw
talent
and can see the blatantly obvious fact that art and culture from
60
years ago is vastly superior to the amateur age we live in today,
then
do yourself (and me) a favor and absorb all this free schooling-and
that
means applying it and drawing everything I put up so you can be ready
to
perform on the job when you get your lucky break.
No school will give you any concrete knowledge. This blog is all
as
clear and crisp as I can give it away to you. Do your Preston
Blair
lessons, copy the drawings in the manuals, apply the principles to
your
own work. Stop scribbling.
If you are a real artist/cartoonist you will see how simple and
logical
real artistic concepts are as I present them here. But understanding
is
only the beginning of being an artist. You have to do the work to
truly
absorb the techniques and benefit from them.
Don't wait till you're in your mid twenties and your
conservative
hormone kicks in. You'll the¡ be a willing mindless drone
programmed to
copy the most superficial aspects of my latest
inventions.
I wish there was a way for me to know that this is doing any good.
I'm
kinda thinking about quitting.
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Nov 14, 2006 3:54 PM
from Gizmodo
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Easy%20Desk%20Aluminum.jpg Surfing the Net while lying in bed is
pretty
comfortable (except for the part where I end up falling asleep on
my
laptop). That's where this contraption comes in. The Easy Desk
Aluminum
is a portable desk that can be twisted and bent to accommodate
your
positioning. The 5-pound desk can be used sofa style, desk style, or
bed
style. Anything to keep me from hunching over my laptop is welcome in
my
house. And as the site says, it can even be used while lying on
your
tatami mat. The desk costs $58 bucks. – Louis Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
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Nov 14, 2006 11:10 AM
from Boing
Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Mark
Frauenfelder)
*Mark Frauenfelder*: The world's greatest book publisher is
having a
grand opening store celebration on December 2.
Cardfront Fantagraphics Books is pleased to announce the
grand
opening of the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery
on Saturday,
December 2. Located at 1201 S. Vale Street in
the heart of the
Bohemian blue-collar arts community of
Georgetown, this new retail
enterprise carries a complete
line of Fantagraphics comic books,
graphic novels, classic
cartoon reprints and foreign translations,
as well as
related volumes on comics history and criticism. The
space
will feature monthly exhibitions of compelling cartoon art
and
host events showcasing the most accomplished artists
in comics and
related media. This project marks the return
to Fantagraphics of
visual and performing arts producer
Larry Reid in the role of
Curator and Events
Coordinator.
The inaugural exhibition, “30 years of Misfit Lit,”
celebrates three
decades of Fantagraphics Books’
innovative approach to the art form.
This exhibition
presents the broad range of contemporary cartoonists
associated with Fantagraphics, including Peter Bagge, Jim
Blanchard,
Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Ellen
Forney, Roberta
Gregory, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime
Hernandez, Ted Jouflas, Megan
Kelso, Tony Millionaire, Joe
Sacco, Carol Tyler, Chris Ware and Jim
Woodring. The show
opens with a festive reception on Saturday,
December 2
from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Many participating artists will be
present.
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Nov 14, 2006 11:08 AM
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Nov 14, 2006 10:42 AM
from Cool
Hunting
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Josh
Rubin
joel-on-radar.jpg
Radar
http://radar.net, the web service for
friends to keep in touch
through text and pictures via their mobile phones,
today added a video
feature. Sharing mobile videos is just like sharing
pictures—you add a
message and email them from your phone to Radar. Your
friends can see
and comment on your pictures, videos and messages from a
computer or
phone's mobile browser.
The addition of video is a natural extension of Radar's service which
is
tuned for sharing with friends, unlike Flickr or YouTube where
your
content is out there for the whole world to see. Even within
your
invited group there are controls for who can see what. Thank
goodness
wireless data is getting a little faster.
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Nov 13, 2006 2:37 PM
from Gizmodo
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Frigits.JPGWe've seen some pretty awesome Rube Goldberg machines in
the
past
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/rube-goldberg-machine-from-office-equipment-210624.php,
but
if you were too lazy or don't have enough room to build one
yourself, Frigits
may be the solution. This is a set of miniature
contraptions that allow you
to set up a Rube Goldberg-style machine on
anything capable of holding
magnets. Impress your friends at the office,
or just set one up on the
refrigerator. Regardless, it is a easier and
painless solution to filling
that Rube Goldberg fix. The complete
Frigits Deluxe set goes for $30. –
Travis Hudson
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Nov 13, 2006 2:36 PM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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IE HistoryView reads all information from Internet Explorer's
history
file and displays the list of all URLs that you have visited in the
last
few days. It also allows you to remove one or more URL addresses,
or
export them into text, HTML or XML file. In addition, you are allowed
to
view the visited URL list of other user profiles on your computer,
and
even access the visited URL list on a remote computer, as long as
you
have permission to access the history folder.
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Nov 11, 2006 9:13 PM
from digg
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Files-upload.com
allows you to upload any number of 1GB files (splitted
archives supported)
through HTTP (for non registered users) and, after
free registration, through
FTP (sic!). No annoying upload/download
limits. The best WEB file share I’ve
seen yet.
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Nov 10, 2006 11:28 PM
from digg
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The Photosynth
Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, we
hope, most exciting -
way to view photos on a computer. Our software
takes a large collection of
photos of a place or an object, analyzes
them for similarities, and then
displays the photos in a reconstructed
three-dimensional space, showing you
how each one relates to the next.
Nov 10, 2006 11:02 PM
from digg
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Can you improve
your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a
while to change the
conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout
your life, but it is
very possible. To not make this article longer than
necessary let’s just skip
right to some common mistakes many of us have
made in conversations. And a
couple of solutions.
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Nov 10, 2006 8:12 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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NetSetMan is a network settings manager that helps you switch between
6
different, visually structured profiles that includes IP address,
subnet
mask, default gateway, preferred/alternate DNS server, computer
name,
workgroup, DNS domain, WINS server, default printer and run
scripts.
* app
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Nov 9, 2006 1:36 AM
from
Blog@Newsarama/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsaramablog.com%2Ffeed%2F
by
Graeme McMillan
One company that seems to have a handle on utilizing the
Internet is
Platinum Studios. A quick trip to their
Website and I found this
quote concerning their release on
the Internet first, print later
policy: “Making the
content available for free, supported by
title-specific
Websites, online trailers and Web advertising, will
drive
reader and retailer awareness and boost print sales - just
as
radio airplay drives music sales.”
[However] Platinum isn’t paying its creators upfront… In
a previous
column I took Platinum to task for doing this
very thing, but upon
reflection it occurs to me that my
thinking was stuck back in print
mode. Platinum’s
“new model” isn’t all that new; it’s the model
we’ve had
for Webcomics for years.
I mean nobody (for the most part) /pays /creators of
Webcomics;
people like Scott Kurtz of /PVP/ spent years
absorbing the
production and promotion costs of their
comics with only revenue
from selling ad space on their
Websites coming in. But /eventually/
he signed a
deal with Image and now has several trade paperback
collections in print…. [A]s someone who once looked forward to
those
checks (more like an honorarium really) for my
scripts, I don’t like
the idea of creators not getting
paid upfront for their material.
But then, you don’t
necessarily have to /like /the future, and this
might be
it.
Nov 9, 2006 1:32 AM
from
Action-Figure
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Toy,
Collectible and Action Figure News From Across The
Globe
Nov 7, 2006 2:05 PM
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Nov 7, 2006 2:04 PM
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Nov 6, 2006 4:23 AM
from digg
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Mike Badnarik
has taught classes on the Constitution throughout the US.
In this 5-minute
video, he uses plain-language & common-sense
illustrations so that anyone
can understand the basics. Give it a try!
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Nov 6, 2006 4:19 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator that is considered to have the
widest
support for specialized SNES hardware, and is one of the more
popular
SNES emulators around. It requires DirectX V8.1 or higher to
function.
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Nov 6, 2006 4:19 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost
files
including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CDROMs
and
removable storage. It recognizes the header formats of supported
file
types, so it will work even if the filesystem is severely damaged
or
formatted
http://jackr.mtexplorer.com/archives/8.
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Nov 5, 2006 7:20 PM
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Nov 5, 2006 5:32 PM
from digg
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The Fry's in
Burbank is decorated like a 50's sci-fi movie. So we
decided to shoot a Star
Trek episode. We lasted about 4 minutes inside
before they kicked us out, but
it's really funny to see the short
security guard get angry. This is our
second shoot in their stores (Last
time was a Roman
Epic).
