So a fake chinese company rips off the artwork of more than 90 artists around the world and publishes them, without credit, in a book selling for $100. I would be beyond pissed if that happened to me. Here's the link, http://www.immonen.ca/news/archives/963Read more... )

Holy Crap, it's Neil Gaiman in China with a Panda!

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Do you ever have the odd sensation of having stepped into an alternate universe, one where things are almost, but not quite the same? Friends and acquaintances, this very morning I have made such a journey, into a spooky world that was eerily familiar. After having been most rudely awoken (in a manner not fit to be described) I powered on my ( Read more... )

Wheeeeeeee!

I hardly ever actually post, but this is too fun not too. I've been upgrading my pc, and while I was buying parts I picked up a USB graphics tablet for cheap. So I've been fiddling with it and going over the basics of proportion that I barely remember from when I took a drawing class at Brandeis, but I needed to share one of the first things I " ( Read more... )

I was thinking about Godwin's Law a little while ago, which says that the probability of Hitler or Nazis being used in an argument online approaches 1 over time, and realized that even though it's meant as a semi-joke, the math is flawed. Over time, the probability of anything being mentioned approaches 1, so the definition needs to be refined. ( Read more... )

I actually have things to blog about in my insomnia! This past saturday was the most crammed-with-interesting-stuff day in recent memory. Earlier in the week a friend invited me to come with him and a few others to the Smith and Wesson range in springfield to learn the skills of pistol shootery, and I was happy to accept. So I get up bright and ( Read more... )

Everyone should, at some point, listen to the ending credit song from the game Portal. It's by Jonathan Coultan, and is creepy and happy and geeky, and doesn't have the ability to not cheer me up! My favorite quote: "There's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying till you run out of cake!"

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