As part of my son’s homeschooling, I’m asking him to create fun, funny, instructional science comics. He wrote, shot, and put together the comic below all by his lonesome. I offered to help, but he didn’t need it!
What do you think?
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Randomness for 7/31
Standard1) First Pacey-Con squelched by private police force. SDCC just isn’t like it used to be, man.
2) Autoeroticism in America (in convenient graph form!)
3) Kermit Bale. Yes, poster, you do, in fact, have too much time on your hands.
4) What does Harvard have to teach YOU about vampires in film and literature? Take the online course and find out.
5) Captain Higgins, flatworm of power!
6) Photoshop Time portals. via Kurt Busiek
7) Job prospects for 2011 in the urban fantasy world. Pretty funny, and let’s just pretend she didn’t use the phrase “tramp stamp.”
Randomness for 7/21
Standard1) The Creative Process, in graphic/maze form.
2) This is pretty exciting: BLU has a new stop motion video out!
3) I’m sure many of you know that there’s a new storyline in the Superman comics where he walks across America to reacquaint himself with regular people. Well, now The Mighty Thor is doing it too!
4) Baby eats his way out of a watermelon. This one isn’t very interesting, but it is awfully cute.
6) Serial book thief gets three and a half years.
7) When Josh Friedman posts to his blog, we read. It’s long, but it’s amazing. He combines development notes, TV trends, and true crime, coming out the other end with belly laughs.
Randomness for 7/15
Standard1) Every _____ Comic in three panels, by Marvel editor Nathan Crosby.
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2) Mainstream journalism throws more pop-science against the shoals of cultural prejudice.
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3) “Have you read all these books? When do you watch TV?” A husband works in his wife’s bookstore while she’s sick, and records the conversations he has with customers.
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4) How “non-lethal” weapons are too often used by police.
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5) The history of the term “slush pile.”
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6) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design. Twelve of the Worst Book Titles Ever (NSFW) according to some dude at Huffpo.
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7) Bookscan: how accurate is it?
Randomness for 7/10
Standard1) Ever wonder why the left protests G8 and G20 meetings? It’s because of this sort of thing.
2) Rick Riordan goes from adult midlist mystery writer to bestselling kids author. How sad is it that I didn’t even *know* the dude wrote mysteries for adults?
3) Furniture designed for small spaces. These designs are fantastic.
4) Lady Gaga in everyday situations.
5) And you thought authors got a small cut: How much do musicians really make?
6) This randomness collection is more political than most: Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom in comic book form, which first appeared in 1945. BTW, did you know that Hayek thought we should have universal health care?
7) Quote of the day: “…it’s an easy, quick read, suitable for wallowing in decadence for a day on the beach and then entirely forgetting about afterward. Alternatively, one can forget about it ahead of time — and that’s what I recommend.” Andrew Wheeler, reviewing Bret Easton Ellis’s Imperial Bedrooms.
Randomness for 7/2
Standard1) Wonder Woman trades in her star-spangled panties for actual pants (and a very ’90’s jacket).
2) “Officer, I recognize that woman! Her name is Selena Kyle!”
3) OMG. Promoted from a comment Rose Fox made: The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu. I love it!
4) Et Cetera and Otherwise: A Violent Book Trailer. That won a Moby Award for Best Foreign Book Trailer and I laughed my ass off.
5) The other Moby Award winning trailers are compiled here… except for the one named “Least Likely to Sell the Book”–aka: the worst book trailer of the year. The author pulled that one off of YouTube, and produced this new, “improved” version of the trailer. And I swear, if this is the good version, I can’t even imagine that bad one.
6) Batman’s Greatest Tweets. Sample: “We’ll miss you, Jack Bauer. If you ever come out of exile, I’ve got a pair of green ankle shoes and a yellow cape waiting.”
7) What sf ideas does Rudy Rucker wish you were writing about?
Randomness for 6/25
Standard1) via Robin Bailey, this video about a guy who’s mom “beat the gay out of him” is crazy funny. It seems so real at the start…
2) Kitten wearing a tiny hat eats a miniature ice cream cone.
3) Next step: cub burgers. You know what surprises me but shouldn’t? The free-range lion “farm” (not ranch?) in Illinois. No one would believe it if they read it in a book.
4) Steve Martin’s Tour Rider leaked! So funny, and I so want to steal this idea for my upcoming non-existent book tour!
5) Cormac McCarthy’s Toy Story 3.
6) Reality TV artists create book cover designs, prove they are not book designer.
Randomness for 6/16
Standard1) Mary Jane Watson, master of the obvious. Now THIS is writing!
2) Thomas Kinkade, if Thomas Kinkade was cool.
3) I know I’m behind the times linking to this, but damn! This is cool.
4) Look upon the face of evil.
5) Night Of The Killer Lamp: 23 Ridiculous Horror-Movie Adversaries
6) The Stockholm Library. It’s a rare library that gives me vertigo. There’s this one and the main downtown library in Seattle. Brrrr.
7) Star Wars, now with more pants.
Randomness for 6/15
Standard1) Tee hee.
2) All fame is fleeting. Best-selling books of decades past.
3) Somehow, I don’t think Syfy is taking their movie originals very seriously.
4) How to keep someone with you forever.
5) A friend made a documentary called THUNDER SOUL about a famous high school funk band from the 70’s
and their reunion tour. Listen to the band here.
6) Quote from article: “The findings do not directly link playing video games to reckless driving. They only show an association. Researchers say the impact of playing games like “Grand Theft Auto” is minimal.” Headline to the same article: “Study: Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving.”
Randomness for 5/27
Standard1) Five reasons it’s still not cool to admit you’re a gamer.
2) Mr. Know-It-All, I just found out that one of my favorite sci-fi writers is a raging homophobe. Should I prevent my son from reading the jerk’s books? Huh. I wonder who they’re talking about?
3) Weeks ago, we borrowed Cosmos from the library to share it with our son, but he refused to even be in the same room when we started it. I’m pretty sure he thought it was high-fiber. This auto-tuned video made him change his mind.
4) Solar Water Disinfection. via Martha Wells.
5) Alcohol, a burrito, and Captain America. The “real” Cap would never be this big of an asshole.
6) I’m sure this will become a quality motion picture.
7) Best of all: The first issue of Awesome Hospital is complete online!