''the pest'' mini-comic-series
just a short little thing i made to cheer my friend thomas up. i liked it so much that after tomas killed the pest i had him visit heaven. if you fillow the instructions at the bottom of the last strip i believe you'll be in for a real treat.
GREAT SERIES!!! Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Parts 1-5: Beyond 2012
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 1
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 2
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 3
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 4
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 5
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 2
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 3
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 4
Surviving 2012 and Planet X - Part 5
A letter from Ben Stein
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning
Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does
not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't
think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact,
I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters
celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is
a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few
hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians
like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in
God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where
the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't
find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should
worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who
are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew
went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little
different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to
get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked
her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne
Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe
God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling
God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our
lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How
can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave
us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think
it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few
years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou
shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And
we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave
because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their
self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know
what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't
know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their
classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough,
we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's
going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what
the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread
like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people
think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles
pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in
the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your
address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think
of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what
God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just
discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought
process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does
not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel
discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't
think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact,
I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters
celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is
a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few
hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians
like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in
God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where
the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't
find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should
worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who
are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew
went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little
different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to
get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked
her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne
Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe
God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling
God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our
lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How
can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave
us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think
it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few
years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou
shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And
we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave
because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their
self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know
what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't
know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their
classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough,
we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's
going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what
the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread
like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people
think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles
pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in
the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your
address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think
of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what
God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just
discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought
process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
get ready for the MECHA future
I did my High School Thesis on Cybernetics and Bionics and
I thought that it would have hit us by now and it has...
It's just freaky watching it come to pass before my eyes.
Dear God in heaven. I hope they never release these
on the USA populous for crowd control. Robocop, Terminator
and the like movies are NOT a dream anymore.
A new dawn of mobile-personal combat is upon us.
I thought that it would have hit us by now and it has...
It's just freaky watching it come to pass before my eyes.
Dear God in heaven. I hope they never release these
on the USA populous for crowd control. Robocop, Terminator
and the like movies are NOT a dream anymore.
A new dawn of mobile-personal combat is upon us.
the griddleville gateway
this is a character from griddleville.com that i toyed around with.
the site is pretty cool and there is a great trailer on there for your enjoyment.
i put a link underneath the cartoon that takes you to their youtube account.
click here to watch the preview for griddleville
click here to go to griddleville.com
click here for all the griddleville characters i have messed around with
the site is pretty cool and there is a great trailer on there for your enjoyment.
i put a link underneath the cartoon that takes you to their youtube account.
click here to watch the preview for griddleville
click here to go to griddleville.com
click here for all the griddleville characters i have messed around with
toondoo.com
meh. nice i guess in that you can doodle and add it to your comic...
everything else was clipart and that was terrible. the only other
thing i liked was that you could make lobster bodies on humans heads.
everything else was clipart and that was terrible. the only other
thing i liked was that you could make lobster bodies on humans heads.
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pixton.com
this is about as artistic as i could get on pixton.com... yuck.
bitstrips.com is still WAY ahead of the game. i will be bringing
you more as i go along.
see for yourself... HERE
bitstrips.com is still WAY ahead of the game. i will be bringing
you more as i go along.
see for yourself... HERE
Linkin Park - What I've Done
sorry to interupt your beautiful day with a shitty
band like linkin park, but this video is actually
worth your time if you would like to have a look.
band like linkin park, but this video is actually
worth your time if you would like to have a look.
glen hansard - 'say it to me now' from the movie 'once'
ARGH, if the above doesn't load, then just imagine taht you're on a street corner and he is singing this
OOOOOOOr just click HERE to watch it!