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Want to know
what it's like to use a Zune? We're going to take you on a
comprehensive tour
of just about thing this device can do -- every menu,
submenu, function, and
feature. Then we'll transfer some songs and
images, expire our three plays
(before those three days run up, of
course), and watch some clips. If you
want to know what it's like to si
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*: Michigan History Magazine has an in-depth feature
on
Fordlandia, Henry Ford's bizarre planned community/company
town/rubber
plantation deep in the Brazilian jungle. Fordlandia was built
to
resemble the bucolic Detroit suburbs that hosted Ford's auto-plants,
and
had social practices that were a combination of corporate policy
and
local subversion (I've heard that Ford personally outlawed
the
traditional Caipirinha in favor of the Tom Collins, a more
"civilized"
drink).
Fenced in by jungle, Fordlandia was transformed into a
modern suburb
with rows of snug bungalows fed by power
lines running to a diesel
generator. The main street was
paved and its residents collected
well water from spigots
in front of their homes—except for the U.S.
staff and
white-collar Brazilians, who had running water in their
homes. The North Americans splashed in their outdoor swimming
pool
and the Brazilians escaped the sun by sliding into
another pool
designated for their use. “Villa Brasileira,”
as one area of the
town was known, boasted tailors, shops,
restaurants and shoemakers
to serve the local workers. The
sweet smell of bread wafted from a
bakery; the butcher
shop offered beef, pork and chicken at
subsidized prices.
On paper, it sounded like a dream...
“I’m a worker, not a waiter!” a Fordlandia employee
reportedly
yelled in the food line one day, sparking the
plantation’s most
notorious riot. Workers armed with
machetes joined the protest
against the self-serve
mid-western cuisine in a country where food
traditionally
was served at the table. The seringueiros demolished
the
cafeteria as North American officials scrambled to the
dock,
jumped into boats and waited in the middle of the
river for
Brazilian troops to quell the melee...
“A workman’s mess hall was set up but native workers did
not like
the wholesome Detroit-style cooking and
complained bitterly of
indigestion. North American fare in
the jungle no more pleases the
customers than a quick
change to Amazon fare would please you or
me,” Wilson
wrote in a Harpers magazine article titled “Mr. Ford in
the Jungle.” Furthermore, the natives did not choose to square
dance
on the village green or to sing the quaint folk
songs of Merrie
England or to treasure Longfellow.”
Oct 31, 2006 8:16 PM
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Whether you're ripping your DVDs because the Netflix movies are
almost
always scratched (and ripping them plays back smoother) or you're just
a
cheap S.O.B. who doesn't like paying for stuff, here's a guide to
make
the process easier.
Why would you use this? Well, besides archiving your movies on your
home
theater PC (HTPC), you can use this as a first step in encoding
DVDs
onto various portable media players. Also, backing up DVDs that
you've
actually purchased is a good way to make sure your $15 doesn't go
to
waste the next time some movers decide to bounce your boxes off the
side
of a Ford Focus. – Jason Chen
Oct 31, 2006 9:37 AM
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JohnK
Hey Everybody! Today is the official premiere of Classico. I drew
it,
Nick Cross did BG design and color styling and Copernicus did the
Flash
animation.
Marc Deckter, Jay Li and Marlo Meekins also were
invaluable as were
Pringle and Kristen McCormick. And Kali Fontecchio
too!
If you are OVER 18, click this below!
Pencil Test seq5,6,7 (Kristen McCormick):
Pencil Test seq8 (Kristen McCormick):
If you want more crazy cartoons, buy this action below!
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Plus, you simply must watch the video she made that recorded the
process
of colouring an illustration of a witch. I always enjoy watching
stuff
like this — seeing the colour and texture build up before my eyes.
Watch
here!
http://www.danijones.com/witchpainting.html
Oct 31, 2006 12:30 AM
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Mark
Frauenfelder)
*Mark Frauenfelder*: Kevin Kelly loves his new Cintq digital
paper tablet.
P476Da84E 8 Based on comics master Scott McCloud's
recommendation
(below), I bought a Cintiq. It does
something I've always wanted to
do since I first saw a
computer. This thing is a pen-based tablet
that doubles as
a monitor. In other words you draw directly on the
tablet,
just like a paper-based drawing, but digitally. In fact
the
surface of the Cintq monitor/tablet feels like paper
under a pen.
Synchrony of image with your movements is
almost exact, and the
micro difference doesn't seem to
matter. The result is weirdly like
ink, or paint, but with
all the control and magic of Photoshop. Of
course, as a
monitor, it will display whatever's on your computer,
whether it's animation software or a spreadsheet. (You could hook
it
up to a $500 Mac Mini and have a fabulous digital art
studio.) It's
slowly being adopted by film animators and
other high-end graphic
professionals. A Cintq is expensive
($2,500), big, thick and bulky
(it is too fat to sit on
your lap like other tablets, but it can lay
flat on a
desk), but if you are producing digital images for a
living, it speeds up your productivity and eases your hurt. It's
fun
to use.
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Frauenfelder)
*Mark Frauenfelder*: Bonnie says:
200610301337 Since MAKE, CRAFT and BoingBoing are
linking to cool
DIY costumes spotted at Halloween parties
this year, I figured you
would all get a kick out of the
costumes spotted at the annual
ILM-Lucasfilm-LucasArts
Halloween Party this weekend. Plenty of
cardboard robots
and stormtroopers, but the lifesize (as in
GIGANTIC)
Trojan Rabbit complete with a gaggle of Monty Python Holy
Grail knights won for best costume of the night… with
Marie
Antoinette (all her clothes and wig were handmade)
and the gigantic
digital camera that took real photos and
the Wack-A-Mole with
walking mallet, also came in as the
night's winners.
Oct 30, 2006 2:21 PM
from
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by
Graeme McMillan
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from
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by
CmdrTaco
peterdaly writes "Automatic commercial detection is the
"killer app"
feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include.
MythTV's
automatic commercial detection does a great job of properly
separating
commercials from content. Here's how the commercial flagging
works."
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Oct 30, 2006 6:23 AM
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Two years ago,
I decided to make a Lego minifig (ie: "Lego man") costume
for Halloween. The
hardest part was building the head. Here's how I did
it.
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Oct 30, 2006 6:18 AM
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The wonderful
Walter Williams, Professor of economics at George Mason
Univ. has put
together a ten-part series entitled "Economics for the
Citizen". Williams
uses plain language, common-sense examples and his
special brand of humor to
make the whole thing easy to understand. It's
evident that Williams loves to
teach and that he's a master at it.
Oct 29, 2006 10:44 AM
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How the rich
get richer. See Sources
Oct 29, 2006 10:04 AM
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This is one of
the first FPS's to come to internet gaming- complete with
total 3d control
and multiplayer!
Oct 29, 2006 9:52 AM
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Documentary on
the Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner.Interviews with everybody
involved except
Harrison Ford and Sean Young of course, who hated each
other's guts during
the making of the film. We even see Philip K. Dick
before he
died.
Remove starShare¡mailAdd tags
Oct 28, 2006 9:35 PM
Oct 27, 2006 9:13 PM
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This is a
gallery of sculptures of extinct creatures. It consists of a
shark with a
saw-like tooth structure to a 7 foot tall "Terror Bird".
The skeleton of one
of these "Terror Birds" was recently found as well!
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Oct 27, 2006 4:43 PM
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*: The Monster Club has posted 100 amazing
horror
radio-plays from the golden age of radio drama, including "The
Phantom
of the Opera," "Sorry, Wrong Number," "The Day the Earth Stood
Still,"
"The Dummy," "Buried Alive," "Donovan's Brain," "Frankenstein,"
and
"Jack Benny Throws a Hallowe'en Party" (!).
Here, we present 100 of our favorite horror theme
stories, from
shows like Witch's Tale, Lights Out,
Innersanctum, Quiet Please, The
Haunted Hour and others.
These are the very stories that inspired
favorite Horror
Comics and shows like Twilight Zone and Thriller! In
fact,
old time radio horror show, "Witch's Tale" is reported to
have
served as direct inspiration for EC Comics.
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F74Tos6240Et9K5Y3F.Medium
All_Thumbs has a downloadable/printable paper
catamaran you can make -
/"Cut and fold a sailing catamaran for your nearest
"ocean". It can
carry a crew of ants, pepples, or some of your sister's
favourite
(miniature) dolls. You will need a pair of scissors and an A4
80g/sqm
office paper. (No sweat, the design can modified for inferiour
formats.)
No glue or tape is needed. ...nor batteries."/ - Link.
http://www.instructables.com/id/ECSA5VWMJFET9K5YBY/?ALLSTEPS
*Related paper making:*
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*Related Zipits!:*
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*Related hacky:*
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Oct 27, 2006 12:22 PM
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by
Graeme McMillan
Admit it: You don’t know whether to laugh at them or congratulate
them.
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Oct 23, 2006 7:57 PM
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This cartoon
used to come on Saturday mornings, and it was way ahead of
it's time.
Anyways, this is the final episode that aired that left
viewers thirsting for
answers...
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Oct 23, 2006 6:39 AM
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The Plugin Site
(aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins
available for
download. Take your pick from categories such as Image
Effects,
Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each
plugin is rated
according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you
can easily see if the
plugin is Mac or Windows compatible...
