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Indistinguishable From Magic: Costumes: the... →
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I mentioned before some of my favorite character designs in the world of comics and have been meaning to tackle this subject again. I came to realize, however, that “character design” is itself a fairly massive subject, and that it would be best to break the topic down into separate…
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Free-market capitalism is a strange hybrid. It’s a zero sum game with tokens whose worth is supposed to grow both consistently and asymmetrically, indefinitely. With IP law, they have discovered that they can artificially engineer these optimal and expected conditions into a domain of potential value through legal wrangling, which is something they can’t do with (say) natural...
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Turns out that the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (whose capacity for skeptical inquiry has historically left me unimpressed) actually has a set of guidelines for proper skeptical criticism, and…
“Every time classified material gets onto a nonclassified US government system,...”
– http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/14/wikileaks-us-air-for.html#comment-969011
The 2011 No-Budget Film Contest →
In an effort to fight back against what I saw as the disgusting substitution of money for taste in both big-budget and independent films, last year I held the first annual No-Budget Film Contest. This was a success, and we received two wonderful submissions. With slight clarifications and modifications made to the rules, I announce the second annual contest.
Rules: 1) Your film must be...
The Zalgo Continuum →
Presumably, you have all heard of ZALGO, the 4chan meme (or out-of-control viral marketing test project) who lurks behind the walls has been making the rounds for quite some time. The popularity of internet memes is difficult to attribute, but I will make the argument that this one has survived because it neatly integrates two other long-lived ideas: the cosmic horror and the cosmic schmuck.
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Skepticism and the Sincere Anomalist →
The typical group ‘investigating’ a claim of the paranormal (or anything that could be considered ‘high strangeness’) is well-known to everyone: half the group is the Mulder camp, and half is the Scully camp. In real life, these two types don’t get along as well as they do on television, but they exhibit the same characteristics: the Mulder group insists, regardless...
“I dread the thought that in 100 years that there will be a genre called...”
– http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/a-zeppelin-wearing-a-top-hat-s.html
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“Moral bankruptcy” only makes sense if you think...”
– http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/12/how-to-get-conservat.html
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