18 January 2007
17 January 2007
ghost rider pays taxes
| IRS is Hell!! | |
Next president of the USA?
14 January 2007
Steve Canyon - 60 years ago
Ther was a time comics, were news:
Sixty years ago this weekend, "Steve Canyon" flew onto the pages of the Sun and 168 other daily newspapers, beginning a run that lasted until Caniff's death in 1988.
The Sun previewed the arrival with front page stories leading up to the Jan. 13, 1947, launch, calling it "THE news of 1947." The first "Steve Canyon" strip ran across the top of the Sun's front page. Time magazine ran a Caniff cover story that day.
"In 1947, Milton Caniff was a well-known name. He was a celebrity," said R.C. Harvey, author of a soon-to-be-released Caniff biography. "People expected him to produce a comic strip that had the same kind of excitement and sex appeal that 'Terry and the Pirates' had. And they were right."
In Chicago Sun-Times via The Pulse.
Cosplay Café
Owner Aaron Wang, 24, who opened the iMaid Cafe this summer, got the idea for the theme after seeing a piece about a maid cosplay restaurant on the television news in China.Links:
"I call them maids not waitresses," said Wang, who moved to Canada from Beijing six years ago.
"They smile a lot and they are cute. I want somebody cute like the characters from cartoons -- big eyes, long hair and young."
reuters
iMaid café
slashfood
31 December 2006
And so it Ends
Final day of the year, still can't undestand the comotion that goes with New Year eve, but them I'm also a guy that doesn't like x-mas :P
Last post of the year.
Next year hope to be a little more regular.
Last post of the year.
Next year hope to be a little more regular.
12 December 2006
The future
This was suposed to be the future. It's montage of 1993 AT&T ads predicting a technological future, I don't know what AT&T are but the predictions are interesting.
09 December 2006
It's a mob scholarship
Criminals 'target tech students' but is not for a ransom, they just give them a job. It seems there's a high demand for hacker. So if you tech savy, and don't have money to go through University, just call a mob boss near your!
From the article:
From the article:
"Some students are being sponsored through their IT degree," said Mr Day. Once qualified, the graduates go to work for the criminal gangs.
The dead demand their rights
Dead musicians sign petition:
From epus via slashdot
If you read the list, you’ll see that at least some of these artists are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006). I take it the ability of these dead authors to sign a petition asking for their copyright terms to be extended can only mean that even after death, term extension continues to inspire.
From epus via slashdot
THIS IS SPARTA!
The new trailer for 300, is pretty amazing they were able to capture all the visual magic Frank Miller and Lyn Varley created in the orignal graphic novel
.Oh watch it in High-Defenition (full screen) for a better viewing experience!
07 December 2006
C0N3KT10NZ 2006-12-07
- ComicsSpace - The Myspace for comic book authors, for now is just in the first stages, soon it will allow the publication of webcomics.
- Pulp Hope Blog - The blog of Paul Pope, besides the usual behind the scenes info and sketch, a lot of analys and thinking about comics. He's work isn't just good by accident.
- Todd McFarlane cartoon about Neil Gaiman and Spawn #9 (from long before the their court case) [via linkmachinego]
04 December 2006
Quote of the Day
"I am very sorry for having a penis. Happy now? ;) " - Andi Watson
01 December 2006
Just two things
While I finish tunning my computer instaling some new fonts, here's two links:
One is disturbing, the other is amusing both are about comics.
One is disturbing, the other is amusing both are about comics.
30 November 2006
Murder on Myspace - The Ghosts in the Machine
That evening, two hours into her 4-to-10 pm shift at the Norm Thompson catalog company, just outside Portland, Oregon, Bays finally got a chance to check her own MySpace page for messages. There was one from her husband, frantic, telling Bays to phone right away – even though he knew that she wasn't allowed to make personal calls on the job. Bays' inbox also had emails from two of Varo's ex-girlfriends. "What did he do now?" she groaned to herself, clicking on one of the notes: im freekin out i cant stop crying and i dont want to believe its true. he cant be gone … please call me or someone call me please.
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With more than 120 million registered users on MySpace, odds dictate that some of them will die by violence. The ghoulish, encyclopedic Web site MyDeathSpace chronicles about 600 victims and more than 35 accused, convicted, or executed murderers with MySpace profiles. A year after Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl was found murdered in September 2005, friends were still posting messages to her page saying how much they missed her. Ryan Dallas Cook's crew still write him notes about their trips to Vegas and Disneyland; he died in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident in October 2005.
in wired
16 October 2006
Now it's the ISP and the OS
When I was finally starting to blog with some regularaty it seem, I'll be away from some time from the net. After the monitor now it's trouble with the ISP, OS, and the soundboard...
Computers hate me.
Computers hate me.
31 August 2006
I'm Cursed
Fist was the HD now it's the monitor...
In less than a month.
In less than a month.
15 August 2006
The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem
The Linux folks have their penguin and the BSDers their daemon. Perl's got a camel, FSF fans have their gnu and OSI's got an open-source logo. What we haven't had, historically, is an emblem that represents the entire hacker community of which all these groups are parts. This is a proposal that we adopt one — the glider pattern from the Game of Life..: as said by Eric S. Raymond
Blogger Beta
Google is finally a updating the Blogger system. New usefull features, but they keep with that adiction of calling everything BETA, for a know the term beta is right. Blogger Beta new features are all working some of the old ones aren't still available. . . it may take some time until everything is working.
Still it's a good news.
Still it's a good news.
Rohke's Dead
or.: The Short Life of Rohke Vorne or.: Who The Hell Is Rohke Vorne
For some years I used the alias of Rohke Vorne, the reason why is now irelevant. Rohke Vorne was involved in a lot of projects, whole of them went wrong. He was in a real bad luck streak.
From the personal site, to the portuguese zine, till other projects he colaborated they're all gone now. The only regist of his short life is available in and old archive of his short lived newsletter.
There's probably some other residues someplace, but from that time little is left.
Rohke's dead. All conections were lost. The rebirth is dificult, and sometimes I wonder if there's any sense in leaving that alias behind when I'm not so different now... maybe just a little more older.
For some years I used the alias of Rohke Vorne, the reason why is now irelevant. Rohke Vorne was involved in a lot of projects, whole of them went wrong. He was in a real bad luck streak.
From the personal site, to the portuguese zine, till other projects he colaborated they're all gone now. The only regist of his short life is available in and old archive of his short lived newsletter.
There's probably some other residues someplace, but from that time little is left.
Rohke's dead. All conections were lost. The rebirth is dificult, and sometimes I wonder if there's any sense in leaving that alias behind when I'm not so different now... maybe just a little more older.
14 August 2006
Links for 2006-08-14
- Frank Miller "sick of … helpless-female types" - beware with what you write, letter cols are gone, but the blogs and forums may survive
- The Evidence for Female Gladiators
There were female gladiators. They were regarded as absolutely a special treat. They were sufficiently rare that you would advertise them up front as something spectacular that you were going to have in the show (Pattyson, 2000).
- China bans foreign cartoons - what are they gonna ban next?
- British aviation bans all hand-luggage and liquids
The point of terrorism is to make us afraid. The UK response to a foiled plot is to create an unspecified period during which fliers are arbitrarily deprived of iPods, novels and dignity.
- Our cognitive bias towards open source software
- Fake obituaries for spam names
12 August 2006
david loyd's kikback
"'Kickback' is a good crime thriller that has a mix of moody, noir-style, big-city tough detective stuff, blended with a psychological drama about guilt and corruption, and topped with an action finale," Lloyd told CBR News. "I'd say it was like a great meal without the dessert."
David Loyd talks about his new graphic novel