Well, first of all hire more female creators, and y'know, don't pull crap like this (scroll down for the relevant rant ( Read more... )

So I'm listening to the podcast of Politics with Don Newman as I eat my breakfast here, and I am having many thinky thoughts ( Read more... )

I'm catching up on January comics! Yay!

I'd never actually read the fine print at the bottom on the DC Nation page, but today I did, and I learned a few things.

1) The comics I buy are printed on paper that "meets the sourcing requirements" of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

2) If I wanted to get a subscription to, let's say, Nightwing, ( Read more... )

I just noticed something.

Back in January and February there was something of a brouhaha going on over at YouTube when the whole Tom Cruise Scientology video was leaked online and those fun Anonymous videos were everywhereAnd even longer ago, there were several documentaries on TV-Links clone sites available to watch online in streaming video ( Read more... )

[I originally posted this on my neglected blogspot blog, but I'm in the process of writing up another comics-related post, and I think part of my discussion in that post will make more sense with this one preceding it.]

( My theory on comics and female readership. )

The Royal Ontario Museum has a temporary exhibition called "Darwin: The Evolution Revolution".

Its sponsors? The United Church Observer and the Humanist Association of Canada. Apparently no corporate sponsors wanted to risk funding something to do with evolution, fearing controversy:

"We've never seen a need that was so clear," Observer editor ( Read more... )