Archive for August, 2007
Hurricane George
Hurricane George How the White House Drowned New Orleans [Greg Palast]
(Link courtesy of Warren Ellis)
It just keeps getting worse…
Home resales still on the skids in July [Orlando Sentinel]
Like rats from a sinking ship
Gonzales Quits After Months of Turmoil Over Firings
5 lessons on becoming a millionaire
I figured that earning a million dollars should be pretty easy if I could determine how to provide at least a million dollars worth of value to others. Unfortunately I don’t know how to provide a million dollars in value to a single person (and get paid for it), so I figured I’d have [...]
Fiendish Fables Review
Ryan Brandt has a whole lot of kind words for Fiendish Fables.
First off, I want to congratulate John on a beautiful looking book. Really leaped out of all the other Dial R books at San Diego and comes off truly as a professional book.
I will say that reading the book, I think Fiendish Fables ended [...]
The Dark Knight
Batman! We were just walking along in the loop when my brother Marc goes, check that out. I’m like what? It’s a police truck. He replies “Read the truck”. Yup it was all decked out for the Gotham Police, which means filming for “The Dark Knight” was nearby somewhere.
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You can also check out the projects I’m part of at Brain Scan Studios, and download all of the comics we publish over at Wowio.
Ha ha ha ha ha….(wipes eyes)…ha ha ha
Fox Cancels a Mock News Show, Citing Costs [NY Times]
Anyone looking for evidence that liberals are funnier than conservatives might be tempted to point to the demise of Fox News Channel’s “1/2 Hour News Hour,” the network’s answer to left-wing news parodies like “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” on Comedy [...]
Download Brain Scan comics for free!
Publishing comic books for me is both business and pleasure. The business side is tough, getting books into people’s hands can be quite an undertaking. The pleasure side is seeing those books in people’s hands and having them (GASP!) enjoy them. I had a personal note to myself for quite some time after hearing about [...]
Subprime mortgages affect our brains
FMRI research shows that long-term decision-making takes place in a different part of the brain from short-term decisions — so when you offer someone a cheap two-year mortgage followed by 28 years of scorchingly high interest rates, the short-term side jumps in and overrides the sober long-term mind.
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(Link courtesy of BoingBoing)
