I am doing some work on the design of this website so if you see anything broken or miss something let me know. I will be reworking the site’s theme, adding support for Gravatars and generally poking about for the next couple of days.

Hark! A Vagrant is a brilliant Live Journal comic that features Kate Beaton’s take on her life and history. Her Hastings comic is fantastic, even better after being colored by a fan. Even better the author is a Canadian, so this counts as a cultural comic strip! This is one of the best history [...]

I missed this when it passed around a month or so ago. Just stumbled across it and think it is brilliant.
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

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At a birthday dinner for a friend last night I was told I was neglecting my duties here by not posting up some things I thought had already received wide internet play. Normally if things are turning up on a bunch of sites I skip posting it, but I was reminded that that are some [...]

Buying music online used to be easy. Either you bought from Itunes, who had the biggest catalog or EMusic who were the only major selling mp3s. The frontier is changing now and I thought I would put up some thoughts and tips for shopping online for music. For the purposes of this I will be [...]

To those who come here searching for “the rise & fall of ruby woo” torrents. You can sample most of the music on the album at their website and mySpace page. I understand wanting to listen to an artist before you buy and support that, but if you are just looking to steal their music [...]

Last year’s winner, the squirrel, isn’t slacking in 2008. They are now engaged in a crazed attempt to redeem their public image in an effort to make them seem harmless. Only the nightmarish horror of squirrel tributes to Benazir Bhutto and other images from beyond mortal ken make it plain that that this is no [...]

Whuffie is a concept from Cory Doctrow’s book Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. The concept is that society has moved to a post money economy where wealth is measured in personal status. In that world Gary Gygax would have been as rich as Bill Gates. As I am sure you have already seen [...]

I liked the movie Gettysburg, despite problems like glue on beards and a semi-crazed Robert E. Lee it was a pretty good movie but it can’t hold a candle to the awesome Gettysburg movies linked below.