hotelfred:

A Confederacy of Pricks www.patreon.com/hotelfred http://dlvr.it/RTtK5V

“There’s still no vaccine against being a prick.” (applause)

In July 2000, Gnutella developer and InfraSearch founder [Gene Kan], testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age”, finishing with “We’re on the precipice of a slippery slope. The toothpaste is already out of the tube. It can be exploited nicely, or be turned into a huge mess.”

XCF (via musicblob)

In 1998, the velocity of information was slow and the cost of publishing it was high (even on the web). Google leveraged those realities to make the best information retrieval system in the world.
Today, information is free, plentiful and fast moving; somewhat by design, Google has become a card catalog that is constantly being reordered by an angry, misinformed mob.

How Google Ruined the Internet — Superhighway 98

talesfromweirdland:

Some Spider-Man items. Two concept images by Warren Manser for Sam Raimi’s SPIDER-MAN (2002). Images three and four are Steve Ditko art showing his frustration at being sidelined as the character’s co-creator; that third image also features the only known (well, sort of) depiction of Kirby’s concept design, as the fifth image, unfortunately, is a fake, based on image six.

Hell, everyone’s at home, so laptops and tablets are in regular use.  Phones aren’t captor devices when nobody’s commuting.  Release the laptop comics.

Warren Ellis in The Orbital Operations For 5 April 2020

talesfromweirdland:

Peter Newell’s THE NAPS OF POLLY SLEEPYHEAD (1906).

hotelfred:

One Week Ago: Friday the 13th www.patreon.com/hotelfred http://dlvr.it/RSDj3R

ungoliantschilde:

Conan the Barbarian, Vol. 1 # 45 Page 27 by John Buscema, with Inks by “the Crusty Bunkers” (Neal Adams, Bob McLeod, Joe Rubinstein, Russ Heath, and Fershid Bharucha), Letters by John Costanza, Colors by Glynis Wein, and Roy Thomas adapted the script from the original short story by Robert E. Howard.