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  • Fantagraphics

    Mark over at Boing Boing points to a an Excellent article about Fantagraphics, the folks responsible for republishing the Complete Peanuts Collection (among many many other things).

    Saved by the Beagle

    A year ago, Seattle’s Fantagraphics was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now it’s in the black, thanks to good ol’ Charlie Brown—and a pair of dogged believers who turned a cranky fanzine into the most widely respected comics publisher in America. [Seattle Weekly]

    I picked up the first volume of the collection and it’s great. I plan on picking up a second copy of it to send to my nephew, because every kid needs to experience Charlie Brown. I remember when I’d visit my grandmother as a kid among my dad’s old books were a number of old Peanuts books.

  • A9 Bonus

    I’ve been playing with A9 a little bit lately, it is kind of nifty, but nothing that really made me go WOW. Though, someone did find out something interesting about it.

    Discount at Amazon for using A9.com

    A9 is the new search engine from Amazon and so far it seems good enough to use. It’s supposed to have all kinds of wizbang features, which it seems to. One important thing is that it’s hooked into amazon’s cookie system so it does know who you are and keep track of your searches. (blah blah big brother yadda evil corporate, DOWN liberal DOWN *smack* back in your cage.)

    If you can get over that for 5 minutes and use it, then go to amazon, you’ll notice this little “pi/2 discount” thingie. I clicked on it and, being a good little advertising target monkey, I’ll pass the resulting blurb on…

    since you’ve been using A9.com recently, virtually everything at Amazon.com is automatically an additional π/2% (1.57%) off for you. Collecting this discount is zero effort on your part. It will be applied automatically at checkout (it will happen whether you use the shopping cart or our 1-Click Shopping®). You don’t need to do anything to get this discount except keep using A9.com as your regular search engine.

    So there ya have it. [via The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty]

    I just checked on Amazon and found that I had the same link there now. Pretty keen.

  • Maggots!

    Every time I hear about the use of maggots for healing I think “whoa, cool”, then I think about it a bit more and go “ew icky!” Though, I guess if it works that well I’d cope with it if needed.

    Maggot Band-Aid
    David Pescovitz:
    First used centuries ago to treat battlefield wounds, maggots are proving to be a useful treatment to prevent post-operative infections. Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) calls for maggot dressing to be applied to wounds twice a week for up to 72 hours each time. From the press release about a recent study on MDT in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases:

    “Debridement, or the removal of contaminated tissue to expose healthy tissue, can be done surgically. However, maggots that have been disinfected during the egg stage so that they don’t carry bacteria into the wound have their advantages. The larvae preferentially consume dead tissue (steering clear of live), they excrete an antibacterial agent, and they stimulate wound healing–all factors that could be linked to the lower occurrence of infection in maggot-treated wounds.”

    Link [via Boing Boing Blog]

    Now I just need to find the article I remember reading about the medical uses of slugs.

  • CNN Goof Of The Day

    From the “oops” department:

    cnn divides europe

    switzerland.jpg
    Gert-Jan posted this excellent screencap of CNN reporting on Putin’s visit to Berlin. Too bad they moved Switzerland up and over to the Czech republic’s spot on the map.

    Notice how naming the Netherlands and Belgium was clearly to big a task.

    If CNN can’t even get elementary school facts right, how can you trust anything they say?

    [via Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

  • White Love

    Cover of Morning Dove White by One Dove
    This is from one of my all time favorite albums Morning Dove White. It was one of my favorite CDs to listen to coming home from a party. This is the second song on the CD: White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix), by One Dove. It was actually a tough choice on what song to put up, as when I was looking at the track listing I was really tempted to put up the title track Fallen.

  • It’s Informative, But is it Useful?

    From over on engadget:

    Strange Sign
    Apparently the South Korean subway advertising system runs off of a 20GB hard disk. Add your own caption for extra fun! [engadget]

    Feel free to leave your own caption here or there.

  • del.icio.us links

    Yesterday I added the last 10 links I’ve posted to del.icio.us to the right hand column. I’m going to use this for stuff that just seems interesting, but I really don’t have much of a comment on. You can also subscribe to the rss for my links.

  • More Proof That Hartford Sucks

    I was looking through the list of places where Ghost in the Shell:Innocence was playing in the next month and Hartford, CT was nowhere to be seen. Heck, there wasn’t even anywhere in CT it is showing. I guess I’ll have to see it in the Boston area (where it is showing at two different places). Anyone up for going to see it next Wednesday afternoon?

  • QOTD 09/15/2004

    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • Dangerous

    A friend of mine over on LJ was posting some old songs and it put me in the mood to hear an old Depeche Mode b-side that I hadn’t listened to in ages. Dangerous (Sensual Mix) – Depeche Mode (aac). They really did have some nice b-sides to their singles back then. The other I remember liking a lot was Set Me Free.