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Oct 22, 2006 4:49 PM
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Internet
Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by
Microsoft. Nearly four
years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0,
in the face of growing
competition from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft has
finally given the old IE
platform a facelift. Optimized design along
with new cool interface,
favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and...
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Oct 22, 2006 3:05 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
CmdrTaco
Malfourmed writes "Step by step instructions for making the
ultimate
comic book geek jewelery — Green Lantern's power ring. Hal Jordan,
Kyle
Rayner and Alan Scott variations all included. Now someone find me
a
Katma Tui or Arisia to go with it, and we might just have ourselves
a
proposal!" The bigger problem of course is that there's no
battery
available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry. Anyone have
other
good costume ideas?
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Oct 22, 2006 3:04 PM
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Just as much as
looks matter in making someone cute, it's also in the
body language. Shy or
quiet girls contain themselves closely. Outgoing
are big and bold. Arms and
feet apart. Heros are in the middle. They
don't always keep their limbs in,
nor do they get too loud...for the
most part.
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Oct 22, 2006 12:32 PM
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Made in/for
Photoshop CS, compatibility with earlier versions dependent
on availability
of a certain filter. May not be translatable to other
software due to the
above dependency. Skill level: intermediate (layer
mask, saved selection,
filter use) Usefulness of the tutorial is highly
dependent on the source
image possessing certain characteri
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Oct 22, 2006 12:30 PM
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You'd think
twice about copying your butt for a prank at work if it came
out of the
printer in three dimensions, wouldn't you? The James Bond
sounding Z
Corporation's printers can print in three dimensions.
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Oct 22, 2006 12:30 PM
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Unless you
really have a lot of time on your hands, I doubt you want to
go through the
massive folder that contains your European vacation
photos and rename them
Europe_1.jpg, Europe_2.jpg, and so on down the
line. If you're running
Windows XP on your computer, you don't have to
do
this.
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Oct 22, 2006 12:27 PM
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Because, If
enough people believe something is true...it is — just like
on
Wikipedia.
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Oct 22, 2006 12:25 PM
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"Designing with
colour is perhaps the element of graphic design which is
the most difficult
to get right. Why? Well, because it is the most
subjective. For some, a
palette of dark grey with splashes of bright
pink will be just great; to
others it would just be all wrong."
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Oct 22, 2006 12:21 PM
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"Songbird is a
desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser
mash-up. Like Winamp,
it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like
Firefox, it is built from
Mozilla, cross-platform and open source."
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Oct 21, 2006 12:06 PM
from Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*:
Lifelike is an online episodic comic series
written by Iranian expat
Dara Naraghi. Lifelike's stories are short, sweet
slices-of-life,
sometimes with twist endings, each drawn by a different but
equally
talented artist. There are so many different visual styles here,
and
Naraghi is such a versatile storyteller, that they barely seem to
be
part of the same series, but there's something that links them
together,
a great storyteller's sensibility. From hard-boiled noir crime to
war
memoirs to sweet, sentimental stories, Lifelike has the feel of a
great
comics anthology, like Drawn and Quarterly
http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=drawn+and+quarterly&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go&tag2=downandoutint-20or
World War III
http://www.worldwar3illustrated.org/.
Link
http://www.komikwerks.com/comic_title.php?ti=115
(/Thanks, Dara
http://www.ferretpress.com/!/)
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Oct 21, 2006 8:00 AM
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Oct 20, 2006 8:09 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fdrawn.ca%2Ffeed%2F by Luc
Toronto’s Stuart Immonen
http://www.immonen.ca/ is my new
favourite
comic book artist, working alongside Warren Ellis on Marvel’s
very
unique and fun — though sadly not top-selling — “Nextwave.” It’s
not
that /he’s/ new, it’s just that I’m not that wired into things
and
hadn’t noticed his fabulous work till recently. The gallery on his
site
doesn’t do the best job at showing the scope of his talent, but
it’s
probably victim to his crazy busy schedule and hasn’t been updated in
a
while.
/EDIT: Stuart reminded me that he doesn’t produce “Never As Bad As
You
Think” all by his lonesome: Kathryn Immonen writes the strip!/
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Oct 20, 2006 12:49 PM
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*:
Democracy Player, the amazing, free, open
Internet video player, has
just released an important update, bringing tons
of new features to the
platform. Democracy lets you subscribe to channels of
video that are
downloaded quickly using Bittorrent. Getting video in channels
means you
don't have to remember to keep checking for new files, and
Bittorrent
means the files come down quickly and without costing the creator
a
fortune in bandwidth. There's a complementary tool, "Broadcast
Machine,"
that makes it easy to publish your own video channel for Democracy
and
other players.
Democracy runs on Linux, Windows and the Mac, and is overseen by
the
nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation. PCF director
Nicholas
Reville sez,
This version (0.9.1) has lots and lots of new features.
The 3 biggest:
1. The interface is faster and more responsive.
2. You can make 'Search Channels' that automatically
search a
channel (rss feed) or a website like YouTube and
download videos
that match the search.
3. The Mac and Windows versions can now both search,
save, and play
flash video (such as YouTube or Google
Video).
(/Disclosure: I am a proud member of the Board of Directors for
the
nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation/)
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*Related:*
*Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests!*
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Chris writes - /"We have released a new section
of our web site
dedicated to designing tubular structures with SketchUp. We
invite
people to construct with the components we have on the site and
those
they make themselves and contribute to the project and
component
library. The initial fittings in the library were created using the
CAD
drawings for Kee Klamp fittings, but you could easily use them
as
substitutes for designing PVC structures in SketchUp."/ - Link.
http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/sketchup.php
This is pretty smart - any company that makes "things" you can
build
with should really consider doing "libraries" for SketchUp -
imagine
being able to construct anything in 3D and (eventually) "checking
out"
and getting all the stuff shipped or purchased waiting for you. I
think
a parts API of some sort from Amazon, DigiKey, Mouser, etc etc
and
Sketchup could really be interesting - any way, you can build stuff
now
with using the library from Simplified Building.
*Related SketchUping @ MAKE:*
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Oct 20, 2006 12:20 PM
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Splice.jpg Everyone wants to be a producer nowadays, but not
everyone
has the talent, so the folks at Splice are letting you dip your
toes
into music production with their online flash-based audio
sequencer
which lets you edit, mix and mash up beats. The site lets you
create and
save a profile so after you're done with your Britney/Wu-Tang mash
up
you can share it with the rest of the world. It may not launch you
a
label, but it's a good way to start. – Louis Ramirez
http://www.gizmodo.com
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Josh
Rubin
American-Look-1 American-Look-2
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Oct 19, 2006 7:23 AM
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Oct 17, 2006 7:26 PM
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This paper TV has way better shows than regular ole' TV....
Stane writes
- /"Here's my papercraft TV set with a film strip of selected
frames
from a movie. The strip is wrapped arround two pencils. As you turn
the
pencils film scrolls over the screen. I have done versions for
three
movies so far. Kill Bill vol. 1, Dirty Harry and Dr. Strangelove. I
just
chose three movies that I happen to like. People can download PDF
files
with templates from my web page. All you need to do is print it cut
it
and assemble it. There are even instructions. Hope you will like it."/
-
Link.
http://www.stane-island.net/pencilTV/pencilTV.html
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With election
season in full bloom, you don't have to be a political
junkie to wish that
the vanilla candidates in nearly identical suits and
ties would go away,
replaced instead by people with something original
to say. A Top10 List of
the most memorable presidents in cinematic
history — and how they might fare
in the real world.
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by
Graeme McMillan
So recently I’ve been keeping a video journal while I
draw the
upcoming Onslaught Reborn mini-series that
launches from Marvel
comics in November. I have loaded
them up to Youtube to share with
the masses and act as an
interactive journal. Check ‘em out and
lemme know what you
think. The links are provided below.
Tim Leong, see what you’ve done?
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In the shadow
of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear ...
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Oct 17, 2006 9:52 AM
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The Beat
200610170231Recently Mike S. Miller announced that Alias Comics
was
turning into a packaging company for religious comics, and
Alias’s
non-religion themed comics would be finding a new home. That home
is
Abacus Comics
http://abacuscomics.com/abacus_main.htm
which is solely
owned by Miller. The new concern will publish only the titles
written by
Miller, like THE IMAGINARIES, LULLABY, etc. Apparently, the
website
briefly said it was going to publish ANT — not the Image issues, but
an
earlier collection of the Arcana issues — but that has since been
taken
down.
With most recent attempts at periodical comic/pamphlet/floppy
companies
having a tough go of it, we can only wish Miller luck.
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Ravi writes "Asynchronous Javascript And Xml, popularly known
as Ajax,
is a combination of Javascript, XML and some coding on the server
side.
