Author: Alex Irvine
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The Day in Artistic Plagiarism
“Emily the Strange is a rip off of a 1978 book character.” So saith BoingBoing, picking up on a story at You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice. You be the judge: In the land of (one hopes) non-plagiarized creativity, the NYT has chosen its ten best books of the year.
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Now I’m No Economist, But…
$8 trillion in bailout commitments, divided by 155 million tax returns filed this year, equals approximately $51,600 for each and every individual or family taxpayer in this country. Think that stimulus would do more than giving banks money because they realized that all of their fake money was fake? Seriously. Also I want to know…
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Go Wings
On pace for 123 points, and they’ve got this guy on their side. What must the Black Hawks be thinking? (image from the AP)
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Bugs and Homer in a Dead Heat
…and Colin Powell edges out God, in the write-in results from Duval County, Florida. Read on (all mistakes in original): 234 HILARY CLINTON174 RON PAUL23 NONE OF THE ABOVE23 JESUS21 MIKE HUCKABEE14 MITT ROMNEY8 COLIN POWELL6 GOD6 LEFT BLANK5 UNDECIDED4 AL GORE4 BISHOP V.M. MCLAUGHLEN4 FRED THOMPSON4 OBAMA4 RUDY GIULLIANI4 STEVEN COLBERT3 DONALD DUCK3 DONALD…
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Web 2.0 SF Magazines?
A discussion is beginning at SF Signal on this topic. The original idea, from Jay Garmon, is here. Interesting ideas being batted around. Clearly something has to happen to the magazines. Now I’m wondering if I could pitch stories on my own site, or this blog, and start collecting moolah? Hmmmm. If only. The subscription…
Crooked House Fictions 