Have you actually seen one, though?
Yes. And a Machine running BeOS, either at an Amiga or Mac expo in the days before OS X.
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Objective C
Well, let's not say the OS was without its downsides. [
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Sequential Stark: Wired Reviews Iron Man 3 — In Comic Book Format [
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40? Twice as long as it needs to be:
REM statements. [
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I like a nice bit of violence.
Dull military nonsense and bro-homour I'm less keen on though. [
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I know! Some dude from Buzzfeed could have done it in minutes, earning literally dozens of dollars. [
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In Bible Science you are peer reviewed by The Lord. [
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I'll particularly miss Ask Chris - bascally the Chris Sim spin on a random subject each week (not all Batman related), usually managing pin down the essence of what makes something work or explore some unexpected aspect of it. I guess it's unlikely... [
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Previously:
"Avengers Assimilate"
Mutant Women of Earth
There are no Black comics writers at Marvel or DC
Luthorcorp- It's a name you can trust!
Batman: the Animated Series
"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
Geek... [
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I'm reminded of Steve Bissette's story of how he'd get scripts from Alan Moore, laden with poetic description, and use a marker to cross out everything but the most relevant parts.
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Hff. This is the 60s BBC we are talking about. It's not branding to sell toys, it's a cheap-ass move to save money (which could later become branding to sell toys).... [
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My university course was basically a set up for making interactive CDs. Towards the end there was a brief module on HTML. [
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I like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He fights using
mind powers. [
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I recently saw Side Effects (Side Affects(?)) and was impressed with his craftsmanship as a filmmaker and director but not the script.
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Imagine what good editing could have done for Joyce's "Ulysses".
Well, he typed it up for a start. [
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In 2012, the average e-book earned its author less than 300 dollars. [
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I find Goethe's three questions very useful when looking at any work:
What was the artist trying to achieve?
How well did they do it?
Was it worth the doing?
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Williams-Sonoma Concedes Victory to Terrorists, Pulls Pressure Cookers From Shelves
When I did a mouseover on that link I was astonished it wasn't the Onion.
The pressure cookers can be made safe by simply not placing a large amount of... [
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(Other containers that can be made dangerous by placing gunpowder inside of them include Every Container Ever.) [
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Maybe if they 3D printed chicken nuggets those would be less repulsive too. [
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The actual text somewhat contradicts the headline and lead in that Mary Roach peice - mealworms probably aren't eating their way out of anyone. [
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Duncan Jones only gets to make movies about space because his dad is from space. [
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Anyway, Zosia Mamet needs to get her ass back to the 60s and sort Peggy out. [
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while self-published starts landing in sub-genres of increasing specificity.
"BACONPUNK". [
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If Dunham said, "Yes - although I've become successful on the merits of my own work, I can't discount the support of my parents and my social background. The larger question is, what can we do so that these things are not necessary to the... [
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See also: Every other Gawker article relating to Lena Dunham. Now, in general I like the Gawker guys, but to suggest that their ranks of writers aren't primarily composed of graspers and opportunists really wouldn't be true, so this line of attack of... [
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I'd probably less sympathetic towards Dunham and Jones if they hadn't used the opportunities afforded them to produce something interesting. Reframe the argument in terms of more people should afforded the opportunity to do interesting things and I'm... [
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gah, worst cover ever!
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