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Like I said, go read up on the Penny Arcade case. Alright, sheesh, here I'll do the research for you. It is murky, but it of course does not boil down to whoever has the most money. At a certain point the money ties, and the law wins out. And the point in the PA case (and I think it applies to this ...

Materials that incorporated other people's copyrighted permission, such as William G's and mine, probably do not qualify as fair use via parody. Read up on the Penny Arcade Strawberry Shortcake incident, where they thought the same thing as you, and found that they were wrong: adapting material A (e...

One more red and blue county map:
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Understanding Stick Figure Kung Fu



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Congrats Greg. One suggestion, although it's kind of crazy: if you find yourself still not writing comics, and wish you were, continue doing 24-hour comics on your own once in a while, just as a way of getting yourself back in the swing of it. (I've written seven 24-hour <i>albums</i> since Scott po...

Connor: I don't buy this ideas that all language is figurative. I can literally pound a spike into your skull. I can't literally pound information into your skull (unless that information happens to be encoded on a spike, but then I'm not really pounding the information into your skull, just an enco...

Arr, Josiah, Rip, you were right and I was wrong.

I had been so certain Scott would stick by the "rules"!

Actually, I liked Proto a lot. The art style was very playful. Or rather, there was a sense of playfulness to the process of choosing the art style, something we only see now and again (junk bar, when luna smiles). So I appreciated it on that front, at least. Given the right choice of ten I'd pick P...

The walrus being outlined in black is just because he's in the foreground of the frame; he was as outlined (I think) at the beginning before he sat down. Once sitting, he was back from the foreground, and so, like everything else further away, he's slightly faded out (I think) and not as heavily out...

grr, the HTML close-tag bug strikes again.

You keep sites looking identical between new browsers and old browsers, and by so doing you reveal your webguru-ness, not the lack thereof.

Well, then there's the myth of CSS. CSS is a standard because some people said it was a standard. It's a huge spec and enormously complicates implementing browsers (because, among other things it introduces an entirely new language, one that interacts in very weird ways with HTML), setting back any ...

Anonymous wrote:I saw Scott's link to the "Album-A-Day" 24-hour project page on Thursday, and started one Friday night.

Oops, that was me.

This is really belated, but I just noticed that one of the current losing titles is Mr. Dinky and Bo-Bo Head and the names of the two dream characters are Mr. Tummy and Dummy-head.

Ok, I couldn't get this post to work in the other forum, and it definitely says HTML is on, 'disable HTML in this post' is not checked. There is text after the <p> but it is getting truncated, at least in preview; let's see what happens when I post. This is really belated, but I just noticed that on...

It's possible that the last time I typo'd an HTML tag which made it unrecognized and caused it to drop. I think the other time I ran into this a few days back, I might have been trying to get clever and used <strike> or some such. I can certainly use BBCode, but there are some different things you h...

Bah, now I can't get it to happen, of course. (The post I made to Music, this was happening, but when I copied the source to that post back here and reverted the bbcode to HTML, it previewed fine. Grr.)

For some reason I stopped buying PG records after So; I'll have to check out the newest. Also, I haven't bought much new music in the last two years, since I haven't been exposed to much. So any recommendations I can offer are going to be dated: Lisa Germano, who actually put out a record this year ...

I've had to switch to using BBCode because I've been having problems with HTML documents getting cut off --all the text after an HTML tag disappears, although it's not clear which HTML tag. I don't have the exact details anymore but I'll go add another post after this one to demo it. I also for some...

I wrote: I also doubt they'd ever bother to send a cease-and-desist letter your way since what you're doing isn't as in-your-face as what Gabe and Tycho did. Greg replied: but I think it's obvious why they became a target because of their comic, even if they were within their rights of Fair Use and ...

Though I realize that "fair use" -- the excerpting of ? works for transformative uses such as satire, collage, political statements or journalistic endevours -- has been degraded a bit over the years, I'm pretty sure it still covers what I'm doing in "Junk Bar." I'm no expert, but this seems pretty...

Clear Channel are notorious for de-localizing stations; broadcasting (or taping and distributing the tapes, I'm not sure) a single DJ/setup etc. to several markets, i.e. several (presumably geographically close) radio stations that aren't competing with each other. They buy up local stations, fire e...

Coincidentally enough, I was thinking the Monkeytown setting might be nice not for the RPG others suggested but for a collectable trading card game, except skip the collectable part and just make it a boxed set.

Perhaps someone should pitch it to Cheapass Games.

Lore Sjoberg, a writer and occasional artist over at Brunching Shuttlecocks just posted a fairly amusing <a href="http://brunching.com/features/atomicpat ... >superhero parody quickie</a>

Hmm, I feel the exact opposite about flash interactivity: in print, a reader is in control in turning pages and moving his or her eye across the page, and it's a good thing for that to be true online. It's one of the powerful things about the spatial temporal map, as compared to movies: the reader c...