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Interestingly, yesterday I was trying to choose between two different ideas to make into a comic today and this is neither of those. “The Donald’s” dialogue for this one just sorta wrote itself and I couldn’t pass it up. Hope you all enjoy!
That really would be an awful video game. Imagine the problems for social development: Quick shoot everyone before they get too close!
So, as some of you are very aware, I’ll be starting law school in the next couple months. As a result, I’ll be putting Radical Rationalist on the back burner, which shouldn’t really come as a galloping shock to anyone. I won’t have time to research material for this site when I’m knee-deep in casebooks. However, I think what I will probably need on occasion is some sort of creative outlet that has a shorter turn-around time than screenplays. One way I hope to fill that need is by making things like this cartoon. They won’t always be Doctor Who-themed, so don’t any of you get your hopes up. They also WILL NOT be put up on anything resembling a schedule. If you’ve visited the site before, you know I update it precisely whenever I damn well please, and once classes start it will probably please me even less frequently. Let me know what you think and any tips or advice from any of my artistically-inclined friends is all sorts of welcome. I might wind up at odds with some of my friends over this, but it can’t be helped. An article in last week’s Businessweek (Feb. 28-March 6) caught my attention, since I find the idea that any company, through intimidation, can have a significant impact on digital piracy to be laughable. The substance of the article, in fact, was the myriad difficulties that sport leagues are facing in trying to curb online piracy of live events. To its credit, the article did not sugarcoat the issue for the organizations, which do stand to lose millions, but it dodged a number of glaring issues. The Business of Violent EntertainmentThis quote was what got me started:
 Next up, death-row inmates fighting lions! Now, I’m not a UFC fan (which will be abundantly clear later), but I’m aware of the sport, enough to know that the events, like concerts, usually have some opening acts before the headliners come out and the whole thing generally runs a couple hours. Now, people have a lot of choice where their entertainment dollars are concerned. I can, for instance, take ten bucks (since I live in the Midwest) to spend two hours watching the latest blockbuster movie that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to create. I can drop $60 on a massive and immersive video game experience that could last days. A rock concert would probably set me back about $50 depending on the artist and the venue. Of course, in none of these is value all wrapped up in the ending. The same cannot be said for some sporting events. Take the UFC for instance:
$45 for what amounts to a three-minute experience? That’s five dollars for every twenty seconds of event. At least at a rock concert I’ll probably hear songs I like all the way through the event. UFC? Not so much. So why spend so much on so little? Economics. Continue reading… I recently was witness to a quasi-argument on Facebook over biblical literalism. A friend posted a video of Rep. Jack Kingston disavowing evoltuion on Bill Maher’s HBO show, which led to a flurry of comments. This post stemmed from that discussion and was originally going to deal solely with biblical literalism. That didn’t last long. Biblical LiteralismOriginally, I planned to use this entry to highlight a selection of biblical contradictions that are impossible to resolve if we’re taking the Bible to be the literal word of the Christian god; a perfectly accurate history of human civilization. The problem I encountered was that a literal interpretation has its knees taken out from under it before the end of the first chapter of Genesis.
By the second verse we have three things: the earth (though it’s void and it doesn’t have any form yet, so I guess we’re playing it fast and loose with the word “created”), liquid water, and the heavens. Except there can’t be liquid water, because there aren’t any heat sources. (Sure, I guess it could be liquid because the deity willed it to be so until he got around to making stars as sources of energy, though I can’t help but wonder why he didn’t just do all of it together.) Continue reading… Google really needs to work on their audience-targeting algorithms because when I popped over to the site a moment ago, I found this ad just under the site header:
Yes, that’s “Quantum Jumping”, which, if you were to visit quantumjumping.com, you would quickly discover to be exactly what I’m sure you are dreading: self improvement through interdimentional jumping. Somewhere, there is a universe in which you are a billionaire. Why should you be denied the opportunity to capitalize on your own success?! Seriously. Here’s a quote:
If this is a poe, it’s an incredibly thorough one. Continue reading… |
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