30 November 2013

This “Dude” Was a Dud

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I’ve been looking into the origin of the word “dude,” which originally meant a dandy or a fop. It exploded into public consciousness in ea...
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29 November 2013

Atomic Clock

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“A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday,” Dana Millbank of the Washington Post wrote , news wires reported that the U.S. and five Eur...
28 November 2013

Let Us Be Thankful That This Isn’t Rerun Every Year

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In 1980 the Muller Rosen animation company released a half-hour holiday special for television titled Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz . Tha...
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27 November 2013

Corporate Cultures and the Marvel Method

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This episode of Decompressed , a podcast by British comics scripter and journalist Kieron Gillen, is one of the most interesting discussio...
26 November 2013

Creating Bravely with SCBWI New England in May

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This proud lion adorns the announcement of SCBWI New England ’s 2014 conference in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 2-4 May. A “Save the Date”...
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25 November 2013

“This gentle, kindly naturalist”

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From the New York Times Book Review ’s “By the Book” interview with Richard Dawkins : Did you identify with any fictional characters as ...
24 November 2013

Counting All Covers

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In preparation for the “Celebrating 75 Years of Dick Grayson” anniversary, I got a question about the assertion that Robin was on the cover...
23 November 2013

Grayson: Haly Origins Trailer

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On his latest “Fatman on Batman” podcast , Kevin Smith led Paul Dini into rapture over the preview for the Batman: Arkham Origins videoga...
22 November 2013

Hacking OIP Derangement Syndrome

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Sophos’s Naked Security blog noted a little-reported aspect of the Healthcare.gov rollout—at least sixteen cyberattacks on the site from 6 ...
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21 November 2013

Creating a Safe Place

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As long as I’m linking to videos, I’ll add this time-lapse record of Dean Trippe’s work drawing a significant page in his autobiographica...