August 2011
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It's Toaster Chicken! →
Yes, that’s right! FlatJacks - They’re like chicken nuggets flat slab-like things (chicken monoliths, perhaps?) you can heat in your toaster. In other words, Latchkey Chow. Available in Original, Buffalo Style, or Grilled Cheese. That’s not a grilled cheese sandwich - it’s a grilled cheese flavoured chicken-thing. In the States they also come in Bar-B-Q. Yep, hard to...
Aug 15th
How canon has ruined comic books
krisstraub: Has anyone done a chart of the number of reboots/reimaginings/restarts in the comic book industry over the last fifty years? Does it just shoot up exponentially? What got me this morning was this story over at Comic Alliance. A big number 4. In case you didn’t know, the Human Torch died, and the remaining members of the Fantastic Four became the “Future Foundation.” But now, could...
Aug 13th
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Aug 11th
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Cleaning S*** Up: The Magazine
Ever seen the blog Man of the House? It’s a creation of Procter & Gamble, an online magazine for “real men” i.e. married guys with kids. It’s pretty much aiming to be Good Housekeeping for guys. Except isn’t Lifehacker already basically Good Housekeeping for guys? OK sure, there’s a lot of articles about personal productivity software and such, but they...
Aug 8th
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Aug 6th