furtive explorations

HTML Goodies. Learn HTML for fun, profit, or to pick up chicks! Yes, HTML is all the rage with the Brittany Spears types. They don't got get all hot'n'bothered over horses anymore. Nope, it's all ICQ that and TCP this and HTML makes me wet... (or not, I dunno)

Hubble Constant. What can I say about this that the title doesn't already say. Oh wait... OK, you've heard of the Hubble Telescope? OK, it was named after this guy Hubble and he was a real Mr. Smarty so he also got a major cosmological constant he devised named after him. I lost you at cosmological, right. You got this freaky image of Mr. Spock in a metalic one-piece bathing suit. Sure, looked at in terms of popular culture, it's an oxymoron but still, it means universal. And not the fucking studio either, what the hell is wrong with you? This site is NASA's way of adding to the un-updated detrius of cob-websites that float about. Cool site, cool domain, last updated in Sept, 1999. Still, the universe will likely still be there next year and there might even be some news about the Hubble Constant. Heck they might even narrow it from the current range of 41 to 100 down to a more reasonable 52 to 87. =)

Rotodesign has free fonts. Well, over on Chank anyway.

GWM Central. Your best souce for news and information about Gundam Wing. Seriously, there is no place like it on the web, Gundam this, Gundam that, and HTML makes me wet... oops. Now seriously, do I have to explain everything to you lot? It's an anime show, just getting a thorough replaying on cable these days. Crap, get off the fricking computer and watch a little TV, will ya? Geez.

Lycos Top 50 tells you what the other 100 million illiterate fucks on the web are using the crap ass Lycos search to look for. is my opinion showing? so sorry. Yes, "Election 2000", is a top search term. Fuck, how hard is it to type one of these:

• CNN
• ABCNews
• CBSNews
• MSNBC you can even use NBCNews.
• Election2000.com Might have confused em tho...

Crap, I'm going to nap a bit before driving to the parents for Turkey-Day. Yes, I'm thankful for massive amounts of rich, creamy gravy and meat and potatos. Hell, I'm pretty OK with that Cranberry Jelly. My Mom used to yell at us for wanting to eay Grape Jelly straight from the jar. Then, once a year, she would yell at us for not trying the Cranberry Jelly. I'm thankful for that, too. =)

• Checkerboard Nightmare. Simple art, but effective. Humor all over the map. I'll be keeping an eye on this one...
• Hell Sweet Hell. And I quoth from the book of pyromancy: "I got your Pokemon right here." Heh.
• What's A Life: I think I like it, I know I liked this one. Check back on it...
• Pentasmal is still on the radar. I should have added this one to my regular list already...
• Adventurers! Gamers like this. Gamers ARE like this. _I'm_ like this.
• Ice Cream For Breakfast. Too bad it is a weekly one-page. I love it so far tho...
• Real Life Comics. This one flirts with me, taunting me. I'll keep it on the scope for now. Good for gamers, 2 thumb-sized joysticks up on that count.
• Bad Boys of Computer Science. One of the longer titles I've had to type. Weak art but good laughs. Great laughs some times. Keep an eye on it.
• Clan Bob Comics. Nice gamer cartoon and the art keeps getting better. Another one I've mentioned before and still have bleeping away on the green screen of sidelinkage..
• Spaz Labs. This one is going to get the read-the-entire-archive treatment...
• Alice doesn't do much for me but a LOT of people seem to like it...
• Nukees. It's got GIANT ROBOTIC ANTS! Really, what more do I have to say?
• Rusty Shrapnel. Still just watching this one from time to time. Not sure if it's all that but it is pretty darn good some days.
• Full Contact Origami. Just an occasional peek at this one too, try and guess how she and the previous link are connected.
• Eversummer Eve. Art... Melting...My...Brain. Wow. This is a must see even if you don't decide to follow it.
• Fantasy Realms, not a comic I suppose but damn that is art...

Also, I have to mention that the Dr.Fun is on vacation but his while-I'm-gone stuff rocks! Check it out!
Scott McCloud. Reinvent Comics? Sure!
LOPOW. Really, go there. The List of Potentially Offensive Comics. Take the name to heart tho.

In case you are wondering, TheBench is an amazing little experiment that those kooky young goons over at Penny-Arcade whipped up in a fever of inspiration one dark night. From what I can tell, the were feeling like the main strip was just completely too easy and wanted to see if they could be funny without changing settings or humiliating game programmers or something. The basis of the first few strips they did can't be seen as of today it seems. They were there two days ago, I swear, I went thru em all to remember what they did originally, to prepare for this post. Ahh shit. Anyway, hit the link and see where people went after they put up a BenchCraft construction kit.

Over 4000 comics there now. More than one fledgling artist out there started out with one big art toe in the water there. More than one non-artist type with grand comic aspirations got to snuggle up to the fame with an instant comic kit. Very cool.

