Matt Bors presents a surprisingly good idea on how to save print journalism, working from the success that another free-at-home product has seen thanks to packaging. As he says in his blog entry “Behold my completely serious, entirely workable, fail proof plan for saving newspapers. Free papers should go this route as well. Why deny yourself the revenue stream?”

Image at the top links to a readable version at Matt Bors’ site.

–From Exploding Dog

Thanks to the The Bad Astronomer for calling attention to this bit of Fark brilliance. I copied the image locally from the Photobucket location BA linked to.

Feel free to hotlink;

<img src=”http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/thestupiditburns.jpg” alt=”The Stupid – It BURNS!” >

Today’s xkcd comic took a second to sink in, but mostly because I didn’t scroll the window down far enough to catch the punchline.

I think that some of the random pairings of Nietzsche and Keane are much funnier, and often deeper than either author was on their own. There was one I had yesterday where Bill was explaining to little Billy how much easier it is once people realize how bad they are at things, while an unhappy Billy sits in the passenger seat, seemingly fresh from defeat in a baseball game…

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Find new, random combinations of the images of Bill Keane and the words of Friedrich Nietzsche at the Nietzsche Family Circus

There’s also my archived copy of the since-removed reviews of The Family Circus on Amazon.com

the baseball cartoon

I’ve scaled the image at the top of this post down just slightly to fit in with all the other images I’ve been posting, so if you want the original, head to the real cartoonist’s page at xkcd.com for the full thing. The little bit with the octopus wielding biologist was begging to be made into an icon in the 100×100 pixel range for livejournal or gravatar use.

http://www.slowwave.com

I thought it was coax… that explains so much about my signal troubles. If they’d just equip them with wi-fi or bluetooth, it would make life so much easier; the cat freaks out when it gets a plastic bag on its head, and it’s only slightly less edgy with 3 feet of s-video cable hook up to the amp.

As found at Indexed

Although maybe it’s just a phase, like freshman year of college when I realized I could just buy frosting in a can.