furtive explorations

Let me just say this here, don't fricking search for angels on the web! Holy Crap, there is a lot of Holy Crap out there!

If you want to look into this from a scholarly perspective, there is a great study you could do on how the whole angel phenom happened over the last 10 years or so. If you just want some interesting links, check out New Advent which has the hypertext versions of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica, and The Fathers of the Church. These are intra-linked and webized. Very cool even for a non-Catholic like me. If you are still interested, here is the (multilingual!) Code of Canon Law with all the laws of the Roman Catholic Church. Of course if you get tired of a bunch of 1000 year old know-it-alls telling you what the bible means, The Bible Gateway is your one stop shop for nine different english translations, the latin vulgate, and eight other languages including Tagalog! Text search and more, with cross references and footnotes from each version. There are other language versions available elsewhere on the site too. No searches for Arabic and Chinese tho, guess they couldn't figure out how to webize print that runs the wrong way...

I always get a tear in my eye during these launches. The Space Station launches have just made me thrill to it all again.

[Insert Ether-net joke here].

• Greystone Inn: This one grew on me after I got a ways into the archives. The deal is, it's a comic about the behind-the-scenes action at a typical comic. Since any industry as rife with sex, drugs, scandal and major events as the comics are should make for almost infinite potential, we'll just have to keep an eye on this one. blumoonky will like this one and the next
• Just Another Vice would appear to be moving closer to my heart. Or at least my webpage... Digging through the archives has revealed a new side to this comic. To follow what is what you are going to have to make the effort to goof off for a while reading comics.
• Bruno the Bandit will take a little looking at...
• Free Fall is a comic I used to read and now don't. The reason I quit? I forgot where it was. Yeah, I'm stupid but I knew about it and you didn't. It's Furry and SciFi and can often be quite funny too. I'm not big on the furry usually but this one keeps it fresh like Kevin and Kell. Check it out.
• It's Walky may be worth another look.
• News Hounds apparently stars a cat. That is funny enough for a second look. Well, he's just one of the cast but still...
• Soap on a Rope, umm haven't I mentioned them before? Weird art and weird humor makes for a combo I keep checking out and giving up on. Been around since '97 and still cranking and popular. Worth double checking because as we have learned from the recent "election" millions of people can't be wrong, right?
• No Outlet is furry. I LOVE the website design tho! Mmmm original.
• Supermegatopia still on the radar, tho I haven't mentioned it recently...
• Arrogance in Simplicity has to win an award for title alone.
• Ozzy and Millie is another I used to follow but just sorta stopped. It's got great art and it's newspaper friendly. Cute.
• Floating Henry Rollins Head Haiku is a close rival on that title award...
• Don't forget I'm still looking at all these still too. Lots of good stuff there.

Just so you know, he sat on his cellphone and it dialed me up unbeknownst to him, now read that first part again and see if it isn't funnier... BTW, his pepper spray link in that post I sent you too of his rocked, I wonder if he found it by searching for Mace or condiments? As much hot stuff as he eats, you'd think his ass would have called the Fire Department by now. =)

Meanwhile, one of the grandfather comics to my current addiction is Goats who seems to be slipping into a "I wanna write a book" funks. I know about those and I cheer him on but him going to going to MWF will have me gnawing on heroin needles for my fix. =)

More tomorrow during the day, plus an update on the ones I've been eyeballing.

P.S. Inktank's Barry made the critical mistake of featuring coffee in his strip the day his top news item was about his new mugs for sale. And he didn't do any art on the mug in the strip! Worry not, I already dressed him down good for it. =)

This has been a public service announcement paid for by the Mace Everybody Campaign™.

Realistically, you should trust me enough by now just to click on that and enjoy. But if you need more convincing, read these quotes, while trying to imagine the picture attached to the article:

Union officials said that the security guards then began spraying the handbillers with Mace, hitting union member Edison Severino at "point-blank range."
Do they make a Mace™ that squirts like hornet-nest spray? Can you hit anything at all when not at point-blank range?