My plan here is just to get into the comic swing for a week or two so I can have a little perspective on what they do and how they do it. If I'm going to keep putting my thoughts down on the comic scene I should have some idea where in the brain all the action is. That way I only come off as an asshole and not as an ignorant asshole. =)

• Randym Thoughts is a keep-the-eye-on type. Starting off with a pun in the domain name is a fine start for Randy. Plus, there is this that just killed me. Also, Randy's brother is the proprietor of our next victim...
• Schlock Mercenary. This has grown on me in just hours. SciFi humor and it is clear that puns run in the family.
• Road Waffles is back in style and action. Art that clicks and the domain is just the beginning of the wackiness here. A must see.

In other news, still no idea what is up with Attack Cartoons which has mysteriously vanished. ThinHLine was up long enough for me to find out he's moving networks, then went back off the air. Also, please try and remember that you didn't hear about this here. Not from me, nope.

These should be added to the list when you see this post.

Of course, as a 4 letter trademarked name, we just have to hope that at fifty she isn't running around date-raping 18 year-old sailors and pretending she is 35. BTW, if the plastic surgeons do any more work on Cher you'll be able to shave with her chin, cheek and nose bones. One more face lift and she'll only be able to look up.

I wonder if, thanks to the polarizing economic arguments both Dems and GOPs have been making over the past years, the vote swings a serious amount simply based on which side of the owed/owes line they think they lay on. Ignoring for the moment the guilty-rich in Hollyweird who clearly haven't got a clue that they are going to get seriously tapped for the programs they propose. I'm wishy-washy on Gov't programs, some have clearly been sucesses and some social experiments have been nightmarish failures. Some of what I hear from HW clearly isn't from people who have any idea how people or governments work. These are people who truly believe that you can keep making it easier for people to get more and more free stuff and that they will somehow start benefiting society as a whole rather than just coming to believe even more strongly that they are owed it without question. It stinks of the sort of nonsense economic plans we've seen recently fail in the Internet spectrum, "We can sell something at a 50% loss now and build up a customer base, then once 3 times the number of people in the world buy one thing a year from us, we can up the price and almost break even! We don't have to profit now, we can make it up in volume later!" At this point, we should ditch Social Security and just put anyone one older than 62 on welfare and medicaide. We can trash the inequitable SS system and pay everyone on welfare a minimum wage. Any surplus monies from that can be distributed over a curve of the people who paid the most taxes.

And we'll just crank the tax rate up to about 75% and become a giant socialist nightmare. =) Nah... nevermind.

WOW, they run faster than cars, those are high speed fags sir!!

Oh yes I agree, we have a broom closet we emptied out and use as a Faggot Reeducation Center (FaReC) and we place the fags in there for days and help them find the Word of the Lord. We also store open paint buckets and gasoline and fertilizer in there, because we notice it helps the brain become more receptive to Jesus. I CAST THE DEMONS OUT OF THE FILTHY FAGGOTS AND BACK TO HELL WHERE THEY SPAWNED FROM!

It is Soooo over the top. How does he find people that stupid? Maybe it's just chat, does it MAKE you stupid? =)

You may know Brin as the original author of The Postman the incredible semi-flop that pretty much sealed the tomb on Kevin Costner's directing career. (Of course, I liked the film, so what do I know, eh?) Be prepared to sling back into 1997 when you see the design of Brin's homepage. =)

Ahh, The lady behind the music on the TPQ site is Joan Jones. Amusing lady it seems, dig around on the site and find her link. She had a track featured on the Felicity soundtrack of all places. None of the songs she has done for TPQ seem to be on the album she has out except Party. Her song on the soundtrack ain't half bad at all. Check out Everyday Down. I didn't like the overall song but the opening to Supergirl Ring is nice. Wasted that lick on an animated cartoon? For no reason whatsoever that I could find, she has a link to RPM Fitness on her site.

1. Hyperbaric CO2.....N/C
2. Cervical dislocation/guillotine....$2.50 per animal
3. Anesthetic overdose.....$2.00 per animal

ZML.net is just inexplicable... See, his name is Loafman and with a name like Loafman... Well, there just isn't a joke there that isn't obvious. I like the idea of a superhero named "Loafman", maybe with toaster weapons or a "YeastGirl" sidekick. (OMG, the best jokes just happen when you yeast expect it, huh? Since young Zachary is a photographer as well as a geek be sure to catch his exciting shots of British Brats gnawing on each other's heads!

The .org would appear to be in net-limbo under mydomain.com's vile grasp. All of the loafman variations are at directlink but unused but, suprise!!, yeastgirl.com is still open along with all it's variations!

grrr It would seem that Z.com's target demographic is the unemployed. Every time I hit a page I get a fullpage jobs.com ad popping up in the background. I don't care if Tyra and Caprice have chosen them as their official host, I can't stand their ad model. I'll suffer thru it for SYNJ but not cheesecake...

Just seeing stupid people makes me happy. Speaking of stupid people, HatsOfMeat is another fine "stupid" link from Memepool.

Too bad IE sucks all ass. It seems like a nice browser sometimes. It just gives me this creepy almost friendly yet evil uncle sorta feel. =)