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Kiwis in comics

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Animals Have Problems Too. (Previously in this series: White Ninja gets a Kiwi. Ok, two isn’t a series — so get out there and get drawing!)

Update: That’s more like it: “kiwi en kiwi gaan nergens over,” among others. (Thanks Jacob!)

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Link dump

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing:

Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls as it warms up. [via sensory impact] Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries bombard each other with fireworks. [via Nemo Ramjet] Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, and the city he searched for, are [...]

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Twain on German

Saturday, April 8, 2006

I’m going to have to try and put my hands on a Mark Twain collection. I just stumbled on “The Awful German Language” and it’s spectacular rantage, as well as wonderfully quotable. Quite a lot of this applies to Dutch just as well, and my German-via-Dutch is at just the level of quasi-comprehension that he’s [...]

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Grocery Store Wars

Monday, June 6, 2005

I’m a bit hesitant about posting this, since it is blatant propaganda. But it’s propaganda in a good cause, and it’s very well produced and funny. It’s (Grocery) Store Wars, a Star Wars short-film spoof featuring Cuke Skywalker, Chew-Broccoli and Darth Tater. Those already opposed to the Organic Rebellion should probably not click through.

(Promo poster [...]

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script-kiddie + loopback = rotflol

Friday, May 13, 2005

A month out of date, but very funny: this translation of an article in German describes a self-proclaimed “hacker” who apparently attacked his own machine via the loopback IP, 127.0.0.1 (it happened on IRC, you get the transcript plus commentary).

It’s hard to believe anyone could be this stupid, it looks an awful lot like a [...]

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depression city

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Here is a short story, “anthropology,” in sound and simple pictures. Very short, worth turning your speakers on for. (Created by friendchip.)

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