In response to the Danish Mohammed cartoons, a bunch of Israeli humorists have started a contest for the best Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoon. From the site:
Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the 'Muhammad cartoon-gate' events in amazement, until finally he came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so he announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
"We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!" said Sandy "No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!"
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10:15:41 AM,
Wednesday 15 February 2006
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Video of Werner Hertzog being shot during an interview. "It was not a significant bullet." Dude's hardcore.
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03:45:41 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Awesome parasitic wasp creates baby hosts by stabbing unsuspecting cockroaches in the brain and controlling their neurons.
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04:41:32 PM,
Tuesday 7 February 2006
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A gorgeous animation called 'Eva Goes to Foreign', a UK sponsored PSA-like thing aimed at dissuading women in Carribean nations from engaging in the drug trade.
A fuller explanation of the clip and the animator behind can be found on Cartoon Brew.
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01:21:07 PM,
Monday 6 February 2006
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Achewood's 'Great Fight' storyline is ramping up to be one my favorite stories the strip has ever tackled. It starts here, as much as anything in Achewood starts, let's just say that the direct roots of its unfolding pick up steam at the aformentioned link.
It's about the weakness of Ray, and the strength of Roast Beef, and fighting, and it's damn funny, too. It introduces us to a corner of the Achewood universe that we haven't seen before, but fits snugly within the confines set out by the strip. The Great Fight is just so. damn. good.
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12:53:37 PM,
Monday 6 February 2006
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Okay, you know how computer-generated water always looks kinda fake (especially the surface of the water)? Well, apparently, a couple of huge leaps forward have been made. Check out the shark video on this page for some jaw-dropping, completely computer-generated water effects. The other one is pretty hot, too.
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10:45:37 AM,
Monday 6 February 2006
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British Troops . . . on LSD! An oddly funny, oddly disturbing piece of historical film.
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01:09:15 PM,
Friday 3 February 2006
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Stephen Colbert not only played D&D, but has positive things to say about it. Sounds like he went to a semi-St. John's for part of college, too, although he's less positive about that.
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12:31:17 PM,
Wednesday 25 January 2006
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The Beast's 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2005.
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01:20:41 PM,
Tuesday 24 January 2006
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Your Instructions For The Day
1. Go to the iTunes Music Store (or music store of choice, except eMusic, they don't have it)2. Download Nouvelle Vague's cover of The Dead Kennedy's 'Too Drunk to Fuck'
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10:49:12 AM, Tuesday 24 January 2006
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Insane model-city-looking photographs . . . of real places. The technique is intriguing but why not just build a model? Surely those helicopter ride expenses must pile up.
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03:25:22 PM,
Monday 23 January 2006
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Heavy forbid someone might have to learn some new terms. (totally cryptic, because what I'm talking about is boring unless you're invested in it)
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04:32:09 PM,
Friday 20 January 2006
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I posted a pretty long Actual Play on the Shab-al-Hiri Roach game that I played with the DC Johnnyfolk this past weekend. Short version: Flawed play (mostly due to a poor rules explanation by yours truly) but a good time nonetheless. I'd love to take the lessons learned here and rock the Roach at Croquet this year.
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01:35:31 PM,
Wednesday 18 January 2006
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Pssst! Wanna hear something awesome? Dismemberment Plan shows are available at archive.org! One of the best live bands of the late 90's/early 2000's, what are you waiting for?
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12:58:48 AM,
Wednesday 18 January 2006
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I was going to start this with a string of profanity, but I couldn't bring myself to. So. Marvel's doing a series called 1985 and it's a photocomic. Apparently cost a million dollars. It looks like bad porn. Seriously. These two guys look they're going to tear off their clothes and fuck each other as soon as they put down those comic books. Check out the soft focus! The dark socks and khaki shorts!
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03:26:48 PM,
Tuesday 17 January 2006
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So I've fallen in with a really great gaming community out here in the Triangle. My new weekly group just started, and our first game has yielded some very interesting play. Here's the Actual Play post about Red Prophet, Black Prophet. I'll repeat the warning at the beginning of the thread here:
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08:00:38 PM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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I'm finding the hardware lust for the new Intel Macs, especially from the Windows side (empirically collected from TWO comments on Penny Arcade), totally baffling. It's still everything you hate, people.
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04:31:26 PM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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Fascinating 1956 comic book on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, giving a quick overview of both the events and philosophy behind the nonviolent protests.