"Everybody gets angry in these situations; it's understandable. But you can't attack people and destroy an $8,000 rat," he said.
Yeah, leave the rat alone, go back to Macing people at "point-blank range"

"The last we saw of the rat it was being dragged across the parking lot behind the precinct," Peterson said.
How many times have we heard that about the police?

"There is a demand for more rats. They're catching on. They're becoming popular," he said.
said the lawyer...

See also, this.

On the other hand, check out this URL which I have to chop up so that it doesn't fuxor the layout:

http://a320.g.akamai.net/5/320/51/e1bd955bd19fa9/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84
574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177ae955ca3799026392f861cf309c
fb61c230a40578f1/final_fantasy_480.mov 

I just love Akamai I think their slogan is Delivering Huge URLs and DNS Problems. Actually, it's Delivering a Better Internet. Originally that included with thousands of redirects but they took that bit off. Sure it is cool caching but it is sooo intrusive and soooo ugly.

& More recently,...
Giant Squids, calling themselves Surgeons,
One tentacle holding a Scalpel, aimed toward our penis,
while the other arms are removing our wallets and credit cards!

Wow! ain't that great? Any site with the phrase Creme de la Creme of Sexual Excitement is a winner with me! Check out the JoJido. I think that means sex-fu but I'm not sure, it could mean scam-fu.

One more quote, from a *snort* satisfied customer:

"This is exactly what I'd always wished for,
but was too shy to ask.
You've made it easy.
Thanks so Much."

Marina - San Francisco

Seriously tho, this site is a like a study experiment or something. I love the fact that the penile enhancement section, which is their word for enlargement and doesn't imply that they just spruce the willy up with new outfits and makeup, has swords all over it, you even click on an animated sword being drawn to order the penile enhancement course. BTW any order gets you the French Guide, which is about Oral pleasure and not how to put up with francophones.

I do have to say that publishing a book of one-off columns you don't have a dedicated fanbase for is fricking stupid tho. He took a poll and a 100 people said they'd buy it? I could have told him to keep the print run to 25 or so. I really don't see why anyone would buy a book of topical humor they've already read. I bought a couple Dave Barry books but they had columns I hadn't read and I never paid more than about 4 dollars for them. You see, if you wait, comedy books go on 80% off sale after they tank. If you wait long enough they get down to the reasonable price they should have been charging all along. It's not about sales, it's about self-gratification.

Buying a book of humor columns is like filming masturbation pr0n. You only enjoy it once. And only a few real weirdos would pay full price for crap they only enjoy once.

Even better is how this company pull together when things get tight. Someone had to work on Thursday during the day, someone gets screwed for Thanksgiving, it is just the way a 24/7 business works. In this case, it was sklutch that got screwed. Two others came in to work with him, about 5 of us brought them food, and they only finished off the food in the NOC last night. =)

Best of all, when we look around at our industry (which is only a lot internet, not completely internet) we see people who over-extended themselves, over-spent, over-promised, over-hired, over-hyped, and many more overs. Now they are a facing one last over, their own. Mean while we tick along, spending our pennies wisely and making ends meet. If this were a TV show, we'd all decide to make home-made gifts for each other and have this wonderful, homey rag-tag Christmas. Of course it isn't a TV show, it is our lives, so I guess we'll just go to the big boss' house and hang out. Why? Because he's our friend too. When people ask me why I think this company is going to make it this is what I bring up. We are going to make it because we are family and friends, we're too honest and know each other too well for hype, all we have is trust and our heads screwed on straight.

so there. =P

Goldberg.com, man I bet there are a lot of disappointed wrestling fans out there... Well, not here tho... BTW, I'm sorta disappointed that wcw.wcw.com and wwf.wwf.com don't work. How did they miss that? =)

Also, to save you the wonder, looz is at Great Domains *snort*, floozy actually leads to an amusing site (rather than the pr0n disaster I expected. *sorta* disappointing, really), and it seems that floo.com is taken but unused. I'll leave the .nets and .orgs for you to discover, consider it a project =)