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Eddie Izzard: Stripped: One Paragraph Review

We saw Eddie Izzard live last night, and it was awesome. His new set, Stripped, is very similar to Dress to Kill in that it’s mostly jokes about history and religion. He discusses the controversy about Intelligent Design vs Evolution (including Charles Darwin’s famous book Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, You) and the improbability of Noah’s [...]

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Robert Metcalfe Demonstrates the Arpanet for AT&T

Imagine a bearded grad student being handed a dozen AT&T executives, all in pin-striped suits and quite a bit older and cooler. And I’m giving them a tour. And when I say a tour, they’re standing behind me while I’m typing on one of these terminals. I’m traveling around the Arpanet showing them: Ooh, look. [...]

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Crooked Little Vein: One Paragraph Review

“I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug” is the first line of Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis, who may be familiar to you from his work in comics, including Transmetropolitan and The Authority. If you’re anything like me, that’s all you need to hear to know [...]

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Best. Crossover. Ever.

In 1963, Marvel Comics published what became the first issue in a three-part crossover event that covered three different books and three sets of authors and illustrators over the course of 24 years! It’s remarkable because each successive part of the story added another layer of complexity while respecting the material that came before it.
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300: One Sentence Review

Totally Good.

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