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Saturday - September 11th | | 2:30 | | Love Tokins From a L'il Ainjil! And Assorted Festival Attend..
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The 2010 Small Press Expo
- SPX to its friends
- will be opening tomorrow in splendiforous Bethesda, MD. The festival, which benefits the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
, is also home to the Ignatz Awards
, which recognize excellence in small press/independent comics-making in a variety of categories. It is not known if winners are awarded with a brick tossed upside the head
.
Anyhow the nominees - whose work may be NSFW - for the 2010 Ignatz Awards are:
Outstanding Online Comic
Callahan Online, John Callahan
I Think You're Sauceome
, Sarah Becan
The Lesttrygonians
, Stephen Gilpin
Reliable Comics
, David King
Troop 142
, Mike Dawson
Outstanding Mini-Comic
Don't Drink from the Sea
, Lilli Carre
Rambo 3.5
, Jim
Rugg
Stories by... Vol. 1, Martin Cendreda
Troop 142, Mike Dawson
Water Column #3, Josh
Frankel
Outstanding Story
'John Wesley Harding', The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Joe Daly
Market Day, James
Sturm
[PDF Excerpt
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Monsters
, Ken Dahl
'Turd Place', The Hipless Boy, Sully
'Untitled', Mome Vol. 16, Laura
Park
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
The Hipless Boy, Sully
Lemon Styles, David King
Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak
Red Snow, Susumu Katsumata [PDF Excerpt
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Ten Thousand Things to Do
, Jesse Reklaw
Outstanding Graphic Novel
The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry
Moriarty
Market Day, James Sturm
Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
, Al Columbia [PDF Excerpt
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Summit of the Gods Vol. 1, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi
Years of the Elephant, Willy Linthout
Outstanding Series
Ganges, Kevin
Huizenga
King-Cat Comics & Stories, John
Porcellino
Sublife, John Pham
[PDF Excerpt
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Summit of the Gods, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi
Troop 142, Mike Dawson
Outstanding Comic
Blammo #6, Noah Van Sciver
Eschew #2, Robert Sergel
Flesh and Bone, Julia Gfrörer
I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt
Sublife #2, John Pham
Promising New Talent
Rina Ayuyang
, Whirlwind Wonderland
Rami Efal
, Never Forget, Never Forgive
Blaise Larmee
, Young Lions
Sully, The Hipless Boy
Matt Wiegle
, 'The Orphan Baiter', Papercutter #13
Outstanding Artist
Eddie Campbell
, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus)
Al Columbia, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
Mike Dawson, Troop 142
John Pham, Sublife #2
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| 2:00 | | This Is About Power, Not Security
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| 2:00 | | "Pretty direct karma."
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| A day after stand-up comic Louis C.K. posted a series of drunk tweets from an airplane
, including a series of ribald tweets about Sarah Palin, he found himself sitting next to Palin's daughter Bristol on the Tonight Show.
At a screening for his new comedy special 'Hilarious', he talked about the experience and compared Palin to an early Hitler.
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| 1:30 | | "I don't fucking want innovation."
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| 1:00 | | being a conscious and ongoing victim of yourself is maybe wo..
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| 0:00 | | Middle-Earth
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Friday - September 10th | | 23:30 | | Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
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| 23:30 | | Motivated Grammar
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| I'm not advocating the abolition of grammar
, but rather its justification. I'm not quite sure what that will entail in the end, but I'm starting out by pointing out grammar rules that just don't make sense, don't work, or don't have any justification. All I want is for our rules of grammar to be well-motivated. |
| 23:00 | | Harvey had to be part of the mix
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| 22:00 | | Tim's watch is broken
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Issue 54028
: Tim's watch is broken
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Find Tim (he's usually in the Seattle office)
2. Engage him in conversation
3. Surreptitiously try to check the time on his watch
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected watch to tell correct time. It tells the wrong time. |
| 22:00 | | No Book Burning Here. Just Pulping.
