Bits & Pieces

By way of Dan Among Den, a neat site that helps people give found objects back to their owners: Stuffbak. I’m in Korea, so I have no way of using this, but it’s a cool idea. And Epiphany in C has the scoop on a very hot movie… no worries, safe for work, it’s just two stars merging once their mutual, gravity-driven dance collapses, releasing gravitational waves. Bla bla bla. The movie is cool, though… For the article about the same, see here.

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Chainsaw Micro Graphic Novel

If you’ve ever wanted to try writing a graphic novel, you can, over at monochrom micro graphic novel. The site’s owner explains: One day in Autumn of 2004 I found a heap of old cardboard boxes and other discarded packaging material in my grandfather’s shed. Among it was a box for a chainsaw. On the back of it there was this peculiar sequence of drawings in black and white. I looked at it for a while but to be honest, I couldn’t make any sense of it. Commissioned art printed on the back of the box for chainsaws, only to …

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Sick People Part II

If you are wondering what’s the deal with the blog silence: I’ve been getting a LOT of physio and sitting at the computer desk for more than 20 minutes at a time causes me pain. I’m working on the last part of my portion of camp preparations. Lime’s eye got weird yesterday, and prior to that she’d been coughing like mad. I am making my way to the physiotherapist now, to see whether my condition warrants a shot of muscle relaxants or just more agonizing stretches for the next few weeks. I sure hope whatever is decided, I’ll be okay …

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Not Sure

I hope some of the other F5ers submit some questions to the Friday Five soon… because this week’s question is once again mine: You’re granted an interview with the political leader of the country of your choice. Who would you choose to interview, and what five questions would you make sure to ask? Hmmm. I know that many people would ask for Bush, just to ask him pointed questions that he would sidestep. I know that others would ask to talk to Tony Blair, to see what kind of demon possessed him to make his country into America’s lapdog. Some …

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