Even though this technology existed for years, many believe it
was
Google which brought it to the front by implementing it on its sites
and
thus raising it to the cult status it enjoys now. There is
something
magical in seeing a website update its content without reloading
the
whole page, which is the visual essence of Ajax." Read the rest
of
Ravi's review.
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by Neil
Kleid
Superboy, by Dean Trippe javascript:void(0);
Superboy, by
Dean Trippe javascript:void(0);
/*Dean Trippe loves superheroes.* That much is obvious //by his
website/
http://www.tencentticker.com/ where one
can see row after row of
brightly colored images beautifully and clearly
rendered in a style
clearly influenced by the bold, streamlined linework
reminiscent of
Bruce Timm’s groundbreaking work on/ Batman:The Animated
Series /and its
related spin-offs and sister shows. He colors his pieces -
ranging from
commisions by a growing number of dedicated fans to labors of
love and
inspiration - with a sensitive hand, putting as much thought into
the
pallete as he deos to the design and layout of each and every
piece.
With the help of various high-profile web projects and his upcoming
gig
on the MY NAME IS EARL
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=77287
series of comics by
Oni Press, Trippe’s career is slowly, deservedly, kicking
into high
gear. Dean was kind enough to take some time out of his day to
answer
five questions that shed some light as to why he’s a kickass comic
book
creator you should know:/
*KLEID:* Recently a thread ran at the Bendis Boards
http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=83686&highlight=trippedevoted
to the amazitude that is you, your art and why the hell aren’t
you working
for Oni Press? Since I know that you ARE, actually in line
to do some work
for Oni (and others) why not give the kind folks out
there some kind of
background on who you are and what you do?
*TRIPPE:* I guess early on in life, I pretty much made superheroes
the
standard by which I valued everything else. When I was a teenager, a
lot
of my friends had WWJD bracelets, but I pretty much lived by “What
would
Batman do?” I grew up in pretty rural part of North Georgia that had
no
comic shops, so in my early teens I had to get mine almost
exclusively
from pharmacies and grocery stores. I drew comics all
through
highschool, and eventually ended up graduating from the Savannah
College
of Art and Design with a degree in comics of all things. Now I make
a
living chained to my drawing table.
*KLEID:* You have an artistic style that most shepherd in with
Bruce
Timm, Mike Oeming and the late Mike Parobeck. Have any of
them
influenced what you do? What other outside factors have shaped the
way
you create?
*TRIPPE:* I’d say Timm’s work on the various animated series
projects
had the most impact on my style than any other artist, especially
his
Batman: Gotham Knights era stuff and Batman Beyond. In college I
also
fell in love with other “cartoonier” artists like Mike Mignola,
Darwyn
Cooke, Steve Rude, Javier Pulido, Cliff Chiang, Marcos Martin, Bryan
Lee
O’Malley, and Marcelo Frusin. For a while, when I was studying
anatomy
heavily, I tried to go the Alex Ross or Bryan Hitch sort of route,
but
my tendency towards simplified forms always left me with a
bizarrely
hybridized style. Eventually simplification won out. I should also
say
that Lee Loughridge’s coloring is my main coloring influence,
especially
his work on the Robin: Year One miniseries.
*KLEID:* Since I am such an industry insider and people are
literally
throwing information at me, I knew about Oni’s MY NAME IS EARL
project
literally months before it was announced. That being said, aren’t
you
freaked out just a little? I mean, this is a major television
adaptation
- playing with other folks’ toys and/or likenesses. How are
you
approaching the process of adaptation and tell us a little about the
ups
and downs involved.
*TRIPPE:* Well, as far as I know, it’s been pushed back to the
Spring.
I’m a huge fan of the show, though, so the waiting is not easy. I
was
really excited when I heard Jason Lee was getting a TV show, and
then
when it debuted, it was brilliant. I’ve never missed an episode.
It’s
lit and shot so well, and the comedic timing is near perfect. Trying
to
emulate that in the comics should be a fun challenge. I think I’d
be
more freaked out if I didn’t know the show so well. The characters
are
easy to fall in love with, so I feel more like I’m drawing friends
of
mine. I’ve also been wanting to work with Oni on something for
years,
and it’s awesome that it’s finally coming together.
*KLEID:* Recently, I was talking with an editor who
offhandedly
mentioned that you tend to steer clear of projects that aren’t
all ages.
In a day and age when everyone and their grandmother want to
write
gritty, cursing, blood drenched books for Vertigo, why this
choice?
*TRIPPE:* Well, I’ll tell ya. Most “mature” comics seem anything
but
that to me. I get a lot of pitches based on the deconstruction of
the
superhero, and yeah I loved Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and
The
Authority, but those books already did deconstruction at its best.
I
still enjoy some mainstream titles that are completely invested in
this
idea, but these days I’d rather be on the reconstructionist side
with
books like All-Star Superman, Astonishing X-Men, and my Tom Strong
back
issues.
I’m also a fan of really well-written, mature dramas (like HBO’s
The
Wire) that have something to say, but most of the time I tend to
think
the mature elements in stories feel tacked on for the sake of
mature
cred or reaching a particular frat boy audience. I think
Spongebob
Squarepants and Homestar Runner are as funny if not funnier than
South
Park, though I can enjoy them all. Chappelle’s Show had something to
say
as well as sometimes shocking humor. But a lot of shows that have
tried
to fill the void since Chappelle’s Show ended have only been able to
be
shocking, which after a while, doesn’t.
I also don’t want all comics to
be just for kids, but I do want all ages
books to be worth reading, the way
the Batman: Gotham Adventures series
was, or the way the Marvel’s Spider-Man
Loves Mary Jane is today. If we
want the next generation of artists and
writers to be great, we need to
invest in the books aimed at them now. That
said, if the right mature
project came along, something that had artistic
merit and had something
important to say, I’d certainly be interested.
*KLEID:* Dean, from talking to dozens of folks who know you and
wanna
work with you, I know your schedule’s getting busy. What are the
next
five years like for Dean Trippe?
*TRIPPE:* Well, five years is considerably further down the road than
I
tend to worry about. I’ve got projects in the planning stages
with
writers A. Hunt, Chris Arrant, Heather Hogan, and John Campbell, a
small
gig with new publisher General Jinjur, the My Name Is Earl comic
with
Oni Press, and my online work like Butterfly and Project Rooftop.
I’m
doing some inks for a friend this week, and talking to children’s
book
publishers next week. It sounds like I’m busier than I am, since most
of
these are pretty spaced out on the schedule. I’m mostly
doing
commissions and pinups day to day.
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The Big Wet javascript:void(0);
The Big Wet
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*/Comic Books are my Passion; Graphic Design is my Bread and
Butter./*
/Like many cartoonists and creators in the industry, I have a
background
in graphic design and spend my nine to five art directing in and
around
the NYC area. I’m fascinated with logos, cover design, trade dress
and
typography… and lately, I’m discovering that I’m not alone.
Designers
like Chip Kidd
http://www.goodisdead.com, Seth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_(cartoonist),
Brian Wood
http://www.brianwood.com,
Laurenn McCubbin
http://laurennmccubbin.com, and Rian
Hughes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Hughes
are garnering fame not for
not only their storytelling abilities but for the
way they wield their
Adobe Creative Suite packages. With awards being offered
for/ /“Best
Publication Design”, books like Wood’s PUBLIC DOMAIN flying off
the
comic book shelves and the logo redesign of the DC Comics
“Bullet”
making headlines, it’s clear that graphic designers aren’t just men
and
women hunched over in cubicles across America hiding from
copywriters
and art directors: often they’re the critically acclaimed
geniuses
designing your favorite comic or graphic novel./
/Antony Johnston/
http://www.mostlyblack.com/, writer of
over eleven
graphic novels and the ongoing Oni Press series
//WASTELAND/
http://www.onipress.com/titles/titles.php?id=WAS/,
is one of those
geniuses. He’s designed for Oni, Cyberosia Publishing and
various
magazines and freelances in North-West England where he lives with
his
his partner Marcia, his dog and his iMac. Recently Antony and
I
discussed graphic design and it’s impact on comics and graphic
novels.
Enjoy:/
*KLEID:* We’ve both broken into the comics industry in the last
few
years where comics and graphic novels have slid from being items
that
are bagged, boxed and stored to display pieces, art objects that
are
placed on shelves next to art books and works of literature. How much
of
this comic-as-literature versus comic-as-comic shift do you
feel
affected the way comics and graphic novel packaging is designed?
*JOHNSTON:* I actually think it might be the other way around, or
at
least a bit of both… Fact is, comics design has improved a lot over
the
past few years, especially on the ‘true mainstream’ (i.e.
non-spandex)
titles. And not just on book format stuff, either, though that’s
clearly
where the latest movement started. One big factor, I think, has been
the
small but vocal movement aimed at courting the mainstream audience
with
‘art’ and genre comics.
