tuesday is video time!

Tim Minchin: "If You Open Your Mind Too Much... Your brain will fall out."

Stolen outright from Jim at Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

Oh, and, yeah, I suppose any day can be video time, but I have to call the post something, dont I?

saturday is doctor who day

more here.

quote for the day

Rude Pundit:
just wants to get this straight: Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to run for president of the nation he talked about seceding from. Isn't that like declaring you're straight before you fuck a bunch of guys?

linkage

- Obesity timeline map. Absurd, really.

- Wait... So, not only do we charge the wealthiest Americans less in taxes, we pay them interest on the money they loan the U.S. in the form of bonds to pay for the things that we can afford because we've lowered taxes? Doubly screwed!

- Aaaaand, another point for Sartre.

- OMG, as if wanting but not being able to have an iPhone wasnt bad enough.

- Plastic Life.

- The best response to those humourless anti-mural people that I've ever seen.

- An excellent obituary for Osama.

- Nathan Chan, cellist. (h/t)

- The Science of Why We Dont Believe In Science

- "Bill Moyers: After all these years do you have the answer?" David Simon's answer (via)

- On the College Degree Bubble: "If current trends continue, the Department of Education estimates that by 2014 there will be more administrators than instructors at American four-year nonprofit colleges." (via)

- You say you want a revolution? (via)

- Yes, this is real: Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber.

- Chocolate Lovers "are more more depressive".

- Privatizing Big Brother.

celebrate!

Today is Towel Day!

Yay!

In celebration of the life and works of Douglas Adams.

takei love

George Takei is so awesome.

Dave's Comix List, mk.II

So, as you may or may not know, I use this list to bookmark all the comics I read. But the list was getting a bit ungainly, and taking up a lot of my time going places where nothing was happening, so I've rearranged things a bit to make better use of my time online.

Check these comics daily:

Accursed Dragon (m-th)
Bad Machinery (m-th)
Bashert (t th)
Bizarro (7) (or here)(or big and square here)
Candi (mttf)
Candorville (or here) (7)
Dr McNinja (m w f)
Dumbing of Age (m-f)
El Goonish Shive (m w f)
Frazz (or here) (7)
Girls With Slingshots (m-f)
Heavenly Nostrils
Little Dee (m-sat)
Penny Arcade (m w f)
PVP
Questionable Content (m-f)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (m-f, maybe ss)
Scenes From A Multiverse
Shortpacked (m w f) (sometimes m-f)
Something Positive
Spacetrawler (t f)
Wapsi Square (m-f)
xkcd (m w f)

check these comics each Thursday

All New Issues (t th)
Channelate
Chaos Life
Citric Comics
Commissioned Comics
For Lack Of A Better Comic (m w f)
Johnny Wander
The Secret Life Of A Journal Comic
Let's Be Friends Again (m-w-f)
Nuclear Delight
Out At Home (w f sn)
Octopus Pie
Optipess
Phuzzy Comics
Poorly Drawn Lines
Savage Chickens
Stranger Danger (Thunderskull Press)
Too Much Information
Two Guys and Guy
Unintentionally Pretentious
The Wanderlust Kid

Check these the first Tuesday of the month:

The Adventures of Superhero Girl (hiatus till June)
Alex's Guide To A Well-lived Life (m w f)
Crazy Sunshine
Dresden Codak
Faraday the Blob
Gastrophobia
Hark, A Vagrant!
Head Trip
Help Us Great Warrior!
Incidental Comics
Liz Climo
Liz Prince
Mount Pleasant
Oglaf (sun, NSFW)
Rusty and Co. (w)
Scandinavia And The World
Space Avalanche
Three Word Phrase
Tom the Dancing Bug (weekly)
Wasted Talent

These comics, quite frankly, move too slow to read them daily, and have too many pages or too slow a connection to back up the required number of pages. So instead, I'm linking the last page I read, and every once in a while (say, Fourth of July-ish this time), I'll read from there on.

The Abaddon (last page read 226, but go back to 200 or before)
Aeria
Amya
Alone In A Crowd
Athena Wheatley
Banished
Beeserker
Blaster Nation (sun)
The Brightside
Comic Rantz
Curvy
Darwin Carmichael is Going To Hell
A Dollar Late And A Day Short
Doublefine
Decrypting Rita
Drive
Eerie Cuties
Endstone
Erfworld
The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon
Fey Winds (w)
Flipside
Freefall (m w f)
Gaia
Girl Genius
Go Get A Roomie
Groovy, Kinda
Grrl Power
Gunnerkrigg Court
Hatefarm
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal
Looking For Group (m th)
Ma3
Maq041
Max Overacts
Miamaska
Misfile (m-f)
Mock Girl
Modest Medusa (m w f) (was here)
Monster Pulse
Multiplex
Nerf This
Nimona
Not A Villain
Oh, Goodie
One Girl Guy Army
Overcompensating
Pinky TA
Power Nap
Quantum Vibe (m-f)
A Redtail's Dream
Real Cane Sugar
Sandra And Woo
Sakana No Sadness
Selkie (m th)
Skullkickers
Slimy Thief
Sluggy Freelance
Shi Long Pang, the Wandering Shaolin Monk
Spare Keys For Strange Doors
Starslip
Supermassive Black Hole A*
Supernormal Step
Tnemrot
Toilet Genie
The Trenches
Trying Human
Twice Blessed
Twilight Lady
Two Kinds
Unlife
The Watcher of Yaathagggu
We Shadows
What's Shakin'
Wonder Momo
Woody After Hours
The Wotch
Yellow Peril
Zap

