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Link to Time magazine interview with Joss Wheedon (guy who made Buffy) and Neil Gaiman (guy who made Sandman comics, co-wrote Good Omens with Pratchett).
Pretty cool stuff, a lot about the nature of geek and the mainstreaming of same. Favourite quote :
I almost miss the stigma that used to attach to these things. Now everybody’s [...]
Posted at: September 29th, 2005 - 10:21 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Play this Footy game to waste some of your time. Kick some goals!!!
What’s your best? Mine so far is 8 3 51
Posted at: September 21st, 2005 - 1:52 am - Number of Comments » 1
To me, the two greatest catastrophes in recent American memory – September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina – are blasts on God’s trumpet, calling us to practice what we preach. In both cases, the devastation was unprecedented. But God could only have allowed them to happen because he wanted to give us another chance to [...]
Posted at: September 16th, 2005 - 2:23 pm - Number of Comments » 1
If you didn’t have time to see the movie, you might enjoy “A Short History of Martin Luther” on Real Live Preacher.
Then the church got kinda messed up. Apparently they were corrupt and all, you know? Like REALLY messed up. And there was this one badass monk guy named Martin Luther. Not Martin Luther King, [...]
Posted at: September 14th, 2005 - 2:10 am - Number of Comments » 0
People thrive on aphorisms. The little cliches that are supposed to sum up a world of argument into a dozen words. “What goes around comes around.”
Many of them are harmless enough, either from the ‘old sayings’ department, or modern motivational messages like ‘In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.’
I [...]
Posted at: September 11th, 2005 - 12:20 pm - Number of Comments » 1
A byte walks into a bar, the bartender says “You ok buddy?”. The byte shakes his head and responds with: “Parity error” “Ahhh” the bartender says “I thought you looked a bit off”
Posted at: September 9th, 2005 - 12:17 am - Number of Comments » 2
Ever made a self saucing pudding? There are two packets of mix in the box. One you mix up with egg, milk or whatever, which is the cakey part of the pudding, the other is the sauce, that you mix with hot water. You mix up the batter, sprinkle the sauce mix [...]
Posted at: September 3rd, 2005 - 3:02 am - Number of Comments » 0
