A flash based X-Men parody that’s skewers the idiosyncrasies of the team’s history hilariously.
When I heard that DC Comic’s upcoming sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, was only going to be 7 issues, I was concerned that with todays slow pacing of comics stories (so it can all be put into a trade paperback collection later) that it was going to be a rather thin on […]
The British government’s national ID card scheme is criticized in this musical Flash presentation.So queue up the Gilbert & Sullivan and have at ‘em!(via Sly of Your Mac Life)
The third edition of the Carnival of Liberty is up.Here’s the first one, and Here’s the second one.For those who aren’t familiar with blog carnivals, they are usually weekly collections of links to blog posts from a variety of contributors, all about a common theme. It’s sort of an all-star game of blogging, with a […]
It seems like more and more, that laws being passed to “clean up elections” or “protect children” are actually being used to silence political speech.Now some may say we have tons of free speech (Social Conservatives would say too much) because sex and violence are so widely available throughout every form of media. This ignores […]
Wired just published an article by Robert Andrews about David Allen, and his book on productivity methods, “Getting Things Done”.Neither Allen nor the other subjects are really complaining about the article (especially since the article is helping sell books and drive traffic to their blogs), but still felt the need to post up the full […]
James Stockdale, former Admiral in the US Navy, former POW in Viet Nam, and former Vice-Presidential candidate (Perot’s running mate in 1992) died this past week. He is also the only non-Libertarian I have ever voted for Vice-President. Somewhere I have on tape the famous debate between Stockdale, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle. Popular opinion […]
Apparently the writers of the new movie “Wedding Crashers” had their own experience to draw upon:From LIFELONG FRIENDS WRITE A BUDDY PIC:“In college I interned one summer for Massachusetts congressman Ed Markey in Washington, D.C.,” Fisher says. “I had zero money and needed to eat, so I’d make up these fake name tags saying I […]
Especially when that someone Fisks your post in the comments…Lesson: Don’t piss Shawn King off. To paraphrase one David Banner, you wouldn’t like him when he gets angry. And that takes a little bit of doing to make him lose his good humor (which is a good thing… He’s a prettty big guy.)I can get […]