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01:44:05 PM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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So . . . in the newest version of iTunes, can I not get rid of the iTunes Music Store display at the bottom of my Library? Ooop, command shift M. Good.
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10:16:35 AM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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Warren Ellis's best comic this year has been his weird detective series Fell. You can now read the excellent first issue online for free. Do it. The comic itself is only 1.99, so you should pick up the others, which are all equally odd and enthralling. But even if you don't want to do that, read this first issue. It's one of my favorite single issues from the last year, and one of the few comics I'm going to continue buying on a monthly basis.
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10:11:32 AM,
Tuesday 10 January 2006
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Okay, in this discussion of the Alito hearings Kevin Drums says this:
It's yet another sign that the separation of powers envisioned by the founders has slowly morphed into a de facto parliamentary system except without any of the institutional means of accountability normally built into a parliamentary system. Someday Congress is going to regret that.I'm completely in the dark as to what that means. Anyone care to explain? _
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02:55:47 PM, Monday 9 January 2006
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I am going to be in DC next week, and available for visiting and laughs Friday evening to Saturday mid-afternoon. I would really, really like to play one of the wacky hippie RPGs I've been exposed to recently with some of my Maryland Johnny pals, specifically the bizarre and delightful Shab-al-Hiri Roach. Anyone game for some light drinking, academia, and a 3000-year-old insect god?
Martin, Mike, Deborah, Anne, Dave Bohannon, I am looking at you.
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04:29:27 PM,
Thursday 5 January 2006
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For future reference, Photoshop Blog.
Also, Happy New Year. Personally, it was a year of great highs, and great lows. Hoping next year will be an even positive, but don't quite have the OMFG WOTTA DONKEYSHIT YEAR feeling most folks seem to have had.
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09:28:22 PM,
Sunday 1 January 2005
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To the only thing I love about Christmas: Happy birthday, sweetie.
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08:19:48 AM,
Sunday 25 December 2005
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This is going to be the hotness itself: A movie version of Frank Miller's 300.
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12:00:07 PM,
Saturday 24 December 2005
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American Edit, a mashup of Green Day's American Idiot is surprisingly satisfactory. Starting with a mix of Green Day and Dr. Who theme, and going from there. All the songs aren't perfect, but it's the best I've heard since Night at the Hip Hopera. Dean Grey is, of course, being smacked about by Green Day's record company, so there's another Grey Tuesday going on. Check it out!
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07:30:25 PM,
Tuesday 13 December 2005
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Trailer for Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Bizarre indie-twee soundtrack only piques my interest! With . . . Jason Schwartzman?
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06:48:12 PM,
Tuesday 13 December 2005
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The Decemberists Sell Out!
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12:53:38 PM,
Monday 12 December 2005
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How It Should Have Ended, movie endings done . . . right.
[via kottke]
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01:27:22 PM,
Friday 9 December 2005
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Dictionary of Antarctic Slang
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01:14:27 PM,
Tuesday 6 December 2005
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An awesomely cartoony, awesomely violent animation of vikings vs. a monk who only wants a little peace.
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09:46:47 AM,
Monday 5 December 2005
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Remi's an idiot.
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07:05:19 PM,
Friday 25 November 2005
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There has been one bright spot so far in the last week. Today I pretty much finished (save a few text edits) the Bernhardt Lab Website. I'm pretty happy with it, and I learned quite a bit during its construction.
Critiques are welcome, but please be gentle. (I know it there are display problems with the navigation bar in IE on a Mac)
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08:07:19 PM,
Tuesday 22 November 2005
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Just found a review of The Mule mini I did for SPX. Needless to say it was another punch in the eye during a remarkably crap week.
(Okay, it wasn't that bad. The guy liked the writing.)
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01:22:45 PM,
Tuesday 22 November 2005
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The Laptop for Every Kid project has been boiling for years. When I first read about it, it slapped me as a sensible, if typically undercooked and poorly implemented way to attack the problems of global poverty and economic immobility in the third world. However, I couldn't really come up with good reasons why it struck me as a bad idea overall. It was just a guy instinct. Luckily Lee Felsenstein does the work of a hundred men, and pens a detailed critique of the project. What do you all think? Am I just being overly critical of the egghead computer wonderboys? Or does Felsenstein point out fatal cracks in the plan?
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02:51:49 PM,
Friday 18 November 2005
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If you liked that video yesterday, here's another Jason Forrest tune 36 of my favorite punk songs. It's beyond a mashup.
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10:46:27 AM,
Friday 11 November 2005
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