From Alas, a Blog comes proof that babies are descended from monkeys. This great photo series of his youngest housemate Sidney climbing a ladder, and then a raised bed, reminded me of the same behaviour in my nephew Kyle, who likes to climb stairs, a lot. Like Sidney, he's quite happy to start again if you pick him up and carry him back to the bottom. It's the journey, not the destination, that matters to these kids.
Found through the Comics Journal Forum (So yes, it's good for something):
Jay Hosler is Assistant Professor of Biology at Juniata College. He is also
the 6-time Eisner Award nominee and Xeric Award winning creator of Clan Apis and The Sandwalk Adventures. His comics have been featured in Science, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Booklist, The London Times Higher Education Supplement, Discover Magazine, The New Scientist, Skeptical Inquirer, The Association for Women in Science Magazine and The Comics Journal.
I really miss the old "Bizarre Breasts" feature on Sequential Tart, but fortunately Ping Teo has picked up the baton. Her review of the fantasy comic Twelve Dragons came with a free anatomy lesson. As well as generous helpings of Limyaael-esque common sense.
I can no longer find the place where Branko asked about this, but here's a partial answer to his question why so many blogs have small fonts specified, against general best practices in web design/usability. Short version: Microsoft is to blame. (Via Opera Watch, via The Register.)
Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan will update 5 times this week. Possibly, maybe, conceivably. I have no buffer right now but if I manage to get 5 updates out, the storyline will end on Friday, which would be quite neat.
So, while it's very rare for me to promise updates knowing that I may miss them (unlike on this weblog, where I'm as likely to break promises as keep them), I'll do it this time. I'll shoot for five, meaning extra updates on Tuesday and Thursday. If things go wrong, it's more likely that I miss the Friday update than the Tuesday one, so the only way you'll know if I've updated is by checking...
... at least, if you look at it in Internet Explorer 5 — not that there's any reason why you should. I'd been tweaking the site layout from home, where I don't have Internet Explorer available, and none of the web browsers that I did have available rendered it anywhere near this way.
As I write this, it's past my bedtime, and if the error shows up in Internet Explorer 6+ (not that there's any reason why you should use that either), I'll spend some of my copious spare time trying to fix it. I see no reason why the CSS should be interpreted the way IE 5 does, but if someone else does, please let me know.
Almost a year ago, I refused to buy Douce Victime by Flemish sirens Lais because it was on one of those shiny non-CD CDs that EMI puts out routinely. (I am currently refusing to buy the solo album from Kaizers Orkestra main man Janove Ottesen for the same reason, and am very worried about the forthcoming new Kate Bush album. Let's hope that, like Pink Floyd, she can use her clout within EMI to put a stop to that nonsense.) However, this has never been an absolute boycott - instead I consider ShinyDisks to be severely devalued by the playback problems they cause me and the need to (irony of ironies, all is irony) make backup copies immediately after buying them because the so-called copy protection technology breaks the error correction track and makes the disks much more damage-prone. If a CD like that gets marked down, I think about buying it again. Douce Victime is currently on sale, so I got it.
(Via Boing boing's coverage of a San Francisco photographer being harrassed by cops in a MUNI station):
The Photographer's Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the ACLU's Bust Card and the Know Your Rights flyer. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author.
A few weeks ago, Driek van Wissen, a light versifier from the fine old town I live in, caused a bit of a scandal in Dutch literary circles by bagging the title of Poet Laureate through extensive lobbying and public campaigning. Good for him, I suppose: I'm no fan of his work, but I don't automatically scoff at what he does just because it isn't serious literary poetry.
But if any one writer of light verse deserved to represent Dutch poetry internationally, it was John O'Mill.
I missed this, because it happened at the same time as web access at home breaking down for some reason, but ROCR.net is down. If you want to read the latest beard-a-rific comic page, go to the nifty new mirror site or read the comic at Modern Tales.
Actually, go to the mirror site anyway, and check out the design. How does it all look to you? I'm very close to switching the design on the main site over to a simplified version of this one, and the next step after that will be to more the domain name over to xepher.net. I have so much more control over things at Xepher, and can build a much better website using the tools I get there.
Reinder Dijkhuis is a translator and cartoonist living in Hoogezand, the Netherlands. He is married, with two stepkids, a dog and cat, and a bevvy of sporadic co-bloggers.
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