Matt Boyd, writer of MacHall and Three Panel Soul loses job due to saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Is this the climate of fear we’re stuck living in?
oh, God.
I’m actually SCARED now.
I work for an airline, and even though I do comics of fucking talking DOGS with Machine Guns and chicks beating the shit out of each other, I can only imagine the ridiculous bullshit that might happen if they wanted to construe it another way
We thought WiiSpray - a Wii mod put together by a couple of German design students - was pretty neat. We're not the only ones, as the judges of the iF Communication Design Awards are equally impressed. Held by German firm International Forum Design, WiiSpray was one of 377 finalists in the prestigious awards, from a total 1,368 entires coming in from 24 […]
Hey, I finally put my Kitty Pryde piece together from the scans and here it is. I messed with the background in Photoshop. So it didn’t look exactly like this, the background color was sort off-white or something originally. Thanks to whoever out there bought the original art. I meant to post this a while ago, so if you didn’t see it yet, Douglas Wolk did a […]
Media professor David Myers, from Loyola University, has been studying how people interact in online games. Of interest to us is his account of what happened when he started trolling people. Myers has been studying human interaction in City of Heroes since it first launched all the way back in 2004, and with his character "Twixt" decided as part of […]
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out how to predict Social Security numbers from publicly accessible birth data with frightening accuracy. The researchers analyzed a public information source known as the "Death Master File," which includes birth data and SSNs for people who have died. The scientists found that in many […]
Via Patti Scheindelman's New World Geek comes word of this nifty "Ikea hack," a chicken coop made from an Ikea bunk bed and storage unit. Ikea home for chicks Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!
I've always found DIY prison culture to be absolutely fascinating. Inmates are makers by necessity. In 1999, photographer Marc Steinmetz created this fascinating series of photographs depicting DIY tech found in prisons. The series is titled "Escape Tools." From the artist's site: (Above left), Rope Ladder with wooden rungs disguised […]
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