An unfortunate candy valentine

February 14th, 2006

This was an actual candy heart, and an actual quote from Rye.

Your awesome. What about my awesome?

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Bushie - A photocomic lampooning the powers that be - on both the left and right!

November 5th, 2005

Why did I get the small flag. Is laura trying to tell me something?

“Bushie” is a very funny photo comic featuring the always hilarious George Bush and his puppet masters Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Condi Rice. If you lean more to the right, don’t worry, Moore, Franken and Stewart get their share too!

“Bushie” is yet another project from Remy, who has also recently started the clever “Geek Matters” site where he talks about tech without trying to sound smarter than his audience. Remy and I we’re featured on Cory Doctorow’s blog (one step from being “BoingBoinged”) together back a year and a half ago for a piece I wrote about recommending him for a job after only knowing him through his blog.

Well, I turns out I never needed to make that recommendation, since he landed a good job up in Albany, and we’ve since met (briefly) in the flesh. It’s good to see some of his ideas really coming together like this. I think he’s got something with the geekmatters site, and would have answered his call for authors if I hadn’t just jumped in headfirst to about 5o other projects. See? I have SOME restraint.

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Yarrr - there be treasure in your cities, mateys

November 2nd, 2005

Here there be treasure. Aye, I know there’s no big red X on the map, ye blaggard! Go be watchin’ the video clues. Arrr.

Budget rent-a-car is sponsoring a nation-wide treasure hunt for four weeks, starting last week and going through the first 3 of November. Each week they pick 4 cities, in “North, South, East, and West” groups. Find the hidden sticker each week, and you win 10 grand. It’s only Wednesday, but I’m pretty sure that they’re in Baltimore, for “East” and I know they’re in Seattle for West.

Anyone got a little treasure-hunting in their blood? I have a feeling our friend Jon might be interested, especially since San Diego was screwed up in week one, so we already know they’re going to do a re-do there week four. I’ll probably be sending an email off to Carolyn to let her know about the mad dash for the treasure out in Seattle too. Her art is amazing, but hey, an extra $10g might help pay the bills.

The video clues on that site are fun, because you have a sense of “hey, I’ve been there” for most of them. I bet they’ll be hitting New York soon, and I’ll be watching the clues closely!

Happy Hunting!

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