A vital part of my Google Reader feeds are web comics. And from time to time I still happen upon new web comics to add to my feed collection. Here’s two which I haven’t mentioned here before.
Pictures for sad children is a quietly sad comic featuring simply drawn characters expressing very honest and simple desires [...]
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More weird and wonderful web comics
Facebook sociality in real life
Found in Jyri Engeström’s presentation on Social software:
The Internet is powerful at distributing information. It lowers the transaction cost involved in social relationships and both developers and users have taken advantage of this to favor communication with more people than we would ever communicate with face to face. Social software has thus focused on increasing [...]
Jon alone
One of my all-time favourite comics is Calvin and Hobbes. It’s a comic strip about a six-year old boy and his friendship with his stuffed toy tiger. The strip is a celebration of the vivid imagination and playfulness of the child, to whom the tiger appears alive and talkative. While to everybody else, it’s just [...]
The dark corners of the Internet
My friend Kristian, who really should have a blog, often sends me lovely stories and links which he digs up from the dark and musty corners of the Internet. It’s the sort of things that weblogs originally were meant log: A catalogue of surprises, of the never-ending weirdness, humour and imagination of human-kind. In a [...]
Witty gamers
The new trend among video gamers appear to be making video game reviews in the form of bile-overflowing, yet extremely witty films.
One of these reviewers goes by the supremely unfortunate moniker “Yahtzee”, who presents a new review each week under the title Zero Punctuation, which subtly hints that the main trademark of the reviews [...]
One thing mac owners can’t do
hee hee hee
Oil addicts
I just came across British comedian and activist Rob Newman’s show “The History of Oil” - it is an enlightening, provoking and funny view on the role of oil in global politics in the past century and what role it’ll be playing in the future, what with the Crisis in the Middle East, Peak Oil [...]
Principles of Economics, translated
It seems that nobody is able to take the piss on economists quite as well as the economists themselves.
For a more sober explanation of economics, you might want to read this instead.
On limbo
I found a brilliant expression in a newspaper review recently which I subsequently have adopted. It finds its best use whenever something seems to be almost ridiculously low-brow and attention-seeking. As in:
Did you see that TV-show yesterday? They were just dancing limbo beneath the lowest common denominator.
It works even better by sounding less mathematical in [...]
Comics! (for those who care for such things)
You know what? I like comics. A single wellwritten and conceived comic strip can express some deep truths that would be impossible to convey properly in any other medium. By connecting simple images and dialogue while leaving plenty to the imagination to combine, comic strips can be like zen koans, absurd theatre, ponderous comedy and [...]