The attitude seems to be that if we actually take the time to design
a
cover that’s both eye-catching and composed in a way people are used
to
seeing in other media, that we can convince people to at least
consider
that a comic is worth their time. Whether or not it works is hard to
say
- was it the great, simple cover design of PERSEPOLIS that
attracted
people to the book? Or was it simply the enormous publicity
campaign,
which in turn dictated that the cover look as little like a
traditional
comic as possible?
The downside is that as comics become bigger and bigger business,
we’re
going to see cover design taken out of the hands of artists and
placed
instead with marketing people (cf. novels and DVDs), which is
always
dicey if they’re not willing to listen to a (good) designer. Mind
you,
the percentage of good to bad covers isn’t exactly sterling right
now,
so maybe it won’t make a difference.
*KLEID:* I guess I tend to be an optimist about these things -
seeing
folks like spiegleman, Ware, Seth and Chip Kidd take the
graphic
novel-AS- novel hubbub by the horns and help direct it into this
wild
and wooly bookstore mainstream makes me feel perhaps silly hope that
the
artist will remain the Art Director. I think you’ll always
have
editorial input - whether you’re designing a book or comic for
Vertigo
or NBM or designing for Scholastic or Simon and Schuster, so
that’s
always going to be a tough row to hoe….but still, I find that for
the
most part editors tend to rely more on the cartoonist’s decision when
it
comes to designing their covers.
You say comics design has improved over the last couple of years -
who
would have ever thought, like which editor works on which book,
that
readers would care so much about graphic design decisions when it
comes
to comics. Little things like Vertigo altering their trade dress or
DC
Comics redesigning the classic Milton Glaser “bullet”? I mean,
other
than those of us obsessed with keyline, leading and font sizes,
who
would have thought people cared?
It’s like the influx of good designers opened the gateway for
design
books and sketchbooks to sit on the shelves along with stories
and
narratives and turned innovators like Chip Kidd and Seth
into
sought-after signees for books they didn’t write or draw - but
simply
designed. I find that interested as both a designer and a “comics
guy”.
Graphic Designer as Cartoonist or Cartoonist as Graphic Designer?
*JOHNSTON:* Let me interject here and counter your optimism with
my
usual brand of pessimism. I don’t think it’s a question of the
Art
Director being an artist - they almost always are - but of how
much
control they actually have over the final product. In most
large
non-comics publishers, the Art Director may theoretically be equal
to
the Marketing people, but ultimately he or she works at their
behest.
We’re quite lucky in comics that we generally don’t have the
myriad
levels of management and interdepartmental rivalry that
larger
publishers in other entertainment industries have had for so long.
For
the most part, comics is done by comics people, and creatively that’s
a
great thing. My concern is that as comics become more and
more
mainstream, the decision makers will be increasingly drawn for
their
business acumen rather than their creative talents. That’s not a
bad
thing per se, but it does often result in designers/ /having very
little
final say in the product.
*KLEID:* PESSIMIST!
No, I hear where youre coming from - everyone in comics is just Happy
To
Be Doing Comics and therefore there’s not cuthroat Art Director
VS
Copywriter VS Creative Director back and forth. Thing is, In
my
experience with the larger book publishers (and from what I’ve
been
hearing from friends and associates doing work for them) they’ve
been
treating the artist as Artist. Book design, jacket design - you name
it,
they want to make sure we’re happy with it. Scholastic is going to
make
sure Raina Telgemeier likes the BSC final jacket and I bet she has
final
approval (after Ann L. Martin, i’m sure) because the artist is
the
Artist and not the guy or girl in the 4th Floor Graphics cubicles.
*JOHNSTON:* That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. We can only
hope
that continues, but the cynic in me says the honeymoon will soon
wear
off. And, of course, it makes me wonder who has the final say when
the
work’s a collaboration… I could see that causing a few arguments!
*KLEID:* But take a DC Comics - or hell, NBM Publishing who put out
my
graphic novel, BROWNSVILLE
http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/kleid/kleidhome.html.
There were
changes made to the jacket that I designed that I didn’t see
before
press time - blocks of copy moved around due to time and
technical
reasons. That doesn’t make NBM a bad publisher by any means - but
it
dilutes me as the Artist in a sense. Obviously DC Comics doesn’t
check
in with the guys writing and drawing JUSTICE LEAGUE before changing
the
logo or trade dress, but you gotta think that their design
department
shows the cover proofs of SLOTH to Gilbert Hernandez or THE
QUITTER to
Pekar and Haspiel before sending them to print.
Which makes me wonder if graphic design gets more
important,
company-wise, as you get more levels and departments involved or
less
important? Does DC Comics care less about the SUPERMAN trade dress
than
Oni Press does about QUEEN AND COUNTRY because they don’t involved
the
creators and artists working on the book in deciding about logos,
colors
and layout?
*JOHNSTON:* I wouldn’t say they care less, just in a different way.
DC
has other people responsible for that area, people like Mark
Chiarello
who’s an excellent Art Director. But they’re still, as we said
earlier,
people who are All About The Comics. So they still care, just in
the
context of a large bureaucracy rather than the independent
boutique
manner of someone like Oni.
And I *can* understand comics readers caring, because this is a
visual
industry. But often, that interest in the visuals has only
been
concerned with the actual content - the illustrator’s work.
What’s
interesting is that people are now starting to take a more
holistic
interest, not just in the penciller/inker’s images but in the look
of
the comic as a whole.I think a lot of this modern interest can be
traced
back to Dave McKean’s work on SANDMAN. When that book first came out,
it
looked like nothing else on the shelves. And this followed through
into
the collections, where McKean handled stuff like the indicia
and
biography design - again, ending up with an object that looked
utterly
unique in comics, and that fitted the feel of the comic perfectly.
That
was something quite unusual at the time, the idea that not just the
logo
but the whole comic should be designed to match the mood and
atmosphere
of the contents.
As for signings and the like, hell, it’s about time. Where were
these
fans when you and I were slaving away in professional repro, eh?
Eh?
*KLEID:* Probably playing video games.
You mention logos matching the mood and atmosphere of a comic… I
find
that interesting - especially in the mainstream world
where
logos=characters.Like old Silver Age DC Comics (and recently, the
new
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA) placing logos directly within the action
near
an appearance of a character like Green Lantern or Wonder Woman so
that
there’s an immediate icon-character shorthand: Lightning bolt =
Flash
and so forth.
It’s like that section in Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS (or is
it
REINVENTING?) where he distills comics to it’s basic shapes and
colors…
Red+Yellow+Blue=Superman. Blue+Grey+Yellow=Batman. Fascinating,
isn’t
it, how graphic design in comics goes beyond how a page is laid out
and
a book is assembled?
*JOHNSTON:* It is, and I think you’ve hit on something there that’s
very
telling about mainstream comics, which is that the title
character/s
define the mood and atmosphere. Which is a strange reversal of
most
‘true mainstream’ fiction, where the mood and atmosphere are set
by
external story forces and the character’s own nature is
almost
irrelevant. (There are, of course, a few exceptions in mainstream
comics
- mainly the big icons like Batman and Superman, whose brands are
so
iconic that they can encompass a broad swathe of styles and
moods.)But
that’s not really anything to do with design, of course. So let me
close
by saying: yes, I think the success of comics-as-literature and
the
increasing care and thought put into the graphic design of comics
are
intrinsically related; and yes, as a sign of the medium’s
maturation
this is a very good thing indeed.
Long live the designer.
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"A 2003 BBC
Documentary chronicling the work of Dr Ronald Mallett, a
physicist on the
brink of making time travel a reality. Answers many
interesting questions
such as why we can never go back and see the
Dinosaurs, also covers the
Grandfather paradox and ways around this such
as alternate
universes."
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by
Cliff
TheZorch asks: "I'm looking for a free online Podcast hosting
site which
offers RSS feeds. The feeds are important for submitting to
iTunes. I've
found Odeo, however uploading to the site is difficult and hangs
about
half-way through, most of the time. Currently, my Podcasts are
being
stored at Archive.org, the Creative Commons Internet Archive, but
the
site doesn't generate RSS feeds which allow you to post your podcasts
on
iTunes. Uploading large files via HTTP is a pain even on a cable
modem.
I'd prefer to be able to do it via FTP. Does anyone know of a good
free
Podcasting host with RSS feeds and reliable uploads for large
files?"
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by
undisclosed@thoughtsmedia.com
(Darius Wey)
/"Greenlight Wireless Corporation announced that its
Skweezer
technology, which optimizes Web content for mobile devices, has
been
integrated into the new Ask Mobile which was launched today. Ask
Mobile
users who click on a search result, or any other link that leaves
the
site, access an optimized version of the target Web page created
by
Skweezer. Skweezer's proprietary compression algorithms, developed
and
refined over the past five years, significantly reduce Web
content
typically to 15% or less of its original file size. This allows
Web
pages to load much more quickly and has the added benefit of
greatly
reducing bandwidth requirements. Web pages viewed through Skweezer
are
also intelligently reformatted, providing intuitive and
convenient
access to content from a small-screen device."/
The Ask Mobile portal
http://mobile.ask.com/ has launched, and
it
utilises Skweezer technology to enhance readability on mobile
devices.
