ABC News: RadioShack Lays Off Employees Via E-Mail
Bwahahahahaha
I was going to title this “Reason number 38323 to get a higher education, but according to the article, these job cuts are taking place at ‘headquarters’ not retail stores.
Ever since the 9/11 graphic novel was announced, I’ve been waiting for someone to actually read the book, instead of tell us how happy or righteously angry that the 9/11 report was made into a graphic novel. It doesn’t make me particularly happy or righteously angry, because if done well, it could be a great tool to help plug up the old memory hole. If done poorly, it turns into a black eye for the ‘comics aren’t for kids’ crowd, as well as adding another log to the partisan bonfire that is second guessing 9/11. Sleestak over at Lady, That’s My Skull has read it, and has a is reporting that it’s a pretty good adaptation.
I’ve been waiting for my library to get it, but so far, it seems like libraries have been a little slow to pick them up. Lucky for me, my library has ordered a number of copies, and this reminded me to go put it on hold on one.
Even more than Julia Stiles gets console cowboys*, Keith Schofield gets what makes a good nostalgia video. Check out the Wintergreen one first.
*could have sworn we linked to that before, but couldn’t find it in any old posts
Disgaea 2 is…
Well, it’s Disgaea. 2. No shockers there. Definately some stuff that’s been cleaned up - overall, it feels like a higher-quality game, and a lot of the weird frustrating shit has been changed or fixed. Casters get some decent range with their spells right off the bat, healer classes can actually use a bow, there’s a new class of monster weapons with +Intelligence for spellcasting monster classes.
Overall, it’s a tighter game that’s easier to get into.
Not far enough in to say much about the plot, but it’s not as outright hilarious as early Disgaea was. Quirky, but not hilarious. Depressingly, they seem to have ditched the totally awesome episode previews for something far less entertaining. The early game suffers from a severe lack of Etna, though apparently she shows up later. The English voice acting is massively better, too.
If you didn’t like Disgaea, well, you’re broken. And you won’t like this game. If you liked Disgaea, but thought the other Nippon Ichi games lacked a certain… Disgaea-ness, well, come on back, all is forgiven. Let us hail the return of grid combat, 10-person throwing towers (that you can now attack with), and strategy guides thicker than some novels I’ve read lately.
Man records himself acting interested, plays it for telemarketer. Some people in the comments claim it’s fake. Might be, might not be, but it’s very, very possible, so I don’t really care. You know, if this did become popular, its probably would reduce the number of telemarketer calls.
An interesting post on phenomena, passion, love, and hate.
Honestly, I think I’m ready to retire the phrase ‘drinking the Kool-Aid’. I’m just not sure what to replace it with. Suggestions?
I heard a story about SpiralFrog today on the news, and said “I’ve totally got to link to that on ZoD when I get home.” I promptly forgot. Fortunately for you, CJ is a little more on the ball.Cinerati: Download Johnny Cash, Gwen Stefani, INX, and Audioslave for Free?
Journalista is a once a week (I think) update of links to the big stories in comics for this week, all wrapped up in one place. It’s a good resource particularly for those who only want to read a few websites, but want to get the best gist of what’s going on.
I Watch Stuff! - Megatron Has A-Hole Mouth Now maybe, just maybe, this is all part of some savvy reverse psychology viral marking campaign, but this has just moved the Transformers movie from “possibly watch in theaters” to “probably watch if I can see it for free”.
Anyone with Unix/Linux experience should realize that this is the best comic ever made.
Since my ongoing efforts to bug Rhadamanthos into buying an XBox 360 so I can beat his ass at Chromehounds are failing, let me also mention that Mechcommander 1, 2, and Gold are available, legally, for free.
If this is not new to anyone, well, it’s new to me. So shut it.
(Via EvilAvatar.)
Remember when Christmas started after Thanksgiving? No, me neither.
It gets earlier and earlier every year. Even now, you can hear the opening shots being fired in the annual War on Christmas, when I and other unbelievers try to destroy this festive holiday, destroying the happiness of billions of children. This year, I’ve been dispatched to our corporate division, where I deliberately convince large companies to wish people Happy Kwanzaa instead.
Oh, wait. That would be deeply silly. No, this whole moronic ‘war on Christmas’ exists solely in the fevered delusions of Bill O’Reilly and his legions of brain-addled syncophants. Like these fellows at Agape Press, who are once again bound and determined to stir something up.
It’s going to be a long winter.
the stinkymeat project Not safe for vegans, vegitarians, animal lovers, the elderly, the pregnant, the easily nauseated, the very young, the very old, or the weak of will.
Hundreds of eBay online stores close or move after fee hike - MarketWatch. The headline makes this seem like a dumb move buy Ebay, but reading the article, it looks like it might not be. Ebay has basically turned into another storefront to buy new goods at standard prices. Will this move turn them back into a great place to buy cheap crap?
More official comics to download this week. Kind of figured I was done already, but I guess not. Vertigo is offering the first issue of many newer titles for freeon the page where you can order the first trade. Good idea, great idea, and idea that should be encouraged. However, its only offered in .pdf format. Have you read comics in .pdf format? It’s a pain. The format and reader work great for text based documents, but it is far too cumbersome and slow for comics, because the reader has to flip pages much faster than if the document was text, and many comic book pages are not read in the same left to right, line by line, and then down, like text documents are. I rate this as two steps forward, and one step back.
Older books appear to have a sneak peak that is something other than the full first issue.
Some of the trades with free comic include:
100 Bullets
DMZ
Fables
Preacher
Y: The Last Man
(Link via Tegan)
China bans strippers at funerals | The Register. Truely, China is the worst kind of totalitarian government, the kind that hates on strippers.
Las Vegas stops offering wee hour marriages. Is the world coming to an end?
Saw the article posted below about the darknet. This isn’t truly a darknet, though they’re advertising it as such, but the Swedish Pirate Party has gotten an ISP (Named Relakks, no less) to sponsor an “anonymous proxy” sort of network, for only $6.50 (5 euros) a month.
Info here.
It’s a VPN network where you connect to the Swedish ISP and then they funnel all your traffic through whatever IP. Sweden has really strong laws about when and how the company has to give up your data (only if they have evidence of a crime with >2 years jail time, 10 years jail time to get useful personal data), and your local American ISP doesn’t have any idea what’s going over the pipes.
Basically, it’s RIAA insurance.
Offtopic edit: Sweden has a Chancellor of JUSTICE! Why don’t we get officials with awesome names like that?
So, apparently the HP engineers had some free time on their hands during the development of their Scanjet, and one of them figured out that the motors always emitted certain frequencies at certain speeds. They incorporated a secret function in their driver called “play_tone,” which would set up the motor to emit the frequency that was set.
Someone found out and coded in the Fur Elise
It’s pretty impressive.
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