“[T]exting might help demolish the weird and unmannerly etiquette of the mobile phone, in which, for no reason but the technology’s existence, it is the recipient of the call who is somehow required to make an excuse if not free to answer. Texting harks back to an earlier, less demanding model of communication, in which response was at the convenience of the respondent. It was, and is, known as letter writing.” — The biggest shift in the modern world is that there’s suddenly more information than we can possibly process, and we have to (entirely ex nihilo!) create an internal filtering structure. No direction, no precedent…is it really any surprise that this is where we end up?
Via @mattfraction.
On the one hand, it’s a Japanese girl who takes a few dozen photos of herself jumping. On the other, she’s flying. I dare you to scroll through her site without gasping audibly at least once.
Jonathan Hickman's 'The Manhattan Projects' -
The Manhattan Projects asks, what if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs? It’s about smart guys being bad.
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Throughout this entire process, the spectacle of these clowns thrashing each other and continually seizing and then fumbling frontrunner status has left me with an oddly reassuring feeling, one that I haven’t quite been able to put my finger on. In my younger days I would have just assumed it was regular old Schadenfreude at the sight of people like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich suffering, but this isn’t like that – it’s something different than the pleasure of watching A-Rod strike out in the playoffs.
No, it was while watching the debates last night that it finally hit me: This is justice.
” — Matt Taibbi on last night’s debates.
“The next time you set up any operation in this county or anywhere else it better not have my goddamned family name on the deed. Or so help me God I’ll lose this star, and the dance we’ll do subsequent to that will not end with you finding Jesus in a hospital bed.”
What does an action scientist who is also a robot use as a weapon, you ask? An anti-materiel handgun loaded with bullets that hit the maximum chemical explosive yield of matter.
—from Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X #3. Why aren’t you reading this yet?
Atomic Robo has seven hours to save astronauts trapped in orbit! This is why Atomic Robo is the best comic: in this issue, the villain is THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
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