The Second Renaissance: Parts one and two
NOTE - EXTREME SCIENCE FICTION VIOENCE
if you have not seen these videos. you should.
if you do not know what these are. you should.
you have been misinformed.
you have been lied to.
you are being controlled.
wake up.
every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.
part one
part two
if you have not seen these videos. you should.
if you do not know what these are. you should.
you have been misinformed.
you have been lied to.
you are being controlled.
wake up.
every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.
part one
part two
Bitstrips.com Quick Tutorials 1-6
introduction
create a character
tweak your character
make a scene
make a comic
publish your comic
create a character
tweak your character
make a scene
make a comic
publish your comic
AFF
I took a dip in the sky
From 10,000 feet, out of a perfectly good airplane
I wanted to feel what a bird feels
On its way to sudden death
Skywalking... diving... air tripping
You don’t even breathe
You don’t need to
At so many feet per second per second
The world is so small up there
And then you pop
Whiplash of the groin
There are two kinds of parachutes you know
Good ones and others
I got a good one this time
With the jump masters away I am free
Floating, flaring, banking, cells open
Take the worst car crash
The best orgasm
And the exhilaration from watching your favorite trilogy
And you have not yet begun to touch
The raw supple cutting caressing beautiful angst and pain
Of those
Few
Seconds
Copyright 2004 by pauly hart
From 10,000 feet, out of a perfectly good airplane
I wanted to feel what a bird feels
On its way to sudden death
Skywalking... diving... air tripping
You don’t even breathe
You don’t need to
At so many feet per second per second
The world is so small up there
And then you pop
Whiplash of the groin
There are two kinds of parachutes you know
Good ones and others
I got a good one this time
With the jump masters away I am free
Floating, flaring, banking, cells open
Take the worst car crash
The best orgasm
And the exhilaration from watching your favorite trilogy
And you have not yet begun to touch
The raw supple cutting caressing beautiful angst and pain
Of those
Few
Seconds
Copyright 2004 by pauly hart
Quivering and Cold
Renamed: “Sweetheart” by the Gypsy Coffeeshop Open Mic Night crowd
I want to know why my black heart rots
I have loved learned lived loves labor lost
Whistling crying dying vying trying writhing
Nubile and supple living towards who I am
I am loved no matter what they say
I am special and am to become more
Why have I been so wrong and fearful
Where was my mother father and brother
When you locked me out that rainy day
Was it because I was tripping or
Was it because you are just a bitch
You are, were and probably will be wrong
I want to be pure again and not tainted
I want to live again not frustrated
You are like the orgasm that never comes
Why my heart is ripped from my rib cage
And why have I been left to rot
Quivering and cold
Your vacant eyed whore blunder, keep your shame
I have my hope, my dreams and my vision
Righteousness exalted me while you fail
Copyright 2004 by pauly hart
I want to know why my black heart rots
I have loved learned lived loves labor lost
Whistling crying dying vying trying writhing
Nubile and supple living towards who I am
I am loved no matter what they say
I am special and am to become more
Why have I been so wrong and fearful
Where was my mother father and brother
When you locked me out that rainy day
Was it because I was tripping or
Was it because you are just a bitch
You are, were and probably will be wrong
I want to be pure again and not tainted
I want to live again not frustrated
You are like the orgasm that never comes
Why my heart is ripped from my rib cage
And why have I been left to rot
Quivering and cold
Your vacant eyed whore blunder, keep your shame
I have my hope, my dreams and my vision
Righteousness exalted me while you fail
Copyright 2004 by pauly hart
5 reasons why Facebook sucks
April 16, 2008
CEO Business Network
Private, Confidential Dialogue w/ CEOs. Join Now, Benefit Today!
www.expertceo.com
So Facebook allows its users to import content into their newsfeeds now? Competing with aggregators like Friendfeed?
Big deal. The service is already loaded with features that provide no value, so adding a new one isn’t going to make it
any better. Let me provide you with five reasons I personally don’t like Facebook very much (hey, it’s just my opinion).
Facebook is a large walled garden that allows users in but never, ever let’s them out.
Even after deletion fo an account your data is still within the Facebook databases. Moving to another service with your
data is impossible. Getting your data out leads to account deletion (not data deletion, that remains with Facebook). I
don’t like customer lock-in, I want customer freedom.
Facebook is based upon a flawed business model.
They use the free but ad-based business model which is fine when you are a giant search company, but really sucks
when your main objective should be allowing your users to interact. There is no place for ads in interaction. It’s
merely trespassing in conversations between friends.
Facebook newsfeeds are highly overrated.
