my time on terra firma

Interesting...     Sent to you by tony via Google Reader:     History From 423 Miles Up [Satellite Porn] via io9 by Charlie Jane Anders on 1/21/09 Popular Science posted this amazing satellite image of Barack Obama's inauguration, two million people captured in amazing crispness by commercial satellite GeoEye-1. There's another fantastic pic at the link. [ PopSci ]     Things you can do from here: Subscribe to io9 using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites    

Dream. Deferred. Fulfilled.

Indeed.     Sent to you by tony via Google Reader:     Candorville - 18 January 2009 via Darkgate Comic Slurper by Darrin Bell on 1/18/09     Things you can do from here: Subscribe to Darkgate Comic Slurper using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites    

Hey, there's enough hope to go around.     Sent to you by tony via Google Reader:     Obama Brings Disharmony To The Comic Book World [Political Science (fiction)] via io9 by Graeme McMillan on 1/17/09 Was Marvel Comics plagarizing when they put Barack Obama in The Amazing Spider-Man ? The creator behind Savage Dragon thinks so, and has sparked off a war of words with the publisher. Whatever happened to "hope"? The idea that Obama's (very successful) appearance in this week's issue of Amazing Spider-Man was less a shameless publicity stunt on behalf of Marvel than it was an attempt to ride on the coattails of the originality of Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon jumped from online fanboy slapfight when Larsen himself joined the conversation : I can't help but feel very betrayed. They duplicated the incentive cover—and preempted my upcoming one—and even used the "terrorist fist jab." Clearly those in the "house of ideas" looked a...

Yah!!! Oh joy of joys!!!     Sent to you by tony via Google Reader:     Studios settle Watchmen dispute via CBC | Top Stories News on 1/16/09 Watchmen, the superhero film based on a graphic novel, will come to the screen March 6 as planned after a legal dispute over film rights was settled on Thursday.     Things you can do from here: Subscribe to CBC | Top Stories News using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites    

Man, I can barely manage to get my lazy @$$ out of bed in the morning, this kid is inspiration to all of us uninspired folk. Sent to you by tony via Google Reader: 10-Year-Old Reporter Damon Weaver Gets His Credentials via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors on 1/12/09 Oh frabjous day! This evening, upon my return home, I got a message from Jezebel.com's Megan Carpentier that cheered my heart , and is bound to increase the temperature of your cockles, as well, without pharmaceuticals even. Ten-year-old elementary school cub reporter Damon "The Future of Journalism" Weaver has successfully hurdled one of his Inauguration Week obstacles: MSNBC is reporting that Damon Weaver, whose quest for an inaugural press credential to interview Barack Obama we previously chronicled, has been granted one by the Inaugural Committee. Now he just needs the interview, Rahm. Everytime we post on Damon Weaver , we get a lot of emails det...

Road closings for Inauguration.     Sent to you by tony via Google Reader:     Inauguration Road Closures Announced via DCist by Sommer Mathis on 1/8/09 As expected, the U.S. Secret Service, along with regional transportation officials and the MPD, unveiled their plan yesterday to close all Potomac River bridge crossings on Inauguration Day. The announcement also included the above map, which shows plans to close off almost 3.5 square miles of downtown Washington to vehicular traffic starting at 3 p.m. on January 19 until the morning of January 21. You can download PDFs of both the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Public Affairs Subcommittee Joint Transportation Plan and the Secret Service Security Plan at the D.C. government's Getting There web site. Both documents contain extensive information on road closures and restrictions throughout the inaugural celebration period. Maryland and Virginia also have special web sites set up with the latest inf...