Month: February 2006
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Social Piranhas
Boing Boing.net mentioned a new show called “The IT Crowd” from Graham Linehan, creator/producer/writer of “Father Ted.” Their angle was the Electronic Frontier Foundation and that it appeals to the sysadmin crowd, but I think it’d be funny even to non-geeks. (Speaking as a geek; your mileage may vary). The first couple of episodes, and…
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BasTards™
I never signed up for the local FasTrak™ thing, even though it seems like it’d be right up my toll lane — it’s futuristic high technology of the future, using lasers and high-frequency cosmic rays to automatically detect your car; it’s tailored to absent-minded types; and it’d be another bill to pay. But I never…
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Hachijuhachi!
Continuing my fixation on things Japanesey, here’s a video from YouTube about sushi etiquette. Big laughs with two Fs. (Okay, it’s more wry than big laughs, but it’s worth the wait.) Also on YouTube is that SNL sketch where Chris Farley’s character goes on a Japanese game show. Update: I removed the video because the…
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Oil-guzzling babies (and, suitably, ghost dogs)
Considering how much I love Pom Poko and tanuki, and I got Taiko no Tetsujin mostly because it had dancing kitsune in it, I’m surprised I haven’t seen all of this stuff sooner: My new favorite website is The Obakemono Project, which is like a web encyclopedia of Japanese folk monsters and spirits. Each one…
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I was young and I needed the money
A while ago I was digging through some boxes and found the remainders of my old comic strip. I trot them out whenever anybody gives me half a chance, so some of the people reading this have already seen them. If you do a Google search on “Spectre Collie,” most of the links are to…