The portal features access to search, directions, images,
business
listings, maps, and more. Click the link above to be taken straight
there.
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One has a
stronger hand when there's more people playing your same
cards."—Washington,
D.C., Oct. 11, 2006........"I'm the decider, and I
decide what is best. And
what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as
the secretary of
defense."—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006
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YouTube is the
most popular site to visit for viewing online videos,
sharing your favorite
videos with people and commenting on videos you
like. This is a collection of
several YouTube third party tools which
can enhance your YouTube
experience.
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Cool video of
how CDs are made. Much more complicated than you would
think.
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Ms. Dewey is a
new, interactive, Flash based search engine. To assist
you in your search,
the website is hosted by smoking hot
model/actress/vocalist, Janina Gavankar,
who is guest starring in
upcoming new episodes of Showtime's "The L Word".
See what she and the
site are capable of by typing into the search field, or
just leave it
blank and watch.
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Oct 15, 2006 5:01 PM
from digg
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This is the
best video on the collapse of the 3 World Trade Center
buildings that I have
seen. Has video, photographs and interviews that I
have not previously come
across. Most notable being video of the damage
sustained by WTC 7 (maybe the
pics the PM guys claim to have seen).
Professionally
done.
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Oct 15, 2006 4:22 PM
from digg
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It's very
simple and fast to create an animation: Just upload some
photos from your
computer (up to 10 files per one animation), and get a
link with your
animated gif. You'll also get a code to place in your
site/blog and share it
with your visitors and friends. The service
support PNG, GIF, and JPEG
formats.
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Oct 15, 2006 4:12 PM
from Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*: Paul E. Martens's story, "What Dead People Are
Supposed
to Do" appeared in last week's edition of the horror podcast
Pseudopod
(I'm just catching up with my podcasts after a week teaching the
Viable
Paradise
http://sff.net/paradise/ science fiction
writing workshop on
Martha's Vineyard) and it's fantastic. Perfect for
Hallowe'en.
Brad is a gormless single manager in a telemarketing firm whose
father
died in debt and was therefore revived and turned into a
telemarketing
zombie who works to pay off his credit card bills. Iris is
Brad's ex,
who is trying to make Brad understand that their relationship
ended
because Brad just doesn't care about anything. Spurred by a need
to
impress Iris and by the impending repayment of his father's debt
(with
concomitant switch-off) he decides to show his zombified father a
good
time.
It's funny, it's got heart, it's sick -- what more could you ask for?
My dad sits in his recliner. He doesn't talk, or eat, or
breathe. He
watches TV. He comes home from work and he
watches TV. I don't know
if he knows what's on, or if he
cares. We sit in the dark and the
light from the TV screen
flickers on his already greenish skin,
reflected light and
shadows lending his face the only animation it's
capable
of. It looks unnatural, which, of course, it is.
But what is natural these days? Talking monkeys? Dogs
that go
shopping? Designer diseases? Crops that pick
themselves?
Gene-jockeys and bio-mechanics have tinkered
with so many things
that I've lost track. Maybe it's a
good thing that there are still
laws about what they can
and can't do to people. People that aren't
dead yet at
least.
Iris said it was wrong of me to have Dad brought back
from the dead
to work off his debts. But I didn't ask him
to run up the balances
on all those credit cards. I think
a son should be entitled to
inherit something from his
parents. Am I wrong?
Oct 14, 2006 3:17 PM
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Oct 14, 2006 12:59 PM
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Oct 14, 2006 12:58 PM
from
Blog@Newsarama/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsaramablog.com%2Ffeed%2F
by JK
Parkin
Pale Force javascript:void(0);
Pale Force
javascript:void(0);
*Pale Force strikes out on the web*
*Bagge bags on immigration critics*
*Nolan defends Ledger*
“He’s just exactly the kind of energy I needed for the
character,”
Nolan (The Prestige) said in an interview
about the Australian
Brokeback Mountain star. “Everything
about the risks that that
performer is willing to take are
the things I need for somebody to
take on that iconic
figure. It’s going to be a huge challenge for us
to create
it, and he’s exactly the guy you want to be in the
trenches with.”
*Stan Lee in Vancouver*
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Oct 14, 2006 12:55 PM
from
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by
Kevin Melrose
Heroes art by Tim Sale javascript:void(0);
Heroes art
by Tim Sale javascript:void(0);
“In times of uncertainty, such as now, the powerless, odd and
outcast,
no matter the age, can look to caped crusaders and make sense of
an
often-nonsensical world,” TV reporter Mekeisha Madden Toby
writes.
“After all, Superman came to be in the 1930s, during one of
America’s
darkest economic and social eras. The universal and timeless need
in us
for archetypes is fulfilled even in TV with popular shows such as
The
CW’s /Smallville/ and NBC’s new comic-book drama /Heroes/. In
the
latter, everyday people of varying races and backgrounds wake to
find
they have extraordinary super-human powers.”
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Oct 14, 2006 12:39 PM
from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning
Blog
/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fdrawn.ca%2Ffeed%2F by Johnny
theact.jpgThe Act
http://www.cecropia.com/theAct/index.html
is touted
as an “interactive film experience” but is, in essence,
a
traditionally-animated video game — the animation of which is created
by
a slew of ex-Disney employees. I got to play The Act in Ottawa at
the
animation festival, and it was a lot of fun. I was immediately
reminded
of Don Bluth’s forays into the video game world (Dragon’s Lair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair
and Space Ace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ace),
but The Act differs in that
it has a focus on subtlety and facial expressions
built into the
gameplay instead of fast-paced action. The control to the game
was a
single knob that, when rotated, would advance or retreat the
main
character’s actions or emotions between two extremes, and it was
great
fun to feel like I was controlling the animation. However, I did
find
that the controls, on the demo I played, were somewhat finicky
and
frustrating to get the /feel/ of, but was told that there were
still
some kinks to be worked out. You can watch the trailer
http://www.cecropia.com/theAct/trailer.html
for the game on The Act’s
website, although it really doesn’t give you a feel
for how the game is
played. As if a coin-op in a world dominated by home
gaming systems
wasn’t unconventional enough, the animation, controls, and
nuance-based
gameplay make The Act pretty unique. I hope it does well.
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Oct 14, 2006 12:28 PM
from MAKE
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Batphoto2
RavensBlight has a great collection of paper craft projects
you can
build for Halloween, I really like the mechanical bat (projects can
be
download/PDF) - /"A visit to RavensBlight isn't really complete
without
taking home a pet! So here's BELA, The Amazing Mechanical Bat! Just
turn
the handle and watch this little creature flap its wings in a
most
convincing manner. The bat is actually life sized, with a wingspan
of
over sixteen inches! And he comes complete with his own
crumbling
headstone and rotting trees. So print out the parts below and
build
yourself a horrible red eyed flying rodent to call your very own."/
-
Link.
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
* make
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Oct 14, 2006 12:27 PM
* comics
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Oct 14, 2006 12:23 PM
from THE
BEAT
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by
The Beat
Pov Toyland Shopbyage 330X255Getting into Wal-Mart has long been seen
as
a Holy Grail for getting comics in front of a wider audience,
but
encroachments have been sparse and experimental. Concerns over
content,
and other distribution problems have left comics in the
retailing
behemoth’s doghouse. However, it seems they think comics are fine
for
their own world conquest plans
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2006/db20061012_200496.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_after+work.
Buried
in this interesting story about Xmas toy retailing (Elmo XTREME?)
is news
that Wal-Mart is rolling out its own characters, Wally and Marty
to draw kids
to their website.
/
As for Wally and Marty, they will star in an upcoming
60-second, 3-D
spot that will run in theaters this holiday
season. They will also
appear in TV spots and in a special
comic book that will be sent to
children who visit the Web
site of the nation’s largest toy
retailer. On their Web
site, the elves promise to ship kids’ holiday
wish lists
to their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others who can
buy the desired toys at Wal-Mart. McCall says that the
information
collected from the site will also help
Wal-Mart make better
decisions about what kids want.
/
But are free comics just a tease to lure kids into a marketing
scam?
/
Not everyone likes such Web sites, which end up gleaning
consumer
information from children. The activist group
Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood is launching a
letter-writing campaign
asking Wal-Mart to close down the
site. “Families have a hard enough
time navigating holiday
commercialism without the world’s largest
retailer
bypassing parents entirely and urging children to nag,”
says Susan Linn, co-founder of the organization and also a
psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School.
/
Parents, what do YOU think? As long as Wally and Marty don’t eat
their
own shit, we’re staying mum.
