Yo Ho! Be gettin’ yer talk on, me hearties!

Be ye knowin’ that today be th’ day t’ be maroonin’ yer proper talkin’ an be talkin’ like a Pirate instead? If ye be reekin’ from th’ stench ‘o th’ newb, be castin’ an unpatched eye ‘wards these here videos t’ be gettin’ th’ hang of it, an whatever ye be doin’, be keepin’ yer [...]

Avast! It be Pirates an Python!

In honor of th’ swift approach of me favorite day after Festivus, an me family member’s birthdays, me be invitin’ ye to be ponderin’ upon a time sink of golden proportions. For this year’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, thar be no better way to celebrate than t’ be losin’ one’s precious moments in [...]

Tacos and Sushi Subreddits, Oh my!

In case you’ve been living under the HTTP equivalent of a moss-covered boulder, you’ve likely encountered the notion of news done twenty-first century style, through various social network-ish community-driven news websites. While I’m not even of the proper demographic to enjoy the adolescent shenanigans and concerns of websites like Digg or 4Chan, I do enjoy [...]

Wordle: Beautiful word clouds

I am a sucker for beautiful and interesting data visualization techniques-  I’ve long been a fan of Edward Tufte, and his work, especially his Sparklines system for representing data in “intense, simple, word sized graphics”. Of course, there are other simple systems which have been made popular of late by the web, such as tag [...]

I *knew* we’d learn more about this guy!

So, here’s a QnD before I hit the sack.  Back a couple years ago, I started a series of comparison images, called “coincidence? you decide!”, and my very first one was a striking comparison (by my low standards anyway).  Behold, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed vs Carl Brutananadilewski from Aqua Teen Hunger Force: (more…)

The Baby

I got a nice little email from my old buddy Mr. Clay Moore (of Charlotte North Carolina Clay Moore — there are so many of them!). He’s an awesome comic artist, avid gamer, and aficionado/star/director of awesomely quirky b-grade style horror movies.
We miss his driving prowess, awesome character sketches, and general good-natured scariness up here [...]

Farewell, Mr. Fischer

Robert James “Bobby” Fischer died from an unspecified illness yesterday in his adopted country of Iceland; He was 64 years old. In later years he became a controversial character, making anti-semitic remarks and even calling for the death of U.S. President George W. Bush- Despite his sinking into notorious hermitude, the dude could rock [...]

Who put the Goat in there?!

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