Mar

Your bit of LOL for the day

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

Birds stealing ice cream.

Mar

Environmental Design Fail

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad, The Internets

I am generally a fan of the concept of “vertical farming,” IE building/converting skyscrapers into huge hydroponic growing towers. I think their necessity is inevitable and beyond that they’re just a good idea. But lemme get this straight: vertical pig farming? And open-air vertical pig farming at that? Did nobody involved in the design of […]

23 comments

Mar

If Batman did rap battles

Posted by Flapjacks Published in Bad Comedy, Comics

Best not come to battle because if you battle me You’re gonna suffer a fucking bat-astrophe Kal-El, what the hell, you wanna get in a fight Fucker step off or I’ll synthesize Kryptonite Diana, I wanna introduce my Batpole To every one of your wonderful Wonder-holes Green Lanterns? Fuck you, you’re alla you overpaid I’ll […]

17 comments

Mar

Let’s take a break from talking about internet comics pirating and so forth

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

13 comments

Mar

The Internet is like a stone rolling downhill sometimes.

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Intellectual Property, The Internets

PAD isn’t letting go: Some people are claiming that Marvel and DC and other major publishers should embrace the concept of having anybody, anytime, do whatever the hell they want with the publishers’ property because the fans have decided that it’s going to be beneficial to the publishers. You know, the “some people say” tactic […]

55 comments

Mar

Have Your Work Preserved Forever (In Convenient 16×16 Pixel Form)

Posted by MGK Published in The Site

So my friend Rob was all “hey, every time a browser looks for your favicon.ico file and you don’t have one, it eats up CPU and RAM on your server.” And I said “that’s bad.” And he said “So get one.” So for the time being I’ve got a very tiny Brainiac Five up there. […]

17 comments

Mar

Adventures In Animation

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Flicks

“From the animation studio that brought you Wonder Horseface now comes Green Lantern With Lockjaw (Not The Alien Dog, The Disease).” Top comment: I’d still rather watch it than the “Superman: Doomsday” movie, which gave me brain cancer. — Matt

13 comments

Mar

And I Shall Call It Dumbassopalooza: scans_daily and Peter David

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Intellectual Property, Law, The Internets

So the new Internet Nerd War is apparently between the Livejournal community that used to be scans_daily and Peter David. Short version of events: a scans_daily poster posted half of the pages to the most recent issue of X-Factor, which PAD had told the entire internet not to spoil because he wanted the ending to […]

106 comments

Feb

Comment is forthcoming, really

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

Yes, yes, I’m going to write something about this whole scans_daily/Peter David brouhaha eventually. It’s coming. But come on, folks, last night’s episode of Battlestar Galactica isn’t going to watch itself, you know? Also, I tried a can of the Jimi Hendrix Energy Drink, and it in fact tastes kind of like what would happen […]

7 comments

Feb

DO YOU LIKE CUPCAKES, MOTHERFUCKER?

Posted by MGK Published in Om Nom Nom Nom, The Internets

Because if you like making cupcakes, and more importantly if you like making THEME cupcakes, then you should enter this contest and make a cupcake and try to win ACTUAL MONEY. (Personally, I mostly dislike cupcakes. Most fancy cupcakes are vehicles for a huge mound of unpleasantly-made icing. But I know most people like cupcakes. […]

8 comments

Feb

Friday manstrokewoman

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

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Feb

Simple Answers To Somewhat Complex Questions

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad, Law

A commenter over at Ezra Klein’s blog asks: Again, I’m curious about the reasons for conservatives advocating a tax instead of cap and trade. Why is one more palatable than the other for them? Because it’s a stealth tax cut. Make no mistake, of course – when it comes to carbon control policy, conservative viewpoint […]

4 comments

Feb

Top Chef Bitching

Posted by MGK Published in Om Nom Nom Nom, TV

Hosea? Really? I mean, as usual the judging at the final round was head-scratchingly nuts. Stefan’s dessert plate – which looked perfectly tasty – was in fact excellent food, but got widely panned by the judges on the basis that it “didn’t feel fully conceived,” which is food-speak for “I wanted pie or something like […]

10 comments

Feb

Thursday WHO’S WHO: The War Wheel

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Sometimes this column is difficult, because a concept is so sublimely wonderful. These are rare moments, but true ones, ones to be savoured. Do I really need to explain how fantastic this is? First off, it is a giant wheel. We all remember the brief villainous stint of Big Wheel in the Spider-Man comics fondly […]

39 comments

Feb