They might have been the first to implement them, but the newsfeed sucks. I recently took a picture of my own newsfeed
and it has learned me that one of my friends is playing Scrabble, three people added an application, someone had changed
his profile picture (which was sort of obvious as I could already see that it had changed), and some advertisement for large
Facebook groups I should be in. I’m not interested to read ‘Alexander went to movie X”. I’m interested in personal message
like “Hey, I went to movie X last night. Had a great time, you should go see it too”. The first message was an Orwellian
Facebook Big Brother is watching you headline. The second one was a personal message from a friend. Pick the one you
like best.
Facebook is spam.
Can’t say it any clearer. While a lot of Facebook’s intentions (and those that create Facebook applications), might be to
provide the user a good time, it is spammy as hell. I get a lot of requests to look at things my friends send me, only to
find out I need to forward it to other friends too. Often even before I get to see the content. I don’t want to harass my
friends with that. Which reminds me that I need to talk to the person sending me that stuff too
Facebook is about data hogging, not about user value
Facebook isn’t there to provide its users with value. It is there to collect all the data it can get out of you, your social
graph, your actions inside and outside the walled garden. It needs to do this in order to fuel it’s business model (that
is why the business model is wrong). Facebook shouldn’t be hogging data, they should be providing user value. Instead
of customer lock-in, they should be thinking about customer freedom. Instead of importing feeds from other sites,
they should be opening up themselves to third parties. Instead of locking me down they should allow me to leave if I
want to and taking my friends and data wherever I want to go. But they don’t, and you already know why.
April 16, 2008
CEO Business Network
Private, Confidential Dialogue w/ CEOs. Join Now, Benefit Today!
www.expertceo.com
So Facebook allows its users to import content into their newsfeeds now? Competing with aggregators like Friendfeed?
Big deal. The service is already loaded with features that provide no value, so adding a new one isn’t going to make it
any better. Let me provide you with five reasons I personally don’t like Facebook very much (hey, it’s just my opinion).
Facebook is a large walled garden that allows users in but never, ever let’s them out.
Even after deletion fo an account your data is still within the Facebook databases. Moving to another service with your
data is impossible. Getting your data out leads to account deletion (not data deletion, that remains with Facebook). I
don’t like customer lock-in, I want customer freedom.
Facebook is based upon a flawed business model.
They use the free but ad-based business model which is fine when you are a giant search company, but really sucks
when your main objective should be allowing your users to interact. There is no place for ads in interaction. It’s
merely trespassing in conversations between friends.
Facebook newsfeeds are highly overrated.
They might have been the first to implement them, but the newsfeed sucks. I recently took a picture of my own newsfeed
and it has learned me that one of my friends is playing Scrabble, three people added an application, someone had changed
his profile picture (which was sort of obvious as I could already see that it had changed), and some advertisement for large
Facebook groups I should be in. I’m not interested to read ‘Alexander went to movie X”. I’m interested in personal message
like “Hey, I went to movie X last night. Had a great time, you should go see it too”. The first message was an Orwellian
Facebook Big Brother is watching you headline. The second one was a personal message from a friend. Pick the one you
like best.
Facebook is spam.
Can’t say it any clearer. While a lot of Facebook’s intentions (and those that create Facebook applications), might be to
provide the user a good time, it is spammy as hell. I get a lot of requests to look at things my friends send me, only to
find out I need to forward it to other friends too. Often even before I get to see the content. I don’t want to harass my
friends with that. Which reminds me that I need to talk to the person sending me that stuff too
Facebook is about data hogging, not about user value
Facebook isn’t there to provide its users with value. It is there to collect all the data it can get out of you, your social
graph, your actions inside and outside the walled garden. It needs to do this in order to fuel it’s business model (that
is why the business model is wrong). Facebook shouldn’t be hogging data, they should be providing user value. Instead
of customer lock-in, they should be thinking about customer freedom. Instead of importing feeds from other sites,
they should be opening up themselves to third parties. Instead of locking me down they should allow me to leave if I
want to and taking my friends and data wherever I want to go. But they don’t, and you already know why.
very lethal
this is the 'wasp knife' or 'gas knife' now becoming popular. original invention
was credited to nazi saidist himmler. hhhmmmmm. is someone forgetting the past?