Oct 14, 2006 12:22 PM
* w20
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Oct 14, 2006 12:19 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
Hemos
writes "John Dvorak managed to get Neil Gaiman to come onto his
video
podcast and discuss writing technique and such. I'm not a huge
Dvorak
fan, but Gaiman will get my attention pretty much any time." Well, it
is
worth noting that there are other folks before Gaiman, but
Gaiman's
piece is excellent. As regular readers know, I've been a
huge
fan/proponent of Neil's work and having meet him a couple years back
and
exchanged some e-mail over the years it's good to see him getting
the
recognition he deserves. Watching this video also made me think of
some
other unusual pairings; I'm thinking Katie Couric doing an
interview
with Stephen Hawking should happen.
Oct 14, 2006 12:16 PM
from digg
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Ron Patrick's
jet powered 2000 Volkswagon Beetle. From the Letteman
show.
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Oct 14, 2006 12:10 PM
from
Slashdot
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by
Cliff
frank_tudor asks: "I am graduate student and work as a web
developer. I
am also getting a divorce and I have a son caught in the middle.
I
believe my profession had a part in it. For my graduate thesis I
am
writing a paper about Dads who work in the computer industry,
divorce
and custody. I think our industry causes a high rate of divorce but
I
need some help from the Slashdot community. My questions are: How
many
of you computer Dads have also gone through divorce and have
retained
either half or full custody of your children? Do you think your job
had
something to do with it? What were some of your hardest challenges
and
are your kids happy?"
Oct 14, 2006 12:06 PM
from MAKE
Magazine
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* misc
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Oct 14, 2006 12:04 PM
from digg
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Use the Draw
Here bookmarklet to draw on top of web pages while you are
browsing the web.
If you save your drawings, other Draw Here users will
then be able to see
your drawings when they go to the same page.
* w20
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Oct 14, 2006 12:03 PM
from digg
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Provided is a
video demonstration of how easy AiLive (and its
technology, LiveMove) will be
for developers wanted to make
comprehensive Wii games. Quite an eye opening
experience for gamers and
devs alike!
* video
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Oct 14, 2006 12:02 PM
from digg
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This guy took a
regular digital SLR camera and created a series of time
lapse sequences and
edited them together to music. Some really cool shots!
* video
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Oct 14, 2006 11:59 AM
from Boing
Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Mark
Frauenfelder)
*Mark Frauenfelder*: Picture 2-18 Vivek says: "It's a 6 minute
animated
story about a boy and girl who find a creature that turns bugs
into
jewels, then try to exploit it and wind up dead. The animation
is
wonderful."
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Oct 14, 2006 11:46 AM
from digg
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Includes:
Clerks 2, Dazed and Confused, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas,
Fearless, Ghost
In The Shell, Harold and Kumar, Labyrinth, The Lost
Boys, Miami Vice, Pirates
of the Caribbean 2, Scanner Darkly, Sin City,
Superman Returns, V for
Vendetta, X-Men 3, and more.
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Oct 14, 2006 11:46 AM
* w20
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Oct 14, 2006 11:46 AM
from MAKE
Magazine
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F12Vvbj5Abes9J7Vvk.Medium
Cheapgeek shows you how to give new life to
that old printer by cleaning
it up a bit... - /"This Dirty Old Laser printer
was the deal in 1996. 6
pages per minute of blazing fast monchrome printing.
Document quality
and the price was $350.00. I however, got the printer for
$150.00 (in
1996 a deal for sure). This printer served us well and as
time
progressed, it sat neglected on the top the desk. A new color
printer
took over the job as print master. Sad- to see this dirty old
warrior
silent, un used. Every reboot, the printer would rachet to
life,
grinding, grunting and wheeze, then wait. Poor lonely printer
waiting
for a print job. Print jobs that until recently, did not come. It's
time
to resurrect you- Old Printer of the Monochrome, Grandpa Laser.
Some
cleaning and maintenance should do it. Here's how I cleaned the
printer,
to bring it back to life..... "/ - Link.
http://www.instructables.com/id/E1RAHK90W3ES9J7VSY/?ALLSTEPS
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Oct 14, 2006 11:45 AM
from Boing
Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*:
Before Nintendo got into the video-game
business, it was a toy and game
manufacturer -- here's a gallery of the
pre-game Nintendo products.
Freaky. Link
http://squirl.info/collection/show/465
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Oct 14, 2006 11:43 AM
from digg
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One thing that
is going to be pretty revolutionary about the Wii is the
fact that it
includes a free, fully-featured web browser. This means for
$250 you get
instant-on web access on your TV. This is something that
the XBox can’t
deliver for fear of cutting into Microsoft’s PC
market.
* tech
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Oct 13, 2006 11:34 AM
from digg
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Adults-Only
Game for Wii, SNK decided to bring their DS title “Exciting
Witch Trial” to
the Nintendo Wii
Oct 13, 2006 11:34 AM
from Digital Media
Thoughts
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by
undisclosed@thoughtsmedia.com
(Damion Chaplin)
"Streamload, Inc., a leading provider of online digital
media services,
announced today it currently manages more than 750,000
customer uploads
per day. The company has far surpassed the daily number of
uploads
enjoyed by popular websites such as YouTube, which average only
about
65,000 video uploads daily. Since January 2006, Streamload
has
experienced a more than 300 percent increase in music, video, photo
and
document uploads. This immense...
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Oct 12, 2006 6:23 AM
from MAKE
Magazine
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Img413 1186
Img413 1187
Gnomic sent in this device that turns a TV
into a simple, web
configurable "Dashboard" - /"YBox is a
prototype/proof-of-concept for an
ultra-cheap, always on, internet appliance
that attaches to a standard
TV set. The YBox is like Konfabulator for TV,
turning TV into a platform
for helpful, easy-to-read, live internet
"channels". It was Created for
Yahoo's first open "hack day", Hackday 2006,
where it took 2nd place."/
- Link.
http://uncommonprojects.com/ybox/
Hmm, I hope they release the schematics/source when/it's complete.
Nice
Altoids case!
* make
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Oct 12, 2006 6:14 AM
from digg
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Eight different
videos of people experiencing various games on the Wii.
Click on the image to
launch a video. These really show how an average
person might experience
Nintendo's upcoming system.
* video
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Oct 11, 2006 3:51 PM
from Gizmodo
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Exciting_Witch_Trial.jpg
SNK clearly thinks it knows its native Japanese market well,
otherwise
it would never have the cojones to pimp a game as twisted as
/Dokidoki
Majosaiban/ (Exciting Witch Trial) for kiddies' favorite, the
Nintendo DS.
The clever/totally screwed-up /otaku/ behind the game have decided
that
using the touchscreen on the DS to fondle women (dressed as
schoolgirls,
naturally) is by far the best way to determine if they're
witches. Errr.
I'd expect this kind of thing from a niche publisher – God knows
there
are enough stores that specialize in this stuff here – but SNK?
Anyway,
as the pic above suggests, there's also a Wii version in the
works,
which sounds doubly unpleasant given all the jigging about Wii
owners
are likely to dig. – Jonny Hiratsuka
Oct 11, 2006 9:46 AM
from digg
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Logitech's new
rechargable keyboard, the diNovo Edge is a timely update
to its 2003
predecesor. This spanking new keyboard connects to your PC
via Bluetooth,
providing a range where traditional RF keyboards could
never achieve. This is
good news for couch potatoes and their HTPC setup
as you can now control your
entire computer from the comfort...
* tech
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Oct 10, 2006 11:22 PM
from MAKE
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* furn
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Oct 10, 2006 11:20 PM
from Boing
Boing
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by
noemail@noemail.org (Cory
Doctorow)
*Cory Doctorow*: This "handheld printer" was made from a repurposed
HJ
inkject cartridge -- because it's handheld, it can print on odd
surfaces
like balloons:
The fact that it was built from parts readily lying
around makes,
for example, that MOSFET T1 is a rather
strange type. In principle
any P-channel MOSFET can be
used for this, as long as it can cope
with the peak
current of about half an amp. The coil L1 does not
have a
critical value either. The author's coil comes from a
backlight-inverter, but any slightly hefty coil will do. If the
20-V
power supply is actually in the vicinity of 20 V,
then all is well.
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Oct 10, 2006 11:10 PM
from digg
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Funny
documentary describing how to become emo
* video
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Oct 10, 2006 10:56 PM
from digg
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A technical
tour-de-force. Every single shot, scene-for-scene,
replicated in
Legos.
* video
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Oct 10, 2006 10:47 PM
* video
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Oct 10, 2006 10:42 PM
from digg
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"Corey was a
bit freaked. He received a box in the mail containing a
razor and shaving
cream. The box said, 'Happy Birthday, from Gillette.'"
