The other day, quite by accident, I happened across a copy of three books that I spent untold hours reading as a kid — the three volumes in Michael Fleisher’s Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes. Fleisher is a comic book writer who is best known for his run on DC Comics’ Jonah Hex. While he…
November, 2006
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Wired’s long story on Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and others, Battle of the New Atheism, certainly garnered a lot of coverage and commentary, but pardon me if the “new atheism” looks a lot like warmed over “old atheism” (and that’s not a compliment). For an extraordinarily long time, atheism in the United States was identified…
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Diamond Select recently announced that it had signed a license to produce “Office Space”-related merchandise. According to a Diamond Select press release, The specific details of this product line are still under development, but fans of the movie will have great items to look forward to. We promise everything Office Space will be done with…
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Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets are plastic rivets designed to make it easier to build with cardboard boxes. They’re stronger and easier to use than traditional cardboard box building methods (i.e., duct tape). McGroovy’s site also features plenty of plans for cardboard box creations like this castle plan. Check out the gallery of cardboard box projects.
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English Russia has a nice collection of Soviet era anti-American propaganda posters. Some of them are brutally ironic, like this one touting the USSR’s supposed superior economic output as compared to the United States (complete with blatantly anti-Semitic portrait of a capitalist), Or this gem that is sort of Norman Rockwell with a commie twist…
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Daniel Brandt is again embarassing himself, this time claiming that he’s found evidence of widespread plagiarism among Wikipedia entries. But how much of this is genuine plagiarism rather than just Brandt’s typical incompetence. Take, for example, the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Brandt claims here that large portions of Wikipedia’s entry on de…
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According to Engadget, Bosch is selling a Lego-branded dishwasher that has a “toy cycle” option. The toy cycle washes at 40 degrees Celsius — hot enough to kill germs, but not melt the plastic. Unfortunately, for the moment it is only available in Europe.
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CongressIn30Seconds.Com is an amazing site that lets users create their own 30 second political ads. The site has an interface that allows users to combine stock video and audio (all in the public domain) and customize the ad further with text overlays. There are some fairly clever ads given the relatively rudimentary choices available. It’d…
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Neverball is an open source, freely downloadable clone of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball (which is, of course, name-checked in a WoW quest), Like Super Monkey Ball, you have a ball that you roll around by tilting the floor in different directions. There’s also a game called Neverputt included which uses the same physics engine, but…
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November, of course, is National Novel Writing Month. The goal, for those participating, is to write a 50,000 word novel starting sometime after October 31 and ending before December 1. They’ve even got a guidebook with a most excellent title, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High Velocity-Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.