I’m not doing one. I’m not feeling it. I’ll leave it to someone else to make fun of Google’s L-less Valentine’s Day logo. (Googe responds to the controversy here.)
Note that with a little Firefox-related cleverness you can permanently endow Google with an Achewood logo. I don’t know, there’s a little too much cat-tongue in it for …
Bookslut points me to this — to all appearances — justifiably savage review of Spider-man: Reign #3. The Reign mini-series is set 35 years in the future, with a middle-aged Spidey — yaar, spoilers — mourning the death of his beloved Mary Jane. (There’s a 10-page preview from the first issue here.) What killed Mary Jane? Cancer. From? …
Somebody hooked up a big industrial arm to a Wiimote, then gave it a sword.
Then they strapped a guy on it.
Meanwhile, these robots spin records. Not shown: the robots’ emo phase, when they put on turtlenecks and cried.
I don’t know if anybody but me followed this story arc in Doonesbury, or indeed whether anybody besides me under the age of 50 reads Doonesbury anymore. Anyway, Trudeau seems to be paying more attention lately to Mike’s nerdy daughter Alex, who goes to MIT. Granted, the whole Battlebots-esque scenario is about 9 years out of date. Man, …
There was a time when I felt that I wasn’t nerd enough to read The Order of the Stick. It’s a webcomic about a party of adventurers in a fantasy role playing game. There are a lot of in jokes about 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I mean, I barely made it to 2nd Edition.
But it’s actually funny anyway. The characters are profiled here, …
I don’t know what you were doing this weekend, but most of the billionaires I know were in Davos for the World Economic Forum. It was a pretty quiet Davos this year, as evidenced by the fact that it was pretty big news when Chad Hurley mentioned that YouTube might start sharing ad revenue with content creators.
There’s been some …
Couple people wrote in with notes about a second nerdcore documentary in the works, Nerdcore for Life. Oddly, I kind of liked the trailer better. A little rawer, a little angrier. (Though you have to feel a little uncomfortable with the basic analogy some of the rappers propose, implicitly, between the civil rights abuses that fuel some …
I’ve been putting off doing a nerdcore post just because I’ve been heavily into nerdcore hip-hop for a couple of years now, and I kind of don’t know where to start. But now there’s a nerdcore documentary. So my hand is forced.
For those who don’t know, nerdcore is hip-hop by nerds about nerdy subjects: video games, star wars, …
To save you the scrolling, for visual effects we have:
– Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
– Poseidon
– Superman Returns
Meh.
I’ve never been very comfortable with the fact that I’m crap at chess. As a lad I self-identified as a smart kid, but when I stepped up to the board, I had nothin’. I just told myself I had other strengths and went back to drawing Thor on my math notebook. But an uncomfortable feeling lingered.
Despite this, or maybe because of it, I …
I’m going to add a short addendum to my Achewood post the other day, since it got mad comments, and I could use the traffic.
Most of the comments were people saying, in various eloquent ways, that Achewood is awesome. With which I concur. Someone pointed out that I didn’t mention the blogs for the various characters, which is totally …
There came a time not long ago when I realized that a goodly percentage — not 50, but like, you know, 15 or something — of my media intake consists of webcomics. A quick census of the sites in the toolbar hovering over the browser window in which I write this post would include links to Penny Arcade, Order of the Stick, Achewood, PvP, …