Okay, the same as above, only moreso. Or maybe, these are just better enjoyed in large chunks. At any rate, I should not open these until Christmas 2013:

Aeria
Akonia
Amazing Agent Jennifer
The Amazing and Remarkably True Adventures of Kim and Amy
Between Failures
The Big Crunch
Bravoman
Dicebox
Does Not Play Well With Others
The Dreadful
Earthsong
Evil Diva
Fragile
Geeks Next Door
A Girl and Her Fed
Gregor
Grim Reaper School
H&J
The Hues
The Idle State (quite possibly dead)
Impure Blood
Johnny Saturn
Kukubury (probably done with, though not finished)
Lackadaisy
Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether
L.A.W.L.S., also Alt
Lovecraft Is Missing
Love Is In The Blood
Makeshift Miracle
Marry Me
Meaty Yogurt
The Meek
Merceneiress
Monster Soup
Namesake
933 Dollars
Pilli Adventure
Puck
Rachel and Penny
Red String
Schlock Mercenary
Scout Crossing
Skin Deep
Skin Horse
So Damn Bright
Something Something Life (w)
Turbo Defiant Kimecan
Valkyrie
With Fetus
Woodson


in the middle of these, and they are taking forever:

Between Failures
Frazz
Gunshow (going backwards)
The Illustrated Guide To The Law (waiting for the Criminal Procedure section to be finished)
Sinfest
Unshelved


Okay, listen, these are all good comics, but somehow I just dont bother reading them. It's not them, it's me. Really.

Sam And Fuzzy (m w f)
A Softer World
3eanuts
Wondermark


These are no longer updating, or at least dont seem to be, but are still worth reading the archives:

Artifact
Artiste Gullible
Avalon (finished - abruptly)
Big Fat Whale
Blip (hiatus? Dead?)
Bobwhite (finished)
Bucko (finished)
Co-ed
College Roommates From Hell - (now CRFH, and rebooted-ish)(or not)
Dawn of Time (finished)
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
Demonology 101 (finished)
Ellerbisms (finished)
Errant Story (finished)
The Everyday
Exploitation Now
Gin And Comics (abandoned?)
Girly (finished, NSFW)
Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name
Kinokofry
The Lounge (appears to be dead)
Narbonic (the Director's Cut) (finished)
Nobody Scores (abandoned, I guess)
No Pink Ponies
Ozzie And Millie
Penny And Aggie (finished)
Pirates of Mars (m th)
Planet Karen
Quiltbag (abruptly ended)
Sin Titulo (finished)
S.S.Myra
Treading Ground (m w f) (finished, see The Idle State)
We The Robots

saturday matinee

Is this real? Hell if I know. Somehow I doubt it, though.

quote for the day

"If you argue with a Liberal, they’ll try to prove you WRONG. Which is a much higher bar than Conservatives set when you argue with them and they try to prove you LIBERAL."

Eddie Cabot

image for the day

there's more, naturally

new header

Woot.

a thought

You know, I'd really love to go back to school and get some more edjumacating, but there really is now way in which I can really afford it anymore. Neither can most of us, really, however "easy" it is to get a loan.
Apparently, it's only going to get worse.
But here's what I'm thinking: If we, the consumer (as we are now) are going to be pouring such a significant load of our money into the University system, then maybe we need to insist that our money is spent more wisely. Like, far less money spent on administration and far more professor time spent on students.

quote for the day

"You've lived in Pennsylvania too long. In New York, civilized people are only now beginning to think about dinner. Only fundamentalist Christians have eaten their evening meal."
"They too have a lot to offer God."
"Nonsense. They believe God has a lot to offer them."

from "Straight Man", by Richard Russo

yeah, right

more here

catch the wind in your... sails?

Apparently, today is International Men Can Wear Dresses, Too Day.

quote for the day

"So this is what love is. It's like being tied to a big, mad train."

From Bad Machinery, by John Allison

Ahh, youth.

yay! more Star Wars stuff!

a definition

Evangelist: (noun): Person who wants to share their religious view with you, but never wants you to share yours with them.