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Scott Lobdell on WE CAN BE HEROES Crowdsourcing Event
Scott Lobdell talks on ComicVine about raising money for We Can Be Heroes: I’m a big fan of crowdsourcing — for comics and graphic novels on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. So far I’ve only...
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Three Notes On “How To Spell Dragon Con”
1. It would be carry more weight if the Dragon Con Director of Media Relations would not use the asterisk in his job title. 2.They’d get more search engine optimization if they got rid of the space...
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Harvey Awards 2013 Final Ballot Announced, “Hawkeye” Gets 7 Noms
The final ballot for the 2013 Harvey Awards is now available. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Loki Morning
Leigh Lahav wonders what all the fuss was at San Diego about Tom Hiddleston showing up… Click here to view the embedded video. And if you’re wondering what all the fuss was about yourself, here’s what...
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Quote Of The Day: Warren Ellis on doing the work
Q: theaudacityofswope asked: what do you do when (if) you ever feel like giving up? A: There is no such goddamn thing. There is only getting up and doing it all over again, smarter and harder, until...
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Sunday Cinema: The Daly Supermen and the FlashPoint Paradox
As you may know, there’s a new DC Animated movie coming out: Justice League: The FlashPoint Paradox, based on the FlashPoint crossover event of a few years ago that preceded DC’s New 52. What you may...
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Review: “Kick-Ass 2″
Well. This might be the easiest review I’ve written. If you liked the first Kick-Ass movie, you’ll like this one. If you would have liked the first film if it didn’t have Nicolas Cage in it, you’ll be...
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I swear, it was science fiction when I started
My first Star Trek story, Star Trek: Oaths (Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers), solved the problem of a planet-wide plague by rewriting the genetic code of the planet’s population. Twelve years...
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Robot Cars Are Coming…
Bookmarking for later reference: People have dreamed of cars that drive themselves for decades. Now, thanks to a contest sponsored by the U.S. military and further work by companies like Google,...
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Uh-oh. This rarefied atmosphere up here has some drawbacks
Well, this is just depressing news… In many areas of life, tall people seem to get all the benefits. On average, they earn more money. They are more successful at work. Taller people are just more, er,...
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Testing a new site design
Let’s see what this site redesign does. Bear with me– there will be a lot of little posts today as I check on how it’s working, make various asides, and close a lot of open windows on my browser.
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A case where donating money won’t fix the problem
But that won’t stop some people from trying to donate anyway. http://ventrellaquest.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/join-the-fight-against-affluenza/
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Re: The cult of justice – from Charlie Stross’s Diary
There’s a set of patterns I keep seeing that are implicit in our news reportage—specifically, the reporting of legal cases. Patterns which seem to me to have a very simple underlying cause but which we...
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My quick link post
Did I mention I’m occasionally cross-posting at https://plus.google.com/+GlennHauman/ I owe my upbringing to the taxpayer. Both of my parents owe essentially their entire lifetime of earnings to the...
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The Luckiest Man On The Face Of The Earth
75 years ago today, one of the most famous speeches in history was given in Yankee Stadium. No full recording of the entire speech exists, so here are some people helping fill in the gaps.
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If You Were A Puppy, My Sweet
by Glenn Hauman & David Mack If you were a puppy, my sweet, you would be a wild one. You’d be big and neutered, just like human-you. You’d bound from place to place, unburdened by any thought of...
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Give him a chance…
“Give him a chance,” you say. “Give him a chance” means forgetting every single thing he’s done up to this point– his bankruptcies, his lawsuits, his stiffing of vendors, his bamboozling of...
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An epiphany about writing
There’s no such thing as “musician’s block.” You sit down and you play the song. If you’re recording it, you can go back and listen where you missed the note, where you were having trouble, what have...
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Uh-oh. This rarefied atmosphere up here has some drawbacks
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Testing a new site design
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