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I really don't want my site to be associated with search engine requests like this one, but maybe that's what will bring in the audience?

Do you know WHY the bald eagle is crying? I'll TELL you why the bald eagle is crying. The bald eagle is CRYING because developers punted it out of its nest to build CONDOS and it has to flap around on the field at baseball games to MAKE RENT, and as if THAT'S not enough, every time the United States gets into an altercation with another nation, the eagle sees itself trotted out on these STUPID JINGOISTIC POSTERS because it doesn't own the rights to its own likeness, and it sits in the zoo and thinks to itself, "'Land of the free,' my feathery ASS," and Uncle Sam comes by to visit all, "Sorry dude, I tried to stop them," and the eagle's like, "Bitch, call my lawyer already and QUIT POINTING AT ME," like, I think that WE PROBABLY GET IT.

and Who'm I kidding? not to forget It's all rubbish anyhow: I don't think there will actually be any new comic from my pen before the 7th of January, 2002. Maybe it's best to take a break- a real break that's announced as opposed to a break that just happens and leaves everybody twisting in the wind. There is a Reiterating Comics installment this weekend, so show up for that at least. I might be posting something on and off in the meantime, but I sort of doubt it at this point. I'll see you when I see you.

Dave Winer's a pretty smart guy. He's a programmer and a technologist, but not a politician. Still, I find his comments today, which include the following quote, to be on the mark. Here's a quote:

I gave this a lot of thought -- and will give it more. What you do depends on whether you think Bush and his people are trustworthy. Look in your heart and find the answer for yourself. I can't tell you what to think. But I can tell you this. A few thousand people read Scripting News yesterday, and no one flamed me for comparing Sept 11 to the burning of the Reichstag.

For Reference, the piece he mentions from the previous day reads (in whole) as follows:

Listening to the report on Ashcroft's testimony earlier today, on NPR. "It's wartime," they say over and over. No one mentions that there has been no declaration of war. What is going on with Congress[?]

Immediately after Sept 11, people compared it to Pearl Harbor. I've heard it compared, later, to the Cuban Missle Crisis. Now let's see how it measures up against the burning of the Reichstag.

Soren Swigart: "Hitler was asked by a corespondent of the Daily Express whether the suspension of liberties was permanent. He answered in the negative saying that full rights would be restored as soon as the Communist danger was over."

I've often claimed that modern medicine is woefully inadequate to the task of repairing ailing humans and this x-ray does nothing to reassure me.

Damonk's panel jam is on hiatus for a brief period while the details for the rules of the next go-round are hammered out, but thanks to the fact that I am last in the rotation, my latest panel is still up at the Four Toon Tellers site. Now, I may be telling tales out of school, but the point of this jam was that each artist got to use one panel (and only one panel) and each panel would contain one word (at least one word as well as only one word) to see if a coherent story could be told. It seems to have been agreed that the story never quite cohered and you might be able to make out my frustration with that by the way I blatently broke the rules and made an honest-to-gosh comic with three panels and four words and hijacked the story with even greater force than my previous offering (and I knew as soon as I thought up that idea that the dead would inevitably rise).

If I were a work of art, I would be M. C. Escher's Lizards. I am a bizarre juxtaposition of the real and the unreal. Based in the realm of mathematics, my two-dimensional appearance belies a complex and free-willed behaviour which both delights and confuses people. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test

Doc points to Google's 20-year Usenet archive timeline, which includes a posting from 1983 containing this quote:

I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series.

That is Found Magazine and it's darn cool. I like the notes section, which includes stuff like this and this. It makes me want to find stuff. (Wait, would that make me a finder instead of a loser?)