* video
/reader/view/user/11133184907758680969/label/video
Oct 10, 2006 10:30 PM
from digg
/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Frss%2Findex.xml
This "handheld
printer" was made from a repurposed HJ inkject cartridge
-- because it's
handheld, it can print on odd surfaces like balloons.
* make
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Oct 10, 2006 10:52 AM
* make
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Oct 10, 2006 10:36 AM
from
Blog@Newsarama/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsaramablog.com%2Ffeed%2F
by
Kevin Melrose
Heroes art by Tim Sale javascript:void(0);
Heroes art
by Tim Sale javascript:void(0);
“It has to lean into the comic-book world by its nature,”
/Heroes
/creator Tim Kring tells the newspaper. “You’re doing a show
about
people who have superpowers.”
The newspaper also talks with co-executive producer — and comics
writer
— Jeph Loeb, who says he keeps comic-book newbie Kring from veering
into
overly familiar territory: “At one point, (Tim) said there should be
a
guy who could pick up a car and throw it in the air, using his
magnetic
power. I said, ‘Tim, that’s Magneto (of the /X-Men/).’ He turned to
me
and said, ‘Is that a person or a power?’ “
* tv
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Oct 10, 2006 7:27 AM
from digg
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"In setting up
our business we pushed our office online by using a
couple of the free tools
and services to get started. During our initial
months we have used Writely,
Google’s hosted mail solution, Google
Spreadsheet, Google Calendar and
Thumbstack presentations in running our
company. Here are the experiences we
have had"
* app
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Oct 10, 2006 7:27 AM
from digg
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The title says
it all. If you are a web professional then these plugins
are for
you..
* app
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Oct 10, 2006 7:25 AM
from Gizmodo
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keuco-multimedia.jpgMade for people who own their homes rather
than
rent, the Mediastation Multimedia System is a full bathroom
solution
that ensures you are never more than three feet away from a computer
at
all times. The touch-screen system is waterproof, thankfully, so you
can
access the internet, listen to the radio, watch a DVD, listen to a
CD,
write text messages, or do just about anything you can do with a
regular
computer—all in the comfort of your bathtub.
Kueco and Visiomatic are making these in wall-mount and
free-standing
models, available from 10 to 37-inch models. Like we said, if
you own
your home, you can put these into the walls, but if you rent,
the
free-standing ones are for you.
No pricing info, but if this is affordable enough, us
always-connected
bloggers would prefer a waterproof solution than placing our
laptops in
a large zip-lock bag and hoping it doesn't leak. – Jason
Chen
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Exclusive:
Adobe Systems plans to introduce its much-anticipated
Creative Suite 3.0
software bundle towards the end of the first quarter
of
2007.
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Oct 10, 2006 7:17 AM
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A must see.
"Turkish Star Trek continues this cinematic tradition. In
Turkey it’s called
Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda, which probably translates
literally to “Tragic
Mistake.”"
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Coffins
Paper Forest, just posted up a whole bunch of Halloween related
origami
and paper projects... some of them include:
* Mechanical Bat
* Witch
Pop-up
* Bat Pop-up
* Pumpkin
Diorama and Witch hat
* Jack-O-Lantern and Witch
Models
* "Bewitched" Mechanical
Witch
* Tower of Terror, Haunted Mansion, and
More!
* Vintage-style paper masks and
More
* Halloween Box
* Origami
Pumpkin Face
* Simple Halloween Origami
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Fq8W7Uz9Lzet2Jxrto.Medium
Honus writes - /"A friend wanted me to make
him a Green Lantern ring for
his costume so I thought I'd share how I did it.
Obviously some of the
equipment involved is very specialized but if you can
get someone to
cast the ring for you the rest can be done at home."/ -
Link.
http://www.instructables.com/id/E1DFCK4SJTET2JXRX1/?ALLSTEPS
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Oct 9, 2006 1:23 PM
from Pocket PC
Thoughts
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by
undisclosed@thoughtsmedia.com
(Darius Wey)
/"In the first chapter, I elaborate on generic resource
saving
capabilities like image saving, current Web page saving, link
target
saving and link copying - probably the most important areas
of
improvement in the last year. In the second and third chapters
I
elaborate more on strictly file saving issues; the second will be
mainly
of interest to people that want to have the best / fastest /
most
reliable HTTP (Web) download tool on their Pocket PC and the third
will
concentrate on compatibility issues and common problems. The latter
will
be a bit more technical than the first two chapters and explains on
the
protocol levels why some browsers are unable to download files
off
certain pages or for example doesn't offer the server-side name for
a
given downloaded file. It will be of paramount interest to affected
Web
browser developers (Microsoft, Opera, Bitstream and Access)."/
Pocket PC Thoughts resident, /Menneisyys/, has burned the midnight
oil
once again to deliver an information-rich guide to downloading files
and
images, and saving web pages. Give it a read, and if you wish to make
a
comment, please do so in the original thread
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51750.
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fabjpicture.jpgLooking to bring that Second Life avatar one step
closer
to reality? Fabjectory will take your virtual object file and turn
it
into a 7-inch voodoo doll. The company says logos, tattoos and
rings
make the transition very well, but admits that wings, ribbons, and
prim
hair don't look so great. It's $99 for a standard figure, more
complex
ones will cost you between $125 and $199.
If you're so deep into this thing you feel the need to carry around
a
little talisman proving that your avatar exists, more power to you.
It's
your $199. To us, it's just playing with dolls. – Charlie White
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F9Akb6L8Xpes9J79G8.Medium
Fungus amungus shows how to use your inkjet
printer to print of fabric -
/"Forget about printing on some transfer paper
and then ironing it onto
some fabric. With some freezer paper you can print
right on the fabric
itself. No need to reverse the image and it's faster,
cheaper, and more
effective."/ - Link.
http://www.instructables.com/id/E7Y7MOQ9OSES9J79QF/?ALLSTEPS
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Assy7
Here's how to convert a wireless doorbell from HomeDepot to close
a
relay instead of chiming...This whole thing started from a MAKE
forum
discussion! /"With the addition of one capacitor, one relay, and a
small
piece of wire we can convert an inexpensive wireless doorbell into
a
remotely controlled relay useful for a wide range of applications.
These
include remote PC starting, lighting control, Halloween effects
control,
or virtually anything that can be controlled by a pair of
relay
contacts."/ - Link.
http://www.hackersbench.com/Projects/ding-dong/index.html
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Nietzsche Family Circus
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ :
Family
Circus cartoons randomly combined with quotes from Nietzsche.
Remixing
Family Circus is nothing new, but I find this one
fascinating.
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Oct 6, 2006 7:14 AM
from The Portable Freeware
Collection
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CodeBank is tree-based personal information database. It is
geared
towards storing code snippets, with built-in syntax highlighting
for
C/C++, Objec¡ Pascal, Java, XML, Visual Basic, VBScript,
JavaScript,
CSS, HTML, PHP, Perl, Python and SQL. However, it is actually
quite
handy for storing other information too. It supports ZIP compression
for
a smaller database, and AES encryption to keep your sensitive data
safe
from prying eyes. Its search function supports a filtered view
that
displays all matching records at a glance.
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by
Kevin Melrose
Rex Mundi: The making of a comic
javascript:void(0);
Rex Mundi: The making of a comic
javascript:void(0);
I’ve been out of the loop for the past couple of weeks, so I don’t
know
how old this is. But old or new, it’s still interesting for
process
junkies: On its website
http://www.darkhorse.com, Dark Horse
provides
a step-by-step look
http://www.darkhorse.com/downloads.php?did=556
at
six pages from Arvid Nelson and Juan Ferreyra’s /Rex Mundi /#2,
from
script to completion.
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dyson_handdryer.jpgJames Dyson, billionaire inventor of expensive
vacuum
cleaners, has time on his hands to worry about bathroom bacteria, so
he
created the Dyson Airblade, a supercharged hand dryer that
pumps
room-temperature air through a tiny slot at 400mph. Dyson claims
the
device uses a "windshield-wiper" effect, drying both hands in
10
seconds. Since it doesn't use any hot air, he says it uses 83%
less
energy. Must be noisy, though. To go on sale in the UK next
month,
Dyson's reverse vacuum cleaner for hand drying will cost £549
(around
$1027), and will also be available for lease.
This might be a great device for those of us who really don't want
to
touch /anything /in a public bathroom, and don't much like
standing
around for 30 seconds at a noisy hot air blower waiting for the
hands to
dry. – Charlie White
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Shooting War: a graphic novel by Anthony Lappe and Dan
Goldman.
http://shootingwar.com/ The
11-chapter first act has been lauded in
/Rolling Stone/, /Wired/ and /The
Village Voice/. It's 2011: President
McCain is fighting for political
survival, America is stuck in Iraq, and
there's another oil embargo.
'Vlogger' and indie icon Jimmy Burns
happens to catch a terrorist attack in
NYC on his web cam, making him
the new face of wartime
journalism.
Oct 2, 2006 6:52 AM
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