This UK Guardian story is all messed up unless things have changed drastically in the past few months. The obvious problem is that although Mark Millar does indeed work for Marvel, where he is responsible for the Ultimate series of books, Marvel doesn’t own Batman or Superman. Marvel and DC are planning a JLA/Avengers crossover…
March, 2001
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Hilarious, must-read PvP comic strip.
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The other day I was surfing the web and came across any essay about whether video games, etc., cause violence. The essay repeated a claim I’d read before. Supposedly the Pentagon commissioned a study which found that only 25 percent of soldiers actually fired their guns at the enemy. As a result, this little anecdote…
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Let me preface this by saying I always feel somewhat uncomfortable writing about racial issues because claims about race are so often misconstrued as establishing bias in one way or another. That being said, I find it very annoying that a lot of nonsensical claims about race are often passed around when a quick reality…
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For literally decades now the Federal Aviation Administration has been promising it is going to do something about the long outdated air traffic controller system. About the only thing it has accomplished, however, is its skill at coming up with excuses why the system is still not ready. Meanwhile private companies are concluding they can’t…
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MacCentral Online reports that, “Apple today released new [OS X] versions of iTunes, iMovie and AppleWorks. All of them are available for download from a Downloads page on Apple’s Web site” (thanks to Don Larson for the link). I’m not sure I’d be touting this at the moment. In fact it’s been surreal watching television…
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Briefly, everything in Conversant (the system used to manage this site) is a discussion group message. Tools are provided on top of this to do different things with messages. One of the things you can do with a message, for example, is bind it to a URL. What this means is that I can tell…
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Yikes. I never thought I’d see John Tynes’ byline in Salon.Com, much less on an over-the-top insider’s account of his time working at Wizards of the Coast right after Magic: The Gathering took off (Death to the Minotaur). This is part of a series, with the next installment appearing Monday.
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A couple weeks ago I was in Detroit for the first time in several years. If you’ve never been to Detroit but want to get the same experience go to a local video store and rent the cheesy John Carpenter film, “Escape from New York.” The cityscape of Carpenters’ futuristic New York isn’t that different…
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Hamrick Software has an interesting little web application. You type in your last name, and it pulls up a map showing how common that last name is throughout the United States based on several different data sets. For example, here’s a map of Carnell,