Watchmen may be the greatest comic ever made.

It is a great comic. I'll give it that. It's received a number of extraordinary prizes and accolades, even alongside traditional prose novels. Awards aside, it's a remarkable book, with psychologically complex, fully-realised characters, that questions the traditionally crude morality of the hero genre ( Read more... )

...I didn't much like Jade Goody before she was dying of cancer, and I don't much like her now ( Read more... )

These five questions from cthonicmin :

( I'm a Tattooed Celebrity Film-Maker with an Accent, Get Me Out Of The Path Of These Giant Rocher! )

Thank you, tipofdoom:

( Wah, Australian-ness, Meeting my wife, Kids in Siberia, Crossbows )

Blergh. Horribly, horribly ill today. Like not "he has man flu, he's just bitching", properly ill. Hating it.
So, writing Jhereg plot docs, wasting time on the internet and napping it is.

Thought I'd give this a go. zero_pixel_coun has kindly furnished me with a list of five subjects to waffle on. Please let me know if you want me to do the same for you.

( Five subjects thing. )

So I'm on eBay, looking at Universal Remotes. Familiar with the concept? Basically, you get one programmable remote that replaces all your individual remotes - the one for your telly, the one for the satellite box, the one for the DVD player, the one for the stereo, the one for the VCR, etc. - and even combines them, so that, for instance, one ( Read more... )

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Play this. It's cool.

( Book Review... )

( Massive essay. For my own benefit, and because it's always been a subject that's interested me. )

If you're a copywriter and it's a slow news week, and a notoriously outrageous celebrity does something stupid, that's a good day.

If you're a copywriter and there's a subsequent public outcry, complete with thousands of pointless complaints, politicians emptily condemning the celebrity, and the celebrity's employers arbitrarily punishing him out of ( Read more... )