Deadly Compressed Air Knife (Updated)
By Sharon Weinberger
If you were creeped out by the compressed air gun used by the villain in No
Country for Old Men, you might want to skip this post. There's a new patent
out for a deadly compressed gas knife, which like its name suggests, injects
compressed air into the victim (making it a more deadly weapon than a regular knife).
The kife would be "particularly useful for a diver and that when an undersea
creature is pierced, the compressed gas both causes tissue and organ damage
and provides buoyancy to float the creature towards the surface."
Here's more from the patent:
The handle has an internal cavity containing a compressed gas source and the
blade is affixed to the handle. The blade has an internal bore running along a
longitudinal axis from the handle to a point proximate a tip. The blade further
has an aperture extending from a first edge to the internal bore at an angle
relative to the longitudinal axis of between 15.degree. and 75.degree.. The
trigger has a depressed position and a not depressed position. When in the
depressed position, the internal bore communicates with the compressed gas
source and when in said not depressed position, the internal bore is blocked
from the compressed gas source. When a creature is pierced with the knife,
the trigger is depressed
injecting compressed gas into the creature greatly enhancing the
incapacitating effect of the knife.
The knife is designed for scuba divers, not murderous lunatics, says the
patent. Then again, the compressed air gun in No Country for Old Men was
meant for cattle.
Update:
DANGER ROOM's very own David Hambling reminds me that the compressed air knife
has a precursor, the Farallon Shark Dart, a U.S. Navy weapon from the 1970s:
The most common version resembles a slim dagger, with a CO2 cartridge in the
handle and a long hollow needle for a blade. The idea was to stab the shark,
causing the CO2 to be released into its body. The idea was that this would not
kill it but would affect its buoyancy, forcing it to break off the attack
without leaving much blood in the water. The reality may have been more gruesome.
"I saw some footage on it, it was horrible," says a diver describing the
effects here. "Their bellies would inflate and they said it would force the
shark’s stomach out of their mouths."
That makes you wonder kind of close-up mess the air knife would make.
was credited to nazi saidist himmler. hhhmmmmm. is someone forgetting the past?
Deadly Compressed Air Knife (Updated)
By Sharon Weinberger
If you were creeped out by the compressed air gun used by the villain in No
Country for Old Men, you might want to skip this post. There's a new patent
out for a deadly compressed gas knife, which like its name suggests, injects
compressed air into the victim (making it a more deadly weapon than a regular knife).
The kife would be "particularly useful for a diver and that when an undersea
creature is pierced, the compressed gas both causes tissue and organ damage
and provides buoyancy to float the creature towards the surface."
Here's more from the patent:
The handle has an internal cavity containing a compressed gas source and the
blade is affixed to the handle. The blade has an internal bore running along a
longitudinal axis from the handle to a point proximate a tip. The blade further
has an aperture extending from a first edge to the internal bore at an angle
relative to the longitudinal axis of between 15.degree. and 75.degree.. The
trigger has a depressed position and a not depressed position. When in the
depressed position, the internal bore communicates with the compressed gas
source and when in said not depressed position, the internal bore is blocked
from the compressed gas source. When a creature is pierced with the knife,
the trigger is depressed
injecting compressed gas into the creature greatly enhancing the
incapacitating effect of the knife.
The knife is designed for scuba divers, not murderous lunatics, says the
patent. Then again, the compressed air gun in No Country for Old Men was
meant for cattle.
Update:
DANGER ROOM's very own David Hambling reminds me that the compressed air knife
has a precursor, the Farallon Shark Dart, a U.S. Navy weapon from the 1970s:
The most common version resembles a slim dagger, with a CO2 cartridge in the
handle and a long hollow needle for a blade. The idea was to stab the shark,
causing the CO2 to be released into its body. The idea was that this would not
kill it but would affect its buoyancy, forcing it to break off the attack
without leaving much blood in the water. The reality may have been more gruesome.
"I saw some footage on it, it was horrible," says a diver describing the
effects here. "Their bellies would inflate and they said it would force the
shark’s stomach out of their mouths."
That makes you wonder kind of close-up mess the air knife would make.
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