The Alliance Defense Fund successfully defended a Wilmington, NC high school student who was suspended for handing out “Day of Truth” material which spoke out against homosexuality and for wearing a religiously themed t-shirt while at school. I don’t agree with the purpose of the material he was distributing, but I do think that the […]
Republicans often claim that our government is bad at solving problems. So, we probably shouldn’t be surprised when they take it upon themselves to prove it. A recent post at Balloon Juice takes a look down this road, tying it in to the recent problems at Walter Reed: The lesson here is fairly simple. People […]
A collaboration between the universities of Sheffield and Michigan has produced Worldmapper, a series of world maps where the countries are sized not according to land mass, but according to other measures, such as alcohol consumption or military spending. It’s very striking to see at a glance how countries compare to the rest of the […]
Last year, I was putting out a new cartoon pretty much every week. With all the other demands on my time, this became something of a grind. Think, stare into space, think more, sketch, ink, Photoshop, twitch a bit, then repeat – non-stop, whether a topic had caught my interest or not. So I spoke […]
Today at the Iconfactory we’ve just released an all-new game for Mac OS X – Frenzic. Brought to you by The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software, Frenzic is a fast-paced puzzle game in the spirit of classics such as Tetris and Bejeweled. Players can compete against their own personal best scores, or use the Frenzic website […]
We finally made it to Minj Grille in downtown Greensboro, after having heard great things about it for the past year and a half. Steph and I went for dinner tonight, and it was incredible. The chicken wings were perfect. Pleasantly spicy and sweet, the full-sized wings were light and crisp and delicious. We split […]
One of the principle factors in evolution is the random mutation of genetic code. This often leads to the misconception that evolution as a whole is totally random, but that isn’t the case. Selective pressures, such as natural selection, are a non-random “guiding force” in the process of evolution. Natural selection is what turns those […]