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'In most cases, when a book that deals with potentially classified military information is due to be published, one of the United States's many government divisions inspect it, redact sensitive parts, and either let publication continue or stop it entirely. But a clash in opinion between the U.S. Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency may lead to the DIA buying up all 10,000 copies of [a] new memoir's first printing
-- and promptly pulping the books.' 'The publication of Operation Dark Heart
, by Anthony A. Shaffer
, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, has divided military security reviewers and highlighted the uncertainty about what information poses a genuine threat to security.'*
'Shaffer's book is temporarily out of stock at Amazon, because of the Pentagon's plans for the original print run, so the books are now sitting in a warehouse in Virginia. That means that as of 2 PM today Operation Dark Heart was ranked No. 4 among books sold by the online retailer. It could end up being the most unlikely bestseller of the year.'*
'I admit I was unfamiliar with Operation Dark Heart
... until I read about it in the Times
last night. But now I can't wait to get my hands on a copy—partly because it sounds like an interesting read (tagline: 'spycraft and special ops on the frontlines of Afghanistan and the path to victory') but mostly because the Pentagon does not want me (or you) to get a look at what's inside.' |
| 22:00 | | Roger Ebert presents At the Movies
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| 21:30 | | BRAAAAHMMMM
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| 21:30 | | L'chaim!
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| 21:00 | | Gee, dad, that was my pony.
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| 20:30 | | If you're walking down the street, and think you see Barack ..
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| 20:00 | | "They're selling postcards of the hanging."
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| On June 15th, 1920 in Duluth, Minnesota, three young, black circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Issac McGhie, were lynched. The Minnesota Historical Society has a great site devoted to the terrible event, Duluth Lynchings Online Resource
. I'd especially like to point out the Oral Histories
section, which has short interviews with African-Americans who lived through the event. In 2001 Minnesota Public Radio covered the story
, inspired by a campaign to build a memorial to the three men, which was dedicated in October of 2003. The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial has a fine website
which is well worth visiting. |
| 19:30 | | I made this post solely from videos I found on the internet
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| 19:00 | | Nurture at Least as Important as Nature
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| 19:00 | | I organize a vegan crunk night
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| 19:00 | | The Pope and the Vatican are angry. Over police raids.
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| 17:30 | | Write like an Egyptian
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| 17:30 | | Thanks, pretty blond lady!
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TV encased in Mahogany? WE WANT IT
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The City of Toronto's new ewaste recycling ads
are an interesting departure for a city known for particularly lousy advertising campaigns
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From Toronto's Spy Films
and director Trevor Cornish
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| 17:00 | | Moonshot
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| Q&A with Duncan Jones
, the director of the recent Hugo winner Moon
plus Gavin Rothery - concept designer and VFX supervisor, Barrett Heathcote - visual effects editor and Hideki Arichi - art director (MLYT) (1
,2
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,4
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| 17:00 | | Deaths in MotoGP
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| There hasn't been a death in the premiere class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing since 2003
. Recently, there were 2 deaths in 8 days. While not strictly a MotoGP event, Peter Lenz
was killed in a USGPRU race during the MotoGP weekend at Indianapolis. He was 13 years old. Accusations of poor parenting have been leveled
. Others disagree
. Then, in Italy, a promising 19 year old racer from Japan, Shoya Tomizawa
was killed in a similar accident. Questions have been raised about the performance of the safety officials
and decisions made
. A BBC overview
of the situation.
A video of the Tomizawa crash
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| 17:00 | | George C Williams
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Influential evolutionary biologist George C. Williams
(1926-2010) has passed away
.
Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He wrote the hugely influential book Adaptation and Natural Selection
in which he outlined the gene-centered view of evolution later popularized by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. He was also important in the development of the field of evolutionary medicine
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| 16:30 | | How a bike tyre is made
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| 13:00 | | The Grand Design
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| 12:30 | | The crimewave that shames the world
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| A series of powerful, prescient and englightening essays from the author of 'The Great War for Civilisation'
and award winning journalist Robert Fisk
on so called 'Honour
' killings from this weeks Indy
. Part 1
, Part 2
, Part 3
, Part 4
, Concluding Part 5
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| 8:00 | | The Comet Chase
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| 7:30 | | geography geek blogs
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| 7:30 | | Judge Rejects Military Policy Toward Gays
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| 7:30 | | Giving around the world
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The World Giving Index (scribd
) (.pdf
) by the Charity Aid Foundation
1 was just released
. It lumps three different types of charitable behaviour – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger - and produces the 'World Giving Index'. Australia and New Zealand came out on top
. The study also found that being happy is more of an influence on giving money to charity than being wealthy.
