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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Since I'm all into comics and whatnot at the moment, I've run into my fair share of ongoing series that have an involved backstory/continuity that really needs to be understood in order to get the full benefit of reading current issues (100 Bullets, anyone?).
Enter the Comic Book Series Wiki. It's ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
So, after way too long in development, my latest project is open to the world. My Pull List is a Ruby on Rails application designed to allow comic book readers to manage their 'pull lists' - the lists of titles they read every month. It's still in the early stages ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
I recently discovered a fun (for tech geeks) web comic - xkcd. As a quick measure of your tech geekery, take a look at this one. If you get the joke, you'll most likely enjoy the bulk of the archives.
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Went to see Howl's Moving Castle today - I enjoyed it, but I was continually struck by things that seemed to call back to the other Miyazaki movies I've seen, Spirited Away and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (though admittedly I've only seen the heavily-edited late 80s American ...
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Friday, June 10th, 2005
I just finished reading Joss Whedon's Fray - a graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics about a future Slayer. I really enjoyed seeing this second Jossian vision of the future (the first being Firefly, of course), and I was inordinately pleased at the bits both imaginings shared - the use ...
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