As I'm heading to Kalamazoo for the rest of the week with my medievalist friend to do... er... medievalist stuff, I thought I'd post something suitably medieval to commemorate the medieval conference.

Medieval!

Ahem. So, ripped from Chaucer's blog: pickup lines from the middle ages!

• Do sheriffs administere thee to those who breke the kinges peace ( Read more... )

The Apple "switch" campaign was pretty good. Well, ok, so Ellen Feiss was pretty good, and the rest of the campaign itself was at least highly recognizable. Today, Apple tops it with it's new "Get a Mac" ads.

I would call them utterly and completely drop-dead brilliant. But then, I have a well-know Apple bias and am prone to hyperbole, so perhaps ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about the best thing that's happened to me this week... SCUMM ( Read more... )

My own emotional reaction to stimulus is never as simple as I would like it to be. The sum of my feelings on any given subject are cross-purpose. It's exhausting ( Read more... )

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Another new shirt, this one for patriotic World of Warcraft fans. See the image below the cut.

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So I got myself Illustrator as a christmas present this year. I hadn't had a lot of time to sit down with it until yesterday, when I thought "Hey, a good way to level up my illustrating skills would be to make some of those T-shirts I've been thinking about!"

So I did. Four new designs up at my Cafe Press store. You can see the art for them below ( Read more... )

Joel is always brilliant. In this article he talks about what record companies really get out of variable pricing on iTunes.

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A new book hit the shelves this autumn. A little ditty called The Loss of Leon Meed. It's been greeted by warm reviews. Publishers Weekly calls the book "a promising debut." Booklist says the author "shows considerable flair in his striking ability to give his whimsical premise such philosophical overtones." This all sounds great, right? There's ( Read more... )

This should have been the big Yoda scene at the end of Episode II.