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Wednesday
Feb 6, 2002
Want to buy comics and still appear literate? Artbomb reviews many of the best graphic novels around. Pick one and get reading.
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Tuesday
Jan 22, 2002
These days, there's lots of comic books to choose from... The puzzle is knowing which ones are Comics Worth Reading.
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Thursday
Oct 18, 2001
Where does most news spam come from each day? Ask the hippo. That's right, the SpamHippo.
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Monday
Oct 8, 2001
Old comics, if they're lucky, get reborn as something completely different. John Lustig bought the rights to the entire 50-year-old First Kiss series, and is ever-so-slightly altering it.
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Monday
Oct 1, 2001
Strangely, one of the best comics news sites around is from a geek in Canada.
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Friday
Aug 31, 2001
The best sci-fi story you'll ever read isn't a book, but a comic called Finder. Conveniently, you can read several issues online.
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Thursday
Jul 19, 2001
Where have all the dead gods gone? There's some recent explanations from comics authors in drawn and prose form. Others consider the gods (yes, all of them) very alive.
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Wednesday
Jul 11, 2001
Robert Moog didn't really invent the synthesizer, but he made it usable. He also wasn't the only inventor in that family.
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Wednesday
Jul 4, 2001
Ever have to call customer service at some large company? Learn to turbo.
to Commerce by jcs
What do you do with old AI programs? Stick them in the Attic, of course.
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Tuesday
Jun 26, 2001
The U.S. comics business has shrunk drastically over the last decade. The bonus for readers? Comics, especially small press, will have to be very good to survive.
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Tuesday
Jun 19, 2001
Bulletin boards are on most every comic book site. They range from mainstream to independent. There's different company-specific boards too. Of course, public discussion is often filled with catankerous or berserk, conversation, but occasionally you find perfectly wonderful, helpful sites.
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Tuesday
Jun 12, 2001
Remember the Apple ][? There's still some resources and some current software. There's even a Un*xy operating system for it.
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Monday
Jun 11, 2001
Ever wonder how to track down those obfuscate URLs you find in spam messages? Here's how.
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Thursday
Jun 7, 2001
Sock Monkey is a kinder but still violent (and purchaseable) version of Maakies. See the comic or even a movie.
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Bummed about Buffy moving to UPN? No affiliate in your area? You could read the Buffy comic book. Also, Joss Whedon, Buffy's creator, is writing a new comic book that is essentially Buffy in the Future.
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Wednesday
Jun 6, 2001
The History of Video Games details, among other things, how a playing card distributor and radio manufacturer make it big, while others stumble and are absorbed.
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Monday
Jun 4, 2001
Like Perl? Now you can use it all the time!
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