1: The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is a charity set up to help other charities by working with donors, companies and charities to encourage and facilitate a culture of giving. They do this by offering products and services that make giving easier, tax efficient and help charities to make the most of donations through their banking and fundraising support services. |
| 7:00 | | "No matter what I did, I just couldn't shake that Fokker"
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| 4:00 | | Because I Can Save on My Power Bill Now
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Earlier this summer, a little-known '80s singer named R.P. Astley, responsible for a few blips on the radar such as 'Eternally Conjoined
' and 'Under No Circumstances Will I Ever Release You
' (the latter of which created a brief meme in which one would 'PaulTumble' one's friends by pretending to point them to the video, but instead sending them to something quite interesting and novel instead) has released *fist clench, drawing-in gesture aimed at camera* a new track, 'Lights Out
,' his first new song in 17 years *hand gesture at camera*.
*hand gesture at camera* |
| 4:00 | | Pro-Abortion, Feminist Training Corps Cookies
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| The Boy Scouts have garnered a lot of controversy
for refusing to accept gay
and atheist
scouts.
Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts have no official stance
on sexuality, and while they officially pledge to 'serve God,' they have become more flexible
on the policy. In addition, a Girl Scout council had endorsed Planned Parenthood
as a source for information on sex education. These policies have earned the ire of Republican House Representative candidate Hans Zeiger
, who declared the organization a 'a pro-abortion, feminist training corps,' and that 'perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere' in an online editorial. He has pulled down most of his writings, but most of them have been cached
by Google
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| 1:30 | | Fox News North?
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| 0:30 | | Cats sold seperately.
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| 0:00 | | Perfect Play
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| 0:00 | | Anastassia Elias
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| 0:00 | | Fired Up
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Phil Davison is a member of the city council in Minerva, OH. But what he'd really like to be is Stark County Treasurer. He'd really, really like that.
The video of Davison's impassioned/crazy speech at last night's meeting of the Stark County Republican Party Executive Committee was posted early this morning by Martin Olsen, an 'independent minded political commentator' and blogger
. In addition to CQ Politics Political Wire, the video was quickly picked up by MSNBC
and the Huffington Post
. PBS landed an interview with Davison, who appears much calmer in print
. Davison did not win the nomination
'My speech last night — I knew it might be a little over the edge, but that's how I felt at the time,' Davison said. 'If it spurs someone to go on and say, 'You know what, I want to go up there and talk like that too, I want to make a difference, I want to get involved in my community.' If it affects one person in a positive way, then it was worth it.' |
Thursday - September 9th | | 23:00 | | How do you calculate Pi? Build a supercomputer.
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| 23:00 | | Turnip Strength Tester
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A trip
to The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games
. (Previously
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via
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| 23:00 | | There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
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| Tom Lehrer's 'Elements Song' accompanying Google Instant Search
[SLYT]. |
| 22:30 | | 1 in 38,000,000
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| You are more likely to be killed by a pig than a shark. You run a greater risk of dying from an asteroid impact than a terrorist attack. You would have to fly an average of 38,000 years in commercial aviation before suffering a fatal crash. The fears parents have for their children have nothing in common to what will actually kill or hurt them.
Our perception of risk has very little relation to threat: some helpful visual
guides
[PDF] and reasons why
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| 22:30 | | "The Coolest Political Poll D.C.'s Ever Seen"
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| 22:00 | | Almost two decades of scientific answers for (young) inquiri..
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The internet is full of answers, and some of them might even be true. For almost 20 years
, the the Newton BBS
has been a source of answers to science questions that may be accessed directly via the Web as well as through telnet
(no public telnet access any more
, sorry). The Newton BBS 'Ask A Scientist' archive
has answers from 15 science fields, from astronomy to zoology, for a total of more than 20,000 questions answered. This was covered previously
, and the site is aimed at teachers and students from grades K-12, so io9's Ask a Physicist
questions (with answers from Dr. Dave Goldberg
) might be more engaging. See also: MIT's Ask An Engineer
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| 22:00 | | Keep that bugle handy, Roland
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| Stephen King's The Dark Tower
is coming to the silver screen
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| 21:00 | | Possession is nine tenths of the meal
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